Shinobu Otake
Shinobu Otake (大竹 しのぶ, Ōtake Shinobu, born July 17, 1957) is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2726 |
| Birthday | 1957-07-17 |
| Place of Birth | Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shinobu Ohtake, Shinobu Ootake, 오타케 시노부, 大竹 しのぶ, Shinobu Ōtake, Shinobu Otake, Shinobu Ôtake, |
2020
Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special
7/2
Coin Laundry
Story: Hashimoto Manabu is a temporary worker who has been laid off and has no choice but to live on part-time work. One day, he finishe...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Fall Special
2023
The Boy and the Heron
7.401/2607
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his ne...
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The Boy and the Heron
2004
Tracing Jake
8/2
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to trav...
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Tracing Jake
2022
Hell Dogs
6.994/79
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
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Hell Dogs
1999
蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
0/0
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蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
1991
Harikomi
2/2
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
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Harikomi
2012
Cymbeline
0/0
In William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," King Cymbeline is furious when his only daughter, Inogen, marries Postumus, a man of low birth, instead of marry...
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Cymbeline
2004
Mourning Becomes Electra
0/0
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Mourning Becomes Electra
1978
Monument to Holy Service
8/1
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Monument to Holy Service
1995
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
8/2
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Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
1977
Seasonal Wind
0/0
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...
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Seasonal Wind
2024
Who Were We?
2/1
On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the facility and takes the woman to her home. The woman...
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Who Were We?
1995
The August Screams
0/0
The story of a man and woman dealing with amnesia, set in Prague.
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The August Screams
1995
北の国から ’95秘密 後編
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北の国から ’95秘密 後編
2015
Our Little Sister
7.573/555
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
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Our Little Sister
2013
Before the Vigil
7/4
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her...
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Before the Vigil
2010
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
5.3/3
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home co...
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
1999
The Black House
6/15
A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively...
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The Black House
1999
Will to Live
6.429/7
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for...
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Will to Live
2016
Black Widow Business
8.5/2
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marri...
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Black Widow Business
2010
Postcard
5.75/12
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war...
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Postcard
2010
A Night In Nude: Salvation
6.1/11
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. W...
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A Night In Nude: Salvation
1980
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
0/0
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.5/4
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
2008
Arigato, Okan
0/0
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alon...
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Arigato, Okan
1978
The Incident
7.25/4
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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The Incident
1979
Oh, My Son!
6.125/8
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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Oh, My Son!
2007
Welcome to the Quiet Room
6.7/25
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatr...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
1975
The Gate of Youth
9/2
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every...
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The Gate of Youth
2000
Ritual
7.737/95
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicat...
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Ritual
1992
Original Sin
5/8
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
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Original Sin
1983
Children of Nagasaki
6.625/8
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
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Children of Nagasaki
1980
Child of the Sun
0/0
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interact...
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Child of the Sun
1980
Twelve Months
6.875/20
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
1999
Round About Midnight
7/9
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers...
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Round About Midnight
2009
Castle Under Fiery Skies
8.6/14
The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle...
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Castle Under Fiery Skies
1990
Kinpira
0/0
A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.
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Kinpira
2003
Owl
6.375/8
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to st...
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Owl
1996
Gonin 2
6.813/16
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and...
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Gonin 2
2010
Surely Someday
5.8/6
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's u...
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Surely Someday
2001
GO
7.386/88
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
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GO
2013
Leaving on the 15th Spring
6.6/8
Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is...
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
1999
Railroad Man
7.089/45
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is...
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Railroad Man
2007
Kitokito!
0/0
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
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Kitokito!
2008
Then Summer Came
4/1
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are...
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Then Summer Came
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
7.5/2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
2012
Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town
0/0
Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan's fastest declining city. Home...
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Women's Dream of Amakusa: Revitalizing Geisha Town
2015
Galaxy Turnpike
6.8/5
Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and the space colony Uzushio.
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Galaxy Turnpike
2010
The Secret World of Arrietty
7.667/3137
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's hu...
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The Secret World of Arrietty
2007
Into the Faraway Sky
7/1
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably p...
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Into the Faraway Sky
2003
Like Asura
6.533/15
The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.
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Like Asura
1984
Mahjong Horoki
7.2/5
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
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Mahjong Horoki
2016
Sanada 10 Braves
7.6/12
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior...
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Sanada 10 Braves
2008
Teacher and Three Children
6/1
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Teacher and Three Children
2017
Mary and The Witch's Flower
7.14/893
Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange f...
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Mary and The Witch's Flower
2006
Returning the Favor
7.1/4
Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling...
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Returning the Favor
1992
Night Escape Agency
3/1
The first instalment of a social comedy series depicting a company, the Night Escape Agency, that allows debtors to flee at night.
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Night Escape Agency
2010
My Darling Is a Foreigner
5.6/21
Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different...
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My Darling Is a Foreigner
1985
The Empty Table
6.5/4
One year after the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths, all the other p...
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The Empty Table
2013
The Wind Rises
7.792/3343
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II figh...
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The Wind Rises
2018
Nomitori Samurai
5.7/15
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to rec...
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Nomitori Samurai
1987
Eien no 1/2
8/2
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then beg...
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Eien no 1/2
1992
7 Up Japan
0/0
This is the first in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted's Up series.
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7 Up Japan
1999
14 Up Japan
0/0
This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted’s Up series.
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14 Up Japan
2010
Forget Me Not
0/0
A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story...
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Forget Me Not
1986
Beyond the Shining Sea
7/3
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cou...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
1987
A Tale of Young Elopement
9/1
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
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A Tale of Young Elopement
2018
Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41
0/0
A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their conversation using cutout animation.
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Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41
1979
Nomugi Pass
7.25/4
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which...
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Nomugi Pass
2019
Shadowfall
5.5/2
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is fac...
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Shadowfall
2009
Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
0/0
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
1978
The Demon
6.474/38
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
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The Demon
1976
Human Revolution II
8/1
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Human Revolution II
2004
Otakus in Love
6/9
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
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Otakus in Love
1993
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
5.455/11
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1988
Stay or go?
10/1
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the ga...
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Stay or go?
1976
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
0/0
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers l...
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The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
2021
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
7.119/67
Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast t...
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Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
1983
Lover, Come Back to Me
0/0
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on he...
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Lover, Come Back to Me
1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
6.6/5
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets o...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1991
The love song of farewell later
0/0
A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction....
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The love song of farewell later
2015
Pieta in the Toilet
6.7/22
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live...
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Pieta in the Toilet
2021
The House of the Lost on the Cape
6.6/28
A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks the sea. However, when a menacing entity...
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
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
1985
Dangerous Women
0/0
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and...
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Dangerous Women
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
2012
fukusuke
0/0
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fukusuke
2025
In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa
0/0
A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed "entertainment" inflicted on women of the Kurokawa settler group during Japan’s impe...
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In Their Own Words: The Women of Kurokawa
2014
「昭和の歌よ、ありがとう」One Night Premiere LIVE
0/0
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「昭和の歌よ、ありがとう」One Night Premiere LIVE
1992
Nurses and Doctors
0/0
A nurse is caring for a patient in a life and death situation whilst also dealing with her own emotional issues.
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Nurses and Doctors
2024
恋のおしまい
0/0
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恋のおしまい
2025
リア王
0/0
Shinobu Otake takes on her first role as an adult male in *King Lear*! This much-talked-about production brings together a stellar cast including Rie...
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