Mitsuru Hirata — Actor (20)
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Pickpocket (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
スリ
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Yoshio Harada / Jun Fubuki …
other title: スリ
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
director: Akira Inoue actor: Kazuyo Asari / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: 風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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Thriller CRT (1991) [Movie] TMDB
スリラーブラウン管
director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi actor: Midori Kiuchi / Bengal …
other title: スリラーブラウン管
A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road.
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen (2012) [Movie] TMDB
ダブルフェイス 偽装警察編
director: Eiichiro Hasumi actor: Fumiyo Kohinata / Teruyuki Kagawa …
other title: ダブルフェイス 偽装警察編
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
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Translucent Tree (2004) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
透光の樹
director: Kichitaro Negishi actor: Kumiko Akiyoshi / Toshiyuki Nagashima …
other title: 透光の樹
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
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Shanghai Rhapsody (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
上海バンスキング
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Keiko Matsuzaka / Morio Kazama …
other title: Rhapsodie de Shanghai / 上海バンスキング
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Oishinbo (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
美味しんぼ
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Koichi Sato / Michiko Hada …
other title: 美味しんぼ
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
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Nuclear Gypsies (1985) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
生きているうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言
director: 森崎東 actor: 倍賞美津子 / Yoshio Harada …
other title: 及时行乐死了拉倒党宣言 / 生きているうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言 …
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant. Barbara plans to help her escape from this hell. Aiko has been sent to Mihama. Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.
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Whiteout (2000) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
ホワイトアウト
director: 若松节朗 actor: 织田裕二 / 松岛菜菜子 …
other title: 暴风雪 / ホワイトアウト …
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...