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Kirin Kiki (樹木 希林 Kiki Kirin) (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress known for her work in Japanese cinema and television.
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22 March 1985
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant.
29 October 1977
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
01 February 1975
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
23 September 1970
At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favorite with teachers and classmates alike.
02 June 2018
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs.
16 July 2010
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants.
01 March 1997
A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot.
05 April 1991
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages.
24 April 1974
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business.
31 August 1966
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their schemes bring quick riches but collapse before escape, landing them in prison—while a former mark prospers by stealing their tricks.
17 July 2004
A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project.
13 June 2015
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
24 September 2013
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth.
12 April 1985
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life.
29 May 2010
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle.
11 September 2010
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash.
01 February 2012
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature.
29 May 2004
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
28 June 2008
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
22 February 1968
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
13 November 1966
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.
01 March 1975
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
31 August 2002
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
11 June 2011
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
15 January 1970
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
30 May 2015
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over.
10 January 2004
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated.
07 September 2004
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified.
21 May 2016
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective.
16 May 2015
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
05 May 1997
After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs.
15 January 1991
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
14 July 1979
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family.
01 April 1991
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent.
17 March 1979
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.
07 July 2000
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
14 April 2007
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan.
28 April 2012
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay.
27 October 2001
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
28 December 1974
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
28 December 1968
Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.
15 January 2005
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women.
10 November 2012
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
23 January 2009
A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking.
28 December 1979
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea.
19 February 1983
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass.
08 August 1981
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their time.
17 April 1982
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
17 September 2006
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and "Guangzhou·Showa August 6th, 20th.
29 October 1977
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face.
25 June 1994
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published.
16 February 2013
Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gathering in Nabari City in Mie Prefecture.
17 February 1999
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial.
23 June 2007
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond.
24 March 2011
Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era.
17 April 1982
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
