Ayumi Ito

Ayumi Ito

Born in Tokyo, Ayumi Ito has always had a love for movies and art. She made her big-screen debut in Nobuhiko Obayashi's The Water Travelers: Samurai Kids. Her distinctive style led to her critically acclaimed performance in Swallowtail Butterfly, directed by the renowned Director Shunji Iwai. At 16-years-old, Ayumi was awarded both the Best New Actress Award as well as the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 20th Annual Japanese Academy Awards. Ayumi's career has blossomed into starring roles in several successful films and television shows. She trained in LA and New York and has worked globally with world-renown Chinese director and artist Zhuangzhuang Tian, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), among other great filmmakers. Ayumi's performance in the the Fuji TV drama Belle de Jour was so strong that she reprised the role when it became a feature film and box-office hit, earning over 2.3 billion JPY. She is also the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Off-screen, Ayumi is a talented vocalist and recording artist. Her passion for art continues to thrive and she brings characters to life in her performances.

  • Title: Ayumi Ito
  • Popularity: 6.282
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1980-04-14
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Ayumi Itô, 伊藤步
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Ayumi Ito Movies

  • 2005
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    Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

    Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

    7.141 2005 HD

    Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people...

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  • 1996
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    Swallowtail Butterfly

    Swallowtail Butterfly

    7.4 1996 HD

    The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

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  • 2003
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    Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7

    Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video 7

    1 2003 HD

    A collection of psychic images received by general posts. Fear multiplies! Earth-bound spirits, vengeful spirits, floating spirits, guardian spirits...

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  • 2008
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    Tokyo!

    Tokyo!

    7 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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  • 2022
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    Noise

    Noise

    5.8 2022 HD

    Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi...

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  • 2005
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    Final Fantasy VII: Last Order

    Final Fantasy VII: Last Order

    6.2 2005 HD

    In the events of Last Order, taking place five years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII itself, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako...

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  • 2004
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    Hana and Alice

    Hana and Alice

    6.9 2004 HD

    Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

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  • 2006
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    Clay Fear

    Clay Fear

    1 2006 HD

    Pottery factory owner Ming Fu (Ng Kai Wah) is haunted by visions of the blazing death of his business partner in a suspicious fire. Widowed, Ming...

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  • 2008
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    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird

    5.4 2008 HD

    Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of...

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  • 2001
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    All About Lily Chou-Chou

    All About Lily Chou-Chou

    7.3 2001 HD

    Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their...

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  • 2023
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    Immersion

    Immersion

    5.9 2023 HD

    Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.

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  • 2003
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    Owl

    Owl

    7 2003 HD

    A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...

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  • 1998
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    Dr. Akagi

    Dr. Akagi

    6.6 1998 HD

    At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

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  • 1996
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    円都 YEN TOWN

    円都 YEN TOWN

    1 1996 HD

    Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

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  • 2011
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    Gantz: Perfect Answer

    Gantz: Perfect Answer

    6.7 2011 HD

    Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.

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  • 2010
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    Bandage

    Bandage

    6 2010 HD

    Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu,...

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  • 2009
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    Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel

    Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel

    5.6 2009 HD

    It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop about joining the World Regenesis Organization. Upon...

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  • 2004
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    Mask de 41

    Mask de 41

    1 2004 HD

    Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save...

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  • 2006
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    Vanished

    Vanished

    5.6 2006 HD

    Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon...

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  • 2007
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    Kitokito!

    Kitokito!

    1 2007 HD

    Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.

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  • 2013
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    A Story of Yonosuke

    A Story of Yonosuke

    7.2 2013 HD

    The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki....

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  • 2004
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    A Day on the Planet

    A Day on the Planet

    5.8 2004 HD

    Seven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki & her boyfriend Nakazawa join the party and get...

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  • 2005
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    Sunday's Dream

    Sunday's Dream

    1 2005 HD

    Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...

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  • 2003
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    Farewell, Kuro

    Farewell, Kuro

    7 2003 HD

    Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

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  • 2014
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    埋もれる

    埋もれる

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2006
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    Check It Out, Yo!

    Check It Out, Yo!

    5.2 2006 HD

    Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon...

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  • 2005
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    Hold Up Down

    Hold Up Down

    6.9 2005 HD

    A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy,...

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  • 2005
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    Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

    1 2005 HD

    Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a...

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  • 2009
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    Be Sure to Share

    Be Sure to Share

    6.5 2009 HD

    Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before...

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  • 2007
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    Into the Faraway Sky

    Into the Faraway Sky

    7 2007 HD

    A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time...

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  • 2010
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    Solanin

    Solanin

    7.1 2010 HD

    Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment...

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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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  • 1997
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    Happy Go Lucky

    Happy Go Lucky

    7.5 1997 HD

    Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns...

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  • 2004
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    River of First Love

    River of First Love

    6.7 2004 HD

    8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak...

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  • 2007
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    The Go Master

    The Go Master

    6.2 2007 HD

    The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the...

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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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  • 2010
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    After the Flowers

    After the Flowers

    7.2 2010 HD

    Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges...

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  • 2007
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    Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

    Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

    6.9 2007 HD

    Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

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  • 2013
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    Flower of Shanidar

    Flower of Shanidar

    5.5 2013 HD

    A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is...

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  • 1998
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    Fishes in August

    Fishes in August

    1 1998 HD

    A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity

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  • 2006
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    Crickets

    Crickets

    7 2006 HD

    Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she...

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  • 2004
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    Believer

    Believer

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2007
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    Tokyo Rhapsody

    Tokyo Rhapsody

    1 2007 HD

    "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...

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  • 2022
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    Dr. Coto's Clinic

    Dr. Coto's Clinic

    7.3 2022 HD

    In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the...

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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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  • 2010
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    Gantz

    Gantz

    6.6 2010 HD

    After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down...

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  • 1999
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    Amateur Singing Contest

    Amateur Singing Contest

    5 1999 HD

    Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager...

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  • 2014
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    Pandora: Eternal life

    Pandora: Eternal life

    7 2014 HD

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  • 2012
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    Soup

    Soup

    7 2012 HD

    Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward....

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  • 2017
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    Sekigahara

    Sekigahara

    6.9 2017 HD

    The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated...

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  • 2017
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    Hirugao

    Hirugao

    5.339 2017 HD

    Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet...

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  • 2018
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    Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu

    Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu

    6 2018 HD

    ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses...

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  • 2004
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    Last Quarter

    Last Quarter

    6.2 2004 HD

    Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently...

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  • 2013
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    With All Our Might

    With All Our Might

    10 2013 HD

    Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Hazuki Inoue). Tamiko married her deceased friend...

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  • 1993
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    Samurai Kids

    Samurai Kids

    6 1993 HD

    A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

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  • 2012
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    The Room

    The Room

    3.8 2012 HD

    Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates...

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  • 1998
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    Sada

    Sada

    6.8 1998 HD

    The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

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  • 2020
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    Labyrinth of Cinema

    Labyrinth of Cinema

    6.5 2020 HD

    The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...

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  • 2019
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    Cheer Boys!!

    Cheer Boys!!

    6.4 2019 HD

    Haruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new project with his childhood friend Kazuma. Together...

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  • 2014
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    Dance! Dance! Dance!

    Dance! Dance! Dance!

    1 2014 HD

    The movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is dreaming of a getaway out of his small coastal town in...

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  • 2021
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    People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan

    People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan

    6.5 2021 HD

    Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that...

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  • 2022
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    Story Game

    Story Game

    6.2 2022 HD

    Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii. But only one can win The Story Game.

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  • 2002
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    All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"

    All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"

    6.3 2002 HD

    The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

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  • 1999
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    Lipstick

    Lipstick

    9 1999 HD

    Hayakawa Ai commits a crime which lands her in a correction facility for juveniles. There she meets & becomes firm friends with four other...

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  • 2012
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    Penance

    Penance

    8.2 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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  • 2018
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    I Prefer Tomorrow's You

    I Prefer Tomorrow's You

    1 2018 HD

    Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO’s...

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  • 2023
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    Last Man: The Blind Profiler

    Last Man: The Blind Profiler

    7.3 2023 HD

    Minami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his sight due to an accident in the past and he is called...

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  • 2012
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    Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance

    Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance

    5 2012 HD

    In this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself to kill a teenage girl leading a prostitution ring....

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  • 2014
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    Shinigami-kun

    Shinigami-kun

    6.8 2014 HD

    Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would...

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  • 2012
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    Wonderful Single Life

    Wonderful Single Life

    7.2 2012 HD

    "Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's.

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  • 2019
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    Radiation House

    Radiation House

    6.8 2019 HD

    Iori Igarashi is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT and MRI images. He and radiologist An...

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  • 1999
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    Emergency Room 24 Hours

    Emergency Room 24 Hours

    7.5 1999 HD

    Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see...

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  • 2019
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    Poison Daughter, Holy Mother

    Poison Daughter, Holy Mother

    1 2019 HD

    Yumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika (Shinobu Terajima) controlling her life. Yoshika is a...

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  • 2014
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    Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

    Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

    6 2014 HD

    Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of...

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  • 2017
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    Cecile's Plot

    Cecile's Plot

    4 2017 HD

    Miyaji is a full-time housewife who has no interest in dressing herself. One day, her life changes completely as she was scouted as a reader model...

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  • 2020
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    70才、初めて産みました~セブンティウイザン。

    70才、初めて産みました~セブンティウイザン。

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2019
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    Grand Maison Tokyo

    Grand Maison Tokyo

    8.2 2019 HD

    Natsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) is a charismatic Japanese chef running a 2-star restaurant in Paris. Despite an extreme pride and confidence, he...

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  • 2019
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    Sherlock: Untold Stories

    Sherlock: Untold Stories

    7.5 2019 HD

    Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated...

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  • 2023
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    Yu Yu Hakusho

    Yu Yu Hakusho

    7.6 2023 HD

    After a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai.

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  • 2011
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    Ohisama

    Ohisama

    9 2011 HD

    Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of...

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  • 2024
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    Hakubo no Chronicle

    Hakubo no Chronicle

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2022
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    Tokyo Vice

    Tokyo Vice

    7.919 2022 HD

    A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice...

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  • 2019
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    Stolen Face

    Stolen Face

    6.4 2019 HD

    Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted...

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  • 2015
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    Konkatsu Deka

    Konkatsu Deka

    7 2015 HD

    35-year-old Hanada Yoneko is a detective of Ryogoku Police Precinct who is looking for a marriage partner. She swings between love and justice as she...

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  • 2016
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    Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    7 2016 HD

    30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko,...

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  • 2024
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    The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary

    The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary

    5 2024 HD

    Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the...

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  • 2015
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    Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei

    Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei

    6.7 2015 HD

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  • 2016
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    Natsuko Kira

    Natsuko Kira

    7 2016 HD

    Natsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and is shocked to learn that she is not the creative...

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  • 2021
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    20th year reunion

    20th year reunion

    8.75 2021 HD

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  • 2012
    imgS1 E4

    O-PARTS〜オーパーツ〜

    O-PARTS〜オーパーツ〜

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    The Makioka Sisters

    The Makioka Sisters

    8 2018 HD

    Taking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company handing his company over. It starts a new era for the...

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  • 2013
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    太陽の罠

    太陽の罠

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2024
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    Beyond Goodbye

    Beyond Goodbye

    1 2024 HD

    After losing her fiancé in an accident, Saeko feels an inexplicable connection to a stranger — who, by a twist of fate, received his...

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  • 2009
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    Midnight Diner

    Midnight Diner

    8.1 2009 HD

    Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of...

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