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Taeko and her husband, Jirō, are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.
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Junko runs a Thai restaurant left by her late husband. Yuuji is a furniture maker who has recently divorced. One day, Junko buys a handmade table via mail order from Yuuji. The table is all perfect except the doll, which was sent as a bonus, is missing its head. Learning that, Yuuji insists to send back the missing head parts to Junko. Eventually, the two can sense a connection between them as they start interacting with each other through email. Will romance blossom once again between the two people who're halfway through their lives?
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Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko's life at a certain point. Even though Yuko and her stepfather are not blood related, she is fully loved by her him.
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Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
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Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of modern Japan. During a recent speech, a citizen had thrown a rock at him causing him to lose his memory. Keisuke Kuroda’s subordinate takes him to the official residence of the prime minister where he tries to implement changes to the country. The only people aware that he has lost his memory are his three secretaries.
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The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.
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Rei Kiriyama é um rapaz de 17 anos de idade, que recentemente começou a viver sozinho, financiado pelo seu salário como um jogador de Shogi profissional. Apesar de sua independência, no entanto, ele ainda está amadurecendo emocionalmente, e seus problemas continuam a assombrá-lo em sua vida diária. Seu relacionamento com sua família adotiva é tensa, e ele tem dificuldades de interagir com seus colegas do ensino médio. Enquanto isso, sua carreira profissional entrou em uma recessão. Sobrecarregado com as expectativas pesadas colocadas sobre ele como o quinto para se tornar pro no ensino médio, suas vitórias e derrotas são flutuantes como seu registro e progressão para os ranks começarem a estagnar. Esta é a história de triunfos de Rei e fracassos, relacionamentos novos e antigos, e seu crescimento como pessoa.
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Uma série de assassinatos grotescos que têm ocorrido em dias chuvosos, abalam uma cidade. A única informação sobre o suspeito é que ele usa uma máscara de sapo. E o detetive que investiga o caso encontra-se numa situação delicada, pois ele percebe que sua família é o próximo alvo.
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Em 2599, a Terra está em um grave estado de superpopulação. Felizmente, os cientistas enviaram quantidades extraordinárias de musgo e baratas a Marte há 500 anos, a fim de torná-lo apto para a vida humana.Embora os resultados tenham sido relativamente positivos, a primeira tentativa de colonização falhou dramaticamente.O governo está agora preparando uma segunda missão ultra-secreta liderada pelo instável Ko Honda, cuja equipe escolhida a dedo é composta de criminosos atraídos pela promessa de liberdade e uma recompensa em dinheiro em seu retorno.Eles permitiram algumas modificações genéticas, concedendo-lhes as características de vários insetos.
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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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Em uma nave espacial que atravessa as galáxias reside Yoko, uma robô humanoide responsável por entregas interestelares, distribuindo pacotes para seres humanos em diversos planetas. Com muito tempo de sobra e escutando as fitas antigas do seu predecessor, ela passa a se questionar o que há nos pacotes e refletir sobre a natureza humana. Ao conhecer os habitantes de vários mundos, seu fascínio pela humanidade cresce, assim como sua apreciação pela passagem do tempo e os bens materiais. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.
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Hirata sonha em ser um grande diretor de cinema, enquanto uma guerra entre duas gangues em sua cidade explode. A esposa de um dos chefes massacra um grupo da gangue adversária e acaba presa; a repercussão acaba atrapalhando o sonho de sua filha pequena de ser uma atriz de cinema. Dez anos depois, para comemorar a soltura da esposa o marido está tentando fazer um filme cuja estrela é sua filha, e Hirata vê a chance de ter seu sonho realizado.
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A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.
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Nodame e Chiaki mutualmente decidem que seria melhor se separarem para que possa praticar para uma competição próxima. No entanto quando as coisas não saem do seu jeito, ela fica impaciente e deprimida. Enquanto Nodame está afastada a ex de chiaki, a pianista Rui retorna para tomar o seu lugar. Para piorar a situação, Rui e Chiaki são determinados para tocar a música dos sonhos de Nodame com Chiaki O concerto em G de Ravel.
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A carreira de Chiaki como maestro está em ascenção. Ele é convidado para se tornar o maestro permanente da Orquestra Roux-Marlet. Entretanto, a orquestra está péssima: falta de verba, membros desinteressados e ruins, falta de público e um primeiro-violino que acha que é ele quem dá as ordens. Em um prazo apertado, o nosso jovem perfeccionista terá que fazer mudanças profundas se quiser trazer a orquestra em sua antiga glória. Enquanto isso, Nodame se esforça para melhorar cada vez mais no piano em busca de seu sonho de se apresentar junto de Chiaki.
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A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here under orders of his supervisor at the Foreign Ministry, Hiroshi Kataoka (Kiichi Nakai), to aid in the safeguarding of Japanese citizens. Kuroda’s main contacts at the Japanese embassy consist of Ambassador Kikuhara, Counselor Nishino, and fellow diplomatic envoys Haba and Tanimoto. All are busy preparing for the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Kawagoe due to arrive for the high-profile G8 foreign minister’s meeting. Meanwhile, somewhere on the festively-lit streets of the city, a young Japanese girl has suddenly gone missing. Is it an abduction simply for ransom? Or could it be a prelude to terror?
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Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2. With the help of a dog-shaped robot, Yatterwoof, they take on the Doronbow gang, lead by the sexy Lady Doronjo. Together, they must stop the evil gang from finding the four magical skull pieces that will allow them to control the world!
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A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...
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A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
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Uma garota comum do ensino médio chamada Mika conhece Hiro, um garoto vistoso com cabelos tingidos e orelhas furadas. É uma história de "amor puro" dos dois que passaram por muitos incidentes inimaginavelmente tristes, enquanto alimentavam seu amor obstinadamente. Ele não apenas descreve o primeiro amor do casal do ensino médio, mas também tece “uma história de Mika e Hiro” através de episódios provavelmente familiares a alguém, como carinho e afeto de seus familiares por apoiarem os dois, a importância de viver, interações com amigos e assim por diante.
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Este filme é uma visão cômica e moderna dos velhos filmes japoneses de monstros que invadem as cidades causando pânico e destruição. E para combater estes monstros, um herói incomum, de elevado tamanho, enfrentando as criaturas gigantes que ameaçam destruir tudo e todos por onde passam.
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Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
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Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
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Uma enfermeira americana que mora e trabalha em Tóquio é exposta a uma maldição misteriosa em que um espírito se apodera da pessoa, desencadeando um violento surto de raiva, antes de clamar sua vida e passar à próxima vítima.
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Ao atender seu celular, uma adolescente ouve um grito aterrorizante, cuja voz ela reconhece. Nervosa, ela vai ver quem ligou e descobre que a mensagem vem do seu próprio celular, com data de três dias adiante. Inexplicavelmente, ela encontra uma morte horrível, na data e hora da chamada. A partir daí, outras pessoas começam a receber estas chamadas e o pânico se instala. Uma jovem que também recebe o telefonema e resolve descobrir o que está por trás disso tudo e a verdade é muito mais aterrorizante do que se possa imaginar.
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A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
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A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
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LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings and reluctant partings, joy and pain. The first vignette, "Life", portrays half of a woman's life in one-scene, one-cut, nine-minute sequence. "N" is a comical take on a man abandoned by his lover. "Ya" explores the bond of female friendship as one woman consoles a brokenhearted girlfriend. In "Nowhere", a man and a woman roam the streets of a foreign land in search of lost time.
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Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by Hajime Hashimoto.
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Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
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A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
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When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
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The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
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Japanese detective Hayase is caught in the midst of a truck robbery on the way to the Seoul airport. Being forced to extend his stay and help identify the robbers, Hayase gets thrown into another situation -- as Japan's Foreign Minister is kidnapped before the upcoming Asian Summit. Is 72 hours enough?
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Anjo, um chefe da máfia japonesa, a Yakuza, desaparece com três milhões de ienes. Os membros de sua gangue, liderados pelo masoquista Kakihara, saem em busca de Anjo, mas os métodos extremamente violentos do novo líder acabam chamando a atenção negativamente de gangues rivais. Tudo piora quando ele contrata o misterioso assassino psicopata Ichi, controlado por um policial aposentado.
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The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.
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Uma família completamente desestruturada: o pai, obsessivo com a profissão de jornalista, faz qualquer coisa para conseguir uma matéria polêmica; o filho, humilhado na escola constantemente pelos colegas, desconta sua frustração espancando a própria mãe todos os dias; a mãe, com a violência do filho e abandono do marido, prostitui-se para comprar heroína e aliviar-se; a filha, fugiu de casa e agora é prostituta, atendendo até mesmo o próprio pai. A vida de todos eles mudará quando um completo desconhecido começar a viver em sua casa, um homem que aos poucos vai restaurar a harmonia e amor que sentem uns pelos outros.
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A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
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Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
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O policial Jojima está passando por uma pressão muito grande: seu casamento está acabando, sua filha precisa de 20 milhões de Ienes para fazer uma operação e alguém está matando todos os grandes mafiosos de cidade para controlar o mercado do tráfico de cocaína.
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Sete anos após a morte de sua esposa, Aoyama, um executivo de uma grande empresa, é convidado para fazer parte da banca de avaliação na audição para selecionar uma atriz. Folheando os currículos com antecedência, sua atenção é capturada por Yamazaki Asami, uma jovem mulher impressionante e com formação de ballet. O intuito real de Aoyama é escolher uma nova esposa, o que ele não sabe são as verdadeiras intenções sanguinárias de Yamazaki. Uma obra de arte do terror.
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A estudante Mai Takano tenta encontrar a verdade por trás da morte misteriosa de seu amado Ryuji. Ela começa a procurar o vídeo supostamente possuído pelo espírito de Sadako, o qual, acredita-se, tem o poder de matar qualquer pessoa uma semana depois de tê-lo assistido.
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Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
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Based on the popular comic series by Hideo Yamamoto serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. Stars Asumi Miwa (Love & Pop). The film depicts a "peeping tom" who uncovers people's darker sides by following them and eavesdropping on their conversations.
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Chuji foi abandonado quando criança e agora na vida adulta trabalha em um bar, famoso por tocar blues ao vivo, e vende cocaína nas ruas para fazer dinheiro. Após uma briga Chuji conhece Kenji machucado em um beco, sendo perseguido por capangas da gangue para a qual Chuji vende as drogas; mesmo sem saber quem é o rapaz, ele salva sua vida. Kenji é membro de uma gangue importante e planeja sabotar o testamento de seu chefe para ficar com o controle dos negócios, agindo junto com a amante do líder. Após o encontro Chuji e Kenji torna-se amigos, mas a tensão entre as gangues rivais e o plano audacioso de Kenji pode colocar a vida deles em risco.
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After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
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Wada é funcionário de uma multinacional japonesa e é escalado para fazer uma viagem à província de Yun Nan, China, para investigar uma possível descoberta de um valioso veio de pedras de jade. Wada sabe apenas que um guia o levará às montanhas, mas ao desembarcar e encontrá-lo descobre que foi seguido por um mafioso japonês que tem negócios pendentes com sua empresa.
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O detetive Nishi tem sua vida abalada após descobrir que sua mulher tem uma doença terminal; seu parceiro é baleado e ficará para sempre em uma cadeira de rodas. O policial começa a se sentir responsável pelo sofrimento dos dois e decide sair da polícia e pegar um grande empréstimo com a máfia para dar um pouco de conforto aos que estão à sua volta. Para pagar o empréstimo, Nishi arquitetará um plano que mudará o curso de sua vida.
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A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical-- Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
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In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
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Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ready to face off against Takeshi, but comic challenges keep his nemesis out of reach. It's not until years later -- when Kazuyoshi becomes a championship boxer and Takeshi is a pro wrestler -- that they meet again in a battle that pits two combatants with very different fighting styles.
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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 the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main finacial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.
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Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn’t and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.
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