Kirin Kiki — Actor (46)
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Cardboard House Girl (2001) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ダンボールハウスガール
director: Masako Matsuura actor: Ryoko Yonekura / Kintarô Hara …
other title: ダンボールハウスガール
Sakurai Ann, an office worker, has been steadily saving money to move to the U.S. and live freely. When she finally reaches her goal of 5 million yen, her apartment is broken into and all of her money is stolen. She quits her job, cancels her apartment lease, and then discovers that her boyfriend has been with another woman. With no family to rely to, she finds herself living on the brink of homelessness.
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Koto—The Lake of Tears (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
湖の琴
director: Tomotaka Tasaka actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: Le Lac des larmes / 湖の琴 …
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.
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Private Detective DOBU 1 (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
岡っ引どぶ
director: Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Kunie Tanaka / Kirin Kiki …
other title: 岡っ引どぶ
Dobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were killed in a shrine, and Dobu found out that those three had a grudge on a timber whole seller, Hinokiya. He reunited with Zirokichi (Takeo Chii), one of his friends and Nezumi Kozo (a thief) , and he infiltrates Hinokiya together.
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Hometown (1983) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ふるさと
director: Seijiro Koyama actor: Yoshi Katō / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: ふるさと
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
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The Short Films: We Were All Once Children (2008) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The ショートフィルムズ／みんな、はじめはコドモだった
director: Yōichi Sai / Kazuyuki Izutsu … actor: Kirin Kiki / Haruomi Hosono …
other title: The ショートフィルムズ／みんな、はじめはコドモだった
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been created. "The Short Films: We Were All Once Children." The theme that runs through the five short films is "children." The styles vary from period dramas to contemporary daily life scenes, but all of the works highlight the dreams of children, who are entrusted with Japan's future, as well as the issues facing the social system surrounding children. ©ABC Television
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Hanezu (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
朱花の月
director: Naomi Kawase actor: Tôta Komizu / Hako Ohshima …
other title: Hanezu, l'esprit des montagnes / 朱花の月 …
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.
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The Whispered City (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ざわざわ下北沢
director: Jun Ichikawa actor: Yoshio Harada / Tomoko Kitagawa …
other title: ざわざわ下北沢
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.
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The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
玄海つれづれ節
director: Masanobu Deme actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Aki Yashiro …
other title: 玄海つれづれ節
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate to track down her missing husband, she travels to Kyushu in hopes of finding clues to his whereabouts and in the process discovers disturbing secrets about the man she loves.
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Dog in a Sidecar (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
サイドカーに犬
director: Kichitaro Negishi actor: Yuko Takeuchi / Yūsuke Iseya …
other title: サイドカーに犬
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. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.