Shota Sometani
Shota Sometani (染谷 将太 Sometani Shōta, born 3 September 1992) is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo. He is known for his protagonist roles in Himizu and Parasyte.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.815 |
| Birthday | 1992-09-03 |
| Place of Birth | Koto, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shôta Sometani, そめたに・しょうた, Shota Sometani, 染谷 将太, |
2014
Kabukicho Love Hotel
6.365/37
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light di...
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Kabukicho Love Hotel
2010
Yuriko's Aroma
5.8/12
30 something year old Yuriko (Noriko Eguchi) works as a aromatherapist at an aroma salon. She uses essentials oils and her hands to soothe her client’...
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Yuriko's Aroma
2011
A Man with Style
5.3/5
Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that i...
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A Man with Style
2011
Himizu
7.057/148
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
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Himizu
2012
Lesson of the Evil
6.7/203
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the stude...
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Lesson of the Evil
2013
Real
6.1/60
Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through '...
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Real
2011
Tokyo Park
6.2/12
Koji, a university student and budding photographer, is asked by a man to secretly take pictures of his wife Yurika. As a result, his relationships wi...
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Tokyo Park
2010
A School Behind Bars
10/1
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefec...
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A School Behind Bars
2009
Pandora's Box
7.5/1
After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the...
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Pandora's Box
2010
A Liar and a Broken Girl
0/0
In a small rural town, a brother and sister goes missing and there's also a serial killer case involving woman as the victims. Mayu Misono (Aya Omasa)...
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A Liar and a Broken Girl
2014
Wood Job!
7.333/66
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decisi...
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Wood Job!
2011
The End of Puberty
4.3/3
In a noisy classroom, biology teacher Madoka proceeds with his lesson in a small voice.He is unable to look the students square in the face nor admoni...
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The End of Puberty
2012
Isn't Anyone Alive?
6/7
In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to...
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Isn't Anyone Alive?
2011
Life Back Then
4.8/6
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments....
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Life Back Then
2013
Strawberry Night
6.409/22
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has r...
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Strawberry Night
2014
Drive-In Gamo
0/0
Saki and Toshi were born and raised at the shabby "Drive in Gamo," located on the side of a road. Their father was a yakuza but he was kicked out of t...
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Drive-In Gamo
2014
Tokyo Tribe
6.547/150
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is a...
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Tokyo Tribe
2014
The Snow White Murder Case
6.373/59
Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed h...
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The Snow White Murder Case
2013
Jellyfish Eyes
5.1/20
In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to co...
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Jellyfish Eyes
2008
Cheer Cheer Cheer!
5.4/5
Momoko (Yui Aragaki) is a quiet and lonely high school girl who's only passion is to cheer traditional cheer squad, but all she could gather were good...
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Cheer Cheer Cheer!
2014
A Drop of the Grapevine
2/1
After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside younger...
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A Drop of the Grapevine
2012
Wolf Children
8.232/2223
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their...
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Wolf Children
2006
Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
6/1
The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written wor...
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Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
2015
Bakuman
6.4/52
Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mas...
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Bakuman
2015
Dear Deer
5/2
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain vill...
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Dear Deer
2016
The Actor
6.2/5
Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old bachelor whose occupation is a “miscellaneous actor”. His only interest is drinking. One day he falls in love and his...
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The Actor
2015
That's It
6.1/8
Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all, Samao Daik...
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That's It
2012
Sadako 3D
5.313/91
Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is s...
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Sadako 3D
2013
The Brain Man
6.256/45
A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a...
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The Brain Man
2015
Parasyte: Part 2
7.061/181
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Tog...
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Parasyte: Part 2
2012
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
7.2/5
A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan. Bas...
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Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
2013
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
7.1/5
Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings...
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Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
2015
The Virgin Psychics
5.5/59
After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the wo...
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The Virgin Psychics
2013
Touching the Skin of Eeriness
5.5/11
After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open ar...
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Touching the Skin of Eeriness
2013
The Fighter Pilot
7.117/64
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they g...
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The Fighter Pilot
2013
The Kiyosu Conference
6.45/20
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki...
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The Kiyosu Conference
2014
Parasyte: Part 1
7.081/267
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Tog...
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Parasyte: Part 1
2015
Strayer's Chronicle
5.3/10
In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing st...
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Strayer's Chronicle
2014
As the Gods Will
7.18/476
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Sudden...
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As the Gods Will
2012
The Millennial Rapture
4/1
Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passi...
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The Millennial Rapture
2012
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
6.7/19
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 pregnan...
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Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
2015
Teacher and Stray Cat
6.4/5
Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only co...
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Teacher and Stray Cat
2015
The Boy and the Beast
7.968/1439
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and,...
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The Boy and the Beast
2016
The Sion Sono
6.7/7
Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight i...
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The Sion Sono
2015
All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
5.8/5
High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking f...
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
2017
Parks
6.9/8
Jun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. Haru is looking for Sachiko, the ex-girlfriend of her now deceased father. Jun and Ha...
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Parks
2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
7.75/4
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, Kitakyu...
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Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
2017
Legend of the Demon Cat
6.3/86
During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investig...
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Legend of the Demon Cat
2016
Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
6/6
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an intractable...
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Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
2017
March Goes out Like a Lamb
7.3/16
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 u...
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March Goes out Like a Lamb
2017
March Comes in Like a Lion
7/21
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by hims...
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March Comes in Like a Lion
2004
The Boy from Hell
4.6/5
A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back...
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The Boy from Hell
2018
Punk Samurai Slash Down
5.3/8
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by...
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
2017
Dawn Wind in My Poncho
7/1
Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.
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Dawn Wind in My Poncho
2019
To the Ends of the Earth
6.449/49
A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her trave...
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To the Ends of the Earth
2018
And Your Bird Can Sing
6.4/11
With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
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And Your Bird Can Sing
2019
Samurai Marathon
6/47
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his...
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Samurai Marathon
2019
Parallel World Love Story
5.875/8
"A world" - After graduating from a university, close friends Takashi Tsurug and Tomohiko Miwa begin work at a company which does brain research. One...
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Parallel World Love Story
2013
Similar But Different
0/0
A man and a woman share the same time and same space. One day in the morning, they go their separate ways. The woman meets her old friend, but she loo...
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Similar But Different
2015
All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
6/1
Web adaptation of All Esper Dayo! manga featuring an original story.
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All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
2019
First Love
6.696/291
Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict but still in...
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First Love
2010
Threads of Our Hearts
10/1
Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf and has long dreamed that her son would become a pro...
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Threads of Our Hearts
2020
Stare
6.4/8
Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed righ...
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Stare
2019
The First Supper
7/2
Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his father's funeral. He and his sister are surprised to...
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The First Supper
2007
Fourteen
6/4
Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger genera...
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Fourteen
2021
Detective Chinatown 3
5.778/72
Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng a...
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Detective Chinatown 3
2018
Saint Young Men
2/1
What if Jesus and Buddha were living on Earth in modern times? What if they shared an apartment in Japan? Saint☆Oniisan is a humorous drama about dail...
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Saint Young Men
2017
Foreboding
5.5/13
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father...
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Foreboding
2019
Saint Young Men 2nd Century
0/0
SAINT☆YOUNG MEN 2nd Century imagines a world where Jesus Christ (Kenichi Matsuyama; Death Note) and Gautama Buddha (Shōta Sometani; Himizu) take a vac...
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Saint Young Men 2nd Century
2020
Saint Young Men 3
0/0
A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make j...
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Saint Young Men 3
2020
Runway
8/1
Midori is in her late 30's and is a cutout picture artist. She has anxiety about her future. Takano is a 25-year-old bureaucrat at the Ministry of Hea...
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Runway
2013
Tadaima, Jacqueline
9/1
When Satoru (Shota Sometani) was 5-years-old, he became an orphan due to a bus accident. A ventriloquist doll was at the scene of the accident. Satoru...
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Tadaima, Jacqueline
2010
Nora
7/1
Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The m...
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Nora
2013
The Intermission
7/1
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fan...
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The Intermission
2012
5windows
0/0
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2021
Belle
7.709/698
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day disco...
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Belle
2018
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
7/5
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tou...
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The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2015
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0/0
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2004
Devilman
6.331/59
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civili...
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Devilman
2017
Before We Vanish
6.373/79
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally...
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Before We Vanish
2020
Kamiki Ryunosuke 25th Anniversary DVD
10/1
Documentary detailing the making and shooting of the 25th Anniversary book. There are talk sessions with four actors who have spent a lot of time with...
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Kamiki Ryunosuke 25th Anniversary DVD
2022
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
4.393/14
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and b...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
2022
Suzume
7.969/1195
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that enda...
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Suzume
2022
Momo and the Seven Papagenos
7/3
Twenty-five-year-old Momo has friends. Her parents live some distance away, but they sometimes get together to dine out. She dates an acceptable guy,...
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Momo and the Seven Papagenos
2010
Awaremi Mumashika
0/0
Atsuo Kashiwagi, an enthusiastic member of the village council, decides to invent a mysterious beast to make his village famous. Against all objection...
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Awaremi Mumashika
2010
Tokyo Island
5/1
Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.
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Tokyo Island
2023
CRANK
2/1
MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.
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CRANK
2023
Actors Short Films Season 3
7/2
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2023
Ichigeki
6/2
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imp...
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Ichigeki
2006
Aogeba Tôtoshi
5.5/5
Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also g...
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Aogeba Tôtoshi
2002
Ping Pong
7.1/57
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes...
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Ping Pong
2023
Lumberjack the Monster
6.207/29
After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask," he becomes fixated on finding the attacke...
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Sanctuary
0/0
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Sanctuary
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
5.3/13
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t...
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2023
Fly On
7.7/3
Watako has just lost her lover, Kimura, in a traffic accident in Tokyo. She decides to bury the trauma of this tragedy and carries on with her life wi...
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Fly On
2009
魔法のiらんど SixDays
0/0
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2024
The Yin-Yang Master Zero
5/1
An original story telling how Abe no Seimei became the most powerful sorcerer in the age before he became an Onmyoji.
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The Yin-Yang Master Zero
2024
Worlds Apart
0/0
Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling's married partner die in a car accident. Makio K...
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2008
Tear Jar
2/1
A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.
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2024
Who is that girl?
0/0
During the summer vacation period, temporary teacher Honoka Kimijima is in charge of a supplementary class. One day, a female student suddenly jumps o...
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2024
Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~
0/0
There are saints living in Tokyo, Japan: Buddha the Enlightened One, and Jesus, Son of God. After successfully bringing the previous century to a clos...
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