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Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron-Masked Girl (1985) [TV] IMDb TMDB
スケバン刑事II 少女鉄仮面伝説
director: Hideo Tanaka / Toshio Ōi actor: Yoko Minamino / Haruko Sagara
other title: Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron Mask / スケバン刑事II 少女鉄仮面伝説
Sukeban Deka II in 1985-1986 starred Yoko Minamino as the second "Sukeban Deka", a mysterious girl with an iron mask named Yoko Godai who takes on the identity of Asamiya Saki after being freed from her mask; She will get the help of two other sukeban: Kyoko "Okyo" Nakamura (Haruko Sagara), and Yukino Yajima (Akie Yoshizawa, from jpop band Onyanko Club which will appear in two episodes).
Weather Report Girl (1997) [TV] IMDb TMDB
お天気お姉さん
other title: お天気お姉さん
This live-action Japanese TV series is based on Tetsu Adachi's manga. The series is split into two parts, each one consisting of six episodes. The first part is based on the manga's original storyline and, of course, focuses on Keiko Nakadai and her infamous rise to fame. The second part, on the other hand, has a completely original storyline made exclusively for this TV series that focuses on the adventures of another woman, Ryoko Makino, after she is chosen as a new weather anchor on TV.
The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing (1999) [TV] TMDB
隣人は秘かに笑う
other title: 隣人は秘かに笑う
The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that Motoki is this serial killer). Motoki is a police officer with 2 faces: he has an obsession for housewife Maki and is very gentle with her, and on the other side he rapes & tortures one of her friend, Kanda Uno. His ultimate goal seems to make Maki fall in love with him: so he uses her friend Uno to affect her relationship with her husband & he gradually introduces himself into her life. Another person is also obsessed with Maki (she is a sort of public personality as she runs a cooking club with other housewives and appears in magazines), harassing her all the time on the phone, spying on her, etc...: this person is close to her as he knows things from her past (her son drowned in an accident). Motoki also had an ordeal in his past: his mother was killed in a fire, by her lover.
Three Sisters Investigate (1998) [TV] TMDB
三姉妹探偵団
director: Hiroshi Yoshino actor: Ranran Suzuki / Yuka Nomura
other title: 三姉妹探偵団
Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.
Sukeban Deka III: Romance of the Ninja Girls (1986) [TV] IMDb TMDB
スケバン刑事III 少女忍法帖伝奇
director: Tarou Sakamoto / Hideo Tanaka actor: Yui Asaka / Yuka Ônishi
other title: スケバン刑事III 少女忍法帖伝奇
Kazama Yui, a country girl from Kyushu who was recruited by the Dark Director and given the role of the third Saki Asamiya.

In the story, Yui was sent to Tokyo to meet up with her long lost sisters, Yuka and Yuma, and they inherited the family's ninja art in order to solve the menace of a psychic terrorist known as the Emperor. Now turned into a trio of kunoichi, they would battle the villain and his army, helped by their mentor Kazuya Yoda and the agents Reia Kido and Obiwan Osho. Yui herself rarely used the Saki Asamiya moniker and showed a very different personality compared to Saki and Yoko, and the series was more focused in fantasy than serious urban crime drama.

NOTE: although it has 3 in the title and is loosely related to the other two Sukeban Deka shows this should not be treated as a direct continuation but rather as a standalone show.
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image (1996) [Movie] TMDB
ブラック・ジャック3 ふたりの黒い医者
director: Kazuya Konaka actor: Daisuke Ryū / Honami Tajima
other title: ブラック・ジャック3 ふたりの黒い医者
Blackjack's surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease. However, there appears Dr. Kiriko, who demands extraordinary money like Black Jack, but undertakes euthanasia instead of treatment.
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You (1996) [Movie] TMDB
ブラック・ジャック2 ピノコ愛してる
director: Kazuya Konaka actor: Daisuke Ryū / Honami Tajima
other title: ブラック・ジャック2 ピノコ愛してる
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.
Embalming (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
EM / エンバーミング
other title: EM / エンバーミング / EM Embalming
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a recent suicide. While performing her duties, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh. When the head is stolen during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.
Black Jack (1996) [Movie] TMDB
ブラック・ジャック
director: Kazuya Konaka actor: Daisuke Ryū / Teruyuki Kagawa
other title: ブラック・ジャック
Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.
Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni (1991) [Movie] TMDB
イブは初恋のように
actor: Yasuko Tomita / Naho Toda
other title: イブは初恋のように
An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.
Azami the Punisher (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女彫師アザミ
other title: Azami The Punisher / 女彫師アザミ
Azami spends her days as a tattoo artist who's in charge of her own parlor, but she also has another side. She is the punisher of evils that have gone beyond the usual laws of society. A former Miss Japan, Naoko Kamishirato, tattooed and nude in provocative scenes in her first starring role...
Shoot! (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
シュート!
director: Kazuki Ōmori actor: Masahiro Nakai / Takuya Kimura
other title: シュート!
The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques in Germany and who helped the Kakegawa team, which then consisted of freshmen only, win eight place in the all-Japan....