Hidetoshi Nishijima
Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.783 |
| Birthday | 1971-03-29 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 西岛俊秀, 니시지마 히데토시, |
2002
Dolls
7.6/316
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is...
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Dolls
2011
チーム・バチスタSP2011～さらばジェネラル！天才救命医は愛する人を救えるか～
0/0
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2005
Loft
5.4/35
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly d...
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Loft
2009
Kidnapping
0/0
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Kidnapping
2005
Tony Takitani
6.7/72
A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
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Tony Takitani
1992
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
6/1
There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He ha...
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
2008
Vacation
7/8
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
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Vacation
1999
License to Live
6.2/14
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is no...
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License to Live
2021
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
6.6/8
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
2010
Goodbye, Someday
5.6/15
Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's foun...
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Goodbye, Someday
2004
Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
0/0
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring you misfortune) promoting a new...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
2006
Su-ki-da
7.217/23
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
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Su-ki-da
2016
Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
0/0
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
2005
実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
0/0
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his su...
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
2001
Chloe
6/2
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls il...
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Chloe
2002
Tokyo.Sora
7.1/13
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ri...
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Tokyo.Sora
2019
People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
0/0
It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time com...
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People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
2022
Goodbye Cruel World
5.8/4
Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang...
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Goodbye Cruel World
1997
2/Duo
7.6/18
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
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2/Duo
2004
Canary
6.3/12
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas...
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Canary
2013
The Wind Rises
7.788/2990
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II figh...
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The Wind Rises
2004
The Diary from the Past
0/0
A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû Aoi) who is fatally ill. Living i...
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The Diary from the Past
2011
Memories Corner
5/1
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the disaster...
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Memories Corner
2011
Cut
7/12
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his...
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Cut
2013
Strawberry Night
6.4/22
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
2008
Tokyo Rendezvous
5.4/5
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
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Tokyo Rendezvous
2021
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
5/1
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates th...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
2010
Hebi no Hito
7/2
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Hebi no Hito
2014
Genome Hazard
6.9/34
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainab...
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Genome Hazard
2005
More Painful than Rain
8/1
Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her li...
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More Painful than Rain
2003
In The Still Of The Night
0/0
A drama depicting the whereabouts of two pairs of lovers who meet at a cafe at night and intersect. Yamagata, an unsuccessful actor, lies to Yuko, who...
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In The Still Of The Night
1998
The Artful Dodgers
0/0
Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York
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The Artful Dodgers
2022
Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car
6/1
Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and rare behind-the-scenes footage, it captures the cr...
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Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car
2004
Dogs & Cats
5.4/5
Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone...
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Dogs & Cats
2007
Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
5.6/7
In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests...
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
1995
Broken Heart
0/0
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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Broken Heart
2014
Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
5.5/1
Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigat...
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Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
2009
Kanikôsen
6.2/6
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not co...
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Kanikôsen
2007
Pacchigi! Love & Peace
7/1
In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.
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Pacchigi! Love & Peace
1995
MARKS
5/3
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later i...
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MARKS
2005
House of Himiko
6.4/14
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's y...
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House of Himiko
2006
Three Year Delivery
0/0
Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.
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Three Year Delivery
2006
Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
7/4
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates h...
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
2022
Making of Drive My Car
0/0
Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okad...
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Making of Drive My Car
2013
Hameln
6/1
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Hameln
2012
Fish on Land
6.7/3
A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager S...
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Fish on Land
2000
Love/Juice
5.4/13
Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although Chinatsu and Kyoko have a passing attraction, Kyoko...
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Love/Juice
2009
Zero Focus
6/8
Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
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Zero Focus
2020
What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
0/0
One day, Shiro's all-time favorite idol Mami Mitsuya suddenly appears right in front of him! Even though this meeting left him excited, his partner Ke...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
2024
Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story
8/1
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Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story
1995
Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
4/1
A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and is a successful "leg-talent," but on the contrary,...
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Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
2015
Mozu The Movie
6.8/13
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terr...
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Mozu The Movie
2023
Kubi
6.8/19
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellio...
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Kubi
2024
Serpent's Path
5/4
A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and t...
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Serpent's Path
2015
Poison Berry in my Brain
7/10
Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget hi...
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Poison Berry in my Brain
2024
All About Suomi
0/0
The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at the mansion where her husband lives are five men wh...
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All About Suomi
2005
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
5.1/11
A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror...
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2016
Creepy
6.651/182
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police for...
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Creepy
2016
While the Women Are Sleeping
5.7/15
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest...
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While the Women Are Sleeping
1995
Kura
6/1
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her d...
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Kura
2005
Sayonara Midori-chan
5/3
Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow...
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Sayonara Midori-chan
2017
The Last Recipe
6.9/23
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
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The Last Recipe
2018
Falling Camellia
7.8/10
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish w...
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Falling Camellia
2006
Umi de no hanashi
0/0
Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she...
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Umi de no hanashi
2006
Haru, Bânîzu de
0/0
Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life...
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Haru, Bânîzu de
2004
Going Home
7.5/2
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyu...
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Going Home
2004
Casshern
5.9/240
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the...
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Casshern
2017
async - first light
6/3
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film are all his...
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async - first light
2018
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
7.1/13
Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One...
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
2018
Oz Land
7.2/6
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in t...
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Oz Land
2018
Penguin Highway
7.126/231
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a...
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Penguin Highway
2012
Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
7/1
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This sp...
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
2012
Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
7/1
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
2019
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
5.9/9
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occ...
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
2008
Oka wo koete
0/0
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Oka wo koete
2002
A Painful Pair
6/1
Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be se...
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A Painful Pair
2004
Silver Angel
0/0
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Silver Angel
2010
Strawberry Night
8.2/4
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
2020
Voices in the Wind
7.1/19
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a l...
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Voices in the Wind
2022
Shin Ultraman
7.175/171
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly...
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Shin Ultraman
2001
Somewhere on Earth
0/0
Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety stor...
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Somewhere on Earth
1998
The Cold-Blooded Trap
8/1
Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
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The Cold-Blooded Trap
2001
Last Scene
5.5/2
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently...
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Last Scene
2014
The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
8.7/3
NHK TV Special
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The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
2021
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
7.1/9
At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to k...
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
2020
Silent Tokyo
5/2
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for th...
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Silent Tokyo
1994
Ghost Pub
5/1
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is...
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Ghost Pub
2018
Mario
0/0
It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't...
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Mario
2021
Drive My Car
7.4/1238
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at...
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Drive My Car
2013
Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
7.2/5
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Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
2021
What Did You Eat Yesterday?
5.9/10
Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
1996
Seraphim Night
0/0
Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.
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Seraphim Night
2008
Peeping Tom
5.5/2
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was hi...
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Peeping Tom
2007
Prodigy
7.1/7
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point wh...
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