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Shinzanmono

In the quiet district of Kodenma, secrets and lies begin to surface as the police investigate the murder of a woman who’d recently moved to the area. Mineko Mitsui is found strangled to death in her apartment with very few clues to aid the police; one is a button found on the floor, another a …

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Samurai High School

Let’s face it. A lot of us weren’t always the best students. We daydreamed in class, sometimes forgot to study for an exam or scrambled the night before to get our homework assignments finished. This is the story of one such boy. A senior high school student with poor grades and no real post-secondary plan, Kotaro …

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Ohitorisama

  The working single woman is used to living on her own terms. A nice apartment, freedom to purchase what she wants, leaving those purchases wherever she wants them and knowing exactly where in the pile they are, and a kitchen that rarely sees any use. All this is true of Satomi Akiyama. Now a teacher …

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Call Center no Koibito

The world of TV shopping has exploded since the world-wide recession. More and more people are looking for deals on the every day products they use, and sometimes products don’t always work as advertised. When Tokura (Koizumi Kotaro) makes the mistake of mocking the shopping channel’s #1 hostess (Aisu, as in Antarctic Ice, due to her …

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Shiroi Haru

  A heart-wrenching story of a man who discovers he may not have lost everything dear to him after all.  Haruo (Hiroshi Abe) has just completed a nine year prison sentence, and on the very first day of his freedom, his prison earnings are stolen at a restaurant. With nowhere else to turn, he looks up …

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Konkatsu

Konkatsu is a Japanese term for marriage hunting; a combination of kekkon (marriage) and katsudo (hunting). In Japan, the search for the right marriage partner is not taken lightly. Konkatsu has become a very popular movement in the last couple years (you can even buy a konkatsu bra which has a countdown clock and pocket …

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