Yoko Maki

All Movies of Yoko Maki

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  Kaneko’s Commissary
   2024

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  5.0
  Great Absence
  It’s about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
   2023

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  8.0
  The Blood of Wolves
  An urban noir by Kazuya Shiraishi about cops and gangsters in 1988 Hiroshima, based on a bestselling novel by Yuko Yuzuki. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi ...
   2018

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  8.0
  After the Storm
  Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother (Kirin Kiki) ...
   2016

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  Bitter Honey
  Akago (Fumi Nikaido) is a red goldfish able to change into a girl. She possesses a pure and sensuous side. She lives with an old male writer (Ren Osugi) whom she calls “Ojisama.” One day, the ghost of Yuriko Tamura (Yoko Maki)...
   2016

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  Lion Standing In The Wind
  Koichiro Shimada (Takao Osawa) is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He strug...
  Character: Takako Akishima

   2015

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  Before the Vigil
  Matsuoi (Hiroshi Abe) and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer a
   2013

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  7.3
  Like Father, Like Son
  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 o
   2013

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  7.0
  The Ravine of Goodbye
   2013

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  Love Strikes!
  A live-action film of Moteki was released with Mirai Moriyama reprising his role as Yukiyo Fujimoto. 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto (Mirai Moriyama) doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm a...
   2011

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  Sway (Yureru)
  Takeru is a successful photographer living the good life in Tokyo. He reluctantly sets off to visit his hometown on the first anniversary of his mother’s death. Stopping in to see his older brother, Minoru who has taken over the...
   2006

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  6.2
  Veronika Decides to Die
  Character: Towa

   2005

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  5.0
  Dark Tales Of Japan
  Produced by Taka Ichise (Ring, Dark Water), five of Japan’s top horror directors, including Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) and Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0: Birthday) contribute to this anthology of terrifying short films.
   2004

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  7.0
  Kamikaze Girls
  Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A complete fish out of water in her rural and sleepy...
   2004

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  Break Through!
  In Kyoto, 1968. Several high school students face their lives as Korean-Japanese trying to earn the love and respect of others. But times are not good for them.
  Character: Gang-ja Chun

   2004

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  5.0
  The Grudge
  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.
   2004

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  4.0
  Battle Royale II: Requiem
  Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" pr...
   2003