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israeli–palestinian conflict

7.5

♡ 25

94%

middle class

palestinian-israeli conflict

piano lessons

tokyo, japan

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Kai Inowaki as Kenji Sasaki

Kazuya Kojima as Kobayashi-san

Kanji Tsuda as Kurosu

Tao Tsuchiya as Mika

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

My Little Monster

2018

6.0

♡ 23

95%

Shô Tsukikawa Director

Elaiza Ikeda as Asako Natsume

Minami Hamabe as Chizuru Oshima

Yûki Yamada as Kenji Yamaguchi

Tao Tsuchiya as Shizuku Mizutani

Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses his feelings to her. Will Haru and Shizuku get their happily ever after?

Melancholy

2021

6.0

♡ 9

Ryôhei Watanabe Director

Bokuzô Masana as

Kei Tanaka as Daigo Izumisawa

Tao Tsuchiya as Koharu

Yuki Mamiya as Mami Yamada

Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-old daughter on his own. She resolves to build a happy household, but things don't go as expected.

The Library Wars: Book of Memories

2015

6.3

♡ 5

Shinsuke Sato Director

Kei Tanaka as

Tôri Matsuzaka as

Tao Tsuchiya as

Chiaki Kuriyama as

Iku (Nana Eikura) joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an important book that was targeted for censorship. She is assigned to work under Atsushi’s (Junichi Okada) team. She endures Atsushi's harsh treatment and looks for the member who retrieved her book. She also finds herself becoming attracted to Atsushi. Iku meets female high school student Marie (Tao Tsuchiya) at the library. Maries has a hearing disability. She is also a childhood friend of Mikihisa (Kei Tanaka). Iku senses Marie’s strong feelings for Mikihisa. Asako (Chiaki Kuriyama) works as a clerk for the Library Task Force. She has frequent meetings with curator Shuji (Aoi Nakamura). This creates complicated feelings for Hikaru (Sota Fukushi). One day, Mikihisa is arrested because of a book he recommended to Marie. Official reason given is because the book is unsuitable for disabled people. The members of the Library Task Force are angered by Mikihisa's arrest.

Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold

5.9

Ken Iizuka Director

Kei Tanaka as Nishikata Jinya

Tao Tsuchiya as Nishikata Yukie

Yûki Yamada as Takahashi Ryuji

Daikichi Sugawara as Whose?

Story about 1998 Nagano Olympic ski jump team competition, where Japan won a gold medal.

The Method of Repulsing the Dove

2021

5.7

♡ 3

Mystery

novelist

violence mystery

Hideta Takahata Director

Aimi Satsukawa as

Shunsuke Kazama as Hideyoshi Kochi

Tao Tsuchiya as Nahomi Torikai

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shinichi Tsuda

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?

Food Luck

2020

6.0

♡ 3

Drama

mother son relationship

self reflection

slice of life

tantrum

Jimon Terakado Director

Yô Ôizumi as Minoru Ozaki

Tao Tsuchiya as Shizuka Takenaka

Satoru Matsuo as Tatsuya Furuyama

Raita Ryû as Yuji Ishihara

Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. Things changed after popular food critic Furuyama Tatsuya published false statements about their yakiniku restaurant. Due to that, their restaurant saw a sharp drop in customers. Yasue worked hard to recover business for the restaurant. Due to Yoshito's behavior in wanting attention from his mom, Yasue decided to shut down the restaurant. 18 years later, Yoshito lives alone and he works as a freelance writer. One day, he takes work for a new online foodie website. He works with editor Takenaka Shizuka. Their first assignment involves yakiniku. Around that time, Yoshito hears that his estranged mother Yasue has collapsed.

The Method of Repulsing the Dove

5.7

Hideta Takahata Director

Shunsuke Kazama as Hideyoshi Kochi

Tao Tsuchiya as Nahomi Torikai

Aimi Satsukawa as Nanami Kochi

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shinichi Tsuda

Shinichi Tsuda is a genius novelist. He is a winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize for literature. One day, he lets his editor Nahomi Torikai read his latest novel. The novel is supposed to be based on a case Shinichi Tsuda experienced himself in a small city in Toyama Prefecture. Nahomi Torikai is excited by the new novel, but she has a strange feeling and decides to check whether the story is fiction based on the author's experience.—ARIO

The 8-Year Engagement

2017

7.1

♡ 7

amnesia

autobiographical

based on a true story

Takahisa Zeze Director

Hiroko Yakushimaru as Hatsumi Nakahara

Takeru Satoh as Hisashi

Tao Tsuchiya as Mai Nakahara

Kazuki Kitamura as Shibata

Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.

My Happy Marriage

2023

7.0

♡ 18

Ayuko Tsukahara Director

Sayaka Yamaguchi as Kanoko Saimori

Mio Imada as Miyo Saimori

Kenjirô Tsuda as Norio Kamomura

Tao Tsuchiya as Sumi Saimori

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.

Tori Girl!

2017

6.4

♡ 3

Comedy

Family

Sport

Tsutomu Hanabusa Director

Elaiza Ikeda as Kazumi Shimamura

Mahiro Takasugi as Kei Takahashi

Shôtarô Mamiya as Taishi Sakaba

Tao Tsuchiya as Yukina Toriyama

Yukina Toriyama (Tao Tsuchiya) enters a university of science after prepping for one year for her entrance exam. At first, she is shocked by the atmosphere at her school. She becomes attracted to senior student Kei (Mahiro Takasugi). Due to Kei, Yukina joins the “human powered flight” club. The club targets the "Tori Ningen Contest." Yukina wants to partner with Kei to fly in the sky, but she is partnered with Sakaba (Shotaro Mamiya) whom she does not like.

Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends

2014

7.5

♡ 72

81%

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Megumi Takani

Tao Tsuchiya as Misao Makimachi

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I - The Final

2021

7.2

♡ 120

100%

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Shingo Tsurumi as Chief Uramura

Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura

Tao Tsuchiya as Misao Makimachi

Kasumi Arimura as Tomoe Yukishiro

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.

Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards

2024

6.1

♡ 2

Comedy

Romance

Jun'ichi Ishikawa Director

Subaru Kimura as Iwao Omurai

Yui Narumi as Kayoko Wan

Tao Tsuchiya as Masachika Jingû

Kenjirô Tsuda as Takeo Ibuki

Ibuki Arakuni is a high school student who is far from a model student. He has a childhood friend, Akabane Honeko, who attends the same high school as Ibuki Arakuni.

Abudeka Is Back

2024

5.5

♡ 2

Hiroto Hara Director

Tao Tsuchiya as Ayaka Nagamine

Gorô Kishitani as Liu Feilong

Tôru Nakamura as Toru Machida

Hiroshi Tachi as Toshiki Takayama

Toshiki Takayama (Taka) and Oshita Yuji, who had retired as detectives and opened a private detective agency in New Zealand, returned to Yokohama for the first time in 8 years. One day, a Japanese lawyer living in Hong Kong is murdered. Taka, who felt suspicious about the incident, visits Liu Fei Long, a man who has a connection with the two in the past, but Taka is worried that Stella Lee, a business partner of Fei Long, who he met there, looks like his former lover. At the same time, a young woman named Ayaka Nagamine visited the pair at the "T&Y detective agency", asking for help in finding her mother. Natsuko, Ayaka’s mother, was an old acquaintance of Taka and Yuji. The pair started searching for Natsuko, but there was a series of murders in Yokohama. Eventually, these escalate, and a terrorist plot involving a bomb is afoot.

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014

7.5

♡ 68

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura

Tao Tsuchiya as Makimachi Misao

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Megumi Takani

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.

What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?

2022

4.4

♡ 9

29%

Satoshi Miki Director

Rinko Kikuchi as Colonel Sen Masago

Takashi Sasano as Jiro Zaizen

Yutaka Matsushige as Noboru Yamikumo

Tao Tsuchiya as Yukino Amane

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.

Hakkenden

2024

5.7

♡ 1