Makiko Watanabe — Actor (26)
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Torso (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
トルソ
director: Yutaka Yamazaki actor: Makiko Watanabe / Sakura Ando …
other title: トルソ
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ISOLA 多重人格少女
director: Toshiyuki Mizutani actor: Yoshino Kimura / Yû Kurosawa …
other title: Isola - La tredicesima personalità / Isola - Das 13. Gesicht …
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
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Tokyo Stray Girls (2010) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
名前のない女たち
director: Hisayasu Satō actor: Norie Yasui / Mayu Sakuma …
other title: Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano / 名前のない女たち
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
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Tengu's Kitchen (2023) [TV] IMDb TMDB
天狗の台所
director: Yukiko Sode / Yoshitatsu Yamada … actor: Kiita Komagine / Keitatsu Koshiyama …
other title: 天狗の台所
At 14-years-old, Izuna On discovers he and his brother Motoi are both descendents of Tengu (flying goblin-like creatures of Japan folklore). Motoi has wings, which is somewhat rare among Tengu descendants, while On has the ability to communicate with animals. Due to their heritage, the two brothers live together, separated from normal society, and the story focuses on their everyday lives.
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Red Cross (2015) [TV] IMDb TMDB
レッドクロス～女たちの赤紙～
actor: Nanako Matsushima / Hidetoshi Nishijima …
other title: レッドクロス～女たちの赤紙～
Kiyo is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be helpful to her nation. Kiyo decides to become a war nurse. She undergoes strict training and finally graduates from nursing school. Kiyo then gets her draft notice and leaves for Manchuria, China.

Everyday, she takes care of injured soldiers. A Japanese immigrant in Manchuria, Wataru, brings two injured people to her. One person is Hikaru d the other injured person is a native Chinese person named Son. Kiyo persuades Army Surgeon Hideyo to treat Son and he does so in secret. Lieutenant Colonel Kisuke soon discovers about the treatment.
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A Banana? At This Time of Night? (2018) [Movie] IMDb
こんな夜更けにバナナかよ
director: Tetsu Maeda actor: Yo Oizumi / Mitsuki Takahata …
other title: A banana? At this time of night? / こんな夜更けにバナナかよ 愛しき実話
A man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and help him. Though, he takes full advantage of the situation and uses and abuses the volunteer crew.
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TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room (2021) [TV] TMDB
TOKYO MER 〜走る緊急救命室〜
actor: Ryohei Suzuki / Kento Kaku …
other title: TOKYO MER 〜走る緊急救命室〜
TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured.

Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
PERFECT BLUE 夢なら醒めて
director: Toshiki Sato actor: Ayaka Maeda / Masahiro Toda …
other title: Yume nara samete / Perfect Blue …
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
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Drops of God (2023) [TV] TMDB NeoDB
Les Gouttes de Dieu
director: Quoc Dang Tran actor: Fleur Geffrier / Tomohisa Yamashita …
other title: Les Gouttes de Dieu / Nettare degli dei …
While the world of wine mourns the death of Alexandre Léger, his estranged daughter, Camille, learns his extraordinary collection is now hers. But before she can claim her inheritance, Camille must best Alexandre's protégé, Issei, in a test of their senses.
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Princess Maison (2016) [TV] TMDB
プリンセスメゾン
actor: Aoi Morikawa / Issey Takahashi …
other title: プリンセスメゾン
A story revolves around a 26-year-old single woman Sachi who lives in Tokyo working for a pub. She frequents a show house alone as she plans to buy a home of her own. She looks around the room seriously and asks incisive questions to the attendants. Through her house hunt, we can catch a glimpse of what the modern Japanese women truly want.
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Canary (2005) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
カナリア
director: Akihiko Shiota actor: Hoshi Ishida / Mitsuki Tanimura …
other title: カナリア
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
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37 Seconds (2019) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
37セカンズ
director: HIKARI actor: Mei Kayama / Misuzu Kanno …
other title: 37 segundos / 37セカンズ …
Yuma, a 23-year-old comic book artist with profound cerebral palsy, has been emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overprotective mother. As she begins to seek independence and sexual awakening on her own terms, she discovers an unexpected path to love and forgiveness.
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Rabbit on the Moon (2007) [Movie] TMDB
兎のダンス
director: Chihiro Ikeda actor: Sairi Ito / Momoka Omori …
other title: 兎のダンス
Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman grandfather. Sanae is awoken by the sound of hard rain one night. As she dozes, the rain changes into the flow of the river and she finds herself lying in a fishing boat when she opens her eyes. She hears, from far away, the strains of a harmonica which her grandpa loves... Next morning Sanae is informed that her grandfather has passed away. Frictions are revealed between Sanae and those around her. In her confused state, she runs out of the house leaving for the river where her grandpa's boat is moored...
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Zebraman (2004) [Movie] TMDB
ゼブラーマン
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Kyoka Suzuki …
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escapist fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
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CREEP (2007) [Movie] TMDB
CREEP
director: Kou Sakai actor: Toshiki Hirose / Eriko Hatsune …
Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit a log cabin of a famous geologist Kanbe. With fortune teller Eiko, ex-girlfriend of Kanbe, joining the party, five people of diverse ages, sexes, statutes, and professions happen to spend a night together in the log cabin deep in the mountains. As the strangers get to know each other and grow closer, each one of their hidden pasts is brought to light. Meanwhile, following a thunderstorm and an earthquake, something even worse is approaching them...
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Sketches of Kaitan City (2010) [Movie] TMDB Douban
海炭市叙景
director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri actor: Mitsuki Tanimura / Pistol Takehara …
other title: 海炭市叙景 / Kaitanshi jokei
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
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The Mourning Forest (2007) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
殯の森
director: Naomi Kawase actor: Machiko Ono / Shigeki Uda …
other title: 殯の森 / Der Trauerwald …
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
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Second to Last Love (2012) [TV] TMDB
最後から二番目の恋
8.6 (5 ratings) actor: Kyoko Koizumi / Kiichi Nakai …
other title: 最後から二番目の恋
Chiaki Yoshino is a TV producer. She is 45-years-old and single. Chiaki Yoshino worries about her health and her later years rather than dating. She hopes to buy an old house and live there with a friend when she gets older.

Chiaki then goes to Kamakura, Japan to look for a house. There, she meets a 50-year-old single man Wahei Nagakura. Wahei's first wife died and he has one child. Their love story begins ...