Naoki Sato

Naoki Sato

Nacimiento : 1970-05-02, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Historia

Naoki Sato (佐藤 直紀 Satō Naoki) is a Japanese composer who has provided the music for several popular anime series including the first five Pretty Cure series, X, Eureka Seven, Sword of the Stranger, and Blood-C. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Music in 1993. At the 29th Japan Academy Prize in 2006, he won the Best Music prize for his work on the film  Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (Always Sunset on Third Street). He also composed music for anime films such as Pretty Cure All Stars DX trilogy, Stand By Me Doraemon. In live-action dramas, he provided music and soundtracks for TV dramas Good Luck!! Water Boys, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi and Ryōmaden. He provided the music for the Space Battleship Yamato film, as well as the Rurouni Kenshin and Parasyte live-action film series. For the 38th Japan Academy Prize in 2015, he was nominated in the Best Score category for his work in The Eternal Zero.[6] While he did not win the award, The Eternal Zero won several awards including Best Picture, and Stand By Me Doraemon won for Best Animated Film.

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Naoki Sato

Películas

Godzilla: Minus One
Original Music Composer
En el Japón de la posguerra surge un nuevo terror. ¿Podrán sobrevivir las personas devastadas... y mucho menos defenderse?
The Legend & Butterfly
Music
Oda Nobunaga (Takuya Kimura) and Nohime (Haruka Ayase) were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda’s enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Original Music Composer
Son Goku destruyó en su momento al Ejército Red Ribbon. Ahora, ciertos individuos han decidido continuar con su legado y han creado a los androides definitivos: Gamma 1 y Gamma 2. Estos dos androides se autoproclaman "superhéroes" y deciden atacar a Piccolo y a Gohan. ¿Cuál es el objetivo del Nuevo Ejército Red Ribbon? Ante un peligro inminente, ¡llega el momento del despertar del Superhéroe!
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Original Music Composer
A virtual world in a scab coral (coral-like information life form) created by Eureka. Ten years have passed since the people of the virtual world appeared on this earth with the collapse. As a result of this “great fusion”, human beings in the virtual world call themselves “Green Earth”, and human beings on the old Earth call themselves “Blue Earth”, and various collisions will be repeated under the surface of the water. And Dewey Novak, a high-ranking official of the Green Earth Army, raises up with his colleagues to protect their dignity and finally puts into action a large-scale terrorist program.
Kenshin, el guerrero samurái: El principio
Original Music Composer
Kenshin Himura inicia la búsqueda de un misterioso traficante de armas llamado Enishi Yukishiro que controla el bajo mundo de China. Durante su misión se desvelará también el secreto de "Jujishou", un elemento íntimamente ligado al propio Himura.
Samurái X: El fin
Original Music Composer
En 1879, Kenshin y sus aliados se enfrentan a los enemigos más poderosos que jamás hayan conocido: su excuñado Enishi Yukishiro y sus secuaces, que juraron venganza.
Quédate Conmigo, Doraemon  2
Original Music Composer
Nobita viaja con Doraemon al pasado para reencontrarse con su abuela, ya fallecida en el presente. Secuela de la película «Stand by Me Doraemon» y a su vez, remake del mediometraje «Doraemon: Obāchan no Omoide».
The Great War of Archimedes
Music
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.
Masquerade Hotel
Music
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investigation begins of the serial killer and Detective Kosuke Nitta works on the case. He believes the next murder will take place at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. To catch the killer, Kosuke Nitta goes undercover and begins working at the front desk of the hotel. Naomi Yamagishi works at the front desk of Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. She is selected to train Kosuke Nitta for his front desk job, but they can't get along. Kosuke Nitta is focused on catching the killer, but Naomi Yamagishi prioritizes the safety of the guests. As they begin to understand each others differences, they also begin to build a trust between each other. Who is the murderer?
Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
Original Music Composer
After her father is killed by the deadly coral menace, Anemone vows to have her revenge. But the only way to fight back is from the inside.
Over Drive
Music
At the SCRS (Seiko Cup Rally Series), talented young drivers hope to advance to the WRC (World Rally Championship). Atsuhiro Hiyama (Masahiro Higashide) is the chief mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. He is well regarded by his peers. His younger brother is Naozumi (Mackenyu Arata). He is an extremely gifted driver for Supika Racing Factory, but he is also a troublemaker. They continually argue because of Naozumi's reckless racing style. One day, Hikaru Endo (Aoi Morikawa) becomes his manager. --asianwiki
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Original Music Composer
Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.
Eureka Seven - Hi-Evolution
Original Music Composer
It all begins with the story that was left untold—the earth-shattering incident where Renton's father disappeared. With the mysterious pilot Eureka by his side, only Adroc Thurston could undo his own mistake, sparking the event that changed everything and earned him the title of a hero. Now, ten years later, Eureka lies in critical condition as Renton leaves the crew of the Gekko. But when he finds himself in the care of his father's old friends, he has a choice to make. Either stay with the loving family he's always wanted, or earn the love he seeks.
Honnouji Hotel
Music
In Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She's thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki Hirayama). By an accidental opportunity, Mayuko stays at Honnouji Hotel. There, she meets historical figure Nobunaga Oda (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who is attempting to unify Japan.
Fueled: The Man They Called
Music
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyushu, rides out into the oil business, but is faced with numerous challenges and competitors who stand in his way, including domestic suppliers and major western oil companies, or the "oil majors". But Tetsuzo never gave up, however despairing the situation was. He always found a way and paved a new road with his unconventional ideas, eccentric actions, and most of all, his caring heart toward his own men. That style of Tetsuzo's was not something that would ever change, even when the tides were against him in a war-lost Japan.
Koro-sensei Quest!
Music
In the alternate universe set in an RPG world, the students of Kunugigaoka Junior High School are heroes under training and students of Class 3-E are those with bug, making them weaker than other heroes. They ae tasked a defeat Koro-sensei, a Demon King who intentionally teaches them so they can defeat him one day.
Gatos: Un viaje de vuelta a casa
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Un gato negro llamado Rudolf se separa de su amado dueño e, inesperadamente, se despierta en un camión que lo transporta hasta Tokio. Allí, conoce a Ippai-attena, un gato jefe que es temido por todos en la ciudad. Incapaz de regresar a su casa, Rudolf comienza una nueva vida junto a Ippai-attena, quien en realidad no es como aparenta.
The Top Secret: Murder in Mind
Original Music Composer
Ambientado a fines del siglo XXI, se introduce un escáner de resonancia magnética en el noveno laboratorio forense del Instituto Nacional de Investigación de Ciencias Policiales. La máquina puede escanear los recuerdos incluso de los fallecidos. A medida que surgen preguntas éticas sobre el uso de la máquina, los miembros del Noveno Laboratorio Forense, incluidos el novato Ikko Aoki y el Jefe Tsuyoshi Maki, luchan por resolver los casos.
Assassination Classroom: La graduación
Original Music Composer
La historia continúa con los propios conflictos de los estudiantes, la identidad de Koro Sensei y el destino del mundo. Se aproxima el límite de tiempo para el asesinato.
Persona Non Grata
Music
The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is the story of a man who believed in doing all he could do for the benefit of his beloved Japan, including trying to keep her from becoming embroiled in a worldwide conflict he saw as inevitable. Along the way, he came face to face with the plight of the European Jews as they tried to escape the onslaught of the Nazi's and the rapidly advancing German army. Caught between the unbending policies of his country now bound by treaty with Nazi Germany and his awakening moral responsibilities, we follow his life from his early days in Manchuria to his eventual posting in Lithuania and his appointment with destiny which would forever brand him a hero.
Parásito. Parte 2
Music
Segunda parte de uno de los mangas más aclamados de la historia. Sinichi ha sido capaz de aprender a vivir con uno de sus parásitos en su mano derecha y ahora se siente con la obligación de ayudar al resto del mundo a combatir contra estas criaturas. El destino de la Tierra está en juego y Sinichi junto a su parásito lucharán contra el resto de criaturas extraterrestres. He aquí uno de los manga más aclamados de la historia, en dos películas y en manos de uno de los directores más exitosos del cine nipón.
Assassination Classroom
Original Music Composer
La premisa es sencilla, un alienígena con forma de smiley llega a la Tierra y promete destruirla dentro de un año. Mientras tanto dará clase a un grupo marginal en una escuela y les adiestrará en tecnicas de asesinato para que puedan acabar con él antes de que se cumpla el plazo.
Parásito. Parte 1
Music
La Tierra es invadida por unos seres extraterrestres que se introducen en el cerebro de los humanos tomando control de sus cuerpos. Un adolescente impide que se finalice el proceso cuando uno de estos alienígenas se introduce en su mano, terminando como parásito de su cuerpo en una relación en la que ambos tienen sus personalidades intactas. Juntos, lucharán contra el resto de parásitos que devoran humanos.
Kenshin, El Guerrero Samurái 3. El Fin De La Leyenda
Original Music Composer
El duelo entre Kenshin Himura y el maligno Shishio Makoto sigue sin resolverse. El conflicto entre los dos guerreros decidirá el destino de Japón, y pondrá un bombástico punto final a la memorable adaptación cinematográfica del manga de Nobuhiro Watsuki.
Quédate Conmigo, Doraemon
Original Music Composer
Nobita Nobi es un niño muy patoso al que todo le sale mal. Un día recibe la visita de Sewashi, un misterioso niño que afirma ser su tataranieto del siglo XXII y le anuncia que su futuro será un desastre que arruinará a toda la familia durante generaciones. Sewashi le presta su robot Doraemon para que le ayude a encontrar una solución. Poco después, Doraemon, el gato cósmico, cree haber encontrado la clave: el amor.
Kenshin, el guerrero samurái 2. Infierno en Kioto
Music
Tras los acontecimientos relatados en “Kenshin, el guerrero samurai”, Kenshin Himura vive retirado, fiel a su juramento de no volver a empuñar la espada; pero la aparición de un misterioso villano que amenaza con derrocar al gobierno hará que el protagonista replantee su postura. Rurôni Kenshin: Kyoto taika-hen es el primer segmento del espectacular díptico que concluirá las aventuras del guerrero.
The Sunset Sky
Music
In a story of human perseverance, Jennifer, who has a complex relationship with her autistic brother, tries abandoning him. When secrets from her past creep up she realizes that she needs him as much as he needs her.
A Bolt from the Blue
Music
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns the secret of his birth.
Kano
Music
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Kano
Original Music Composer
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
El cero eterno
Original Music Composer
Dos jóvenes hermanos, Kentaro y Keiko Saeki, empiezan a buscar información sobre su abuelo, que murió en las Fuerzas Especiales del ejército japonés durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Descubren que su abuelo, Kyuzo Miyabe, estaba aterrorizado por la muerte y obsesionado por mantener su vida. Según algunos de sus antiguos compañeros de combate fue un genio, según otros un cobarde. Kentaro y Keiko descubrirán una impactante verdad mantenida en secreto durante 60 años.
Tsunagu (Until the Break of Dawn)
Original Music Composer
Ayumi, una estudiante de secundaria, es preparada por su abuela para actuar como un "tsunagu", un intermediario para las personas que quieren contactar con los muertos.
Kenshin, el guerrero samurái
Music
Kenshin Himura (Takeru Sato) es un famoso samurái conocido por su destreza con la katana y su frialdad a la hora de matar. En el pasado estuvo al servicio de los Ishin Shishi, un grupo de patriotas que luchaban para devolver el poder al Emperador, librando cientos de batallas y cobrándose muchas vidas. Pero tras terminar todos los enfrentamientos, jura no volver a matar y decide pasar al anonimato para dedicarse a viajar por el país como un vagabundo ayudando a quien lo necesite, como penitencia por todas las muertes que provocó. Diez años después, en 1878, Kenshin llega a Tokio donde conoce a Kaoru (Emi Takei), quien le invita a quedarse en su dojo hasta que decida volver a vagabundear. Sin embargo, el pasado que Kenshin intentó dejar atrás pronto volverá para cobrarse venganza contra él. Adaptación del manga de Nobuhiro Watsuki.
Brave Hearts: Umizaru
Music
Mika is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki and his team are called into action ...
Blood-C: The Last Dark
Music
Tokyo, invierno. A raíz de la aplicación de la Ley de Protección de la Juventud, los menores tienen prohibido circular por las calles después de las nueve de la noche y el uso de internet está regulado. Sin embargo, un grupo llamado Sirrut sigue luchando por la libertad de los más jóvenes. Sus indagaciones les llevan hasta Tower, una misteriosa organización que supuestamente lleva a cabo experimentos con seres humanos en los que hay gente que es devorada.
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
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The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...
Friends: Aventura en la isla de los monstruos
Music
Mar adentro, envuelta en la niebla, existe una fantasmagórica isla que se dice que es el hogar de una hueste de terroríficos monstruos. Está terminantemente prohibido acercarse a ella. Pero, un día, un niño humano, Kotake, se pierde y acaba encontrándose cara a cara con las misteriosas criaturas que habitan allí. La llegada de Kotake hace cundir el pánico en la isla porque en realidad son los monstruos los que viven aterrorizados de los humanos. Así pues, confían el cuidado del pequeño al irascible demonio rojo Naki. Al principio, Naki y Kotake chocan constantemente, pero al pasar tiempo juntos, acaba formándose un vínculo inseparable entre ellos. ¿Será su amistad capaz de imponerse al tabú que asegura que monstruos y humanos no pueden ser amigos?
Dog × Police: The K-9 Force
Music
Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
Girls' Compass
Original Music Composer
Four high school girls, who are part of the legendary theatrical group known as "Rashinban," stops performing due to the sudden death of one member. Four years later the explanation of the girl's death is revealed and the other girls start a plan for revenge...
Peak: The Rescuers
Original Music Composer
Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an accident due to their own negligence. Even if a fellow rescuer dies, he's the kind of man who can look toward the corpse and say "You did your best." One spring, newcomer Shiina Kumi is assigned to the Nagano prefecture mountain rescue team where she experiences growth thanks to Sanpo's guidance and the seemingly harsh training methods of the team's captain, Noda. However, she becomes depressed when she's unable to translate her skills to a real-life situation. As her confidence wanes, multiple accidents occur simultaneously due to a mountain blizzard, forcing the entire team into action.
Space Battleship Yamato
Original Music Composer
Space Battleship Yamato nos situa en el año 2199, cinco años despues que apareciesen unos misteriosos alienigenas llamados Gamilas y empezasen a atacar a la Tierra con meteoritos gigantes y dejar su superficie totalmente inhabitable por culpa de la radiacion post-bélica. A la raza humana apenas le queda un año de vida cuando se recibe un enigmatico mensaje proveniente del lejano planeta Iscandar, asegurando que poseen un artilugio capaz de eliminar la radiacion de la Tierra y ofreciendo su ayuda a los humanos. Decididos a salvar el planeta, las Fuerzas de Defensa reconstruyen el acorazado espacial Yamato para poder realizar el increíble viaje que les llevara a mas de 150.000 años luz de distancia en busca de un desconocido planeta que puede ser la ultima esperanza para la raza humana y para la Tierra.
Ballad
Music
Based on the plot of an award-winning Crayon Shin-chan animated movie from 2002, a boy named Shinichi (Takei) does the time-traveling and meets a feared general named Ijiri Matabei (Kusanagi). Ijiri is in love with Princess Ren (Aragaki) who subsequently rejects an arranged marriage to Okura Itakatora (Osawa), a powerful daimyo of northern Kanto. Enraged by the rejection, Okura sends a large army to Ijiri's smaller state and it's up to Shinichi to change their destiny.
The Vulture
Music
A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat.
Oppai Volleyball
Music
Mikako es una profesora joven de secundaria que acaba de ser transferida a una nueva escuela. Emocionada por comenzar un nuevo trabajo, se ofrece voluntaria para entrenar al club de voleibol masculino. Sin embargo, descubre que casi no hay actividad en el club... Sólo hay 5 miembros, y todos ellos son unos perdedores que ni siquiera han tocado una pelota de voleibol y sólo saben pensar en chicas. Para incentivarlos a que se esfuercen, ¡les promete que les mostrará las tetas si ganan un partido!
Precure All Stars Movie DX: Everyone Is a Friend - A Miracle All Precures Together
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Love, Miki and Inori are on their way to a dance contest, but get lost on their way to Minato Mirai. Still looking for their way, they are attacked by a monster. When the three Fresh Precure girls start to fight it, other Precures show up to support them. They all have to combine their powers to win against this mighty enemy.
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
Music
A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” An unimaginable truth then awaits.
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Music
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Yes! Precure 5 Go Go! Movie: Happy Birthday in the Land of Sweets
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It's Nozomi's birthday, but it is disturbed by Bunbee chasing after a girl from another world, Chocola. When Pretty Cure rescue her, she thanks them by taking them to her country, Dessert Kingdom. In this cockaigne with rivers of juice and candy growing on trees, they feel very comfortable. But then they meet the evil Mushiban and his two subordinates Dry and Bitter. They want to take over the kingdom and change Pretty Cure into sweets. In order to save not only Nozomi's Birthday but also the whole Dessert Kingdom, Pretty Cure have to fight their way against Dry and Bitter and also against their own friend: Coco, who is being brainwashed by Mushiban.
The Last Princess
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After the Akizuku clan fall in defeat to rival clan Yamana, Princess Yuki (Nagasawa Masami) and general Rokurota (Hiroshi Abe), take cover in a hidden fortress, along with their clan and gold treasury. Fortuitously stumbling into the hideaways, brash young miner Takezo (Matsumoto Jun) and his bumbling sidekick Shinhachi (Miyagawa Daiuske) hatch a daring plan to help transport the gold out of enemy terrain - in exchange for a share of the stash, of course. With assassins hot in pursuit, Yuki disguises as a male and ventures into the real world with Rukurota and her peasant companions, getting her first taste of danger, toil, and budding romance with the strong-minded and willful Takezo.
The Glorious Team Batista
Music
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this procedure has only a 60% success rate, but "Team Batista" has achieved a run of 26 straight successes....when suddenly 3 patients in a row die on the operating table. Very disturbed, the lead surgeon requests an independent investigation. The hospital turns to Dr. Taguchi who is a specialist in psychosomatic disorders who is shocked to at the assignment because she knows nothing in particular about surgery. Assured, however, that this very lack of insider specialized knowledge is in fact the "objectivity" required, she diligently begins to investigate in her own polite, but persistent manner.
Little DJ
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Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Music
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with Junnosuke, an orphan he's taken under his wing at the urging of pretty Hiroi, who continues to manage a nearby tavern. Chagawa dreams of publishing a successful novel and settling down with Hiroi and Junnosuke, but his day job running the candy store keeps him busy, and Hiroi mistakes his tight schedule for a lack of interest in her. Hiroi has also embarked on a secret career as a burlesque dancer, which isn't doing much to improve her opinion of men. At the Suzuki household, seven-year-old Ippei isn't happy to be sharing the house with a guest, his distant cousin Mika who is the same age but far more demanding. Mutsuko, the apprentice female auto mechanic, is still staying with the Suzukis, and she's becomes the object of the affections of Takeo, a downbeat young man who is studying cooking.
Cinturón negro (Black Belt)
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Ambientada en Japón, durante los primeros años de la Era Showa (1932). Un trío de karatekas de un pequeño dojo, ubicado en los bosques del centro de Kyushu, están bajo la tutela del anciano maestro llamado Eiken Shibahara. Entre ellos se debaten el Kuroi Obi, que designará al sucesor del dojo. Choei, Taiken y Giryu se enfrentan a una compañía de la policía militar Kenpeitai, que ha llegado a requisar su dojo para usarlo como una base militar.
El samurái sin nombre (Sword of the Stranger)
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Durante el periodo de guerra entre estados o Sengoku, un ronin llamado Nanashi, que significa "sin nombre", salva a un niño llamado Kotarou y a su perro Tobimaru en un templo abandonado. Kotarou no tiene familia y es perseguido por una misteriosa organización militar de China, por lo que contrata a Nanashi como guardaespaldas. Nanashi, que ha abandonado su nombre junto a su pasado, ha "sellado" su espada debido a un suceso pasado por el que es atormentado en forma de pesadillas. El encargado de perseguir a Kotarou es un hombre llamado Rarou, que pertenece a la organización de origen chino y que esta bajo las ordenes de un anciano llamado Byakuran, aunque, a diferencia de sus compañeros, Rarou no posee un concepto de "Rey" y solo busca luchar contra el más fuerte.
Kisaragi
Music
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true circumstances surrounding her supposed suicide.
Kamikaze: Moriremos Por Los Que Amamos
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Historia ambientada en el Pacífico, en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, acerca de los famosos kamikazes que impactaban con sus aviones cargados de explosivos contra el enemigo estadounidense. El film se centra en un cuerpo de estos hombres con su base en Chira, Kagomisha, y con tono desmitificador pero muy humano, se habla de que no eran voluntarios, sino más bien condenados a muerte por sus superiores. Lo cual no quita para que se subraye el heroísmo de los kamikazes, al mostrar el amor a su patria, hasta el extremo de dar su vida por ella; lo que contrasta con el cerrilismo de algunos jefes.
Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Friends of the Heart
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En medio de un concurso de karaoke, Saki y Mai descubren que el tiempo se ha detenido de repente. Siguiendo a algunos espíritus, terminan en la Tierra de los Relojes donde encuentran a Sirloin, un guerrero de Dark Fall que mantiene como rehén al Reloj Infinito. Naturalmente, Pretty Cure no tolerará esto, y comenzarán a luchar. ¿Pero pueden dejar de pelear entre ellos primero?
The Letters
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How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is deprived of his love, career and dream. His desperate situation gradually changes when he finds true love with Yumiko, who always stands by him. To protect the love that he has finally found, Naoki begins writing a letter to Takeshi... The touching story of a man who was powerless against his irreversible fate, but still tried to overcome it in the quest for his dream.
Limit of Love: Umizaru
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A small team of Coast Guard divers, including Daisuke, rappels onto the ship from a helicopter and begins to evacuate the panicked passengers. Then Daisuke finds a familiar face - Kanna. They had a tiff the night before about their wedding plans - Kanna had already made her dress, while Daisuke was still reluctant to propose - and she left for Tokyo, feeling like a fool. Now she see Daisuke in a different, more heroic light - but before they can properly reconcile, she has to evacuate, while Daisuke searches for stray passengers.
Simsons
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Four Japanese girls, 3 totally inept at the sport, come together to form a curling team in Northern Japan. The town is famous for scallops and curling, and peoples' status in this little fishing village is based on their curling abilities. The girls do little, until a seemingly inept coach teaches them about the game, and about themselves. In the end, they pull it all together to become an adequate team. In the process, they discover the true meaning of friendship, effort, shame and puppy love.
Pretty Cure Max Heart La Película 2: Amigos bajo el Cielo Nevado
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Las Pretty Cure viajan en esta ocasión a la nieve, donde conocerán a Hinata, un simpático pollito que, aunque ellas no lo sepan, está destinado a salvar a su reino. El malvado rey Haaku crea a Froozum y Freezem, dos criaturas que intentarán detener a las Pretty Cure. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de Hinata, las chicas resistirán los ataques de estos villanos y conseguirán nuevos poderes.
Always san-chôme
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Dejando su hogar de provincias, la adolescente Mutsuko llega a Tokyo en tren para trabajar en una importante compañía de automóviles, pero se encuentra con que es contratada en un pequeño taller regentado por Norifumi Suzuki. El temperamento irritable de Suzuki se mantiene más o menos controlado por los instintos maternales de su esposa, Tomoe, y su joven hijo Ippei crea un vínculo inmediato con Mutsuko como si fuera su hermana mayor. El taller Suzuki está prácticamente a la sombra de la Torre Tokyo según se va levantando sobre el horizonte durante su construcción en 1958.
Pretty Cure Max Heart: La película
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Nagisa, Honoka y Hikari se enfrentarán a una bruja malvada que será su nueva enemigo. También conocerán a muchos más amigos del Jardín de los Diamantes y sobre todo Nagisa conocerá al príncipe, que por sus características es casi igual a Fuji-p y, por supuesto, todo príncipe tiene una madre, la cual las ha llamado para que le ayuden a proteger unos diamantes que son muy importantes para su reino, ya que sin ellos no lo habría. En esta historia casi pierden a su amiga Hikari que si no fuera por sus nuevos amigos no lo conseguiría. Ellas como siempre salvaran el reino, los diamantes e incluso ayudarán a uno de sus nuevos amigos con sus problemas de mal genio.
Lorelei: The Witch Of The Pacific Ocean
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Drama con tintes fantásticos ambientado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el que un submarino que porta un arma secreta trata de evitar el plan de lanzar una tercera bomba atómica sobre Japón
Water Boys 2
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Water Boys was a major sliver screen hit in 2001 that took the Japanese public by storm in depicting high school boys who pour all the passion of their youth into becoming synchronized swimmers. The year 2003 saw the start of a new TV series of the same name that maintained the overall atmosphere of the film while making new developments, and becoming a summer hit with the amazing synchronized swimming feats it depicted. And then in the summer of 2004 a second season of the series with fun and a sense of pathos opened, this time with a new town as the setting and depicting the passion, friendship and love of 32 boys who are absolutely nuts about synchronized swimming.The fascinating synchronized swimming scenes are more powerful than ever. In addition to the scenes of a public performance in the last installment, the show has loads of excitement and thrills throughout.
Renai Shousetsu
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A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...
Sea Monkey
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The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must endure and survive a 50-day training. Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito) and 13 other recruits take part in the training. With his love for the ocean and dream to work as a rescuer at sea, a rescue diver seemed like the perfect occupation for Daisuke.
X: An Omen
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The story is focused on the future as seen by Kuzuki Kakyou, the dreamgazer of Dragons of Earth, as he remembers the life and death of a remarkable young woman whom he met in his dreams. He also recounts his dreams of a tragic future in which the fate of the earth will be decided.
Catnapped!
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The story involves a boy and his younger sister whose dog Papadoll is missing. They find out that he has been abducted by anthropomorphic cats to be brought to a world called Banapal Witt, which is built on top of a giant sleeping cat. There the sun turns poor Papadoll into a bizarre giant monster. He becomes the weapon and beloved pet of a spoiled Princess who turns everything she touches into balloons. She plans to use Papadoll and a giant inflatable mouse to control the sleeping cat and thus Banapal Witt itself.