Japan

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A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.Read More »

There are two versions of “Toire No Hanako-san.” The first version, released in 1995, was set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko (Maeda Ai plays Takuya’s younger brother). Takuya’s classmates think that Saeko has been possessed by Hanako, the ghost that lives in the bathroom. The rumor is especially encouraged by a girl who has a crush on Takuya and is jealous since Takuya likes Saeko. The second version, released in 1998, centers on a group of high school girls (among them Maeda Ai and Nomura Yuka) who inadvertently release a demonic doll from a shrine outside of their school.Read More »

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A youth drama depicting love stories between high school boys and girls that unfold on the Hankyu Railway Line and the streets of Kobe.Read More »

Kunishita Hatsuko, a high school student, is killed when a falling object hits her on her way to school at a construction site. Her spirit meets the spirit of a young man named Iwai Gennosuke, who advises her to hurry up and return to her body and revive since it’s not too late. However, Hatsuko, who has discovered the comfort of being able to float freely through space and go anywhere, is reluctant to return to the earthly world. Gennosuke, who died a hundred years ago and lives in the hope that his body will be miraculously found and revived, is anxious to return Hatsuko’s spirit to her body before the funeral. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia)Read More »

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Mineko is a tour guide on the Hato sightseeing lines, who, through a turn of events, suddenly becomes famous as the ‘Lucky Bus Girl’, and finds herself meeting an array of surprising characters when thrown into one unexpected situation after another. TOKYO BUS GIRL was inspired by a popular Japanese song of the same name that was released the previous year, which endures to this day. Read More »

A love triangle blooms between a team of three ninjas before tragedy strikes and forces them to reassess their clan’s principles.Read More »

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.Read More »

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The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent. With life insurance money flowing in she not only can afford to pay rent, but also loan some cash to her brother who unbeknownst to his mother has taken on a loan from the bank with the house as collateral. The loan was needed as his wife’s aunt’s factory needs an infusion of funds.Read More »

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A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up vitiating and replacing the schools brass band.Read More »