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Moro Morooka
Born: 20th Feb 1959 Yachimata, Chiba, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 130
Film: 78 (60%)
Television: 52 (40%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Science Fiction, Documentary, Fantasy, War, Family, Animation
Filmography
Original title: メモリードア
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
Kazuya (27), an office worker, is what is called a "good listener" who listens to his parents. One day, however, he happens to stop by a café and fa ... view
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Oct 2024 (first aired)
Yanagisawa Hiroto, a former professional baseball player was once a star home run hitter for the Dragons, but after losing his wife to a sudden illnes ... view
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Daiki Yanagisawa (11 ep.)
Apr 2024 (first aired)
A crime entertainment drama produced by TV Tokyo and WOWOW, which deals with various scams that have increased in recent years with the spread of the ... view
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Eijiro Fujiyama (1 ep.)
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
Feb 2024 (first aired)
Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threa ... view
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Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 ‘23秋の特別編
2023
"Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on Novembe ... view
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Original title: PERFECT DAYS
2023
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and ta ... view
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Bar Regular
Original title: 月
2023
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened. ... view
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Original title: 叢雲 ゴースト・エージェンシー
2023
Rinko Murakumo used to be a detective until she shot a serial martial arts murderer and resigned from the force. Her daughter went missing during the ... view
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Original title: さまよえ記憶
2023
Shiori, who has been searching for her missing son, meets an information pawnbroker who is able to exchange the information you want for an equivalent ... view
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Jul 2023 (first aired)
Yoshino Hikari is a young woman with a bright and friendly personality. She quits her job working at a credit association in her hometown in order to ... view
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Sukagawa Satoru (9 ep.)
Jan 2023 (first aired)
Hoshino Akari is a single mother who, after losing her husband, struggles to maintain the balance between her dual role of raising her two children wh ... view
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Harada Toshiyuki (8 ep.)
Original title: ある男
2022
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. ... view
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Kaori's Father
Original title: 呪い返し師 塩子誕生
2022
At 7:07PM, the occult club members hold a ritual ceremony to summon “Master Salt” who is a divine protector. One after another, people ask Master ... view
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Kitamura
Sep 2022 (first aired)
Set in the present era of intensified hotel competition and depicts the decline and crisis of Hotel Platon. ... view
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Muramoto Saburo (6 ep.)
Original title: グッバイ・クルエル・ワールド
2022
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 ... view
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Jul 2022 (first aired)
Shinno Akari is a detective with a special ability. She is able to see the eight human emotions in color. Due to a case, she teams up with Detective K ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jul 2021 (first aired)
20-year-old rookie police officer Kawai Mai works hard at a police box and feels both physically and mentally drained. She has never felt appreciated ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 美しき誘惑 現代の「画皮」
2021
With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as ... view
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Feb 2021 (first aired)
Yusuke Onodera wakes up with several familiar-looking strangers in a mysterious house on an isolated island with no memory of how they all got there. ... view
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Old Man (3 ep.)
Jul 2020 (first aired)
Aoi Midori is a pharmacist and in the 8-year span of her career, she has worked according to her strong belief that "One must know the patient well in ... view
Character:
Kensuke Kamoi (1 ep.)
Apr 2020 (first aired)
Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats ... view
Character:
執事・小松崎 (1 ep.)
Komatsuzaki / Butler (2 ep.)
Jan 2020 (first aired)
Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsum ... view
Character:
Sato Hideki [Hidemi's husband] (Ep. 12) (12 ep.)
Original title: 漫画誕生
2019
Biopic about the life of Kitazawa Rakuten, who laid the foundation for the Japanese manga industry. ... view
Character:
Yukichi Fukuzawa
Original title: 夏の夜空と秋の夕日と冬の朝と春の風
2019
An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons. ... view
Character:
Yasuda Tsuyoshi
Original title: 楽園
2019
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identif ... view
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Original title: 乱反射
2019
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into h ... view
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Jul 2019 (first aired)
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each sli ... view
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Souichiro Niijima (10 ep.)
Original title: ザ・ファブル
2019
The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal lif ... view
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Restaurant Master
Apr 2019 (first aired)
Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 2019 (first aired)
Koshiro runs a temp agency experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman. Akiba who was once a successful busi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (8 ep.)
Original title: きらきら眼鏡
2018
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually fa ... view
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Original title: ガチ★星
2018
A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport. ... view
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Apr 2018 (first aired)
Human resources consultant Tsubaki Mako has been dubbed the "devil of human resources" for her iron-fisted ways. She struts her way into a well-establ ... view
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Yoji Kunimoto (10 ep.)
Apr 2018 (first aired)
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day, and the other detective exists 15 ye ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Jan 2018 (first aired)
An inconspicuous middle school psychic confronts an organization plotting to use other psychics to rule the world. Based on the hit manga. ... view
Character:
Takoyaki restaurant owner (12 ep.)
Original title: あゝ、荒野 後篇
2017
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The ... view
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Takeo Niki
Original title: あゝ、荒野 前篇
2017
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The ... view
Character:
Takeo Niki
Original title: レミングスの夏
2017
The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic ... view
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Mar 2017 (first aired)
Ryota Takeshima (Masataka Kubota) has followed in his father's footsteps and now works as a prison officer at Kitakanto Prison. He has witnessed corru ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Jan 2017 (first aired)
Higashigaoka High School’s male swimming club presently has only three second-year members – leader Sakaki Shuhei, Shinozuka Daiki and Koganei Har ... view
Character:
Isomura Kunio (8 ep.)
Jan 2017 (first aired)
Rei Suzumura continues to hunt Horrors in a certain city. One day, he meets a young woman in love with photography, Alice Hiromi. After witnessing Mak ... view
Character:
Kugano (1 ep.)
Original title: 闇金ウシジマくん ザ・ファイナル
2016
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to bor ... view
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Original title: シン・ゴジラ
2016
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of vol ... view
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National Police Agency Criminal Investigation Bureau Director-General
Apr 2016 (first aired)
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in crimi ... view
Character:
Yamamoto (2 ep.)
Original title: 猫侍 玉之丞、江戸へ行く
2016
A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Mad ... view
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Original title: 一番電車が走った
2015
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls w ... view
Character:
Kojiro Takamura
Jul 2015 (first aired)
Yū Amagi is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investiga ... view
Character:
Nobuhiko Kosaka (1 ep.)
Original title: ジヌよさらば ～かむろば村へ～
2015
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a ... view
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Miyontsuan
Original title: マエストロ！
2015
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who h ... view
Character:
Minoru Suzuki
Jan 2015 (first aired)
"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool ... view
Character:
Oshitari Koji (10 ep.)
Oct 2014 (first aired)
University student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, ... view
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Naruse Shuhei (10 ep.)
Original title: ふしぎな岬の物語
2014
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginnin ... view
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fire department chief
Original title: 私の男
2014
As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and ... view
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Taoka
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Saku Shingo is a non-career police officer but rose to become a director at an unusually young age. He is one of only 10 directors in the Tokyo Metrop ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: BAD CHILD バッド・チャイルド
2014
Masashi, a 15 years old school boy and so-called 'overprotected child', lives with his parents in the suburbs of Tokyo. Poised to graduate from middle ... view
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Oct 2013 (first aired)
Haru Tezuka's parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Jul 2013 (first aired)
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with ... view
Character:
Tsunoda (3 ep.)
Jun 2013 (first aired)
A story of friendship and conflict of two people named Yumi, which transcends time and space. ... view
Character:
Joichiro Hayashi (6 ep.)
Original title: ガリレオXX
2013
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Okla ... view
Character:
Masaaki Mamiya
Apr 2013 (first aired)
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, ... view
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Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Original title: 暗闇から手をのばせ
2013
Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student wi ... view
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Character:
Kawazoe
Oct 2012 (first aired)
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to ho ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jul 2012 (first aired)
Takakura Yuko (Eikura Nana) is an ordinary chemistry teacher at a famous government-run preparatory school by day. But at night, she is a super teache ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments an ... view
Character:
シヤソウェイ主人 (1 ep.)
Jul 2011 (first aired)
The show is based on the "Jiu" suspense novel series by Honda Tetsuya. Motoko (Kuroki) is a fierce, physically capable investigator with a strong batt ... view
Character:
Kawamata (9 ep.)
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: あしたのジョー
2011
For about as long as he can remember, Joe has always had to roll with the punches-living each day in the slums as if it may be his last. But when a wi ... view
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Restaurant's Male Owner
Original title: テト
2010
Teto is a secret agent trainee. Hatoko is a high school student who lives on venting her anger in a combined combative sport gym. On the day Hatoko sa ... view
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Oct 2010 (first aired)
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her ... view
Character:
Miwa Shuhei (11 ep.)
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. ... view
Character:
Takemi Murayama (2 ep.)
Jan 2010 (first aired)
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of ... view
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Unknown/various (48 ep.)
Original title: 劔岳 点の記
2009
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan. ... view
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Original title: フレフレ少女
2008
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 ... view
Character:
Original title: 百万円と苦虫女
2008
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million ... view
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Detective
Original title: スマイル 聖夜の奇跡
2007
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds hi ... view
Character:
Shizuka Yamaguchi's father
Oct 2007 (first aired)
Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair ... view
Character:
Mamiya (2 ep.)
Original title: ばんざい! / 監督・ばんざい!
2007
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete hi ... view
Character:
Thug
Jan 2006 (first aired)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed.
Getti ... view
Character:
Toshihiko Oomiya (1 ep.)
Original title: 同じ月を見ている
2005
When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuy ... view
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Oct 2005 (first aired)
Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she e ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 容疑者 室井慎次
2005
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched mur ... view
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桜井 杏子の父親
Original title: フライ，ダディ，フライ
2005
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as h ... view
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Abe
Original title: 北の零年
2005
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Ho ... view
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Oct 2004 (first aired)
The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Y ... view
Character:
Osamu Imawano (13 ep.)
Original title: 感染
2004
Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just ... view
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Dr. Kishida
Original title: 日本のこわい夜
2004
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterio ... view
Character:
Toshinori Ooki (segment "Sacrifice")
Original title: 女はバス停で服を着替えた
2003
A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Aris ... view
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Lover
Original title: センセイの鞄 (Sensei no Kaban)
2003
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at le ... view
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Bar owner Sato
2002
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel. ... view
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Original title: ドールズ
2002
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is ... view
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Hitman in the Park
Oct 2002 (first aired)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the fi ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for h ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 模倣犯
2002
The story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-blooded, intelligent and evil guy who use ... view
Character:
Shinozaki
Original title: 殺し屋1
2001
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to in ... view
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Coffee Shop Manager
Original title: Ｌａｓｔ Ｄａｎｃｅ －離婚式－
2001
Where have all the wives gone who were once driven to tears by their husbands' infidelity? With each passing year, women become stronger and more resi ... view
Character:
Fumio Mikami
2000
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has bee ... view
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Original title: 富江 replay
2000
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 fat ... view
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Sayuri's Father
Original title: ガラスの脳
2000
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a ... view
Character:
Yumi's father
Jan 2000 (first aired)
Kyoko's, a wheelchair-bound librarian, first meeting with her hairdresser leads to more encounters as Kyoko starts to like him because he treats her n ... view
Character:
Tsuchiya (11 ep.)
Original title: 愛を乞うひと
1998
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused. ... view
Character:
Takehito Nakajima
Original title: 新のぞき屋 援助交際（エンコー）のぞきます
1998
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" ... view
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1998
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers. ... view
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Video Shop Clerk
Original title: OPEN HOUSE
1998
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo. ... view
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Photographer
Original title: ラブ&ポップ
1998
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. ... view
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Yazaki
Original title: 健康師ダン
1998
Adaptation of the manga by the same title by Noboru Takahashi. Dan is a masseuse that has the ability to pinpoint anyone's health issues. In this ero ... view
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Original title: 新のぞき屋 盗聴尾行のぞきます
1998
An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between ... view
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Original title: ラヂオの時間
1997
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various ... view
Character:
Bucky
Original title: キッズ・リターン
1996
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, ... view
Character:
Hayashi
Jul 1995 (first aired)
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 狂犬 Mad Dog
1994
A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action! ... view
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Original title: 聖少女仮面マルガリータ
1992
A sexy action comedy about the battle between a high school girl who transforms into a love warrior Margarita when she drinks a holy cocktail. An omn ... view
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Gunmo
Original title: シャウト 天使の叫び
1992
A series of bizarre murders targeting only female rock vocalists. Another popular vocalist has begun to be targeted ... The mental horror that slowly ... view
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Original title: けっこう仮面
1991
Kekko Kamen, the fearless heroine who wears red boots, a red mask, and nothing else, she has an uncanny way of destroying her opponents by stunning th ... view
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Biology Teacher
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Apr 1971 (first aired)
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker ... view
Character:
Sachio Sawada (1 ep.)
Tatsuhiro Wakabayashi (2 ep.)