Marika Matsumoto

Marika Matsumoto

Marika Matsumoto (松本 まりか, Matsumoto Marika, born September 12, 1984) is a Japanese actress. From 2001 and 2003, she was known as "Mini Stop-chan", acting as the mascot for the Ministop convenience store chain commercials in Japan. She is the owner of a unique voice and has held a recital with upcoming star Satoshi Tsumabuki. Since November 2005, she has been on the A&G Radio Show: Anisupa! segment Anisupa Kōnin Akujo Queen. Her major roles in anime include Maya Tōmi in Fafner in the Azure, Chocolat Meilleure in Sugar Sugar Rune, Miwako Sakurada in Paradise Kiss, Kazamori Sasa in Un-Go and Diancie in Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. In video games, she provides the voice of Rikku in Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II. In live-action films, she portrayed herself in the Kōji Shiraishi-directed horror film The Curse, and Yuka Morita in the Takashi Shimizu film Reincarnation.

  • Title: Marika Matsumoto
  • Popularity: 59.026
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1984-09-12
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Homepage: https://ameblo.jp/matsumoto-marika/
  • Also Known As: 松本真理香, 마츠모토 마리카
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Marika Matsumoto Movies

  • 2021
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    Shrieking in the Rain

    Shrieking in the Rain

    6.4 2021 HD

    At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under...

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  • 2006
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    Reincarnation

    Reincarnation

    6.029 2006 HD

    A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place...

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  • 2023
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    Alone Together

    Alone Together

    1 2023 HD

    A state of emergency was declared for the first time under the Law Concerning Special Measures against COVID-19, on April 7th, in Japan. It has...

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  • 2023
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    I SCREAM FEVER

    I SCREAM FEVER

    1 2023 HD

    Miwa lost her mother in a traffic accident and wanders the streets of Shibuya. Trying to sort out her feelings for her mother, she feels alone...

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  • 2005
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    Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror

    Junji Inagawa's Shivering Horror

    6 2005 HD

    Six short stories: Chain Mail, Left Behind, Tattoo, Viewfinder's Memory, Guardian Angel, and Mortuary

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  • 2023
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    Kyrie

    Kyrie

    8 2023 HD

    Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those...

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  • 2022
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    Youkai Share-house: Hakuba no Οujisama ja Νainkai

    Youkai Share-house: Hakuba no Οujisama ja Νainkai

    6.8 2022 HD

    Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklore monsters) in a share house. She struggles in...

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  • 2022
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    All Because of Me

    All Because of Me

    7.5 2022 HD

    Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened to know his mother's whereabouts, escaped from...

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  • 1970
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    Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm

    Final Fantasy X: Eternal Calm

    1 1970 HD

    A cinematic cutscene taking place between Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.

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  • 2022
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    Whisper of the Heart

    Whisper of the Heart

    6 2022 HD

    Shizuku Tsukishima is a 3rd grade middle school student. She likes reading books. Shizuku meets Seiji Amasawa who is in the same grade and school...

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  • 2022
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    Night, Birds Scream

    Night, Birds Scream

    7.4 2022 HD

    Shinichi debuted as a novelist at a young age, but his career has been stagnant for many years. He also has broken up with his girlfriend. His day...

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  • 2024
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    The Women in the Lakes

    The Women in the Lakes

    1 2024 HD

    A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A...

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  • 2013
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    Penance

    Penance

    7.257 2013 HD

    The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...

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  • 2023
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    Ice Cream Fever

    Ice Cream Fever

    6.7 2023 HD

    Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain,...

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  • 2024
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    Black Jack

    Black Jack

    1 2024 HD

    Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"

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  • 2016
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    Same Old, Same Old

    Same Old, Same Old

    8 2016 HD

    Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble...

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  • 2023
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    Soukyuu no Fafner: Behind the Line

    Soukyuu no Fafner: Behind the Line

    9 2023 HD

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  • 2022
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    The Little Star

    The Little Star

    1 2022 HD

    A short film by Kazuaki Kiriya.

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  • 2017
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    Opening Night

    Opening Night

    7 2017 HD

    Aspiring child actress Nanoka (Nanoka Hara) hopes to follow in her late mother's footsteps and become an actress. She is more talented and pretty...

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  • 2017
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    Traces of Sin

    Traces of Sin

    6.448 2017 HD

    Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative...

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  • 2012
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    Cold Bloom

    Cold Bloom

    6.2 2012 HD

    Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s...

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  • 2017
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    Memoirs of a Murderer

    Memoirs of a Murderer

    6.732 2017 HD

    The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how...

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  • 2018
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    Nisekoi: False Love

    Nisekoi: False Love

    7.368 2018 HD

    Raku Ichijo (Kento Nakajima) is an only son and a high school student. His father is the leader of yakuza group Shuei-gumi. Raku Ichijo doesn't like...

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  • 2016
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    What Happens Before War?

    What Happens Before War?

    1 2016 HD

    Short anti-war animation adapting the picture book Sensou no Tsukurikata. It was created by the group NOddIN.

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  • 2005
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    Noroi: The Curse

    Noroi: The Curse

    6.861 2005 HD

    A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."

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  • 2010
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    Space Battleship Yamato

    Space Battleship Yamato

    6.401 2010 HD

    In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have...

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  • 2019
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    Farewell Song

    Farewell Song

    7.3 2019 HD

    As they travel around the country, a singer-songwriter duo's love triangle with their roadie jeopardizes their unannounced farewell tour.

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  • 2014
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    Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction

    Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction

    6.6 2014 HD

    In the underground Diamond Domain, where many Carbink live, the Mythical Pokémon Diancie serves as ruler. The Heart Diamond that sustains the...

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  • 2018
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    The Sacrament

    The Sacrament

    6.8 2018 HD

    Iwakiri is now a third year university student who belongs to a film studies group on campus but has yet to shoot even one film. He hears from an...

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  • 2019
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    Life Finds A Way

    Life Finds A Way

    5.8 2019 HD

    Born out of every artist’s creative crisis, the search for the next topic, Hirobumi WATANABE presents his latest film, dealing with the...

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  • 2016
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    Blue

    Blue

    1 2016 HD

    A work that spun a story inspired by the world view of the song "You Named Me Blue" by jazz singer Yurifa Matsumoto. A short film that you want to...

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  • 2021
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    Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!

    Tropical-Rouge! Precure: The Snow Princess and the Miraculous Ring!

    7.1 2021 HD

    One day, the Tropical-Rouge Pretty Cure receive an amazing invitation from the Land of Snow, Shantia. They're holding a ceremony to celebrate Sharon...

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  • 2020
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    Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case

    Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2019
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    Death Office

    Death Office

    5.4 2019 HD

    People who just died first visit the death office. There, the final destinations of the deceased, who died for various reasons including suicide,...

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  • 2021
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    Saikou no Obahan Nakajima Haruko

    Saikou no Obahan Nakajima Haruko

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    Mukou no Hate

    Mukou no Hate

    1 2021 HD

    Set in the year 1985, an arson-murder case takes place at an apartment in Tokyo. The victim is novelist Kohei Kimizuka. Ritusko Ikematsu is soon...

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  • 2008
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    Amuri in Star Ocean

    Amuri in Star Ocean

    9 2008 HD

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  • 2002
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    太陽の季節

    太陽の季節

    1 2002 HD

    Taiyo no Kisetsu is a Japanese drama TV miniseries which first aired on July 7, 2002. It starred Hideaki Takizawa and was directed by Nobuhiro Doi....

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  • 2020
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    A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi

    A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi

    6.3 2020 HD

    Eight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming, he visits a spice shop.

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  • 2004
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    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor

    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor

    6.5 2004 HD

    Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens...

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  • 2005
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    Sugar Sugar Rune

    Sugar Sugar Rune

    7 2005 HD

    Chocolat Meilleure is a happy-going and optimistic girl. Together with her friend-cum-rival, Vanilla Mieux, they are potential candidates to become...

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  • 2005
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    Paradise Kiss

    Paradise Kiss

    7 2005 HD

    Yukari is a typical high-school student who listens to her parents and attends school everyday. As she starts to question her way of life, she...

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  • 2020
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    Kyojo

    Kyojo

    8.1 2020 HD

    Kimichika Kazama is an instructor at a police academy. He is keenly observant and watches over his students. He is calm as an instructor and has...

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  • 2021
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    Meikyō Shisui: Bu no KAMIWAZA

    Meikyō Shisui: Bu no KAMIWAZA

    1 2021 HD

    Top-class martial artists gather together to showcase their fiery talks and demonstrate secret techniques.

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  • 2000
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    Sayoko is Back

    Sayoko is Back

    5 2000 HD

    Nishihama Junior High School is haunted by the legend of Sayoko. Every three years a student is chosen to play the role of Sayoko by his or her...

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  • 2021
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    Tokyo, aidano, koidano

    Tokyo, aidano, koidano

    8 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love?

    Will You Still Pledge Me Your Faithful Love?

    1 2021 HD

    After Jun married her husband, she quit her job. She is now a housewife and has been happily married to Takeyori for the past 8 years. They haven't...

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  • 2015
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    Fafner Exodus

    Fafner Exodus

    6 2015 HD

    2150 A.D. The battle with the Festum, the silicon life-forms from distant outer space, had reached a new dimension. The North Polar Meir that was...

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  • 2019
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    Take Away Love, Summer

    Take Away Love, Summer

    6 2019 HD

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  • 2014
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    Oh, Love Hotel

    Oh, Love Hotel

    8 2014 HD

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  • 2009
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    傍聴マニア09~裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか~

    傍聴マニア09~裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか~

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2023
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    Tokumei!

    Tokumei!

    6.6 2023 HD

    Hajime Madoka is a special accountant police officer, who has been dispatched from the central government office, to work at the local police station...

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  • 2022
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    CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective

    CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective

    7.2 2022 HD

    Ataru Aida lives with his mother and has never moved out of his childhood room. A clean freak since he was a little boy, Ataru hates to go out and is...

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  • 2012
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    Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

    Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

    7.4 2012 HD

    Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from...

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  • 2017
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    My High School Business

    My High School Business

    8 2017 HD

    Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship...

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  • 2019
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    Sherlock: Untold Stories

    Sherlock: Untold Stories

    7.5 2019 HD

    Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated...

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  • 2022
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    Teen Regime

    Teen Regime

    7.5 2022 HD

    In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this...

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  • 2021
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    Stolen Love, High School Teacher

    Stolen Love, High School Teacher

    3 2021 HD

    Tsuyuko Hoshino, a nurse, meets high school teacher Santa Fuyuno at a café for musicians and immediately falls for him. Despite knowing he is...

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  • 2024
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    Travel Your Life!

    Travel Your Life!

    1 2024 HD

    A collab drama between the travel guide book “Chikyu no Arukikata” and four celebrities, who visit various places across the four...

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  • 2019
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    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.5 2019 HD

    Kyoko Hasumi (Takako Tokiwa) is a former lawyer who quit her job to become a housewife and a mother. Her husband is an elite prosecutor. He works as...

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  • 2011
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    CSI: Crime Scene Talks

    CSI: Crime Scene Talks

    7.1 2011 HD

    Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team....

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  • 2006
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    Junjo Kirari

    Junjo Kirari

    8 2006 HD

    The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi...

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  • 2020
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    Path of the Dragons

    Path of the Dragons

    7 2020 HD

    Not long after twin brothers Ryuichi and Ryuji were born, they were abandoned by their own parents. They were then adopted by the Yoshie couple, who...

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  • 2018
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    Holiday Love

    Holiday Love

    1 2018 HD

    Azu Takamori is 30-years-old and married to Junpei. They have a 5-year-old daughter. She runs a nail shop out of her house. Azu Takamori has a happy...

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  • 2017
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    Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~

    Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~

    1 2017 HD

    The hosts explore different neighborhoods and izakayas, discussing various snacks and drinks. They share interesting trivia about the food and...

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  • 2011
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    Un-Go

    Un-Go

    6.7 2011 HD

    Un-Go is set in a war-torn Tokyo, in a near-future Japan. In response to Japan sending their military abroad as peacekeeping forces, terrorists...

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  • 2017
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    Quartet

    Quartet

    8.157 2017 HD

    Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the...

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  • 2012
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    Penance

    Penance

    8.133 2012 HD

    The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with...

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  • 2019
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    Rikon na Futari

    Rikon na Futari

    8 2019 HD

    Noda Ryusuke is a popular scriptwriter specialising in stories about the perfect married couple but is shocked when his wife of 23 years suddenly...

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  • 2024
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    Miss Target

    Miss Target

    1 2024 HD

    The story centers on Asakura Sumire, a marriage swindler who has seduced many men with her beauty and skilful techniques. Sumire targeted men who...

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  • 2019
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    Dying Eye

    Dying Eye

    5.7 2019 HD

    One night, Amemura Shinsuke, a bartender at a Nishi Azabu bar in Tokyo, is attacked by a male stranger and loses a part of his memories. However, he...

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  • 2023
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    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

    7.714 2023 HD

    The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

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  • 2010
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    My Husband is a Cartoonist

    My Husband is a Cartoonist

    8.4 2010 HD

    The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki...

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  • 2019
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    Cheers to Miki Clinic

    Cheers to Miki Clinic

    1 2019 HD

    Tsukumo Katsumi is a surgeon who lost his job after causing the death of a patient in a medical mishap. He comes to work for Miki Clinic on the...

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  • 2004
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    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor

    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor

    6.5 2004 HD

    Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens...

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  • 2017
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    Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?

    Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?

    1 2017 HD

    A series of short animation works focusing on the Para-sport with the aim of delivering the appeal of the Paralympic Games and sport for athletes...

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  • 2019
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    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond

    Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor - The Beyond

    10 2019 HD

    Sequel of Fafner EXODUS.

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  • 2024
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    Black Jack

    Black Jack

    8 2024 HD

    Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"

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  • 2024
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    Until I Destroy My Husband's Family

    Until I Destroy My Husband's Family

    1 2024 HD

    Kisaragi Minori, who thought she had a happy family with her pure love since they were students and was married to her husband Yudai, was blessed...

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  • 2020
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    Throw It Away, Adachi

    Throw It Away, Adachi

    6.5 2020 HD

    The chief editor of a woman’s magazine talks to Yumi Adachi about a new idea for the magazine. Their plan revolves around a person who disposes...

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  • 2016
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    A Girl & Three Sweethearts

    A Girl & Three Sweethearts

    7.9 2016 HD

    Sakurai Misaki has not dated in a long time. She has focused on her work as a pâtissier to eventually run her own business. One day, she gets...

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  • 2024
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    Luca on the Road

    Luca on the Road

    1 2024 HD

    A young girl named Ruka, who had been living a wandering life in Osaka, is taken in by Fumi, an elementary school teacher. Later, Ruka spends time in...

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  • 2020
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    Youkai Sharehouse

    Youkai Sharehouse

    7 2020 HD

    Mio Meguro is a timid person. She is afraid of being hated by others, and this causes her to refrain from saying what she really wants to say. She...

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  • 2016
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    Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

    Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

    7.73 2016 HD

    In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is...

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  • 1970
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    The Nonfiction

    The Nonfiction

    1 1970 HD

    On-air every Sunday at 2 p.m., Fuji Television’s "The Nonfiction" is a praised documentary series that has maintained a strong viewer following...

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