Makiko Watanabe
Makiko Watanabe (渡辺 真起子, Watanabe Makiko, September 14, 1968) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Decade.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0405 |
| Birthday | 1968-09-14 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 渡辺 真起子, 渡辺真起子, 渡边真起子, |
2021
Tomorrow's Dining Table
7.1/4
3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head t...
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
2007
The Mourning Forest
6.8/49
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the...
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The Mourning Forest
2025
Sugar Glass Bottle
7/1
Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious f...
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Sugar Glass Bottle
2021
In the Wake
7.1/18
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence f...
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In the Wake
2010
All to the Sea
0/0
Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.
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All to the Sea
2008
Love Exposure
8/513
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn indu...
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Love Exposure
2012
Playback
7.7/3
Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first tim...
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Playback
2017
Hello, Goodbye
7/2
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helpi...
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Hello, Goodbye
2000
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
5.2/24
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personalit...
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
1999
M/Other
5.731/13
Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is up...
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M/Other
2022
Small, Slow But Steady
7.045/56
Keiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her...
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Small, Slow But Steady
2020
孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル～俺の食事に密はない、孤独の花火大作戦！～
10/1
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2023
About the Evil Woman
0/0
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About the Evil Woman
2002
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
6.605/19
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed...
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
2007
The Rebirth
5.8/6
A widower who’s daughter has been murdered at high school meets the mother of the murderer by coincidence after moving to a small town in Hokkaido.
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The Rebirth
2012
Himizu
7.038/172
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to su...
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Himizu
2011
Women on the Edge
0/0
Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.
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Women on the Edge
2012
GFP BUNNY
4.1/7
A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother, poi...
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GFP BUNNY
2010
Sketches of Kaitan City
5.4/5
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...
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Sketches of Kaitan City
2009
Torso
5.5/9
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
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Torso
2023
Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room - The Movie
7.4/7
The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing life-saving treatment thanks to the OR equipped w...
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Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room - The Movie
2009
Where Are You?
6.2/5
A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...
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Where Are You?
1996
XX: Beautiful Prey
5.875/16
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investi...
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XX: Beautiful Prey
2005
The Many Faces of Chika
9/1
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Toky...
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The Many Faces of Chika
2022
The Midnight Maiden War
5.5/6
I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a girlfriend. I's university life is boring and he d...
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The Midnight Maiden War
2001
Luxurious Bone
5.125/8
Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shintani, with whom Miyako experiences sexual pleasure...
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Luxurious Bone
2021
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
5.7/3
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates th...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
2014
Still the Water
6.8/106
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito s...
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Still the Water
2023
Family
6.8/6
Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four m...
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Family
2022
Haw
7.2/4
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One da...
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Haw
2013
Nobody's Perfect
7/1
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grad...
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Nobody's Perfect
1996
Mogura
0/0
Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
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Mogura
1997
Ringo no usagi
0/0
About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him
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Ringo no usagi
2007
Fourteen
6/5
Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger genera...
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Fourteen
2012
A Road Stained Crimson
0/0
Professional killer Ken is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly ey...
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A Road Stained Crimson
2001
Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism
0/0
Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.
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Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism
2012
Odayaka
5.7/4
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who...
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Odayaka
2014
Starting Over
4.3/7
Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana c...
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Starting Over
2010
Nemuriba
0/0
Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").
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Nemuriba
2022
Fragments of the Last Will
7.9/9
Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of h...
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Fragments of the Last Will
2011
Life Back Then
4.4/7
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments....
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Life Back Then
2006
Colors
0/0
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Colors
2007
Sixteen
0/0
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
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Sixteen
2001
Tampen
0/0
Four short films produced without a director
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Tampen
2010
Heaven's Story
6.6/5
A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is e...
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Heaven's Story
2016
64: Part 2
7.5/17
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, w...
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64: Part 2
2015
Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
0/0
In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan...
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Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
2007
My Sister, My Love
5.7/26
It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society view...
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My Sister, My Love
2022
Mugonkan
0/0
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artwor...
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Mugonkan
2009
White Night
8/1
Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...
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White Night
2015
東京の日
0/0
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東京の日
2013
Au revoir l'été
6.3/20
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to k...
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Au revoir l'été
2005
Canary
6.214/14
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas...
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Canary
2010
Wandering Home
6.2/3
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple d...
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Wandering Home
2024
Desert of Namibia
7.375/16
A young and beautiful woman from Tokyo navigates multiple love stories while being haunted by her unexpressed thoughts.
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Desert of Namibia
2010
Tokyo Stray Girls
4.5/10
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos....
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Tokyo Stray Girls
2024
Happyend
6.9/36
In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navigate personal struggles and fractured bonds amid r...
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Happyend
2016
While the Women Are Sleeping
5.438/16
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest...
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While the Women Are Sleeping
2013
Capturing Dad
6.3/6
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estrang...
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Capturing Dad
2016
A Loving Husband
7/11
Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Y...
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A Loving Husband
2017
Star Sand
7/1
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi,...
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Star Sand
1997
2/Duo
7.619/21
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
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2/Duo
2017
The Lowlife
5.8/18
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
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The Lowlife
2007
CREEP
0/0
Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit...
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CREEP
2007
Rabbit on the Moon
3.5/4
Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman gran...
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Rabbit on the Moon
2006
Faces of a Fig Tree
5/1
Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.
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Faces of a Fig Tree
2015
Mystery Trilogy Special
0/0
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
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Mystery Trilogy Special
2018
A Banana? At This Time of Night?
7.5/4
A man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and help him. Though, he takes full advantage of the si...
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
2019
37 Seconds
7.245/106
Yuma, a 23-year-old comic book artist with profound cerebral palsy, has been emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overprotective mother. As she...
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37 Seconds
2014
Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
5.3/7
The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night.
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Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
2019
Aesop's Game
4.8/8
Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency...
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Aesop's Game
2019
Walking Man
7/1
Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but he stutters and has timid personality. To support h...
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Walking Man
2017
Slight Fever
10/1
Wakana is a 17-year-old high school student who loves to cook. She enjoys peaceful days with her family and friends, but sometimes she senses delicate...
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Slight Fever
2018
And Your Bird Can Sing
6.737/19
With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
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And Your Bird Can Sing
2020
Voices in the Wind
7.3/22
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a l...
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Voices in the Wind
2018
My Friend "A"
7.2/14
Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
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My Friend "A"
2020
Momi's House
0/0
Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife Megumi...
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Momi's House
2015
Obon Brothers
0/0
A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.
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Obon Brothers
2020
Tamaran Hill
4.5/2
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s fav...
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Tamaran Hill
2020
The Asadas!
7.33/162
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take st...
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The Asadas!
2019
Startup Girls
0/0
A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accep...
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Startup Girls
2013
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
0/0
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
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Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2020
State of Emergency
7.8/4
An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
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State of Emergency
2015
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
6.3/3
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro O...
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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
2017
Foreboding
5.7/15
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father...
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Foreboding
2009
Lost Girl
0/0
Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner D...
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Lost Girl
2004
Zebraman
6.272/90
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
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Zebraman
2020
The Calming
5.8/4
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she ob...
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The Calming
2021
Come and Go
0/0
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wa...
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Come and Go
2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
7.642/539
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who ca...
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2025
The Harbor Lights
8/1
The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people livi...
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The Harbor Lights
2024
Or Utopia
5/1
Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community out of...
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Or Utopia
2023
Sayonara wo Kimeta Hi
0/0
Satoshi learns his estranged mother has six months to live. They must reunite for one last farewell. A short film from the "Short Trial Project 2023....
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Sayonara wo Kimeta Hi
2001
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn
0/0
A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 200...
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Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn
2005
Yumeno
10/1
Film directed by Yoshitaka Kamada.
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Yumeno
2025
Nursing Aide at Your Side SP
0/0
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Nursing Aide at Your Side SP
2020
三浦部長、本日付けで女性になります。
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三浦部長、本日付けで女性になります。
1988
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
8/2
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shiz...
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