Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase (加瀬 亮 Kase Ryō) is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington, until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.

  • Title: Ryo Kase
  • Popularity: 8.071
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1974-11-09
  • Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Homepage: http://ryokaseoffice.com/index_english.html
  • Also Known As: かせ りょう, 카세 료, Рио Касе, Ryo Kase, Ryō Kase, Ryô Kase, Ryoh Kase, Ryou Kase, 加濑亮
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Ryo Kase Movies

  • 2006
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    Letters from Iwo Jima

    Letters from Iwo Jima

    7.5 2006 HD

    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese...

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  • 2012
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    Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

    Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

    1 2012 HD

    Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.

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  • 2004
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    Cutie Honey

    Cutie Honey

    6.3 2004 HD

    When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him....

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  • 2006
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    Hana

    Hana

    6.7 2006 HD

    In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

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  • 2005
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    Funky Forest: The First Contact

    Funky Forest: The First Contact

    6.3 2005 HD

    An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the...

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  • 2000
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    Party 7

    Party 7

    6.575 2000 HD

    Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

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  • 2007
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    I Just Didn't Do It

    I Just Didn't Do It

    7.3 2007 HD

    A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

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  • 2008
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    Tokyo!

    Tokyo!

    6.924 2008 HD

    Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

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  • 2007
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    Glasses

    Glasses

    7 2007 HD

    An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

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  • 2003
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    Bright Future

    Bright Future

    6.9 2003 HD

    Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

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  • 2008
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    10 Promises to My Dog

    10 Promises to My Dog

    6.8 2008 HD

    One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She...

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  • 2003
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    Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri

    Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri

    1 2003 HD

    Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must...

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  • 2004
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    The Taste of Tea

    The Taste of Tea

    7.4 2004 HD

    A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...

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  • 2010
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    Outrage

    Outrage

    6.906 2010 HD

    When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a...

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  • 2008
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    Gu Gu, the Cat

    Gu Gu, the Cat

    6.8 2008 HD

    Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as...

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  • 2023
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    Kubi

    Kubi

    6.6 2023 HD

    Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

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  • 2007
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    Retribution

    Retribution

    6.312 2007 HD

    A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same...

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  • 2009
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    Instant Swamp

    Instant Swamp

    7 2009 HD

    A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her...

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  • 2011
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    Restless

    Restless

    6.5 2011 HD

    Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

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  • 2014
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    Lady Maiko

    Lady Maiko

    7.2 2014 HD

    Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...

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  • 2010
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    About Her Brother

    About Her Brother

    6.3 2010 HD

    Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

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  • 2011
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    Cannonball Wedlock

    Cannonball Wedlock

    7.2 2011 HD

    24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie...

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  • 2006
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    Honey and Clover

    Honey and Clover

    6.4 2006 HD

    Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they...

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  • 2010
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    Sketches of Kaitan City

    Sketches of Kaitan City

    5.4 2010 HD

    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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  • 2006
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    Strawberry Shortcakes

    Strawberry Shortcakes

    5.8 2006 HD

    Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

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  • 2005
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    About Love

    About Love

    5.7 2005 HD

    Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person....

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  • 2012
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    Like Someone in Love

    Like Someone in Love

    6.9 2012 HD

    An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her...

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  • 2009
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    Gravity's Clowns

    Gravity's Clowns

    6.7 2009 HD

    On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When...

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  • 2008
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    My Darling of the Mountains

    My Darling of the Mountains

    6.5 2008 HD

    In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing...

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  • 2012
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    Beyond Outrage

    Beyond Outrage

    7.02 2012 HD

    As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...

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  • 2005
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    Scrap Heaven

    Scrap Heaven

    7 2005 HD

    The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky,...

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  • 2011
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    Tokyo Oasis

    Tokyo Oasis

    6.1 2011 HD

    In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named...

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  • 2002
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    Frog River

    Frog River

    1 2002 HD

    Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

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  • 2012
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    SPEC: Heaven

    SPEC: Heaven

    7.1 2012 HD

    Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by...

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  • 2004
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    Antenna

    Antenna

    6.1 2004 HD

    Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M...

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  • 2008
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    Tokyo Rendezvous

    Tokyo Rendezvous

    5.4 2008 HD

    A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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  • 2013
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    It's Me It's Me

    It's Me It's Me

    6.2 2013 HD

    Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother...

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  • 2013
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    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

    6 2013 HD

    Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the...

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  • 2013
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    SPEC: Zero

    SPEC: Zero

    8 2013 HD

    High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has...

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  • 2010
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    Kaidan Horror Classics

    Kaidan Horror Classics

    7 2010 HD

    Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

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  • 2013
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    Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

    Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

    5.7 2013 HD

    Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching...

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  • 2014
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    Hill of Freedom

    Hill of Freedom

    6.625 2014 HD

    Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had...

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  • 2013
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    SPEC: Close~Incarnation

    SPEC: Close~Incarnation

    7.3 2013 HD

    Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

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  • 2013
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    SPEC: Close~Reincarnation

    SPEC: Close~Reincarnation

    7.1 2013 HD

    Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

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  • 2014
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    My Hawaiian Discovery

    My Hawaiian Discovery

    3.5 2014 HD

    Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii....

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  • 2005
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    Pacchigi!

    Pacchigi!

    6.2 2005 HD

    Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a...

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  • 2002
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    Rock'n'Roll Mishin

    Rock'n'Roll Mishin

    1 2002 HD

    A bored salaryman quits his mundane job to help an old friend start an indie clothing label.

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  • 2006
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    Su-ki-da

    Su-ki-da

    7.217 2006 HD

    Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

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  • 2001
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    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    6.782 2001 HD

    Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and...

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  • 2001
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    Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

    Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

    7.492 2001 HD

    Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter...

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  • 2001
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    Hush!

    Hush!

    6.5 2001 HD

    Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious...

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  • 2003
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    Kakuto

    Kakuto

    1 2003 HD

    A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends...

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  • 2003
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    When the Last Sword Is Drawn

    When the Last Sword Is Drawn

    7.52 2003 HD

    Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

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  • 2004
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    69

    69

    6.2 2004 HD

    Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

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  • 2004
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    Survive Style 5+

    Survive Style 5+

    7.2 2004 HD

    Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

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  • 2004
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    Nobody Knows

    Nobody Knows

    8 2004 HD

    In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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  • 2004
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    The Motive

    The Motive

    6.4 2004 HD

    Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

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  • 2005
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    Female

    Female

    5.6 2005 HD

    'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki,...

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  • 2005
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    Dead Run

    Dead Run

    5.2 2005 HD

    Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...

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  • 2008
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    All Around Us

    All Around Us

    7.5 2008 HD

    Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

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  • 2008
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    The Sky Crawlers

    The Sky Crawlers

    6.7 2008 HD

    Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last,...

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  • 2008
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    Paco and the Magical Book

    Paco and the Magical Book

    6.9 2008 HD

    Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

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  • 2009
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    Pool

    Pool

    5.4 2009 HD

    A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and...

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  • 2010
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    Mother Water

    Mother Water

    6 2010 HD

    Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of...

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  • 2013
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    Penance

    Penance

    7.3 2013 HD

    The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...

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  • 2014
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    Judge!

    Judge!

    7.1 2014 HD

    After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a...

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  • 2001
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    Misuzu

    Misuzu

    1 2001 HD

    Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing...

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  • 2008
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    R246 STORY

    R246 STORY

    1 2008 HD

    The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...

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  • 2007
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    The Invitation from Cinema Orion

    The Invitation from Cinema Orion

    6.5 2007 HD

    Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's...

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  • 2015
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    Our Little Sister

    Our Little Sister

    7.6 2015 HD

    Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years...

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  • 2003
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    North Point - Friends

    North Point - Friends

    1 2003 HD

    Japanese TV movie from 2003

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  • 2001
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    School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special

    School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special

    1 2001 HD

    "Kaibyo Densetsu" - Maki (Chizuru Ikewaki), who finds it strange that her best friend appears as a living spirit, goes to check on her. "Nanika ga...

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  • 2015
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    Foujita

    Foujita

    5.8 2015 HD

    A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese...

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  • 2016
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    Japanese Girls Never Die

    Japanese Girls Never Die

    6.3 2016 HD

    While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a...

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  • 2003
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    Hana

    Hana

    1 2003 HD

    Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain. Even...

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  • 2006
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    The Passenger

    The Passenger

    2 2006 HD

    Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later,...

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  • 2017
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    March Comes In Like a Lion

    March Comes In Like a Lion

    7 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Silence

    Silence

    7.128 2016 HD

    Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

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  • 2017
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    March Goes out Like a Lamb

    March Goes out Like a Lamb

    7.3 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Mori, The Artist's Habitat

    Mori, The Artist's Habitat

    7.1 2018 HD

    In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of...

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  • 2012
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    SPEC: Shou

    SPEC: Shou

    8 2012 HD

    Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the...

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  • 2018
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    Lying to Mom

    Lying to Mom

    6.5 2018 HD

    Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself,...

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  • 2016
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    Through Their Eyes

    Through Their Eyes

    7 2016 HD

    A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs...

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  • 2018
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    Bel Canto

    Bel Canto

    5.438 2018 HD

    A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party....

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  • 2019
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    To the Ends of the Earth

    To the Ends of the Earth

    6.431 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Custom Made 10.30

    Custom Made 10.30

    8 2005 HD

    Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima...

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  • 2022
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    The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

    The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

    8.2 2022 HD

    An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains...

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  • 2020
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    Minamata

    Minamata

    6.9 2020 HD

    War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

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  • 2004
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    A Making of Nobody Knows

    A Making of Nobody Knows

    1 2004 HD

    The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

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  • 2001
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    Hanako San

    Hanako San

    5 2001 HD

    Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.

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  • 2006
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    CHiLDREN

    CHiLDREN

    1 2006 HD

    The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank...

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  • 2012
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    Going My Home

    Going My Home

    6.7 2012 HD

    Ryota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life changed after his estranged father falls ill. Along...

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  • 2010
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    SPEC ~ First Blood

    SPEC ~ First Blood

    8.3 2010 HD

    Like the original series, "SPEC" will revolve around a pair of police detectives as part of a special division solving difficult cases (Mishou)....

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  • 2008
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    Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage

    Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage

    5 2008 HD

    The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all...

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  • 2009
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    Ordinary Miracles

    Ordinary Miracles

    7.7 2009 HD

    One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both...

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  • 2012
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    Penance

    Penance

    8.1 2012 HD

    The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with...

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  • 2013
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    Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

    Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

    6.2 2013 HD

    Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant....

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  • 2010
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    妖しき文豪怪談

    妖しき文豪怪談

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2014
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    Mozart in the Jungle

    Mozart in the Jungle

    7.5 2014 HD

    In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the...

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    Anpan

    Anpan

    1 1970 HD

    At the beginning of the Showa era, there was a girl running through the town of Kochi at an incredible speed. Her name was Asada Nobu, also known as...

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