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Posted on May 29, 2021 | Comments Off on The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
The Lady Shogun and Her Men / Ôoku (2010)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the year 1716, a mysterious disease wipes out a majority of men. Gender roles have been reversed, with women taking traditional male roles and men becoming little more than reproduction tools. To save his family, Mizuno enters the Inner Chamber in the Edo Castle, leaving his girlfriend Onobu behind. Meanwhile, when the young shogun dies, Yoshimune is appointed to take over as the shogun and decides to name Mizuno her first bedmate. However, the job comes with potentially fatal consequences for everyone involved.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Aoi Nakamura, Hiroshi Tamaki
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
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Tags: Aoi Nakamura, Fuminori Kaneko, Hiroshi Tamaki, Kazunari Ninomiya, Kô Shibasaki, Maki Horikita, Tadayoshi Ohkura
Posted on December 9, 2018 | Comments Off on The Yellow Handkerchief (2011) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
The Yellow Handkerchief / Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi (2011)
Drama
Yusaku Shima is sprung from a prison after serving his time for murder. No one comes for him to the prison. He starts traveling to Hokkaido with hesitation, because it is not certain whether or not his ex-wife still waits for him.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Maki Horikita, Gaku Hamada, Yui Natsukawa, Keiko Oginome, Ken'ichi Endô, Mitsukô Kusabue, Tamao Nakamura
Director: Hitoshi Iwamoto
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Tags: Gaku Hamada, Hiroshi Abe, Hitoshi Iwamoto, Keiko Oginome, Ken'ichi Endô, Maki Horikita, Mitsuko Kusabue, Tamao Nakamura, Yui Natsukawa
Posted on May 29, 2017 | Comments Off on Whispers from a Crime Scene S01 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Whispers from a Crime Scene / Higanbana – Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department 7 Investigation Division / Higanbana: Keishichô Sôsa 7-ka (TV Mini-Series 2016- )
Drama
When this happens though, she blacks out. Even in her day-to-day life, she can hear people's evil intentions and true colors and senses their lies and deception. That is why she always wears headphones in order to shut out people's emotions. She works well with her colleagues at the "Red Spider Lily" (Higanbana) unit, who are all brutally honest acid-tongued women with no qualms about speaking their minds. "Red Spider Lily" is an eclectic unit that includes a science geek, a single mom, and a woman who grew up abroad. Seen by many as a department that's been taken off the main career track, "Red Spider Lily" turns out to be full of fabulous detectives!
Starring: Maki Horikita, Rei Dan, Jiyoung Kang, Mao Daichi, You, Rin Takanashi
Creator: Tomihiko Tokunaga, Shuko Arai, Jun'ya Ikegami, Miyako Matsumoto
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Tags: Jiyoung Kang, Jun'ya Ikegami, Maki Horikita, Mao Daichi, Miyako Matsumoto, Rei Dan, Rin Takanashi, Shuko Arai, Tomihiko Tokunaga, You
Posted on April 17, 2017 | Comments Off on Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac / Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita (2010)
Drama | Romance
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Starring: Maki Horikita, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yûya Tegoshi, Anton Yelchin
Director: Hans Canosa
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Tags: Anton Yelchin, Hans Canosa, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Maki Horikita, Yuya Tegoshi
Posted on May 12, 2015 |
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A Samurai Chronicle / Higurashi no ki (2014)
Drama
Towards the end of the Edo period, Shozaburo Danno (Junichi Okada) receives an order from Nakane, the prime minister at the han. The order is to keep watch over Akiya Toda (Koji Yakusho), who has been in confinement for killing a boy servant who had an affair with his concubine 7 years ago. Akiya Toda is expected to commit hara-kiri within 3 years. In the meantime, Akiya Toda works on an order from the previous daimyo to write the daimyo's family tree into a book. Soon, Shozaburo Danno becomes touched by Akiya Toda, Akiya Toda's wife Orie (Mieko Harada) and his daughter Kaoru (Maki Horikita). Specifically, Shozaburo Danno is moved by Akiya Toda's enthusiasm for making the daimyo's family tree book and Orie's love and trust for her husband and daughter. He finds it difficult to believe that Akiya Toda killed a boy servant. Shozaburo Danno decides to investigate the case which occurred 7 years ago.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Jun'ichi Okada, Maki Horikita, Mieko Harada, Haruto Yoshida
Director: Takashi Koizumi
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Tags: Haruto Yoshida, Junichi Okada, Koji Yakusho, Maki Horikita, Mieko Harada, Takashi Koizumi
Posted on September 3, 2014 |
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My Little Sweet Pea / Mugiko san to (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Snce her father died, Mugiko (Maki Horikita) lives with her older brother (Ryuhei Matsuda). Her mother Ayako (Kimiko Yo) left home when Mugiko was little. Mugiko has not heard from her mother since that time. But one day, her mother Ayako comes back. Mugiko has mixed feelings with her mother's sudden appearance again, while Ayako hides the fact that she is gravely ill.
Starring: Maki Horikita, Ryûhei Matsuda, Kimiko Yo, Yôichi Nukumizu, Yumi Asô, Gadarukanaru Taka, Eri Fuse, Amane Okayama, Sayaka Tashiro
Director: Keisuke Yoshida
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Tags: Amane Okayama, Eri Fuse, Gadarukanaru Taka, Keisuke Yoshida, Kimiko Yo, Maki Horikita, Ryûhei Matsuda, Sayaka Tashiro, Yôichi Nukumizu, Yumi Asô
Posted on March 22, 2014 |
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)
Drama
A mystery unfolds with a woman named Madoka (Maki Horikita), who is a killer, and Ataru (Masahiro Nakai). The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru.
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yûta Tamamori, Maki Horikita, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hiroaki Murakami
Director: Hisashi Kimura
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Tags: Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroaki Murakami, Hisashi Kimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Maki Horikita, Masahiro Nakai, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Yûta Tamamori
Posted on November 12, 2013 |
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Hospitality Department / Kenchô omotenashi ka (2013)
Comedy
Set within the hospitality division of the Koichi Prefecuture, employees attempt to find new ideas to promote tourism in the region. The hospitality division in Koichi Prefecture can't promote the beautiful nature in the area due to a strict rule by the prefecture government. Popular writer and Koichi area native Kyosuke Yoshikado (Kengo Kora) is appointed as a special envoy for tourism in the area. He then receives a recommendation to meet Seien, a former employee of Koichi Prefecture, who once hatched an unusual idea to promote tourism. Seien pushed forward a project to import pandas into the area, but lost his job because of that project. Meanwhile, hospitality division employees Fumitaka (Ryo Nishikido) and Taki (Maki Horikita) visits the tourist house which is run by Seien and his daughter (Megumi Seki). When they arrive, the daughter throws a bucket of water at them, still angry for the way her father was dismissed from his job. From there, a plan for the hospitality division is born.
Starring: Maki Horikita, Kengo Kôra, Ryô Nishikido, Megumi Seki
Director: Yoshishige Miyake
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Posted on November 11, 2012 | Comments Off on Always 3 Chôme No Yûhi 64 (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-HDChina
Always 3 chôme no yûhi '64 / Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012)
Drama
The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr…
Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki, Maki Horikita, Masako Motai, Tomokazu Miura, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
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Posted on November 11, 2012 |
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Always zoku san-chôme no yûhi / Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007)
Drama
Chagawa finds it increasing difficult to support his young ward Junnosuke in his store across the street from the Suzuki garage on Third Street. Unless he can provide a better life, Junnosuke's rich father, Kawabata will take him away. Chagawa focuses once again on winning the "Akutagawa-sho" literary award and the prize money coming with it. Mika, a 7-year old relative of the Suzukis is left to stay with them when her father has business reverses. She is accustomed to a richer life style and at first her behavior is very spoiled but is humbled when sees the menial chores that her same-aged cousin Ippei performs. Mutsuko continues to work in the family as a mechanic but has an aspiring boyfriend Takeo, who is studying cooking. Chagawa seeks to find Hiromi, who has become successful once more as the exotic dancer "Betty."
Starring: Shin'ichi Hatori, Maki Horikita, Kazuki Koshimizu, Koyuki, Tomokazu Miura, Masako Motai, Kenta Suga, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
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Tags: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kazuki Koshimizu, Kenta Suga, Koyuki, Maki Horikita, Masako Motai, Shin'ichi Hatori, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Takashi Yamazaki, Tomokazu Miura
Posted on November 11, 2012 |
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Always san-chôme no yûhi / Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)
Drama | Family
Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held somewhat in check by the motherly instincts of his wife, Tomoe, and his young son Ippei immediately bonds with Mutsuko as if she were his older sister. The Suzuki shop lies almost in the shadow of the Tokyo Tower as it rises steadily above the skyline during construction in 1958. Others in the neighborhood also are striving to better themselves as Japan continues to emerge from the shadow of war. Hiromi has just abandoned her shady life as a dancer to start a sake bar. Abandoned by his single mother, young Junnosuke is first handed off to Hiromi but she passes him off to Ryunosuke Chagawa, a struggling writer who runs a candy shop and only manages to sell adventure stories for boys as his serious novels continue to be rejected…
Starring: Maki Horikita, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kazuki Koshimizu, Kenta Suga
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
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Tags: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kazuki Koshimizu, Kenta Suga, Koyuki, Maki Horikita, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Takashi Yamazaki
Posted on October 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Byakuyako (2011) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
Byakuyakô / Into the White Night (2011)
Drama | Mystery
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho (Maki Horikita) and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji…
Starring: Maki Horikita, Kengo Kôra, Hiroko Satô, Keiko Toda, Nobuo Kyô, Urara Awata, Eiichirô Funakoshi
Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
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Tags: Eiichirô Funakoshi, Hiroko Satô, Keiko Toda, Kengo Kôra, Maki Horikita, Nobuo Kyô, Urara Awata, Yoshihiro Fukagawa
