Posted on June 11, 2017 |
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Guilty of Romance / Koi no tsumi (2011)
Drama | Horror | Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo – a love hotel district – a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima, Satoshi Nikaido, Ryûju Kobayashi
Director: Sion Sono
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Tags: Kazuya Kojima, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Miki Mizuno, Ryûju Kobayashi, Satoshi Nikaido, Sion Sono
Posted on August 11, 2016 |
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Wenny Has Wings / Ano sora wo oboeteru (2008)
Drama
A happy family's world is turned upside-down when an accident injures their son Eiji severely and kills their daughter. Eiji is left with survivor guilt and his parents don't quite know how to deal with the tragedy and move on as a normal family again. Meanwhile, Eiji can't find a way to tell his parents about the near death experience he had in the moments following the accident and is forced to deal with it in his own way.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Miki Mizuno, Ryohei Hirota, Riko Yoshida, Eiko Koike, Tomoko Nakajima, Hiroshi Shinagawa, Fumiyo Kohinata
Director: Shin Togashi
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Tags: Eiko Koike, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroshi Shinagawa, Miki Mizuno, Riko Yoshida, Ryohei Hirota, Shin Togashi, Tomoko Nakajima, Yutaka Takenouchi
Posted on March 20, 2016 |
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Sweet Red Bean Paste / Sweet Bean / An (2015)
Drama
The "manager" of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. A taste of her home-made bean jelly convinces him, starting a relationship that is about much more than just street food.
Starring: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Etsuko Ichihara, Miyoko Asada, Miki Mizuno
Director: Naomi Kawase
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Tags: Etsuko Ichihara, Kirin Kiki, Kyara Uchida, Masatoshi Nagase, Miki Mizuno, Miyoko Asada, Naomi Kawase
Posted on March 26, 2014 |
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Public Affairs Office in the Sky / The Flying Publicist / Sora Tobu Kôhôshitsu (TV Mini-Series 2013)
Drama
Inaba Rika (Aragaki Yui) is a director at Teito TV Network. Ever since her childhood it was been her dream to be a reporter. Yet she frequently causes troubles due to her aggressive interviewing style and eventually gets transferred against her will to be the co-director of an evening information programme. She is put in charge of a special feature on uniformed personnel and ordered to interview the Self Defence Forces. First Lieutenant Sorai Daisuke (Ayano Go) became a fighter pilot but injured his foot in an accident and got assigned to a department which he was unprepared for, the Air Staff Office’s Public Relations Department. Ever since the accident, he has never once shown his feelings. However, Daisuke’s superior Sagisaka (Shibata Kohei) saw through his “benign, mild” facade and placed Rika in his care even though the people around him said he was still not ready for it. It chafes at Rika to have her dream destroyed and she psyches herself for a comeback as a reporter by getting a scoop. With that in mind, she is constantly provocative in her speech and conduct towards the members of the Public Relations Department, especially Daisuke. And she says something to Daisuke that she never should…
Starring: Yui Aragaki, Gô Ayano, Kyôhei Shibata, Miki Mizuno, Tsutomu Takahashi, Jun Kaname, Tsuyoshi Muro, George T. Abe, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Katsuhisa Namase
Creator: Hiro Arikawa, Akiko Nogi
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Tags: Akiko Nogi, George T. Abe, Gô Ayano, Hiro Arikawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Jun Kaname, Katsuhisa Namase, Kyôhei Shibata, Miki Mizuno, Tsutomu Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Muro, Yui Aragaki
Posted on June 7, 2013 |
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Bayside Shakedown: The Final / Odoru Daisôsasen the Final: Aratanaru kibô (2012)
Action | Crime
A kidnapping during an environmental summit meeting held in Wangan Precinct's turf sends the entire police station into panic mode. Hours later, a body killed by a police-issued gun is discovered nearby, and young police official Torikao is brought in by headquarters to take charge of the investigation. Like in all headquarters-led investigations, local detectives are forced to become foot soldiers, much to the chagrin of the cops under recently promoted section chief Aoshima. However, when the police discovers that the son of a Wangan cop has been kidnapped, the entire station unites in solidarity to solve the case, even if it may come at the cost of losing one of their own.
Starring: Yûji Oda, Toshirô Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Yûsuke Santamaria, Yuki Uchida, Atsushi Itô, Miki Mizuno, Shun Oguri
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
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Tags: Atsushi Itô, Eri Fukatsu, Katsuyuki Motohiro, Miki Mizuno, Shun Oguri, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yûji Oda, Yuki Uchida, Yûsuke Santamaria
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Sasori / Female Convict Scorpion (2008)
Action
A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison ever seen. Inside the hellblocks, she decides to stop being a victim at all costs, and ends up becoming stronger and even more vicious than the craziest inmates in the pen. She eventually escapes in a most unusual way, gets valuable fight training from a mysterious mountain man and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Dylan Kuo, Emme Wong, Nana Natsume, Sam Lee, Siu-Lung Leung
Director: Joe Ma
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Tags: Dylan Kuo, Emme Wong, Joe Ma, Miki Mizuno, Nana Natsume, Sam Lee, Siu-Lung Leung
