Wunmi Mosaku

biography:
Oluwunmi Olapeju Mosaku (born 31 July 1986), known professionally as Wunmi Mosaku, is a Nigerian-British actress. She rose to prominence for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she appeared in the fifth season of Luther, followed by her role as Ruby Baptiste in HBO's Lovecraft Country (2020). She portrayed the character Hunter B-15 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023). She reprised the role in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).

Mosaku was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actress and won the BIFA for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for her role as Rial in the film His House (2020). For her performance as Annie in the 2025 horror film Sinners, Mosaku won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an Actors Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

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Moses Jones

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Deutsch

biography:
Wunmi Mosaku wurde am 31. Juli 1986 in Zaria, Nigeria, geboren und wuchs ab dem Kleinkindalter in Manchester, England, auf. Sie ist eine britische Schauspielerin, die für ihre vielseitigen Rollen in Film und Fernsehen bekannt ist. Zu ihren bekanntesten Arbeiten zählen die Hauptrolle im gefeierten Horrorfilm His House (2020), ihre Darstellung der Ruby Baptiste in Lovecraft Country (2020) sowie Auftritte in den Serien Loki (2021–2023) und We Own This City (2022).

Mosaku gewann 2017 den BAFTA TV Award als Beste Nebendarstellerin für ihre Rolle in Damilola, Our Loved Boy und wurde für zahlreiche weitere Preise nominiert. Sie spielte zudem in internationalen Produktionen wie Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) und Sinners (2025). Ihre Theaterausbildung absolvierte sie an der Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, die sie 2007 abschloss.

Wunmi Mosaku engagiert sich als Botschafterin für ActionAid und nennt als persönliche Vorbilder ihre Großmutter, den Schauspieler Albert Finney sowie Oprah Winfrey. Sie ist verheiratet und Mutter einer Tochter.

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乌米·马萨库

biography: 出生于尼日利亚的英国女演员和歌手。她因在 BBC 两部迷你剧《摩西·琼斯》中饰演乔伊和在 ITV 系列《维拉》（2011-12 年）中饰演霍莉·劳森而闻名。她因在电视电影《我们心爱的男孩达米洛拉》（2016 年）中饰演格洛丽亚·泰勒而获得 2017 年英国电影学院奖电视奖最佳女配角奖。2019年，她出演了《路德》第五部剧集。她还出演了 Disney+ 原创剧集《洛基》。

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烏米·馬薩庫

biography: 出生於奈及利亞的英國女演員和歌手。她因在 BBC 兩部迷你劇《摩西·瓊斯》中飾演喬伊和在 ITV 系列《維拉》（2011-12 年）中飾演霍莉·勞森而聞名。她因在電視電影《我們心愛的男孩達米洛拉》（2016 年）中飾演格洛麗亞·泰勒而獲得 2017 年英國電影學院獎電視獎最佳女配角獎。2019 年，她出演了《路德》第五部劇集。她還出演了 Disney+ 原創劇集《洛奇》。

Türkçe

biography:
Oluwunmi Mosaku, 31 Ekim 1986 tarihinde Zaria, Nijerya'da dünyaya gelmiş, Nijerya asıllı bir İngiliz aktrisdir. Henüz bir yaşındayken ailesiyle birlikte Manchester, İngiltere'ye göç etti. Prestijli Kraliyet Dramatik Sanatlar Akademisi'nden (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - RADA) mezun olarak oyunculuk kariyerine sağlam bir temel attı.

Kariyerinin başlarında tiyatro sahnesinde ve "Vera" gibi popüler İngiliz dizilerinde yer aldı. Çıkışını, gerçek bir hikayeye dayanan ve eleştirmenlerden büyük övgü alan "Damilola, Our Loved Boy" (2016) adlı TV filmindeki performansıyla yaptı. Bu filmde canlandırdığı Gloria Taylor rolü, ona 2017 yılında En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu dalında BAFTA Ödülü'nü kazandırarak yeteneğini tescilledi. Ayrıca, kült statüsüne ulaşan "The End of the F***ing World" dizisindeki Dedektif Teri Darego rolü ve Netflix yapımı korku filmi "His House"daki (2020) başrol performansıyla da büyük beğeni topladı.

Uluslararası alanda tanınırlığını artıran projeler ise HBO'nun fantastik korku dizisi "Lovecraft Country" (2020) ve Marvel Sinema Evreni'nde yer alan "Loki" (2021–2023) dizisi oldu. "Lovecraft Country"deki Ruby Baptiste rolüyle Emmy ve SAG Ödülleri'ne aday gösterildi. "Loki"de canlandırdığı kararlı ve sadık Hunter B-15 karakteri ise onu dünya çapında geniş bir izleyici kitlesiyle buluşturdu. 2024 yapımı "Deadpool & Wolverine" filminde de Dr. Verity Willis rolüyle yer alarak Marvel evrenindeki varlığını sürdürmüştür.

Canlandırdığı karakterlere kattığı derinlik, duygusal yoğunluk ve güçlü duruşuyla tanınan Mosaku, günümüzün en yetenekli ve çok yönlü aktrislerinden biri olarak kabul edilmektedir.

Français

biography:
Oluwunmi Mosaku, dite Wunmi Mosaku, est une actrice nigériano-britannique née le 31 juillet 1986 à Zaria, au Nigeria.

Elle acquiert une notoriété à partir de 2009 pour son rôle de Joy dans la mini-série de la BBC Two Moses Jones,  pour lequel elle obtient le prix de la meilleure actrice dans une mini-série au festival de fiction à Rome. Entre 2021 et 2023, elle interprète le rôle de Verity Willis / Hunter B-15 dans la série Loki, qu'elle reprendra dans le film Deadpool et Wolverine (2024).

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title: I Am Slave

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title: Citadel

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title: Womb

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title: Stolen

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title: Leading Lady Parts

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title: His House

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title: Hampstead Theatre At Home: Tiger Country

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title: Sweetness in the Belly

overview: Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.

title: Call Jane

overview: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

title: Alice, Darling

overview: Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends while on vacation. As she rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective, she slowly starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. However, Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering, and once unleashed, it tests her strength, her courage, and the bonds of deep-rooted friendships.

title: The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

overview: A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

title: Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners

overview: A making-of documentary featurette found on the "Sinners" home video release.

original_title: Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners

title: This Is How It Goes

overview: A couple reconnect with an old school acquaintance – apparently randomly – and offer to take him in.

title: The Social Reckoning

overview: Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.

title: The End of the F World

overview: A dark comedy-drama about two troubled teenagers, James and Alyssa, who run away together on a chaotic road trip that leads to unexpected friendships, dangerous encounters, and personal growth.

title: Mango

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title: I Am Slave

title: Citadel

title: Womb

title: Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next

title: Stolen

title: One Night in Emergency

title: Don't Take My Baby

title: Root Note

title: Sinners

title: Philomena

title: The Body Farm

title: Deadpool & Wolverine

title: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

title: Damilola, Our Loved Boy

title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

title: Macbeth

title: Honeymooner

title: Leading Lady Parts

title: Goldfish

title: His House

title: Sweetness in the Belly

title: Call Jane

title: Alice, Darling

title: The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

title: This Is How It Goes

title: The Social Reckoning

title: The End of the F World

title: Mango


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The Casual Vacancy

overview: The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.

character: Betty

original_name: The Casual Vacancy

original_language: en

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

overview: An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Torchwood

overview: The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

character: Old Woman

original_name: Torchwood

Testament: The Bible in Animation

overview: A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.

character: Bethlehem Women (voice)

original_name: Testament: The Bible in Animation

origin_country: US GB

The Bench

overview:
The Bench is an English-language legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court, produced by BBC Wales, initially broadcast on BBC One Wales and later repeated across the BBC network in an afternoon slot.

The series won three BAFTA Cymru awards in 2003, with Eiry Thomas winning Best Actress, Bill Broomfield winning Best Director of Photography - Drama and William Oswald winning Best Editor.

character: Rita Hughes

original_name: The Bench

The Sherman Plays

overview: "The Sherman Plays" is a series of television adaptations of plays originally staged at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. The series, produced by HTV, ran from 1993 to 1997. It featured a variety of dramas, some of which were specifically written for the series.

original_name: The Sherman Plays

character: Ruby

character: Madge

character: Marlene

Jam and Jerusalem

overview: The Women's Guild is an organisation in the small town of Clatterford St. Mary that aims to promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship. Or maybe it's just an excuse for good, old-fashioned gossip. Regardless, meetings feature discussions and visiting speakers. The Guild is the center of life in Clatterford, which has a good cross-section of people, local shops and a late-night convenience store.

character: Megan Boyd

original_name: Jam and Jerusalem

A Killing on the Exchange

overview: A Killing on the Exchange is a six-part 1987 British crime drama serial produced by Anglia Television for ITV. The plot focuses on the murder of London merchant banker Charles Makepeace, amidst a corporate takeover battle. The investigation, led by DS Lance Thorne, uncovers a web of suspects, including the victim's wife, mistress, and colleagues, all with potential motives related to the merger and personal conflicts.

character: Daffs

original_name: A Killing on the Exchange

English

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日本語

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english_name: Japanese

title: Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

overview: Beryl acquires a new Digi Video camera and becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts in a video diary.  As “cineaste par excellence” she agrees to film her friend’s wedding, seizing the opportunity to “strut her stuff filmically” with disastrous and often hilarious results.

character: Beryl (voice)

original_title: Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

title: Undertaking Betty

overview: A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.

character: Dilys Rhys-Jones

original_title: Undertaking Betty

title: Affairs of the Art

overview: Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

original_title: Affairs of the Art

title: Otherworld

overview: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic

character: Midwife (voice)

original_title: Y Mabinogi

title: August

overview: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."

character: Gwen

original_title: August

title: Human Traffic

overview: For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through to Monday morning.

character: Lulu's Auntie Violet

original_title: Human Traffic

title: Aberfan: The Green Hollow

overview: A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent, including Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon, with some contributions from the local community.

original_title: Aberfan: The Green Hollow

title: Golden Years

overview: Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.

character: Iris

original_title: Golden Years

title: Caught in the Act

overview: A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.

character: Mrs Evans

original_title: Caught in the Act

title: Pride

overview: In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

original_title: Pride

title: Rebecca's Daughters

overview: Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

character: Lady with Teapot

original_title: Rebecca's Daughters

title: Body Beautiful

overview: A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

original_title: Body Beautiful

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

original_title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

place_of_birth: Swansea, Wales, UK

title: Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

media_type: movie

title: Undertaking Betty

title: Affairs of the Art

title: Otherworld

title: August

title: Human Traffic

title: Aberfan: The Green Hollow

title: Golden Years

title: Caught in the Act

title: Pride

title: Rebecca's Daughters

title: Body Beautiful

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream


Toshiki Ayata

Kawa no Hotori de

overview: Toshi-chan and BB live in a hut with a blue sheet on the banks of the Tama River. Having lived there for several years, they are familiar with the area. The two of them gather cans across town from 4 am in the morning and sleep at 7 pm in order to save money on electricity at night. While they do not have substantial income, they are not particularly concerned about money. They are carefree each day and take pride in being homeless men who can support themselves. Nao, a young female actress from a small theatre company, visits Toshi-chan and BB one day. She is playing a heroine who has a grand romance with the leader of homeless men in her next performance and asks to interview them. This is the beginning of a long night for the trio…

character: Toshi-chan

original_name: 川のほとりで

original_language: ja

Time Limit Investigator

overview:
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed.

Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby.

So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.

character: Shinagawa

original_name: 時効警察

Forgery  It's tough being a man

original_name: 贋作男はつらいよ

The Guide - Five Stars in Kyoto

overview: An original sitcom from YTV, revolving around the employees of a travel agency in Kyoto whose job is to respond to tourist customer complaints. Once called the “Travel Master” Kyoka Takase was transferred to a different office after a conflict with her superior. However with her expertise in planning and numerous connections, she uses her skills to create the perfect travel plan one customer at a time!

character: Hyoichi Sakuraba

original_name: 五つ星ツーリスト〜最高の旅、ご案内します!!〜

新・ミナミの帝王～紙クズ商売～

original_name: 新・ミナミの帝王～紙クズ商売～

I Prefer Tomorrow's You

overview:
Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO’s secretary. She is admired by the male employees due to her attractiveness and smarts, but, due to a bad experience, she is not interested in finding love. She only has sex with married men. A new male employee, Kinosaki Haruto, approaches Akane.

One evening, Matsuo Ryo’s boss asks him if he is interested in marrying his daughter Tanno Ayaka and eventually taking over the gardening company. But, Ryo is embarrassed by the suggestion. He views Ayaka as a sister. Meanwhile, Ayaka works at a construction site during the day but works at a girl's bar at night. She has lost her sexual identity. While working at the girl's bar, female customer Kuroda Azusa approaches Ayaka.

character: Saeki Tenji

original_name: 明日の君がもっと好き

Detective Office 5: Another Story

overview: This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawasaki. Each detective is known only by a number rather than a name (e.g., Detective 596, 532), with standalone stories featuring different characters and surreal, quirky cases.

character: Sakiyama

original_name: 探偵事務所5 ANOTHER STORY

Shady Job Family

overview: The drama is about five men and women who have gone off the rails in their lives and are trying to start their lives over by playing the role of a fake family based on the underworld part-time job case.

character: Kuribayashi Toru

original_name: 闇バイト家族

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

overview: 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 about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.

character: Kosuzu

original_name: 深夜食堂: Tokyo Stories

Uzukawamura Incident

overview: Akira Iwamori works as a doctor. He is looking for his wife, who went missing. He takes his daughter to visit his wife's hometown village of Uzukawa. While in Uzukawa, the village suddenly becomes isolated due to a landslide caused by heavy rain. The villagers becomes filled with anxiety and a murder takes place. The tense village people become violent. Akira is soon drawn into a power struggle in Uzukawa. He learns new information about his wife's whereabouts.

character: Furutani Masamune

original_name: 鵜頭川村事件

Solitary Gourmet

overview: Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

original_name: 孤独のグルメ

Lost Man Found

overview: Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.

character: Himself

original_name: 拾われた男

Black Widow Business

overview: In Osaka, Sayoko Takeuchi indulges in her evil ways. She targets old wealthy men and marries them for future inheritances. She works with Toru Kashiwagi who runs a marriage agency. Sayoko Takeuchi is married to a wealthy elderly man. One day, Tomomi Nakase hears her father was taken to the hospital. She rushes to the hospital and learns her father is unconscious. She also hears for the first time that her father is married to Sayoko Takeuchi. Tomomi Nakase takes the first steps in stopping Sayoko Takeuchi from gaining her father's fortune. She hires private detective Yoshinori Honda to investigate Sayoko Takeuchi and Toru Kashiwagi.

original_name: 後妻業

Apple of Sodom

overview: After her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of money before killing them.

character: Iizuka Masataka

original_name: ソドムの林檎

Chronicle of Isobe Isobē

overview: Isobe Isobe is a samurai school student who dreams of becoming a great samurai but tries his best to slack off every day. If only we could live like this. A Reiwa period comedy dedicated to all Japanese people who try too hard.

character: Sensei

original_name: 磯部磯兵衛物語 ～浮世はつらいよ～

Konya wa Konoji De

overview: Two people, sake and gourmet. Yoshioka (Asaka), who is stressed by work, reunites with Keiko (Nakamura), a longed-for senior, because of his work in the “U-shaped bar” with a U-shaped counter.

character: 先生

original_name: 今夜はコの字で

Midnight Diner

overview: Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.

original_name: 深夜食堂

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

overview: A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

character: Reiji Kabuto

original_name: 金田一少年の事件簿

泣いたらアカンで通天閣

original_name: 泣いたらアカンで通天閣

Clouds Over the Hill

overview:
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first series, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while series two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in series two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the novel Saka no ue no kumo by Ryōtarō Shiba and adopted by Hisashi Nozawa.

The theme song of the drama series is titled "Stand Alone". It was composed by Joe Hisaishi, written by Kundo Koyama and performed by British soprano singer Sarah Brightman.

character: 桂太郎

original_name: 坂の上の雲

Futari no Ultraman

overview: A docudrama about Tetsuo Kinjo and Shozo Uehara, two writers who worked on the original Ultraman series. It also features interviews with other production staff.

character: Eiji Tsuburaya

original_name: ふたりのウルトラマン

The Refutation of Sirius

overview: A lawyer in "Team Zero," dedicated to saving the wrongly accused, fights against time, fingerprint evidence, and a top prosecutor to prove the innocence of a death row inmate convicted 25 years ago for a family murder.

original_name: シリウスの反証

Synanthrope

overview: A college student's secret crush on a coworker at a small burger joint collides with chaos when a robbery erupts, unraveling hidden tensions and forcing a tight-knit group of eight to confront fractured loyalties and the blurred lines between love and betrayal.

original_name: シナントロープ

A Woman from Ashio

overview: A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person through her encounters with versatile figures, including socialists and writers, after moving to Tokyo.

original_name: 足尾から来た女

Wakako Zake

overview: Murasaki Wakako, who is 26 years old, loves going out alone to enjoy eating and drinking, especially when something unpleasant happens at work. Thie show follows Wakako through many solitary outings, where she enjoys different combinations of food and drink!

original_name: ワカコ酒

Reiwa ni Kannou Shousetsu Tsukuttemasu

overview: A newbie editor joins the erotic-fiction desk at “France Publishing,” guided (and flustered) by her eccentric boss. In the digital era, the team fights to prove the value of print sensual literature and grows up in the process.

character: Kashiwagi

original_name: 令和に官能小説作ってます

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: TW

english_name: Mandarin

日本語

綾田俊樹

biography:
オンシアター自由劇場を経て、柄本明やベンガルらと劇団東京乾電池を結成。

バラエティー番組にはほとんど出演しないが、短期間ながらテレビ朝日の深夜番組『グッドモーニング』で大島智子とレギュラー出演していた。

普通话

iso_3166_1: CN

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

普通话

iso_3166_1: HK

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: In the Pool

overview: A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

original_title: イン・ザ・プール

title: Kaza-hana

overview: A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

character: Old Man at the Hot Spring Inn

original_title: 風花

title: The Hidden Blade

overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

original_title: 隠し剣 鬼の爪

title: Shangri-La

overview: Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

character: Etô

original_title: 金融破滅ニッポン 桃源郷の人々

title: Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!

overview: Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to marry him."

character: Ryoji Inosena

original_title: オカンの嫁入り

title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2022 Summer Special

overview: This special edition features four unique horror stories, each exploring mysterious and thought-provoking themes. Episode summaries:  1. "What Happened in Ginza"  A young boy captures a rare creature known as the "Nihon Ookanemochi" (Japanese Millionaire) in Ginza, leading to unexpected events.  2. "Melody in the Air"  An office worker develops a condition where she must act in sync with the music playing in her mind to survive.  3. "The Delivery"  A man discovers a mysterious app that delivers anything instantly, but its use leads to unforeseen consequences.  4. "Pretending to Make a Call"  A woman fakes phone calls to avoid unwanted attention, only to find herself connected to her deceased father.

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 '22夏の特別編

title: More Painful than Rain

overview: Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.

title: Barber's Sorrow

title: Midnight Diner

overview: A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.

title: The Code

overview: For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.

title: Be Sure to Share

overview: Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.

title: Three Year Delivery

overview: Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

title: Deaths in Tokimeki

overview: Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult.

title: River's Edge

overview: High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.

title: The Sun

overview: The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were infected with a virus but survived and consequently they carry an antibody. Most are young, healthy and have high intelligence, but they have a high sensitivity to ultraviolet rays and are active mostly during the night. The other group are the Kyurio. They survived by never having the virus. The Nokusu discriminates against the Kyurio.  Tetsuhiko Okudera is a Kyurio. He was born in a poor village. He isn't happy with being a Kyurio and wishes he could be a Nokusu. Yui Ikuta is Tetsuhiko’s childhood friend. She tries to revive the poor village.

title: Detective's Wife 2

overview: From a trivial request, a tremendous shadow of organized crime rolls out... A kind-hearted detective and his wife confront a difficult case in a big city!

title: Ryota from Mandalaya

overview: Live-action adaptation of Jun Hatanaka's manga "Mandaraya no Ryota".

title: The Rocking Horsemen

overview: It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

title: Airport 2013

overview: When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of their own. Shot in a single take, "Airport" focuses on familial and romantic relationships and the secrets that often hold them together.

title: Midnight Diner 2

overview: The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

title: Oh My Zombie!

overview: Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary, peaceful lives. One day, out of nowhere, a zombie appears and becomes trapped in a house. Six people have spotted the zombie, including the home-owner couple, a cheeky high school boy, a boring small-factory owner, a suspicious young intern and a woman who insists she is the zombie's wife.

title: Fly, Dakota, Fly!

overview: In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest." Nevertheless, for the next 40 days the islanders take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again. This includes Chiyoko Morimoto who is the daughter of the inn owner where some of the British crew members stay.

title: Ninsho

overview: Ninsho becomes a monk, following his mother’s wish who died when he was little. His father devotes his fortune for Ninsho to become a great monk. Ninsho helps with relief effort to save people who suffer from famine and disease. One day, he meets a woman with problems with her legs. She makes a living by begging. Ninsho carries her on his back everyday.

title: Tug of War!

overview: The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.

title: The Bridge Club

overview: Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appears. He is being chased by loan sharks and needs shelter. Haruo overstays his welcome and family relations become strained.

title: Hawaiian Dream

overview: Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.

title: Sheep in the Night

overview: A real estate agent, Shinji Sawaguchi finds a fallen meteorite by accident. On the next day, his missing sister Shiori shows up for the first time in ten years. Shinji can't help being agitated by her sudden return. On the other hand, unusual events start happening in his life, and her threatening melody spreads in the town. Including Shinji's fiancé Maki, the development of characters centers around Shiori's mysterious presence felt. Shiori's identity is hidden, and Shinji gets involved in a peculiar situation.

title: Human Scramble: Rain

overview: Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.

title: Detective Ballerino

overview: In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.

title: Prison Gate Island

overview: In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous detective Kindaichi intended to pass his convalescence after the invitation of his war buddy Kitou Chimata, the successor son of the powerful clan of the Kitou Family. But Kindaichi arrives alone, bringing the bad news of Chimata's death. However, the truth is that Kindaichi is not on the island to recover. Before Chimata died, she uttered the words: "My sisters will be killed!" Indeed, as the three sisters are murdered one by one in horrible and strange ways, Kindaichi desperately tries to find the culprit and in the process discovers the intrigues of the family, secrets, island mentality, discrimination, and eccentricities, With the backdrop of the turbulent postwar period.

title: Family of Strangers

overview: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.

title: Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

overview: A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger.

original_title: Ｍｒ．ジレンマン　色情狂い

title: Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction

overview: A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

title: The King of Minami Returns: Paper Scraps for Money

overview: Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly.

original_title: 新・ミナミの帝王〜紙クズ商売〜

title: Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-

overview: After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.

original_title: ひまわり ~沖縄は忘れない、あの日の空を~

title: Maestro!

overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.

title: Tokyo: Level One

overview: Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

title: わが娘が消えた夜

overview: The family of a female theater critic is the target of unfounded hatred. The woman has no idea what is going on. Then, her daughter is kidnapped by someone.

title: Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken

overview: Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relationship with Shizuko's friend Ritsuko, and his wife.

original_title: 女教師｢伊豆の踊り子｣殺人事件

title: Love and Honor

overview: A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

title: Finding Light at the Darkness Festival

overview: A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year old community festival that he reluctantly joins.

title: The Whispered City

overview: Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.

title: Shanghai bansu-kingu

overview: Set in Shanghai during the turbulent years leading up to and through World War II, the film follows a group of Japanese jazz musicians and performers struggling to hold onto music, love, and friendship amid political unrest and war. As censorship, nationalism, and conflict reshape the city, their once-vibrant nightlife gradually gives way to disillusionment, separation, and loss.

title: ZAP!

overview: One day, Kou Morishita, who lives in New York, receives a message informing him of the death of his close friend, Kitano. Kitano had been eliminated by Yamagishi, a fixer who controls Yokohama, over a dispute regarding the rights to a cocaine smuggling operation. After returning to Japan, Kou, together with his protégé Shinohara, decides to intervene.

original_title: ZAP!  運が良けりゃの話じゃん！

title: Dirty Money

overview: A high-octane financial comedy starring a man descended from a genius con artist. It chronicles the chaotic daily life of this astonishing man—a police officer who is, in fact, a con artist—as he swindles loan sharks preying on short-sighted ordinary folk and dim-witted rich people to make a fortune. Starring Atsushi Kondo, Ruu Oshiba and Kumiko Hara.

title: In the Pool

title: Kaza-hana

title: The Hidden Blade

title: Shangri-La

original_title: 金融破滅ニッポン 桃源郷の人々

title: Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 '22夏の特別編

title: More Painful than Rain

title: Barber's Sorrow

title: Midnight Diner

title: The Code

title: Be Sure to Share

title: Three Year Delivery

title: Deaths in Tokimeki

title: River's Edge

title: The Sun

title: Detective's Wife 2

title: Ryota from Mandalaya

title: The Rocking Horsemen

title: Airport 2013

title: Midnight Diner 2

title: Oh My Zombie!

title: Fly, Dakota, Fly!

title: Ninsho

title: Tug of War!

title: The Bridge Club

title: Hawaiian Dream

title: Sheep in the Night

title: Human Scramble: Rain

title: Detective Ballerino

title: Prison Gate Island

title: Family of Strangers

title: Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman

original_title: Ｍｒ．ジレンマン　色情狂い

title: Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction

original_title: 新・ミナミの帝王〜紙クズ商売〜

original_title: ひまわり ~沖縄は忘れない、あの日の空を~

title: Maestro!

title: Tokyo: Level One

title: わが娘が消えた夜

title: Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken

original_title: 女教師｢伊豆の踊り子｣殺人事件

title: Love and Honor

title: Finding Light at the Darkness Festival

title: The Whispered City

title: Shanghai bansu-kingu

title: ZAP!

original_title: ZAP!  運が良けりゃの話じゃん！

title: Dirty Money

The Guide - Five Stars in Kyoto

original_name: 五つ星ツーリスト〜最高の旅、ご案内します!!〜

新・ミナミの帝王～紙クズ商売～

original_name: 新・ミナミの帝王～紙クズ商売～

Chronicle of Isobe Isobē

original_name: 磯部磯兵衛物語 ～浮世はつらいよ～

Reiwa ni Kannou Shousetsu Tsukuttemasu

original_name: 令和に官能小説作ってます


Henrik Rafaelsen

Acquitted

overview: After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.

character: Lars Hansteen

original_name: Frikjent

original_language: no

The Lørenskog Disappearance

overview: When a billionaire's wife vanishes, Norwegian police must deal with the frenzied press and deceitful informants to find the truth.

character: Svein Holden

original_name: Forsvinningen - Lørenskog 31. oktober 2018

Bloodride

overview: The doomed passengers aboard a spectral bus head toward a gruesome, unknown destination in this deliciously macabre horror anthology series.

character: Alex

original_name: Blodtur

LIS

overview: LIS follows four ambitious medical interns working at a struggling Norwegian hospital. Facing the harsh realities of an overstretched medical system, with rising patient numbers and dwindling resources, the young interns grapple with the complex ethical dilemmas of providing care in a system stretched to its limits. They will learn that compassion alone may not be enough, and they are forced to grow in ways they never expected.

character: Bjørn Ivar

original_name: LIS

Dome 16

overview: Norway in the future. Anton and Emma are 16, living in the same city, but in different climate zones. They were never meant to meet, and certainly not fall in love. But when they do, they must turn their worlds upside down to be together.

character: Bjørn

original_name: Kuppel 16

svenska

iso_639_1: sv

iso_3166_1: SE

english_name: Swedish

Norsk

iso_639_1: no

iso_3166_1: NO

english_name: Norwegian

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
Henrik Rafaelson
Henrik Rafaelsson

title: Happy, Happy

overview: A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check when an attractive family moves in next door.

character: Sigve

original_title: Sykt lykkelig

title: Elina: As If I Wasn't There

overview: In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

character: Einar Björk

original_title: Elina – som om jag inte fanns

original_language: sv

title: The Angel

overview: A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.

character: Lærer 2

original_title: Engelen

title: Blind

overview: Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbor who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.

character: Morten

original_title: Blind

title: Night

overview: Emma is told she has cancer and two months to live and must clean up her life before she dies, to prevent the children from falling into the hands of her abusive ex-husband.

character: Asbjørn

original_title: Natt

title: Om Avstand

overview: Anders carries a secret. A lonely life in the safety of his routines becomes Anders way to cope with his burden. One day he meets his neighbours, a lively young boy and his singel mother. Anders can not avoid getting charmed, but he knows he might become what he fears the most if he does not keep his distance.

original_title: Om Avstand

title: Welcome to Norway!

overview: A couple decide to open a home for refugees in the remote cold mountains of Norway.

character: UDI-mannen

original_title: Welcome to Norway!

title: Pyromaniac

overview: In the darkness of a peaceful village, a pyromaniac ignites his first fire. As more fires break out, the society panics. An inferno lurks under the surface as a local policeman uncovers the unthinkable truth...

character: Lensmann Johansen

original_title: Pyromanen

title: Enough

overview: A mother-daughter relationship comes to an abrupt end when the mother  one day tells that she no longer wants them to have contact. We follow them through what will be their last conversation.

character: Man in garden

original_title: Nok

title: The Monitor

overview: Oslo, Norway. After living a traumatic experience, Anna and her son Anders move into a huge apartment building. Feeling constantly terrified and insecure, Anna buys a babycall to monitor Anders while he sleeps.

character: Male Doctor

original_title: Babycall

title: The Birds

overview: Based on the award winning novel by Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by his lonely older sister, Hege. Their everyday routine and isolated existence is interrupted when a lumberjack arrives at their lakeside cottage and falls in love with Hege, leaving Mattis fearful that he will lose his sister.

character: Jørgen

original_title: Fuglane

title: Limbo

overview: Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting holiday, where the women nurse their superficial relationships over cocktails poolside – the perfect climate for self-delusion.

character: Jo

original_title: Limbo

title: Thelma

overview: A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

character: Trond

original_title: Thelma

title: Vidar the Vampire

overview: A Christian farmer searching for a higher purpose to life, falls into sin and wakes up as the Prince of Darkness in the city of Stavanger, Norway.

character: Tor Magne Abrahamsen

original_title: VampyrVidar

title: Ambulance

overview: Two Norwegian female ambulance paramedics get caught up in a conflict with a group of Romanian immigrants, after being called out to an address where it turns out nobody lives. Sanne, one of the paramedics has to make a difficult choice to solve the situation. The choice she makes has fatal consequences for everyone involved. She has to live with that choice for the rest of her life.

character: Sanne's Husband

original_title: Ambulanse

title: Becoming Astrid

overview: When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from society's norms and follow her heart.

character: Blomberg

original_title: Unga Astrid

title: Underdog

overview: Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.

character: Steffen

original_title: Svenskjävel

title: Tommys Inferno

overview: Doing it, or not doing it, that is the question for leading man Tommy. His long time girlfriend Maria is ready to take the leap from fumbling touches to the real thing, but Tommy, who works part time as an altar boy, believes sex belongs within the sanctitude of marriage.

character: Tommys far

original_title: Tommys Inferno

title: Izzat

overview: Three young immigrant boys, Wasim, Riaz and Munawar, come of age in the east end of Oslo, Norway. They find school boring and become attracted to the hard boiled gang East Side Crew, run by brothers Sadiq and Khalid. Petty theft soon develops into drug dealing, violence and murder.

character: Lærer

original_title: Izzat

title: 5 Lies

overview: The supermarket clown Ulrik is dreaming of becoming a stand-up comedian, the handicapped Amnesty girl Kristin is in love with Alexander, but does not dare to tell him, and Maya is to be deported from the country because she is a "consumed" mail order bride.

character: Jørn

original_title: 5 løgner

title: Number One

overview: Tom is struggling hard to be the best player on his soccer team. With the help of a magical whistle, he learns that it feels a lot better to be part of the team, rather than being "number one".

character: Tom's father

original_title: Bäst i laget

title: Psychobitch

overview: Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.

character: Pål

original_title: Psychobitch

title: Tills döden skiljer mig åt

overview: A depressed man meets a beautiful woman at the pub and it quickly leads to a relationship. But there is another man in the background ...

original_title: Tills döden skiljer mig åt

title: The Final Frontier

overview: The distinguished crew on the spacecraft “The Final Frontier” are traveling through space, searching for intelligent life. Suddenly they stumble upon a beautiful white planet.

character: Kelvin

original_title: The Final Frontier

title: Tigers

overview: Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It’s the chance of a lifetime – but at what price?

title: The Almost Man

overview: A big new home, a lovely wife and a new job seem to steer Henrik firmly towards the middle age and a bourgeois lifestyle. There is, however, a substantial amount of boyish prankster still in him - sometimes a little bit too much.

title: The Badgers

overview: When Berny (11) joins a motley Scouting troop called the Badgers, he resolves to win the Golden Scout Trophy, which his deceased father had won. However, when Berny’s radicalized foster mother, Gerdy, weasels her way into becoming the Badger's new co-leader, she cancels all future competitions. This year's competition is Berny's only chance at the trophy, so he cheats through the trials to become the Badger’s selected contestant. This sparks rivalry with jr. troop leader, Lars (13), and ignites a battle for the throne between Gerdy and her naive co-leader, Gunnar. Now Gerdy leads a coup d’état and is about to seize the rights to the Scout house. Unless Berny confesses his charade, the Badger’s will lose everything; will he sacrifices winning the trophy and risk losing his newfound friends?

title: Happy, Happy

title: Elina: As If I Wasn't There

title: The Angel

title: Blind

title: Night

title: Om Avstand

title: Welcome to Norway!

title: Pyromaniac

title: Enough

title: The Monitor

title: The Birds

title: Limbo

title: Thelma

title: Vidar the Vampire

title: Ambulance

title: Becoming Astrid

title: Underdog

title: Tommys Inferno

title: Izzat

title: 5 Lies

title: Number One

title: Psychobitch

title: Tills döden skiljer mig åt

title: The Final Frontier

title: Tigers

title: The Almost Man

title: The Badgers


Rita Karin

biography: She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

ABC Afterschool Special

overview: Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.

character: Mrs. Reuben

original_name: ABC Afterschool Special

Kate & Allie

overview: Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

original_name: Kate & Allie

Chicken Soup

character: Bea Fisher

original_name: Chicken Soup

Español

iso_639_1: es

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Spanish

title: Starstruck

overview: Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

original_title: Starstruck

title: The Pickle

overview: Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.

character: Grandmother

original_title: The Pickle

title: Sophie's Choice

overview: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

character: Yetta

original_title: Sophie's Choice

title: He Said, She Said

overview: Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.

character: Mrs. Spepk

original_title: He Said, She Said

title: Age Isn't Everything

overview: Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.

character: Flo

original_title: Age Isn't Everything

title: Enemies, a Love Story

overview: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

character: Mrs. Schreier

original_title: Enemies, a Love Story

title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

overview: A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

character: Mrs. Goldfarb

original_title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

title: Nicky's World

overview: A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.

character: Mrs. Mylonas

original_title: Nicky's World

title: The Big Fix

overview: Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.

character: Aunt Sonya

original_title: The Big Fix

title: Up the Sandbox

overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

character: Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)

original_title: Up the Sandbox

title: Kojak: The Belarus File

overview: Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.

original_title: Kojak: The Belarus File

title: Matilda

overview: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

character: Spectator

original_title: Matilda

place_of_birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

title: Starstruck

title: The Pickle

title: Sophie's Choice

title: He Said, She Said

title: Age Isn't Everything

title: Enemies, a Love Story

title: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

title: Nicky's World

title: The Big Fix

title: Up the Sandbox

title: Kojak: The Belarus File

title: Matilda