Yoko Maki

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

(2006)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Justin Lin

Cast:

Lucas Black, Shad Moss, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Brian Tee

6.0

38%

45

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The Grudge

(2004)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Takashi Shimizu

Cast:

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea DuVall

5.9

40%

49

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Like Father, Like Son

(2013)

Drama

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast:

Masaharu Fukuyama, Yoko Maki, Jun Kunimura, Kirin Kiki, Machiko Ono

7.8

87%

73

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Infection

(2004)

Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Masayuki Ochiai

Cast:

Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura, Yoko Maki, Kaho Minami

6.1

N/A

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Battle Royale II: Requiem

(2003)

Action, Thriller

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the b...

Runtime:

155 min

Director:

Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

Cast:

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai

4.7

30%

N/A

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Princess Blade

(2001)

Action, Science Fiction

Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち　の　ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become hired assassins. The wise old sage Kuka, who was once Yuki's mother's bodyguard, gives Yuki information that ch...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Shinsuke Sato

Cast:

Yumiko Shaku, Shiro Sano, Yōichi Numata, Kyusaku Shimada, Yôko Chôsokabe

5.6

57%

59

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Summer Time Machine Blues

(2005)

Comedy, Science Fiction

A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air...

Runtime:

107 min

Director:

Katsuyuki Motohiro

Cast:

Eita, Yoshiaki Yoza, Daijiro Kawaoka, Munenori Nagano, Juri Ueno

7.3

N/A

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Sway

(2006)

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa's brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe Odagiri) returns to his small hometown in order to pay his respects. But all is not well back home, and when Takeru's authorit...

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Miwa Nishikawa

Cast:

Teruyuki Kagawa, Masatō Ibu, Hirofumi Arai, Keizô Kani'e, Yuichi Kimura

7.3

N/A

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Love Strikes!

(2011)

Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto (Mirai Moriyama) doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular...

Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Hitoshi Ohne

Cast:

Mirai Moriyama, Masami Nagasawa, Kumiko Asou, Riisa Naka, Yoko Maki

6.8

N/A

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The Blood of Wolves

(2018)

Crime, Drama

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more...

Runtime:

126 min

Cast:

Koji Yakusho, Tori Matsuzaka, Yoko Maki, Kenichi Takito, Takuma Otoo

7.1

N/A

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The Ravine of Goodbye

(2013)

Drama

In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako. Meanwhile, magazine reporter Watanabe, who is co...

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast:

Yoko Maki, Shima Ohnishi, Anne Suzuki, Hirofumi Arai, Mayu Tsuruta

6.9

N/A

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Genome Hazard

(2014)

Drama, Thriller

Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?

Runtime:

120 min

6.6

N/A

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Dark Tales of Japan

(2004)

Horror, TV Movie

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

Runtime:

92 min

5.8

N/A

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In the Pool

(2005)

Comedy, Drama

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

Runtime:

101 min

Director:

Satoshi Miki

Cast:

Suzuki Matsuo, Joe Odagiri, Miwako Ichikawa, Seiichi Tanabe, Toshiki Ayata

7.0

N/A

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Disconcerto

(2014)

Comedy

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.

Runtime:

124 min

6.6

N/A

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Dumbeast

(2009)

Comedy

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist De...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Mr. Hide

Cast:

Tadanobu Asano, Kazuki Kitamura, Aimi Satsukawa, Yūsuke Santamaria, Yoko Maki

6.5

N/A

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My Uncle

(2016)

Comedy

Yukio Haruyama (Riku Ohnishi) is an elementary school student. He has an uncle (Ryuhei Matsuda) that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri ...

Runtime:

110 min

Cast:

Ryuhei Matsuda, Yoko Maki, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Shinobu Terajima

6.4

N/A

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The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma

(2011)

Drama, Fantasy

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is ev...

Runtime:

137 min

6.5

N/A

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Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship

(2013)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of he...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Osamu Minorikawa

Cast:

Kou Shibasaki, Yoko Maki, Shinobu Terajima, Megumi Sato, Ai Takabe

6.6

N/A

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Veronika Decides to Die

(2005)

Drama

Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated within their worlds, strange people live in this sanatorium and try to avoid making any contact with her. However, Kuroda a man who lost his power of speech feels sympathetic towards her a...

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Kei Horie

Cast:

Yoko Maki

6.3

N/A

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Mozu The Movie

(2015)

Crime, Thriller

Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Eiichiro Hasumi

Cast:

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yoko Maki, Takeshi Kitano

5.0

N/A

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Black Dawn

(2012)

Thriller

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.

Runtime:

128 min

Director:

Kentaro Horikirizono

Cast:

Atsuro Watabe, Kim Kang-Woo, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki, Toshiyuki Kitami

6.2

N/A

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You'll Die Six Hours Later

(2008)

Action, Crime, Thriller

"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever since her acquaintance was murdered a few days ago, she realises that she has also become a victim of a stalker. Half believing it, she dec...

Runtime:

120 min

N/A

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