
Makiko Watanabe
Makiko Watanabe (渡辺 真起子, Watanabe Makiko, September 14, 1968) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Decade.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.863 |
Birthday | 1968-09-14 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | 渡辺 真起子, 渡辺真起子, 渡边真起子, |

2021

Tomorrow's Dining Table
7.1/4
3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head t...
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Tomorrow's Dining Table

2007

The Mourning Forest
6.7/45
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the...
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The Mourning Forest

2022

Sugar Glass Bottle
0/0
Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious f...
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Sugar Glass Bottle

2021

In the Wake
7.031/16
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence f...
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In the Wake

2010

All to the Sea
0/0
Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.
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All to the Sea

2009

Love Exposure
8/450
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn in...
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Love Exposure

2012

Playback
7.7/3
Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first tim...
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Playback

2017

Hello, Goodbye
7/1
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helpi...
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Hello, Goodbye

2000

Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
5.4/19
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personalit...
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl

1999

M/Other
5.6/12
Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is up...
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M/Other

2022

Small, Slow But Steady
7/43
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of...
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Small, Slow But Steady

2020

孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル~俺の食事に密はない
10/1
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孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル~俺の食事に密はない

2023

悪女について
0/0
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悪女について

2002

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
6.4/16
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts bec...
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

2007

The Rebirth
5.8/6
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wan...
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The Rebirth

2011

Himizu
7.1/151
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

2011

Women on the Edge
0/0
Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.
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Women on the Edge

2012

GFP BUNNY
4.3/6
A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother, poi...
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GFP BUNNY

2010

Sketches of Kaitan City
5.4/5
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...
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Sketches of Kaitan City

2009

Torso
5.9/7
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
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Torso

2023

Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
7.7/4
The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing life-saving treatment thanks to the OR equipped w...
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Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie

2009

Where Are You?
6.2/5
A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...
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Where Are You?

1996

XX: Beautiful Prey
6/13
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investi...
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XX: Beautiful Prey

2005

The Many Faces of Chika
0/0
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Toky...
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The Many Faces of Chika

2022

The Midnight Maiden War
5.4/5
I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a girlfriend. I's university life is boring and he d...
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The Midnight Maiden War

2001

Luxurious Bone
5/6
Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shintani, with whom Miyako experiences sexual pleasure...
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Luxurious Bone

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

2014

Still the Water
6.851/101
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito s...
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Still the Water

2023

Family
7.5/4
Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four m...
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Family

2022

Haw
7.2/4
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One da...
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Haw

2013

Nobody's Perfect
0/0
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grad...
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Nobody's Perfect

1997

Ringo no usagi
0/0
About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him
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Ringo no usagi

1996

Mogura
0/0
Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
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Mogura

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

2012

A Road Stained Crimson
0/0
Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under...
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A Road Stained Crimson

2001

Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism
0/0
Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.
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Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism

2012

Odayaka
5.7/4
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who...
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Odayaka

2014

Starting Over
4.7/6
Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana c...
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Starting Over

2010

Nemuriba
0/0
Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").
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Nemuriba

2022

Fragments of the Last Will
7.9/7
Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of h...
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Fragments of the Last Will

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

2006

Colors
0/0
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Colors

2007

Sixteen
0/0
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
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Sixteen

2001

Tampen
0/0
Four short films produced without a director
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Tampen

2010

Heaven's Story
5.8/4
A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is e...
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Heaven's Story

2016

64: Part 2
6.9/14
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, w...
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64: Part 2

2015

Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
0/0
In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan...
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Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru

2007

My Sister, My Love
5.7/24
It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society view...
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My Sister, My Love

2022

Mugonkan
0/0
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artwor...
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Mugonkan

2009

White Night
8/1
Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...
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White Night

2015

東京の日
0/0
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東京の日

2013

Au revoir l'été
6.6/19
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to k...
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Au revoir l'été

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

2010

Wandering Home
6.2/3
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple di...
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Wandering Home

2024

Desert of Namibia
8.7/6
Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its i...
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Desert of Namibia

2010

Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
4.8/9
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos....
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Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano

2024

Happyend
8.8/4
A near-future city in Japan awaits destruction as the it is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horiz...
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Happyend

2016

While the Women Are Sleeping
5.667/15
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

2013

Capturing Dad
6.3/6
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estrang...
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Capturing Dad

2016

A Loving Husband
7/11
Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Y...
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A Loving Husband

2017

Star Sand
7/1
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi,...
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Star Sand

1997

2/Duo
7.6/19
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
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2/Duo

2017

The Lowlife
5.9/16
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
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The Lowlife

2007

CREEP
0/0
Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit...
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CREEP

2007

Rabbit on the Moon
3.5/4
Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman gran...
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Rabbit on the Moon

2006

Faces of a Fig Tree
5/1
Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.
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Faces of a Fig Tree

2015

Mystery Trilogy Special
0/0
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
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Mystery Trilogy Special

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?

2019

37 Seconds
7.305/95
23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protecti...
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37 Seconds

2014

Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
5.3/7
The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night.
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Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic

2019

Aesop's Game
5.4/7
Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency...
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Aesop's Game

2019

Walking Man
0/0
Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but he stutters and has timid personality. To support h...
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Walking Man

2017

Slight Fever
10/1
Wakana is a 17-year-old high school student who loves to cook. She enjoys peaceful days with her family and friends, but sometimes she senses delicate...
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Slight Fever

2018

And Your Bird Can Sing
6.7/14
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

2020

Voices in the Wind
7.3/21
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

2018

My Friend "A"
6.636/11
Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
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My Friend "A"

2020

Momi's House
0/0
Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife Megumi...
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Momi's House

2015

Obon Brothers
0/0
A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.
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Obon Brothers

2020

Tamaran Hill
4.5/2
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s fav...
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Tamaran Hill

2020

The Asadas!
7.289/140
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take st...
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The Asadas!

2019

Startup Girls
0/0
A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accep...
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Startup Girls

2013

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
0/0
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
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Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

2020

State of Emergency
7.8/4
An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
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State of Emergency

2015

Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
6.3/3
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro O...
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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition

2017

Foreboding
5.6/14
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

2009

Lost Girl
0/0
Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner D...
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Lost Girl

2004

Zebraman
6.3/84
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
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Zebraman

2020

The Calming
5.5/2
A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she ob...
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The Calming

2021

Come and Go
0/0
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wa...
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Come and Go

2021

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
7.7/461
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who ca...
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

2025

The Harbor Lights
0/0
The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people livi...
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The Harbor Lights

2024

Or Utopia
0/0
Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community out of...
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