Koji Yakusho
Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.9342 |
| Birthday | 1956-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Isahaya, Japan |
| Also Known As | 橋本広司, Koji Hashimoto, Kôji Yakusho, Kouji Yakusho, Кодзі Якусьо, קוז'י יאקושו, کوجی یاکوشو, |
2006
Babel
7.17/4175
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Babel
1987
The Great Department Store Robbery
9/1
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The Great Department Store Robbery
1997
The Eel
7/133
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no on...
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The Eel
1996
Shall We Dance?
7.476/186
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and the...
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Shall We Dance?
1985
Tampopo
7.785/452
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...
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Tampopo
1996
Sleeping Man
7.8/10
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
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Sleeping Man
2003
Doppelgänger
6.9/50
Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge o...
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Doppelgänger
1997
Bounce Ko Gals
6.696/23
Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating. Raku is a street dancer. Togo was brought up in the US, and after being back in Japan...
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Bounce Ko Gals
2001
Pulse
6.708/715
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of th...
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Pulse
2004
Séance
7.147/51
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. Instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working...
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Séance
2009
Gelatin Silver, Love
6.5/4
The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
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Gelatin Silver, Love
1997
Cure
7.577/861
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
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Cure
2001
Eureka
7.8/102
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
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Eureka
2005
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
6.273/22
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutosh...
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2004
University of Laughs
7.2/39
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other...
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University of Laughs
2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
6.583/54
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
1979
Hunter in the Dark
6.3/20
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to...
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Hunter in the Dark
2007
Retribution
6.5/112
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same m...
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Retribution
2008
Paco and the Magical Book
6.9/24
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.
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Paco and the Magical Book
1997
Lost Paradise
6.018/28
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. To...
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Lost Paradise
2010
The Last Ronin
6.6/17
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppu...
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The Last Ronin
2011
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
7.184/209
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a ten...
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2010
13 Assassins
7.305/1316
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord an...
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13 Assassins
2012
The Woodsman and the Rain
6.1/21
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
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The Woodsman and the Rain
2006
Suite Dreams
6.2/36
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci...
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Suite Dreams
2011
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
6.333/42
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to o...
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
6.4/10
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
1988
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1/1
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Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
2012
The Terminal Trust
6.393/28
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could...
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The Terminal Trust
1990
Aurora Borealis
5.2/9
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
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Aurora Borealis
1982
The Law of Hell
0/0
During the Tokugawa Shogunate, a band of smugglers use a tavern on an isolated island in Edo's Fukagawa district as their base of operations. After th...
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The Law of Hell
2023
Perfect Days
7.822/2049
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and ta...
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Perfect Days
1998
Yukon
0/0
Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driv...
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Yukon
2014
The World of Kanako
6.391/229
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his inv...
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The World of Kanako
2013
The Kiyosu Conference
7/26
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki...
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The Kiyosu Conference
2023
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
7.432/44
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedo...
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
2022
Gratitude
0/0
A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and drive...
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Gratitude
1995
History of Jirocho Shimizu
0/0
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family,...
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2009
Toad's Oil
7/3
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope w...
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Toad's Oil
2005
The Lakeside Murder Case
6.5/8
Three couples stay at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school entrance exam with the...
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The Lakeside Murder Case
2007
Silk
5.8/225
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to...
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Silk
2023
Família
6.667/9
One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had be...
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Família
1980
Twelve Months
6.9/21
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she do...
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Twelve Months
1998
Tadon and Chikuwa
8/1
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations....
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Tadon and Chikuwa
1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.154/26
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...
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2000
Dora-heita
5.409/11
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and...
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Dora-heita
1995
Kamikaze Taxi
6.25/12
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a ta...
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Kamikaze Taxi
2007
I Just Didn't Do It
7.375/40
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all th...
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I Just Didn't Do It
1999
License to Live
6.3/20
Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mothe...
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License to Live
1999
Charisma
6.922/58
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action....
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Charisma
2012
Chronicle of My Mother
6.6/17
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spir...
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Chronicle of My Mother
2015
The Emperor in August
6.667/18
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nigh...
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The Emperor in August
2008
Tokyo Sonata
7.4/293
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his...
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Tokyo Sonata
2002
The Choice of Hercules
7.25/8
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...
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The Choice of Hercules
2019
Whistleblower
8/10
A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
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Whistleblower
2015
The Boy and the Beast
7.908/1638
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and,...
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The Boy and the Beast
2023
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
6.3/11
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religi...
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
2014
I Am Searching For Myself
0/0
Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".
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I Am Searching For Myself
1983
The Fir Trees Remain
0/0
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the nex...
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The Fir Trees Remain
2009
Ekiro
3.667/3
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is c...
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Ekiro
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
0/0
A Music Special episode broadcasted by NHK. This documentary looks back at the great achievements and innovative works of Ryuichi Sakamoto's carreer,...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
2024
Hakkenden
7.4/11
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story...
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Hakkenden
1993
Crimson Lotus
8/2
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give u...
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Crimson Lotus
1999
Jubaku: Spellbound
6.2/6
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal tha...
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Jubaku: Spellbound
2018
Oh Lucy!
6.683/104
A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out...
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Oh Lucy!
2017
The Third Murder
6.6/298
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
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The Third Murder
1993
Dark Society in the East
6.7/6
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smug...
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Dark Society in the East
1982
The Legend of Sayo
7/4
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for...
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The Legend of Sayo
2014
A Samurai Chronicle
7.111/9
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
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A Samurai Chronicle
2017
Sekigahara
6.969/49
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the...
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Sekigahara
2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai
7/53
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
2004
Fireflies: River of Light
5/6
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through t...
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Fireflies: River of Light
2007
Argentine Hag
0/0
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out tha...
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Argentine Hag
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
10/1
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), b...
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The Hunter and the Hunted
2018
The Blood of Wolves
7.192/39
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the y...
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The Blood of Wolves
2007
The Sin
0/0
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, w...
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The Sin
2018
Mirai
7.157/885
Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden,...
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Mirai
1982
Eternal Monument
10/2
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
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Eternal Monument
1998
Bonds
5.571/7
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. H...
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Bonds
2019
Wings Over Everest
5.9/7
An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone
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Wings Over Everest
2007
Walking My Life
5/1
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will di...
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Walking My Life
1996
Shabu
8/1
Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of...
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Shabu
1981
Willful Murder
8/4
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd...
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Willful Murder
2021
Under the Open Sky
7.5/45
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his lo...
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Under the Open Sky
2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
7.638/3453
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
1994
Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
0/0
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Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
2004
Tokyo: Level One
8/1
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
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Tokyo: Level One
2021
Belle
7.619/912
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day disco...
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Belle
2022
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
7.4/8
In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from th...
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2021
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
6.7/6
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who g...
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
1990
Megumi no Sekai
0/0
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is qu...
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Megumi no Sekai
1992
Suzume Iro Doki
0/0
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her d...
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Suzume Iro Doki
2025
Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
9.5/6
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's...
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Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
1999
Keijitachi no Natsu
0/0
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.
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Keijitachi no Natsu
2004
People Without a Fort
0/0
After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was in...
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People Without a Fort
2007
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
10/1
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
1991
Takeda Shingen
10/1
During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the earliest...
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Takeda Shingen
2026
The Brightest Sun
0/0
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth t...
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The Brightest Sun
2011
Early Autumn
0/0
As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine specialty store in Nagano, feels a mix of emotions as he...
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Early Autumn
2025
Scarlet
7.008/131
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not...
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Scarlet
1994
39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
0/0
Film adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Edogawa Rampo Award-winning novel Kao ni Furikakaru Ame.
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2025
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
6/3
At 80 years old, German director and photographer Wim Wenders talks about his unwavering joy in creating and telling stories. From "Paris, Texas" to "...
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Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special
6/1
35th-anniversary Fuji TV special featuring three new “Tales of the Unusual” shorts: Anata Hakubutsukan, Nanakai Tōsō, Tomaranakereba Ikirarenai Game,...
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1984
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
0/0
A heartfelt period drama that delicately portrays the joys and sorrows of a thief and the people living on the margins of society. Ihei, played by Tat...
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The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
1981
Magistrate of the Floating World
6/1
Kodaira Mochizuki has come from Edo to keep Horisoto secure.
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Magistrate of the Floating World
2026
Children Untold
0/0
War may be over, but for the children of Miwa Nishikawa’s latest film — adapted from her forthcoming novel — survival has only begun.
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Children Untold
1999
Making Of Charisma
0/0
Documentary showing the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1999 film Charisma
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1981
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0/0
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