Eileen Atkins

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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.

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Upstairs, Downstairs

overview: Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

character: Lady Maud Holland

original_name: Upstairs, Downstairs

Doc Martin

overview: Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.

character: Ruth Ellingham

original_name: Doc Martin

origin_country: FR GB

Performance

overview: An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

character: Mrs Maitland

original_name: Performance

Richard & Judy

overview: Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4, from 2001 to 2008, but later moved to digital channel, Watch, in October 2008. The programme featured a number of celebrities and a book club. Its final episode aired in July 2009 due to low ratings.

original_name: Richard & Judy

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

overview: This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

character: Virginia Woolf

original_name: The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

An Age of Kings

overview: A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.

character: Lady

original_name: An Age of Kings

Cranford

overview: A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

character: Miss Deborah Jenkyns

original_name: Cranford

Smiley's People

overview: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

character: Madame Ostrakova

original_name: Smiley's People

The Massingham Affair

overview: The Massingham Affair was a six-part British crime drama broadcast on BBC 2 in late 1964. Set in 19th-century Yorkshire, the story follows a young solicitor's clerk who risks his career to prove that local police are railroading two innocent men into a murder conviction.

character: Charlotte Verney

original_name: The Massingham Affair

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

character: Electra

original_name: BBC Play of the Month

The Graham Norton Show

overview: Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

original_name: The Graham Norton Show

BBC Play of the Month

character: Olga

Talking Heads

overview: Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

character: Celia

original_name: Talking Heads

Waking the Dead

overview: A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

character: Abigail Dusniak

original_name: Waking the Dead

name: Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

overview: Valentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect woman, wife and mother. But out of the blue, her husband announces he wants a divorce, and their children side with him. As their daughter is about to marry, circumstances repeatedly force the estranged spouses back together.

character: Catherine Maier

original_name: Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

A Dance to the Music of Time

overview: A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.

character: Brightman

original_name: A Dance to the Music of Time

The Crown

overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.

The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

character: Queen Mary

original_name: The Crown

origin_country: GB US

Agatha Christie's Marple

overview: The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

character: Lady Tressilian

original_name: Agatha Christie's Marple

BBC2 Play of the Week

overview: An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

character: Vanity Fair

original_name: BBC2 Play of the Week

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

character: Reader

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

character: Helen Marriner

original_name: Screen Two

Agatha Christie's Poirot

overview: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

character: Princess Dragomiroff

original_name: Agatha Christie's Poirot

Sons and Lovers

overview: Sons and Lovers is a 1981 BBC television serial based on the D. H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers. It starred Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson and Lynn Dearth. It was adapted by Trevor Griffiths and directed by Stuart Burge. It aired in the US as part of the PBS's Masterpiece Theatre program in 1982.

character: Gertrude Morel

original_name: Sons and Lovers

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

character: Self - Nominee

original_name: Golden Globe Awards

The Wednesday Play

overview: An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

character: The Girl

original_name: The Wednesday Play

An Age of Kings

character: Joan la Pucelle

The Wednesday Play

character: Joan

BBC Play of the Month

character: Catherine Sloper

character: Titania

Madame Bovary

overview: In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

character: Marie Louise

original_name: Madame Bovary

Theatre 625

overview: Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

character: Eileen

original_name: Theatre 625

Screen Two

character: Kitty Higdon

Easter Tales

overview: Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.

character: The Mourner

original_name: Easter Tales

Chillers

overview: A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.

Remembers…

overview: What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programs of all time.

David Copperfield

overview: A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Tony Awards

overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

overview: Edmund Aird is the lord of Balnaird House, one of the most splendid estates in the Scotish Highlands. He and his American-born wife, Virginia, seem to have it all: wealth, beautiful children, and a thriving family business. Just when everything seems to be on track, long-buried tensions arise to threaten the family's happiness and the fate of their ancestral home.

Shades of Darkness

overview: With Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins. An anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.

Half Hour Story

overview: 18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.

Affairs of the Heart

overview: Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.

W. Somerset Maugham

overview: An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".

Solo

overview: Series of 20-minute monologues by famous British actors, portraying historical characters or reading poetry.

Celebrity Playhouse

overview: Yorkshire Television's Celebrity Playhouse anthology series.

Upstairs Downstairs

overview: Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.

The House of Eliott

overview: Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

Deutsch

biography:
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (* 16. Juni 1934 in London), ist eine britische Schauspielerin und Drehbuchautorin.

Ihren ersten Auftritt hatte Atkins auf der Bühne im Open Air Theatre 1953. Bald darauf begann sie auch als Fernsehschauspielerin aktiv zu werden und trat bis heute in unzähligen Serien und sonstigen TV-Produktionen auf. Besonders oft war sie auch in Literaturverfilmungen zu sehen wie beispielsweise Ein Sommernachtstraum (1971), Die Frau vom Meer (1974), Elektra (1974), Oliver Twist (1982), Titus Andronicus (1985), Madame Bovary (2000) und David Copperfield (2000).

Als Filmschauspielerin war sie unter anderem in Equus – Blinde Pferde (1977), Wolf (1994), Gosford Park (2001), Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain (2003), Vanity Fair – Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (2004) und Ask the Dust (2006) zu sehen.

2007 spielte sie in der BBC-Serie Cranford zusammen mit u. a. Michael Gambon und Judi Dench eine der Hauptrollen. Diese Leistung brachte ihr einen BAFTA und einen Emmy Award ein.

2010 war sie in dem Black-Comedy-Streifen Wild Target – Sein schärfstes Ziel zusammen mit Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt und Rupert Grint zu sehen. Im gleichen Jahr übernahm sie auch in Ridley Scotts Robin Hood stellvertretend für Vanessa Redgrave die Rolle der Eleonore von Aquitanien.

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艾琳·阿特金斯

biography: 艾琳·阿特金斯（Eileen Atkins），1934年6月16日出生于英国英格兰伦敦克拉普顿，英国女演员、编剧

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艾琳·阿特金斯

biography: 艾琳·阿特金斯（Eileen Atkins），1934 年 6 月 16 日出生於英國英格蘭倫敦克拉普頓，英國女演員、編劇

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Dame Eileen Atkins
Eileen June Atkins
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title: Cold Mountain

overview: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

title: Farewell Doc Martin

overview: Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters, hangs up his stethoscope for the final time as the long-running titular series comes to an end. This one-hour retrospective spotlights the longevity and impact locally and around the world of Doc Martin over the years, as well as offering behind the scenes of the final season with the cast and crew. From scripting and pre-production to shooting and delivery, meet the regular characters that live and work in the picturesque Cornish town of Portwenn, the key crew behind the camera, the residents of Port Isaac, the show's real-life setting, and the visitors who come solely because Doc Martin films there.

title: Ask the Dust

overview: Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

title: Jack & Sarah

overview: Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.

title: Wolf

overview: An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.

title: Gosford Park

overview: In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

title: Evening

overview: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.

title: Vanity Fair

overview: In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.

title: Cold Comfort Farm

overview: In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

title: Wit

overview: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

title: The Avengers

overview: British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.

title: Sons and Lovers

overview: An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

title: I Don't Want to Be Born

overview: A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.

title: The Dresser

overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

title: The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

overview: Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.

title: Wild Target

overview: Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.

title: Let Him Have It

overview: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

title: The Big Man Coughed and Died

overview: Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

title: Last Chance Harvey

overview: In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.

title: Scenes of a Sexual Nature

overview: Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west  London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?

title: A Hazard of Hearts

overview: When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.

title: Oliver Twist

overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

title: The Lost Language of Cranes

overview: When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.

title: David Copperfield

title: Women Talking Dirty

overview: A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

title: The Scapegoat

overview: In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

title: Electra

overview: Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

title: The Lady from the Sea

overview: A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

title: Magic in the Moonlight

overview: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

title: She Fell Among Thieves

overview: While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.

title: A Better Class of Person

overview: Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother.

title: Psychoville Halloween Special

overview: Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?

title: Bewitched

overview: The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.

title: Fable

overview: In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

title: Ballet Shoes

overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.

title: Robin Hood

overview: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

title: The Maitlands

overview: There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

title: Equus

overview: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

title: Wicked Little Letters

overview: When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

overview: Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

title: The Lady's Not for Burning

overview: A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.

title: A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

overview: Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.

title: Beautiful Creatures

overview: Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers.  As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil.  A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

title: Double Bill

overview: In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.

title: What a Girl Wants

overview: American Daphne Reynolds heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her boho mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost father is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

title: Talking Heads 2

title: Titus Andronicus

overview: Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. According to Roman custom, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son to the Gods; having the deciding vote, he also chooses Saturninus as Emperor.

title: The Feast of the Goat

overview: Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

overview: Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.

title: The Square

overview: Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.

title: Bertie and Elizabeth

overview: The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

title: Siân Phillips at 90

overview: Acclaimed actress Dame Siân Phillips is still working at 90. The star of I, Claudius speaks openly about her marriage to Peter O'Toole and reflects on her life and glittering career.

title: ChickLit

overview: ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.

title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past

overview: It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

title: A Room of One's Own

overview: A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed here by the British actress Eileen Atkins.

title: Paddington 2

overview: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

title: The Vision

overview: Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

title: The Hours

overview: The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

title: Nelly's Version

overview: People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

title: Nothing Like a Dame

overview: BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

title: The Duchess of Malfi

overview: The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her.

title: The Three Sisters

overview: In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.

title: Mountain Language

overview: Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer exists. Any questions?'

title: Roman Holiday

overview: Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his photographer, who show her the sites. The reporter is initially more interested in a story than the Princess, but begins to fall for her.

title: The Making of Gosford Park

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Robert Altman's 2001 film 'Gosford Park'. Cast and crew relate some of their experiences with making the film.

title: The Burston Rebellion

overview: Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.

title: The Lives of Animals

overview: Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opts not to give lectures on literature or writing, but on animal cruelty.

title: The Sleeper

overview: Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...

title: Nothing's Ever Over

overview: An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then discover they are both going to be eating in the same cafeteria.

title: Raku Fire

overview: Canadian film starring Dame Eileen Atkins as a middle aged woman.

title: Royal Variety Performance 1984

overview: In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. From the stage of the Victoria Palace Theatre stars from the world of entertainment bring you comedy and music.

title: T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

overview: Read by actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In this documentary, professor Frank Kermode, biographer Peter Ackroyd, and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.

title: Inadmissible Evidence

overview: A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

title: Bunker

overview: When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project — building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire — his wife begins to question their marriage after 17 years together.

title: Mrs. Dalloway

overview: Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

title: Vita & Virginia

overview: Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.

title: Cold Mountain

title: Farewell Doc Martin

title: Ask the Dust

title: Jack & Sarah

title: Wolf

title: Gosford Park

title: Evening

title: Vanity Fair

title: Cold Comfort Farm

title: Wit

title: The Avengers

title: Sons and Lovers

title: I Don't Want to Be Born

title: The Dresser

title: The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

title: Wild Target

title: Let Him Have It

title: The Big Man Coughed and Died

title: Last Chance Harvey

title: Scenes of a Sexual Nature

title: A Hazard of Hearts

title: Oliver Twist

title: The Lost Language of Cranes

title: David Copperfield

title: Women Talking Dirty

title: The Scapegoat

title: Electra

title: The Lady from the Sea

title: Magic in the Moonlight

title: She Fell Among Thieves

title: A Better Class of Person

title: Psychoville Halloween Special

title: Bewitched

title: Fable

title: Ballet Shoes

title: Robin Hood

title: The Maitlands

title: Equus

title: Wicked Little Letters

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

title: The Lady's Not for Burning

title: A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

title: Beautiful Creatures

title: Double Bill

title: What a Girl Wants

title: Talking Heads 2

title: Titus Andronicus

title: The Feast of the Goat

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

title: The Square

title: Bertie and Elizabeth

title: Siân Phillips at 90

title: ChickLit

title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past

title: A Room of One's Own

title: Paddington 2

title: The Vision

title: The Hours

title: Nelly's Version

title: Nothing Like a Dame

title: The Duchess of Malfi

title: The Three Sisters

title: Mountain Language

title: Roman Holiday

title: The Making of Gosford Park

title: The Burston Rebellion

title: The Lives of Animals

title: The Sleeper

title: Nothing's Ever Over

title: Raku Fire

title: Royal Variety Performance 1984

title: T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

title: Inadmissible Evidence

title: Bunker

title: Mrs. Dalloway

title: Vita & Virginia


Joachim Rønning

biography:
Joachim Rønning (born 30 May 1972) is a Norwegian film director, producer, and writer best known for the Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated Kon-Tiki and the Disney action-adventure films Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales starring Johnny Depp and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil starring Angelina Jolie. Rønning's films have grossed over 1.3 billion dollars at the box office.

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Marco Polo

job: Director

overview: Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, this lavish drama series follows explorer Marco Polo's adventures in the 13th century.

department: Directing

original_name: Marco Polo

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instagram_id: joachimronning

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乔阿吉姆·罗恩尼

biography: 乔阿吉姆·罗恩尼（Joachim Rønning）是一位挪威电影导演，他通常与埃斯彭·桑德伯格（Espen Sandberg）合作，两人都是挪威桑德福德（Sandefjord）的本地人。作为一个导演团队，他们以 Roenberg 的名义（他们的姓氏加在一起）。他们共同拥有斯堪的纳维亚半岛最大的广告制作公司之一，名为 Motion Blur。2006年，由佩内洛普·克鲁兹和萨尔玛·海耶克主演的长片处女作《班迪达斯》通过EuropaCorp和二十世纪福克斯在全球发行。这部电影由法国传奇电影制片人吕克·贝松编剧和制作。约阿希姆·伦宁（Joachim Rønning）与妻子克里斯汀（Kristin）育有两个女儿。他们住在挪威奥斯陆。

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喬奇姆·羅寧

biography: 喬奇姆·羅寧（Joachim Rønning）是一位挪威電影導演，他通常與埃斯彭·桑德伯格（Espen Sandberg）合作，兩人都是挪威桑德福德（Sandefjord）的本地人。作為一個導演團隊，他們以 Roenberg 的名義（他們的姓氏加在一起）。他們共同擁有斯堪的納維亞半島最大的廣告制作公司之一，名為 Motion Blur。2006 年，由佩內洛普·克魯茲和薩爾瑪·海耶克主演的長片處女作《班迪達斯》通過 EuropaCorp 和二十世紀福克斯在全球發行。這部電影由法國傳奇電影制片人呂克·貝松編劇和制作。約阿希姆·倫寧（Joachim Rønning）與妻子克里斯汀（Kristin）育有兩個女兒。他們住在挪威奧斯陸。

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Deutsch

biography: Joachim Rønning ist ein norwegischer Filmregisseur, Produzent und Drehbuchautor, der vor allem für den Oscar- und Golden-Globe-nominierten Film „Kon-Tiki“ sowie den Disney Action-Abenteuerfilmen „Pirates of the Caribbean - Salazars Rache“ und „Maleficent - Die dunkle Fee“ bekannt ist.

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喬奇姆·羅寧
요아킴 뢰닝
ヨアキム・ローニング

title: Bandidas

overview: When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.

original_title: Bandidas

title: Max Manus: Man of War

overview: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

original_title: Max Manus

original_language: no

title: Kon-Tiki

overview: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

original_title: Kon-Tiki

overview: Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.

title: The Cubist

overview: Kubisten is the story of a man who is so rigid that all and everything square attracts him. One day he meets a woman and discovers that the shape of love is round.

original_title: Kubisten

job: Writer

title: The Cubist

department: Writing

title: TRON: Ares

overview: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.

original_title: TRON: Ares

title: Micro

overview: A group of graduate students are lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company — only to find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the rainforest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.

original_title: Micro

job: Executive Producer

title: Young Woman and the Sea

overview: This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England.

department: Production

original_title: Young Woman and the Sea

title: Beatles

overview: At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold of the adult world. The film is all about boyish pranks, hopes, disappointments, and of course about pretty girls, hopeless infatuations, drunkenness and parties. The world is changing, and so is the friendship between the boys. But the conclusion is, true friendship endures all - and no band in the world is better than The Beatles.

original_title: Beatles

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

overview: Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

title: Dag 1

overview: The city must be evacuated. Everything is going to hell. But a man is on his way to town. He's going to a job interview, he's nervous and repeats over and over to himself: "Sorry I'm late... Sorry I'm late."

title: Dag 1

title: Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

overview: A defiant warrior-monk arrives at Kublai Khan's court in chains and soon earns his tragic nickname in this 30-minute origin story.

title: Young Woman and the Sea

title: Here Be Monsters

overview: Details under wraps. Described as "an intense survival thriller at sea reminiscent of films like Alien and The Thing."

title: Here Be Monsters

title: Here Be Monsters

title: Bandidas

title: Max Manus: Man of War

title: Kon-Tiki

title: The Cubist

title: The Cubist

title: TRON: Ares

title: Micro

title: Young Woman and the Sea

title: Beatles

title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

title: Dag 1

title: Dag 1

title: Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

title: Young Woman and the Sea

title: Here Be Monsters

title: Here Be Monsters

title: Here Be Monsters


Espen Sandberg

biography: Espen Sandberg is a Norwegian film director and advertising producer, well known to work with his childhood friend Joachim Rønning on several projects such as Bandidas (2006), Max Manus (2008), Kon-Tiki (2012) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).

Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes

overview: Live Hallangen is declared dead but hours later she suddenly wakes up with a sudden urge for blood. Meanwhile, her brother Odd tries to keep the family driven funeral home afloat.

original_name: Post Mortem: Ingen dør i Skarnes

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english_name: Norwegian

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埃斯彭·桑德伯格

biography: 埃斯彭·桑德伯格（Espen Sandberg）是挪威电影导演和广告制片人，以与他儿时的朋友约阿希姆·伦宁（Joachim Rønning）合作过多个项目而闻名，例如Bandidas（2006年），Max Manus（2008年），Kon-Tiki（2012年）和加勒比海盗：死人不讲故事（2017年）。

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普通话

埃斯彭·桑德伯格

biography: 埃斯彭·桑德伯格（Espen Sandberg）是挪威電影導演和廣告製片人，以與他兒時的朋友約阿希姆·倫寧（Joachim Rønning）合作過多個項目而聞名，例如 Bandidas（2006 年），Max Manus（2008 年），Kon - Tiki（2012 年）和加勒比海盜：死人不講故事（2017 年）。

Deutsch

Espen Sandberg

biography: Espen Sandberg ist ein norwegischer Filmregisseur und Werbeproduzent, der vor allem für seine Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Jugendfreund Joachim Rønning bei verschiedenen Projekten wie Bandidas (2006), Max Manus (2008), Kon-Tiki (2012) und Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazars Rache (2017) bekannt ist.

title: Klown Forever

overview: Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.

character: Gæst til Great Dane festen

original_title: Klovn forever

original_language: da

title: Bandidas

title: Max Manus: Man of War

title: Kon-Tiki

title: Christmas As Usual

overview: To celebrate their engagement, Thea takes Jashan home — but his Indian roots and her family's Norwegian traditions clash in a chaotic Christmas.

original_title: Så var det jul igjen

title: Troll

overview: When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to stop it from wreaking deadly havoc.

original_title: Troll

title: Beatles

title: Dag 1

original_title: Dag 1

title: Dag 1

title: Amundsen

overview: The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926. Follows his all-consuming drive as a polar explorer and the tragedy he brought on himself and others by sacrificing everything in the icy wastelands to achieve his dream.

original_title: Amundsen

title: Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

original_title: Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

title: Amundsen

title: Cadaver

overview: In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family finds hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?

original_title: Kadaver

place_of_birth: Sandefjord, Norway

title: Klown Forever

media_type: movie

title: Bandidas

title: Max Manus: Man of War

title: Kon-Tiki

title: Christmas As Usual

title: Troll

title: Beatles

title: Dag 1

title: Dag 1

title: Amundsen

title: Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

title: Amundsen

title: Cadaver


Yuko Tanaka

biography: Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television after she graduated from Meiji University.

Precious Moments

overview: In a red-light district, Nemoto Norio (Shibata Kyohei) is indiscriminately soliciting passersby. "Would you mind taking part in a survey? As a thank you, I'll give you a camera. Take this voucher and come to my office at Shinjuku West Exit later." "No way," replies Yoshikawa Kumiko (Furukawa Yuko). "That would be a problem," replies Saeki Nobuko (Mori Masako). "A camera?" asks Iketani Kaori (Tanaka Yuko), suspicious. The survey is about overseas travel. The three of them gather in a room in Shinjuku. This is how they get to know each other, and they gradually become good friends. Their desire is to find a youth they can be truly proud of. The drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately trying to make some memories before they get married.

original_name: 想い出づくり。

original_language: ja

Wakaba

overview: The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, lived happily with her parents and younger brother until the Great Hanshin Earthquake shook and destroyed the city in 1995. In the disaster, Wakaba loses her father, who was an architect and moves with her mother and brother to Obi, old castle town in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, where her grandmother lives with her uncle and aunt. Living in Obi's rich natural environment, Wakaba learns that plants can heal people's hearts. She makes a resolution to return to Kobe and reconstruct the city abundant in greenery.

original_name: わかば

Sister Ma

overview: A serialized television series, aired in 1979, based on Hasegawa Machiko's "Sazae-san Uchiakebanashi" (Sazae-san Confessions), which depicts the true vibrant energy and strength of the common people, through their laughter and tears, from the pre-war to the post-war period in Japan.

character: Isono Machiko

original_name: マー姉ちゃん

As If In Flight

overview: Historical drama about the life of Saigō Takamori and his involvement with the Meiji Restoration.

original_name: 翔ぶが如く

Oshin

overview: Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.

character: Oshin (16 to 46 years old)

original_name: おしん

name: Tokyo Tower ~ Okan and me, sometimes, Oton (SP version)

overview: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, the gentle coming-of-age drama Tokyo Tower - Mom and Me and Sometimes Dad concerns an adolescent boy (Kamiki Ryunosuke), Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.

character: Nakagawa Eiko

original_name: 東京タワー 〜オカンとボクと、時々、オトン〜(SP版)

Woman

overview: After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.

character: Sachi Uesugi

original_name: Woman

Tennō no Ryōriban

overview: A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the chief cook of the Ministry of the Imperial Household.

original_name: 天皇の料理番

The Firmament of the Pleiades

overview: Two young men looking for a better life enter the royal palace in the midst of a tumultuous political era of the late Qing Dynasty. Chun Er, a poor peasant boy, and Liang Wen Xiu, who grew up in a wealthy household, find their fates are tied together in unexpected ways. The two young men and Chun Er’s younger sister, Ling Er, travel to the Forbidden City together to look for a better future. Based on the popular novel Sokyu no Subaru by Asada Jiro.

character: Empress Dowager Cixi

original_name: 苍穹之昴

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anone

overview: A solitary young woman and a lonely widow make a tentative connection as a pile of fake money brings trouble to their lives and newcomers to their town.

character: Anone Hayashida

original_name: anone

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

overview: Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging process that comes to everyone.

original_name: これから～海辺の旅人たち～

Love with a Case

overview: Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the Administration Bureau, Sesuna Tsumiki from the Community Safety Bureau, and Ruka Kotori from Accounting. All from different departments and carrying their own baggage, the four join forces. They’re not exactly what you would call champions of justice. They’re not even ambitious enough to go for success. All they want is the truth.

character: Azuki Koarai

original_name: 初恋の悪魔

Mother

overview: Yasuko Matsuyuki plays the part of Nao Suzuhara, an elementary school teacher. When she realizes that one of the female students is receiving abuse from her mother, Nao's maternal instincts kick in, and she impulsively decides to bring the girl into her own care. Serving as a substitute mother, Nao takes the child on a trip from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and the two experience various events together along the way.

character: Mochizuki Hana

original_name: Mother

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

overview: Based on novel "Kizuna ~ Aru Jinba no Monogatari~” by Akihiro Shimada (published from June, 2012 to December, 2012 in horse racing portal site ‘netkeiba.com’).

character: Kayoko Matsushita

original_name: 絆～走れ奇跡の子馬～

Mare

overview: Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mother supports the family by working at the salt pond. 8 years later, Mare, about to graduate from high school, decides to work for the Wajima local government. She wants to have a steady job, unlike her father. Her job is to support people who move to Noto.

character: Okesaku Fumi

original_name: まれ

Terigaki

overview: The drama depicts the love-hate and conflict between two men and a woman who meet after a fall at a train station.

original_name: 照柿

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

job: Motion Actor

overview: Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.

department: Crew

original_name: Blade Runner: Black Lotus

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田中裕子

biography: 田中裕子（日语：田中 裕子／たなか ゆうこ Tanaka Yūko，1955年4月29日—），现名泽田裕子，日本女演员。丈夫泽田研二也是日本一位歌手及演员，弟弟田中隆三亦为演员。田中裕子于1983年主演晨间剧《阿信》，饰演主人公阿信而为人熟知。该剧获平均52.6%收视率，为日本史上收视最高的剧集。

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Magyar

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english_name: Arabic

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田中 裕子
Yūko Tanaka
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Yûko Tanaka

title: Princess Mononoke

overview: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

character: Eboshi Gozen (voice)

original_title: もののけ姫

title: The Buried Forest

overview: Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.

original_title: 埋もれ木

title: Tales from Earthsea

overview: Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.

character: Cob (voice)

original_title: ゲド戦記

title: The Exam

overview: Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.

character: ToshieTogashi

original_title: お受験

title: The Bleep Brothers

overview: Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.

title: Edo Porn

overview: The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

title: Fifth Movement

overview: When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.

original_title: 日本フィルハーモニー物語　炎の第五楽章

title: Haru's Journey

overview: Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

title: Dearest

overview: The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.

title: Demon

overview: Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

title: Wuthering Heights

overview: Young orphan Onimaru is adopted by the wealthy Yamabe family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Kinu. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Kinu, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Mitsuhiko, a man of means who befits her stature. Onimaru vows to win her back.

title: Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

overview: Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.

title: Children on the Island

overview: The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

title: Homeland

overview: Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.

title: Hana's Miso Soup

overview: Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...

title: Thousand and One Nights

overview: Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.

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: Osaka Story

overview: Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

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: Backwater

overview: Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.

title: The Rainbow Seeker

overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.

title: Daddy Long Legs

overview: An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs.

title: The Firefly

overview: Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.

title: Eijanaika

overview: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace,  which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

title: Bōshi

title: Monster

overview: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

title: The Milkwoman

overview: Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

title: The Real You

overview: Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.

title: Ghost Story: Flower House

overview: An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who protect the statue of the Kannon.

title: Tora-san, the Expert

overview: Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

original_title: 男はつらいよ 花も嵐も寅次郎

title: Amagi Pass

overview: Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.

title: Capone Cries a Lot

overview: Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

title: Hibi

overview: Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

title: The Island of Cats

overview: Daikichi  is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his childhood friends including Iwao and his cat Tama. Daikichi has a son Tsuyoshi  who lives in Tokyo. Tsuyoshi worries a bit about his father living alone on the island, but Daikichi is content with his life. After his close friend passes away, Daikichi worries about his physical condition. His daily life begins to change.  Based on manga series "Neko to Jiichan"

title: Haruko's Doll

overview: In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling to make a living. This baby girl is named Haruko and brought by Tomita Shizuko and Katsuji as the younger sister of their son Ryosuke who is three years apart. When the war begins, 16-year old Ryosuke qualifies for the naval academy and crosses the Seto Inland Sea. After some consideration, Shizuko tells Haruko the truth that they are not real siblings for the first time. Haruko who has had a secret crush on her brother ever since he said that he would protect her, is innocently overjoyed and heads to Hiroshima to convey this to him. The next day, an atomic bomb explodes in the sky…

title: The Rape

overview: Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.

title: One Night

overview: A family reunites after 15 years.  They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.

title: Gift of Fire

overview: Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists.  Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future.  A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.

title: Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone

overview: In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.

title: The Homeless Student

overview: Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.

title: Through Their Eyes

overview: A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters.  The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.

title: Wild Geese

overview: In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury

title: The Buried Forest

title: Princess Mononoke

title: The Buried Forest

title: Tales from Earthsea

title: The Exam

title: The Bleep Brothers

title: Edo Porn

title: Fifth Movement

original_title: 日本フィルハーモニー物語　炎の第五楽章

title: Haru's Journey

title: Dearest

title: Demon

title: Wuthering Heights

title: Children on the Island

title: Homeland

title: Hana's Miso Soup

title: Thousand and One Nights

title: Osaka Story

title: The Whispered City

title: Midnight Diner

title: Backwater

title: The Rainbow Seeker

title: Daddy Long Legs

title: The Firefly

title: Eijanaika

title: Bōshi

title: Monster

title: The Milkwoman

title: The Real You

title: Ghost Story: Flower House

title: Tora-san, the Expert

original_title: 男はつらいよ 花も嵐も寅次郎

title: Amagi Pass

title: Capone Cries a Lot

title: Hibi

title: The Island of Cats

title: Haruko's Doll

title: The Rape

title: One Night

title: Gift of Fire

title: Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone

title: The Homeless Student

title: Through Their Eyes

title: Wild Geese

title: The Buried Forest

original_name: 東京タワー 〜オカンとボクと、時々、オトン〜(SP版)

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

original_name: これから～海辺の旅人たち～


Akihiro Miwa

biography: Akihiro Maruyama (born May 15, 1935, died June 20, 2026), better known by his stage name Akihiro Miwa, was a Japanese singer, actor, author and drag queen. As an actor he is known for voicing characters in Hayao Miyazaki films Princess Mononoke (1997) and Howl's Moving Castle (2004).

name: Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey

overview: Set in a German-speaking country in the seventies, brother and sister Tyltyl and Mytyl live with their parents, a dog and a cat. When their mother becomes seriously ill on Christmas Day, Tyltyl and Mytyl receive the visit of Berylune fairy. It entrusts them with the task of finding the “blue bird”, the bearer of happiness, making them able to heal the mother. With their dog Tyrol, cat Shanet, and a range of spirits, they set out on a journey to find the “blue bird” and maybe learn happiness along the way.

character: Queen of the Night (voice)

original_name: メーテルリンクの青い鳥 チルチルミチルの冒険旅行

Yoshitsune

overview: Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 December 2005, with a three-part special compilation being aired from 24 December to 25 December 2005. The 44th Taiga Drama, the original work is by Miyao Tomiko, screenplay by Kaneko Narito and starring Hideaki Takizawa.

character: KI-ichi Hougen (Yoshitune's tutor)

original_name: 義経

Hanako & Anne

overview: A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English and step by step made her dream come true.

character: Narrator

original_name: 花子とアン

Ariehen ∞ Sekai

original_name: ありえへん∞世界

Taro no Tō

job: Theme Song Performance

overview: A life story of Taro Okamoto, one of the most prominent Japanese avant-garde artists of the 20th Century. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2011, the drama depicts his struggle for the completion of his emblematic work "The Tower of Taro," known as the symbol of the Osaka Expo in 1970, and his eccentric relationships with his family.

department: Sound

original_name: TAROの塔

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美轮明宏

biography: 美轮明宏（みわ あきひろ，1935年5月15日-），原名丸山明宏，出生于日本长崎，毕业于国立音乐高等学校，日本创作男歌手、演员。

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biography: Akihiro Maruyama (né le 15 mai 1935), plus connu sous son nom de scène Akihiro Miwa, est un chanteur, acteur, auteur et drag queen japonais. En tant qu'acteur, il est connu pour avoir doublé des personnages dans les films de Hayao Miyazaki Princesse Mononoké (1997) et Le Château ambulant (2004).

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title: Princess Mononoke

overview: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

title: The Hunchback of Aomori

overview: This is Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa).  Terayama gathered dwarfs, circus freaks, itinerant magicians, acrobats and untrained youth for his burgeoning troupe, Tenjo Sajiki. The troupe's premiere offering, written and directed by Terayama, was Aomori-ken no Semushi Otoko (The Hunchback of Aomori, 1967).

title: Black Lizard

overview: A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

title: Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

overview: An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.

title: Woman Unveiled

overview: A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the husband. The household dynamic is further disrupted by the arrival of a bold friend from Osaka and the wife's chance encounter with a former flame.

title: Black Rose Mansion

overview: When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.

title: The Japanese Belly Button

overview: Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

character: Business man / Yakuza / Assistant professor

title: Ai no Noutan

title: Harmagedon

overview: From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is… Genma. Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a cybernetic crusader from a world long since ravaged by Genma. Determined to spare the Earth from a similar fate, Luna and Vega must try to mobilize the most potent psychics in the world. Together, this army of fledging psychic warriors must succeed where billions have tried... and failed. But will they be able to gather their champions in time? Genma’s agents are already on Earth to ensure that their master meets with no opposition!

title: Takeshis'

overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

title: Miwa: A Japanese Icon

overview: A legendary entertainer and a pioneer of gay activism, Miwa was born Akihiro Maruyama. As a young singer, Miwa popularized androgyny as a fashion statement, fusing the masculine and the feminine into a signal of a new generation of aesthetics. This evolved into performing as a woman and living off-stage as a man. With glitter, wit, evening gowns, and enchanting storytelling, Miwa looks back over a 50-year career and a fascinating life in music, film, and television.

title: Invitation to the Enchanted Town

overview: Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".

title: The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

overview: Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

title: Warm Current

overview: The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

title: The Three Ginza Rascals

overview: Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.

title: The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

overview: A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

title: Toy Reanimator

overview: Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with tin toys. There's one particular tin toy he loves more than the rest. In walks a girl wearing shades, and starts telling her own story, a weird and fascinating experience she had with a toy.

title: Maria of the Ant Village

overview: Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.

title: The Capital of Love

overview: Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.

title: Howl's Moving Castle

overview: Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

title: Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

overview: When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.

original_title: 劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド&パール アルセウス 超克の時空へ

title: Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance

overview: 16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

title: La Marie-vison

overview: "La Marie-Vison" tells the perversely fascinating tale of Marie, a transvestite prostitute who lives in elegant squalor with her dedicated servant. Every day, for eighteen years, Marie releases an exotic butterfly into the open fields of the living room. Every day for eighteen years the beautiful boy, imprisoned in her den, catches and kills it.  The beautiful boy is tempted with visions of the outside world, free from the wiles of wicked Marie, but maybe the boy wasn't made for the outside world.  Maybe none of us were.

title: Brutal Battle

overview: The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale agreement with Showa Nakajima from Japan, and shortly before leaving for Japan, someone attacked him. Before he died, before he lost consciousness, he transferred all the rights to the company to his close confidant Murota and told him to transfer them to his daughter, whom he left in Japan 20 years ago. Murota, who inherited Liu's will, went to Japan. However, the gang of James Howe, the head of the Hong Kong trading world, was waiting for him, seeking to obtain the rights to Almond Cola…

title: Ginza Tomboy

overview: A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past corruption and starts anew.

title: Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash

overview: Nagasaki, 1945. Three nursing students, Tanaka Sumi, Ohno Atsuko, and Iwanaga Misao, return home when school is closed due to air raids, and spend some peaceful time with family and friends. However, at 11:02 AM on August 9th, the atomic bomb is dropped, and their daily lives are instantly shattered. The city is reduced to ruins, and despite their inexperience, the nursing students rush to provide medical care to the injured. Faced with the cruel reality that more lives must be buried than can be saved, the women continue to question the value and meaning of life.

title: The Hunter's Diary

overview: Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

title: The Betrothed

title: Unmarried

overview: A comedy set in Ginza that explores the lives of teenagers.

title: Princess Mononoke

title: The Hunchback of Aomori

title: Black Lizard

title: Woman Unveiled

title: Black Rose Mansion

title: The Japanese Belly Button

title: Ai no Noutan

title: Harmagedon

title: Takeshis'

title: Miwa: A Japanese Icon

title: Invitation to the Enchanted Town

title: The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

title: Warm Current

title: The Three Ginza Rascals

title: The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

title: Toy Reanimator

title: Maria of the Ant Village

title: The Capital of Love

title: Howl's Moving Castle

title: Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

original_title: 劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド&パール アルセウス 超克の時空へ

title: La Marie-vison

title: Brutal Battle

title: Ginza Tomboy

title: Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash

title: The Hunter's Diary

title: The Betrothed

title: Unmarried

original_name: メーテルリンクの青い鳥 チルチルミチルの冒険旅行