Mieko Harada
Mieko Harada (原田 美枝子, Harada Mieko, born on December 26, 1958) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures, television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974.
She most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran, and further collaborated with him in his 1990 film Dreams. Harada also most notably provided the voice for Kaguya in the 2002 anime film InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass. She is currently working on television dramas as of 2007.
She won the award for best actress at the 21st Hochi Film Award for Village of Dreams and at the 23rd Hochi Film Award for Begging for Love.
Harada is married to Ryo Ishibashi since 1987 and has three children.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.329 |
| Birthday | 1958-12-26 |
| Place of Birth | Toshima, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 原田 美枝子 , |
1990
Dreams
7.676/447
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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Dreams
1996
Village of Dreams
6.1/8
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteac...
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Village of Dreams
2005
Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
6.9/16
Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled...
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
2014
Our Family
7.1/10
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal can...
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Our Family
2007
Dororo
6.907/124
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge t...
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Dororo
2000
First Love
6.9/4
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a mal...
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First Love
1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.3/13
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
2005
The Samurai I Loved
7.1/11
A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a p...
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The Samurai I Loved
1976
The Youth Killer
6.533/15
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, ten...
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The Youth Killer
2012
Dearest
6.75/12
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at t...
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Dearest
2005
Aegis
4.2/4
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No soone...
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Aegis
1980
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
6/1
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
2010
Leonie
5.7/13
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed co...
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Leonie
2008
School Days with a Pig
7.3/10
A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
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School Days with a Pig
1974
Love Is in the Green Wind
10/1
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with...
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Love Is in the Green Wind
2000
After the Rain
7.091/77
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
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After the Rain
2011
Rock: Wanko no Shima
0/0
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
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Rock: Wanko no Shima
2014
A Samurai Chronicle
7.375/8
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
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A Samurai Chronicle
2010
Sunshine Ahead
0/0
Based on a true story, "Sunshine Ahead" tells the story of environmentalist Koji Kinjo & his wife who embarks on a ambitious plan to create coral...
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Sunshine Ahead
1979
The Inferno
6.9/7
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
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The Inferno
1980
Dreamy Fifteen
5.8/5
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school...
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Dreamy Fifteen
2002
Out
5.3/7
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body...
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Out
1998
Begging for Love
6.3/3
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.
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Begging for Love
1976
Lullaby of the Earth
6.7/10
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and decepti...
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Lullaby of the Earth
1985
Ran
8.075/1477
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
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Ran
1991
My Sons
7.857/7
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, bu...
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My Sons
2011
Milocrorze: A Love Story
6.3/3
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in l...
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
1986
House on Fire
4.2/4
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
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House on Fire
2015
The Women on Page 3: The Nest of Love
5/1
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The Women on Page 3: The Nest of Love
2002
Oriume
8.5/1
About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and...
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Oriume
2004
Half a Confession
7.2/4
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara...
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Half a Confession
2006
Suite Dreams
6.32/25
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci...
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Suite Dreams
2016
If Cats Disappeared from the World
6.754/63
A postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. A devil then appears in front of him and offers to extend his...
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
1977
Flickering Flames
10/1
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo...
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Flickering Flames
2012
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
6.5/16
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people...
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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
1987
Manatsu Girl
0/0
The Special is loosely inspired by horror classics of the time, such as "Carry" and "Fury." The story is about a little girl who has nightmares and a...
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Manatsu Girl
1986
Portrait in Prussian Blue
0/0
Fuyuhana, is bullied child at school, because she was not able to speak until recently. This was due to the accidental death of one of her classmates,...
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Portrait in Prussian Blue
2013
Miracle Apples
7.6/5
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's a...
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Miracle Apples
1989
Free and Easy 2
8/2
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.
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Free and Easy 2
2017
Lear on the Shore
6/8
Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her h...
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Lear on the Shore
1976
Love in the North
7/1
Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
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Love in the North
1981
The Dump Truck Rascal
0/0
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
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The Dump Truck Rascal
1994
Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
0/0
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki”...
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
1978
Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
0/0
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.6/18
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
2013
Koi
7.5/2
The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved romantically with her assistant professor Katase Shi...
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Koi
1976
Permanent Blue
0/0
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soo...
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Permanent Blue
1998
Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss
0/0
The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a young boy. At work, she has hit a wall investigating...
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Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss
1983
Modori-gawa
4/1
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
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Modori-gawa
2011
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
7/2
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die on...
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2015
A Duel Tale
8/1
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword...
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A Duel Tale
2000
Off-Balance
0/0
A Japanese drama based off the book by Naoko Uozumi
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Off-Balance
1979
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7/1
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a gro...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
2007
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
0/0
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.
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Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
1979
Nomugi Pass
6.3/3
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
2018
Kohaku no yume
0/0
a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii
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Kohaku no yume
2009
Dear My Love
0/0
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back t...
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Dear My Love
1986
The Greatest Man in the World
0/0
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
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The Greatest Man in the World
2018
Maki
5/2
Story of displacement, power, and vulnerability told through the relationship between a hostess, the bartender she loves, and the boss who controls th...
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Maki
1990
Shikibu monogatari
1/1
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near...
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Shikibu monogatari
2018
68-Year-Old New Employee
2/1
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and reliability, has maintained a modest popularity....
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68-Year-Old New Employee
2002
Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
7.665/142
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another a...
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Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
1999
Haunted School 4
6.6/5
Taking advantage of their summer holiday, Kō and his little sister Yae visit their cousin at Nozaki located at the sea-side. However, on the day they...
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Haunted School 4
1986
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
0/0
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Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
2002
Mokuyo Kumikyoku
0/0
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the n...
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
1994
Uneasy Encounters
0/0
A five-part comedy and horror anthology
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Uneasy Encounters
1974
Tomodachi
0/0
Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate...
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Tomodachi
2018
A Banana? At This Time of Night?
7.5/4
Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano...
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
2012
Devoted Cookbook
0/0
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she mov...
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Devoted Cookbook
2012
Bergmans video
6.2/5
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and...
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Bergmans video
2022
A Hundred Flowers
6.773/11
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One...
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A Hundred Flowers
1990
Making of 'Dreams'
8/1
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews wi...
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Making of 'Dreams'
2013
Trespassing Bergman
6.6/27
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and...
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Trespassing Bergman
2022
Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
7/2
Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871, Tsuda Umeko, with her father's recommendation, went to...
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Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
1976
Frozen River
0/0
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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Frozen River
1980
Wings of Icarus' Flight
0/0
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat...
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
2023
And so I'm at a Loss
4/1
Yuichi Sugawara is a freelancer, who spends his days meaninglessly. He lives with his long-term girlfriend Satomi Suzuki. One day, they start to argue...
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And so I'm at a Loss
2012
Helter Skelter
6.589/123
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to reta...
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Helter Skelter
2005
Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e
0/0
Spring 2005, Okinawa. It's the wedding of Sawamura Seiji's second daughter, Seiko (Fujisawa Ema). Miwa (Harada Mieko), her mother, is watching over he...
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Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e
2021
Hoshi to Lemon no Heya
0/0
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Hoshi to Lemon no Heya
2014
A Samurai Chronicle
7.375/8
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
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A Samurai Chronicle
1998
Female Detective Riko: Goddess Eternity
0/0
Second Female Detective Riko Movie
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Female Detective Riko: Goddess Eternity
2014
Devoted Cookbook
7/1
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One day,...
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Devoted Cookbook
1981
Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
0/0
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysteri...
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
1982
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
0/0
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
2021
Ashita o he guru
0/0
This documentary records the lives of people in a mountain village surrounding the kozo (paper mulberry) tree, a raw material used to make Tosa washi...
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Ashita o he guru
2003
北の国から 記憶 前編
0/0
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北の国から 記憶 前編
2019
Junichi
0/0
Junichi, a random guy has no job or place to live. He attracts women drowned in their lives giving them a moment of sparks and never stays at one plac...
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