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Ai (1986)
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园子温 actor: 河西宏美 / 园子温
other title: 爱 / 愛 …
A young man dressed as a samurai walks along a road lined with flowering cherry trees. Then, no longer in costume, he talks with the camerawoman who is filming him, he writes a date and an hour (May 1, 1985, 10 a.m.) on a blackboard and then bursts out in rage at the fact that his girlfriend, Hiromi, has been missing for three days. A few moments of their love story are retraced, before returning to the gloomy desperation of the young man, who walks into the darkness of a night illuminated by neon signs and goes into a long monologue of love, directed at the girl.

Movie

Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
エッシャー通りの赤いポスト
★ 7.8 83 ratings
园子温 actor: 茉爱罗 / 藤田朋子 …
other title: 埃舍尔街的红色邮筒 / エッシャー通りの赤いポスト …
A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?

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Shinjuku Swan (2015)
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★ 6.0 74 ratings
other title: 新宿天鹅 / 新宿スワン …
Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.

TV

时效警察归来 (2007)
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★ 8.9 73 ratings
万众期盼的疯狂搞笑剧《时效警察》终于回来了,自2005年播出《时效警察》之后,这个不修边幅奇形怪状,却总是用惊人的智慧去解决一个个“时效已过的案件”的时效警察,获得了观众的广泛喜爱和支持,剧情诙谐逗趣剧情妙趣横生,人物又能不断制造出各种笑点,是喜欢喜剧的人绝对不能错过的一部好电视剧。   此次《归来的时效警察》全部原班人马再造经典,邋遢的主角雾山修一朗又和他的美女搭档三日月静一起,遇到了许多时效已过的案件,并一个个把它们解决。除了这些以外,观众还很关心修一朗和小静之间的暧昧关系,到底这次能不能有个痛快的交代呢?拭目以待。

TV

Time Limit Investigator (时效警察) (2006)
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★ 8.7 112 ratings
雾山修一郎(小田切让 饰)是在时效管理课工作的警察。由于部门的工作十分清闲,让雾山他的同事们整日都无事可干。某一天,当大家都谈到自己的爱好时,发现自己没啥爱好的雾山决定要发展自己的一项爱好,于是他把目标盯住了时效档案。决定调查那些过了时效的案件,寻找出其中的凶手。在交通课工作的三日月静(麻生久美子 饰)因为暗恋着雾山,所以时不时串门到时效管理课,借机找机会和雾山接触。 雾山和三日月在一堆失了时效的案件中,揪出了一些谜点,与那些犯人周旋,然后展开了别样的推理故事。伴随着各种冷笑话,最脱力系的推理故事就此开始。

Movie

Ekusute (2007)
エクステ
★ 5.4 30 ratings
other title: 恐怖爆发 / エクステ …
An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.

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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
紀子の食卓
★ 8.0 71 ratings
园子温 actor: 吹石一惠 / 鸫 …
other title: 纪子的餐桌 / 紀子の食卓 …
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

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Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)
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★ 4.3 16 ratings
other title: 狂武藏 / 狂武蔵 …
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.

Movie

Guilty of Romance (2011)
恋の罪
★ 6.9 122 ratings
园子温 actor: 水野美纪 / 富坚真 …
other title: 恋之罪 / 恋の罪 …
In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.

Movie

Cold FIsh (2010)
冷たい熱帯魚
★ 7.4 279 ratings
other title: 冰冷热带鱼 / 冷たい熱帯魚 …
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.