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[
"Confessions (2010 film)",
"main subject",
"revenge"
] | null | null | null | null | 11 |
|
[
"Jet Set Radio",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Jet Set Radio (originally released in North America as Jet Grind Radio) is a 2000 action game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. The player controls a member of a youth gang, the GGs, as they use inline skates to traverse Tokyo, spraying graffiti, challenging rival gangs, and evading authorities.
Development was headed by director Masayoshi Kikuchi, with art by Ryuta Ueda. The team drew influence from late 1990s Japanese popular culture such as the rhythm game PaRappa the Rapper and the anti-establishment themes in the film Fight Club. The environments were based on Tokyo shopping districts in Shibuya and Shinjuku, with graffiti designed by artists including Eric Haze. Jet Set Radio was the first game to use a cel-shaded art style, developed in response to the team's disappointment with the abundance of sci-fi and fantasy Sega games.
Jet Set Radio received acclaim and is considered one of the best video games of all time for its graphics, soundtrack and gameplay. It won several awards and was nominated for many others. A Game Boy Advance version, developed by Vicarious Visions, was released in 2003, along with versions for Japanese mobile phones. In 2012, Jet Set Radio was rereleased for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iOS, Windows, PlayStation Vita and Android. A sequel, Jet Set Radio Future, was released for the Xbox in 2002. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Jet Set Radio",
"different from",
"Jet Grind Radio"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"Robot Carnival",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Robot Carnival",
"performer",
"Joe Hisaishi"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Hachikō Monogatari",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Hachikō Monogatari (Japanese: ハチ公物語, Hepburn: Hachikō Monogatari, The Story of Hachikō) is a 1987 Japanese drama film directed by Seijirō Kōyama and starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino and Masumi Harukawa. The film depicts the true story of Hachikō, a loyal Akita dog who continued to wait for his owner, Professor Hidesaburō Ueno, to return from work for nine years following Ueno's death. It was the top Japanese film at the box office the year of its release.Plot
In 1923, a litter of Akita dogs are born on a farm in Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Mase, an agricultural engineer, decides to phone his mentor, agricultural professor Hidejiro Ueno of Shibuya, Tokyo, to let him know that he can have a male purebred Akita from the litter. Mase is answered by Ueno's daughter Chizuko Ueno, who becomes excited to take the puppy in. At her insistence, Ueno adopts the dog, although Ueno's wife disapproves of them getting another dog after the death of their previous Akita, Gonsuke.
The puppy arrives at Shibuya Station, having been transported there from Ōdate via a two-day train ride. Chizuko chooses to go to a concert with her fiance Tsumoru rather than collect the dog. Saikichi, a servant of the Ueno family, and Kiku, who brought Gonsuke to the crematory, fetch the puppy instead. Saikichi and Kiku assume the dog to be dead, but the puppy is proven to be alive when he drinks from a saucer of milk offered by Ueno. That night, Tsumoru informs Ueno that Chizuko is pregnant and that Tsumoru is responsible.
Ueno names the dog "Hachikō", or "Hachi" for short. Tsumoru and Chizuko marry and move away, leaving Ueno, his wife, and their servants to care for Hachi. As Hachi matures, Ueno develops a bond with him; he takes Hachi on walks, removes fleas from his fur, bathes with him, and on one rainy night, takes Hachi out of his doghouse and brings him inside their home to dry and sleep. Ueno commutes daily to work, and Hachi leaves the house to greet him at the end of each day at Shibuya Station, a habit which is noticed by two street vendors who sell food near the station.
On May 21, 1925, Ueno suddenly dies while giving a lecture to his class. Following Ueno's wake, a distressed Hachi breaks free from his chain and trails behind Ueno's funeral procession to Shibuya Station. Ueno's wife sells their house and asks an uncle in Asakusa to take Hachi in before moving back to her hometown of Taiji, Wakayama. However, Hachi finds his way back to Ueno's home in Shibuya, which is now occupied by new owners, one of whom dislikes dogs. Though he is briefly taken in by Kiku and his wife, Hachi is soon left without a home, and waits at Shibuya Station at the same time every day for Ueno to return from work.
Years pass and the street vendors continue to take notice of Hachi at the train station every day, and offer him food. A story about Hachi is published in The Asahi Shimbun, prompting Ueno's wife to return to Shibuya. She attempts to bring Hachi to an inn, but Hachi flees, returning to the vendors. Hachi waits at Shibuya Station each day, regardless of the weather, until his death on March 8, 1935. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Versus (2000 film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"Versus (2000 film)",
"different from",
"Versus"
] | null | null | null | null | 8 |
|
[
"The Bullet Train",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | The Bullet Train (新幹線大爆破, Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. "Shinkansen Big Explosion") (also known as Super Express 109) is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Satō and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.Plot
Tetsuo Okita is a former businessman who lost his manufacturing company to bankruptcy and separated from his wife and son a year earlier. Desperate to make ends meet and start over, he collaborates with activist Masaru Koga and his former employee Hiroshi Ōshiro in an elaborate plot to extort money from the government.
Hikari 109 is a high-speed 0 series bullet train carrying 1,500 passengers from Tokyo to Hakata. Shortly after the train's departure, railway security head Miyashita is notified by Okita that a bomb has been planted aboard and will explode if the train slows down below 80 km/h. As proof of the bomb's efficiency, Okita tells Miyashita that a similar bomb has been placed on freight train 5790 bound from Yūbari to Oiwake. When freight train 5790 indeed explodes, Hikari 109's conductor Aoki is informed by Shinkansen director Kuramochi not to slow down the train below 120 km/h while the security personnel aboard the train search for the bomb - thus delaying the trip to Hakata by three hours. Police officials back in Tokyo are tasked to either find the bomber or the bomb first.
Back aboard Hikari 109, passengers start becoming weary and demand for the train to stop when security does a second search. For the duration of the journey, Kuramochi must coordinate with Aoki on timing the train's speed and position to avoid incoming traffic while keeping it safe from the speed-sensitive detonator. Okita calls the National Railway authorities again; this time, he demands US$5 million in an aluminum suitcase in exchange for the safety of Hikari 109's passengers. As the Prime Minister prepares the ransom, police find their first lead when a cigarette pack containing fingerprints of Koga are found at Yūbari station prior to freight train 5790's departure.
Meanwhile, passengers aboard Hikari 109 start to panic when the train passes through Nagoya, with a pregnant passenger named Kazuko Hirao going into labor. As a means of settling down the passengers, co-engineer Kikuchi tells them of the bomb on board. National Railway officials are in further disdain when they realize that the bomb is attached to one of the train's wheels. Okita once more calls the officials and tells them to send the money northbound via helicopter and land at Yorii High School. Officer Senda, who carries the suitcase, is then instructed to cross the Arakawa River; upon reaching Iwate, the suitcase is roped and pulled up a cliff by Ōshiro. However, Ōshiro is forced to drop the case and retreat when police yell at a university judo team jogging nearby. Fleeing via motorcycle, Ōshiro finds himself tailed by several squad cars until he collides with one and is killed after hitting a light post.
The passengers once again panic when a businessman threatens to pull the emergency door latch open as the train passes through Shin-Ōsaka; they are further exacerbated when they hear of Ōshiro's death on the radio. Meanwhile, police locate Koga, but fail to arrest him, despite wounding him during the chase. Koga limps back into Okita's hideout to have his gunshot wound tended. Okita ponders on giving up his mission, as he has failed to prevent any bloodshed, but Koga convinces him to carry on. As police trace the bomb parts to Okita's former company in Shimura, Okita makes another phone call and tells Miyashita to drop the money at an abandoned truck by the Kanda motorway in 10 minutes. After the police do as instructed, Okita takes the suitcase and makes his getaway. Back aboard the train, Kazuko loses her baby in a miscarriage and is in need of a blood transfusion. Okita then calls Miyashita and tells him to pick up a diagram of the bomb at Sun Plaza cafe in Shinbashi. Unfortunately, the cafe is destroyed in a fire by the time police arrive. When the police surround Okita's hideout, Koga blows himself up with a stick of dynamite rather than turn himself in.
With no other options left, Kuramochi goes on television to make an appeal for Okita to help them disable the bomb. On the train, Shinji Fujio, a former accomplice of Okita being escorted after his arrest, reveals that Okita is on his way out of Japan using a false name. With the help of high-speed cameras, the Shinkansen authorities manage to locate the bomb underneath the second coach. Kuramochi relays the information to Aoki and sends a rescue train to provide welding equipment to cut an access hole where the bomb is. Aoki succeeds in defusing the bomb, but the authorities suspect a second bomb located elsewhere underneath the train. Despite this, the government gives the order to stop the train. Aoki manages to stop Hikari 109 without incident. As Kuramochi leaves the main control room to regain his composure, he discovers that his appeal is still being broadcast on TV. Miyashita explains that this is part of the police's trap for Okita. Overwhelmed by the pressure of the day's situation, Kuramochi resigns from his position.
Meanwhile, at Haneda Airport, Okita prepares to board his flight, but his cover is blown when his ex-wife Yasuko Tomita and son Kenichi spot him. He is shot dead while attempting to escape outside the airport. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The Bullet Train",
"main subject",
"terrorism"
] | null | null | null | null | 5 |
|
[
"Formula One Grand Prix (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Formula One Grand Prix (video game)",
"different from",
"F-1 Grand Prix"
] | null | null | null | null | 14 |
|
[
"Gamera vs. Jiger",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Gamera vs. Jiger",
"follows",
"Gamera vs. Guiron"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Gamera vs. Jiger",
"followed by",
"Gamera vs. Zigra"
] | Gamera vs. Jiger (ガメラ対大魔獣ジャイガー, Gamera tai Daimajū Jaigā, lit. 'Gamera vs. Giant Devil Beast Jiger') is a 1970 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, written by Niisan Takahashi, and produced by Daiei Film. It is the sixth entry in the Gamera film series, following Gamera vs. Guiron, which was released one year prior. Gamera vs. Jiger stars Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Burris, Katherine Murphy, and Kon Ohmura, and features the fictional giant flying turtle monster Gamera. The film was released theatrically in Japan on 21 March 1970, and did not receive a theatrical release in the United States, instead being released directly to television by American International Television in 1970 under the title Gamera vs. Monster X. The film was followed by Gamera vs. Zigra the following year. | null | null | null | null | 11 |
[
"Gamera vs. Zigra",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Gamera vs. Zigra (ガメラ対深海怪獣ジグラ, Gamera tai Shinkai Kaijū Jigura, lit. 'Gamera vs. Deep-Sea Monster Zigra') is a 1971 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, written by Niisan Takahashi, and produced by Yoshihiko Manabe and Hidemasa Nagata. It is the seventh entry in the Gamera film series, after Gamera vs. Jiger, which was released the previous year. Gamera vs. Zigra stars Eiko Yanami, Reiko Kasahara, Mikiko Tsubouchi, and Kōji Fujiyama, and features the fictional giant monsters Gamera and Zigra.
Shortly after Gamera vs. Zigra was completed, the film's production studio, Daiei Film, went bankrupt. As a result, the film was distributed by Dainichi Eihai, receiving a theatrical release in Japan on July 17, 1971. The film was not released theatrically in the United States, instead being released directly to American television by King Features Entertainment in 1987.Plot
In 1985, without warning, an alien spaceship attacks a Japanese Moon base. Back on Earth, young Kenichi (Kenny in the English dubbed version) Ishikawa, his father Dr. Yosuke (Henry in the English dubbed version) Ishikawa, his friend Helen Wallace and her father, Dr. Tom Wallace, witness the spaceship descending into the ocean. They go to investigate, but are soon captured by a teleportation beam that brings them aboard the spaceship. Inside the spaceship, a human-looking woman appears to them and reveals that she is of an alien race called the Zigrans. By way of demonstrating Zigran technological prowess, she creates a gigantic earthquake that wreaks havoc in Japan. She had previously caused two other earthquakes, one in Peru and the other in Arabia (in the English dubbed version, it mentions instead the Indian Ocean). She then tells her prisoners of the planet Zigra's history and its great scientific advances which, unfortunately, have resulted in its destruction; but in searching for a new home, Zigra has found Earth.
The woman contacts authorities on Earth and orders them to surrender, or she will kill her prisoners. Tom declares that the Zigran woman is insane and, in anger, she sends the two men into a hypnotic trance. Kenichi and Helen take action, successfully using the ship's control console to escape with their fathers. Enraged, Zigra orders the woman to go to Earth and kill the children. She says it would be simpler to kill all the people of Japan, but Zigra tells her that humans must be preserved so they can be used for food. Now Gamera, intent on discovering the identity of the alien interloper, flies in to save the day and rescues the children and their fathers. The U.N. authorities, after questioning Kenichi and Helen, resolve to attack Zigra. The Defense Force jets scramble, but the Zigran spaceship makes short work of them with its powerful lasers. The alien woman arrives on earth, disguised as a normal human, and begins her search for Kenichi and Helen. She hitches a ride with a Kamogawa Sea World dolphin trainer back to the facility, which the military is now using as its center of operations. She finds the two children, but before she can catch them, they run away from her.
Gamera begins an underwater assault on the Zigran spaceship, which transforms into a giant swordfish-like monster when hit by Gamera's flame breath. Zigra grows larger and larger and finally halts the heroic turtle with a ray that suspends his cell activity. Immobilized, Gamera sinks into the sea. Zigra then makes contact with the people of Earth, saying that they should give up and surrender all the seas to him. Back at Sea World, the dolphin trainer and the facility's scientists discover a way to break the alien's hypnotic control with sonic waves. Thus, they manage to disable the Zigran woman, only to learn that she is actually an Earthwoman named Chikako Sugawara (Lora Lee in the English dubbed version), who had been in a Moon rover during the initial lunar attack and was captured and used by Zigra. Drs. Wallace and Ishikawa employ a bathysphere in an attempt to wake Gamera, only to find that Kenichi and Helen have stowed away on board. Zigra suddenly attacks them and again demands the immediate surrender of Earth or he will destroy the bathysphere. The U.N. commander reluctantly agrees to the alien's terms.
An electrical storm approaches the bay and a couple of lightning bolts revive Gamera, who stealthily takes the bathysphere from the sea floor when Zigra is not looking and returns it to the surface. Gamera and Zigra face off a final time and Zigra, using his superior versatility underwater, slices Gamera's chest with his blade-like dorsal fin. Gamera takes hold of Zigra, flies into the air with him and then drops him at high speed, slamming the alien monster onto the land. Zigra stands up awkwardly on his tail fins in order to fight Gamera. Gamera further incapacitates Zigra by jamming a boulder through his nose, pinning him to the ground. Gamera grabs another boulder and uses it, like a mallet used to play a xylophone, to play the Gamera theme on Zigra's dorsal fins. Finally, Gamera kills Zigra by setting his body on fire with his flame breath, reducing the alien to ashes in a massive conflagration. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Gamera vs. Zigra",
"followed by",
"Gamera: Super Monster"
] | null | null | null | null | 11 |
|
[
"Gamera vs. Zigra",
"follows",
"Gamera vs. Jiger"
] | null | null | null | null | 12 |
|
[
"Ikki (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Gameplay
The game is set in medieval Japan, where a poor farming village is planning an insurrection to overthrow their feudal overlord. However, the only participants in the revolt are the player's character, Gonbe (ごんべ), and the optional second-player character, Tago (田吾), and the player battles against an army of ninjas instead of samurai and foot soldiers. The game displays text in the vertical direction, which was very unusual for a game of the period, and all in-game messages use speech reminiscent of jidaigeki films. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Felice...Felice...",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Plot
At the end of the 19th century, a photographer returns to Japan to find out his wife has vanished.Cast
Johan Leysen... Felice Beato
Toshie Ogura ... Ume
Rina Yasami ... O-Take
Noriko Sasaki ... Hana
Yoshi Oïda ... Matsukichi
Keiko Miyamoto ... Innkeeper
Yoshi Ota ... Ueno
Noriko Proett ... O-Koma
Rika Okemoto ... O-Tae
Megumi Shimanuki ... Kimiyo
Kumi Nakamura ... O-Kiku
Kyomi Yui ... Model
Peter Kho Sin Kie ... Man in rain
Daichi Taneko ... Playing boy
Machiko Okemoto ... Playing boy | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Kitchen (novel)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Kitchen (novel)",
"followed by",
"NP"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Ape Escape 3",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Ape Escape 3",
"follows",
"Ape Escape 2"
] | null | null | null | null | 8 |
|
[
"The War in Space",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"Joe Butterfly",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man. The movie was action star Murphy's only outright comedy, and it suffered by comparison to the similar Teahouse of the August Moon, released seven months earlier. The film was based on an unproduced play. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"If You Are the One (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Plot
Qin Fen (Ge), in his late forties, returns to China after many years overseas. He did not earn any degree while he was overseas but he is good at convincing others. After selling an "innovative invention" to a high-profile (but foolish) angel investor (Fan), Qin becomes a multimillionaire and with his new fortune, he decides to put an end to his bachelor life, advertising online for potential marriage partners, to apply "if you are the one", that is, only if they are sincere.
He encounters various candidates, from a homosexual former workmate, a cemetery saleswoman with a thick southern-Chinese accent, a pathological amnesiac, an ethnic minority pecking hen, an asexual widow, an expectant single mother (Hsu), and a stock-holding trader. Eventually, he crosses paths with air stewardess Liang Xiaoxiao (Shu), who previously had a painful love affair with a married man (Fong). Qin strikes up an unexpected friendship with Liang, and they start dating, under the agreement that Liang's heart will always be with her previous lover. Qin sets out to woo her completely, and their business-like arrangement eventually blossoms into love during a trip to Hokkaido.Production
If You Are the One was filmed in locations throughout Beijing and Hangzhou in China, and Hokkaido in Japan from August, 2008 to October, 2008. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"69 (novel)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | 69 (シクスティナイン, Shikusutinain) is a roman à clef novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published first in 1987. It takes place in 1969, and tells the story of some high school students coming of age in an obscure Japanese city who try to mimic the counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo and other parts of the world.Synopsis
Thirty-two-year-old narrator Kensuke Yazaki takes a nostalgic look back at the year 1969, when he was an ambitious and enthusiastic seventeen-year-old, living in Sasebo, in Nagasaki, where he gets into antics with his equally ambitious and enthusiastic best friends, Iwase and Adama.
Their priorities are girls, cinema, music, literature, pop culture, organizing a school festival to be called "The Morning Erection Festival", besting teachers and enemies, and finding a way to change the world somehow. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Black Rose Mansion",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Clione no Akari",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Pennington's Choice",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Closet Monster (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Closet Monster is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by Stephen Dunn. It stars Connor Jessup as a closeted gay teenager, using elements of the body horror genre as a metaphor for internalized homophobia.It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Feature. The film went into general theatrical release across Canada in July 2016. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Closet Monster (film)",
"main subject",
"homosexuality"
] | Closet Monster is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by Stephen Dunn. It stars Connor Jessup as a closeted gay teenager, using elements of the body horror genre as a metaphor for internalized homophobia.It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Feature. The film went into general theatrical release across Canada in July 2016.Plot
When eight-year-old Oscar Madly finds out that his parents are getting divorced, he retreats into a fantasy world filled with happy memories and conversations with his talking pet hamster, Buffy. One night, the young Oscar witnesses a violent homophobic attack on a teenage boy, whose attackers impale him with a metal rod.
Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Oscar is close to graduating and is in the process of applying to a special effects make-up school in New York City. He gets a job at a hardware store in hopes of spending less time with his father, who is casually childish and homophobic. At work, Oscar is drawn to a new employee, the confident and charismatic Wilder, but a sharp pain in Oscar's stomach warns him away. At home, Buffy tells Oscar that he seems happier and suggests that he is in love, a notion he quickly dismisses. Later, Oscar smells a shirt he lent Wilder, attempting to masturbate, but is interrupted by another intense stomach pain.
Oscar and Wilder's friendship develops as Oscar's interactions with his father get increasingly strained. Wilder is fired from the hardware store and decides to move away, inviting Oscar to a goodbye costume party. Returning home to prepare for the party, Oscar finds out that he has been rejected from the make-up school, the only one to which he applied. His father discovers him trying on some of his mother's clothes and the two have a heated argument. Oscar forces his dad into a closet and races over to the party. Oscar spends the night trying to work out whether or not Wilder is gay, and has a brief sexual interaction with Andrew from Texas before having painful hallucinations. After passing out, Oscar is roused by Wilder, who takes them back to Oscar's treehouse. Lying together, Wilder asks Oscar how long he has known he was gay, a question Oscar initially tries to avoid, but eventually he admits that he is confused and they finally kiss.
When Oscar wakes, Wilder is gone. Not wanting to see his father, he goes to his mother's house and confronts her for abandoning him in the divorce. She comforts him and suggests that he come live with her. Realizing that he has left Buffy at his father's, Oscar hurries back to retrieve her. Oscar's room has been destroyed by his father, who refuses to tell him where his hamster is. His mother arrives and as his parents fight, Oscar searches for Buffy, eventually finding her corpse in his belongings. His stomach pain returns with a vengeance and he hallucinates a metal rod bursting out of him. He rips it from his body and threatens his father.
At his mother's house, Oscar confesses that he didn't get into the only college he applied to. She suggests an artist's colony on Fogo Island where he can express his creativity. After arriving on the island, he has a final conversation with Buffy and accepts the truth about himself. Buffy reveals her truth to Oscar: that she is obviously not the original hamster from his childhood and that she has been replaced many times by his parents. He places her into a small wooden boat and pushes her body out to sea. He returns to his room and thinks back on happier times with his father.Cast
Production
Closet Monster is Dunn's feature film directorial debut. The film is inspired by Dunn's experiences growing up as a gay teenager in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Dunn said a series of gay hate crimes in St. John's when he was growing up had a strong impact on him, his coming out and dealings with internalized homophobia.The film was shot primarily in St. John's, with an additional scene shot on Fogo Island, and is a Rhombus Media and Best Boy Entertainment production. The film was funded and produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation, The Harold Greenberg Fund and Rogers Telefund. The film was distributed by Elevation Pictures in Canada, with Fortissimo Films handling international sales. | null | null | null | null | 6 |
[
"Bad Santa 2",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Bad Santa 2 is a 2016 Christmas black comedy drama film directed by Mark Waters and written by Shauna Cross and Johnny Rosenthal. A standalone sequel to the 2003 film Bad Santa, the film stars Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Kathy Bates, and Christina Hendricks, and features criminals Willie and Marcus again teaming up to work as Santa and an elf, respectively, this time to rob a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.
Principal photography began on January 11, 2016, in Montreal, and the film was released in the United States on November 23, 2016, by Broad Green Pictures. In contrast to the original film, it received generally negative reviews and grossed $24.1 million worldwide against its $26 million budget (less than a third of the original film's $76.5 million), making it a box-office bomb. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Bad Santa 2",
"follows",
"Bad Santa"
] | null | null | null | null | 12 |
|
[
"The Outsider (2018 film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"7'scarlet",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Gameplay
7'scarlet is a visual novel in which the player reads through the story, and makes choices that affect the direction of the story; they need to replay the game multiple times and take different paths to uncover the whole story. The player character has a default name, but the player may change it if they wish; if they use the default name, dialogue mentioning the player character by name will be voiced. Throughout the game, items are added to the player's "TIPS" glossary, including explanations of terms and background stories for characters and locations.Plot
The game follows Ichiko Hanamaki, a college student whose brother has disappeared in the town of Okunezato a year prior to the start of the game. She and her childhood friend Hino Kagutsuchi find a website discussing mysteries surrounding the town, which will host an offline meetup in the town during the summer; Ichiko and Hino go there to investigate Ichiko's brother's disappearance. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Isle of Dogs (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Isle of Dogs (film)",
"different from",
"Isle of Dogs"
] | null | null | null | null | 35 |
|
[
"Blade of the Immortal (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Blade of the Immortal (film)",
"based on",
"Blade of the Immortal"
] | null | null | null | null | 10 |
|
[
"Blue Reflection",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"Blue Reflection",
"followed by",
"Blue Reflection: Second Light"
] | null | null | null | null | 24 |
|
[
"Wild Sumac",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Absolute Drift",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Mirai (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Mirai (Japanese: 未来のミライ, Hepburn: Mirai no Mirai, literally "Mirai of the Future") is a 2018 Japanese animated adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu. It premiered on May 16, 2018 at Directors' Fortnight and released in Japan on July 20, 2018. The film stars the voices of Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino, Kumiko Aso, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho and Masaharu Fukuyama.It was released on August 23, 2018 in Australia, September 20 in New Zealand and November 2 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was released on November 29 in the United States and Canada. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, Best Animated Feature at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards and Best Animated Feature at the 91st Academy Awards, losing all three to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; it is the sixth anime film, and the first non-Ghibli anime film, to receive an Academy Award nomination in the category. The film also won Best Animated Feature — Independent at the 46th Annie Awards. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Mirai (film)",
"main subject",
"family"
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Hosoda was partially inspired to write the script for Mirai after seeing his then-three-year-old son's first reactions to having a baby sister in his life. While initially only cautious of the newborn when meeting her for the first time, Hosoda's son threw a tantrum one day, jealous of the attention that his parents were giving his sister. Hosoda's curiosity with how his son reacted, and how he would adapt to being a big brother, prompted him to make the protagonist of Mirai four years old.By making the protagonist so young, Hosoda wanted to capture what life would be like at such a young age. To do this, he brought his own children to the Studio Chizu office so that animators had plenty of reference material to sketch and animate from. Hosoda also wanted to use the fantasy elements of Mirai to propel inner character development, stating, "[...] when the main character meets other people through those elements and changes — it’s not those elements that help him change; it’s really what he feels inside.” Since Mirai was about "how a family can change but always [remained] itself", Hosoda chose to have the film take place in Yokohama, a "city that is constantly changing".Kun's great-grandfather's story was loosely based on Hosoda's wife's great-grandfather, who also worked on warplanes and became injured in wartime conflict.To achieve better authenticity, Hosoda worked with professionals outside of the animation industry to design some of the assets used in the film. Kun's family's house, designed on-screen by Kun's father, was actually designed by real-life architect Makoto Tanijiri. For the sequence where Kun is alone at the train station, Hosoda consulted with Japanese engineer Hideo Shima, designer of Japan's bullet train, to create a model of the shinkansen that was more frightening. In addition, the paper cutouts of strangers that Kun meets were designed by children's book author and illustrator duo Tupera Tupera, whose books his son loves. | null | null | null | null | 16 |
[
"Mirai (film)",
"main subject",
"time travel"
] | null | null | null | null | 30 |
|
[
"The Lie (2018 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The Lie (2018 film)",
"based on",
"We Monsters"
] | The Lie is a 2018 psychological horror film written and directed by Veena Sud. The film is a remake of the 2015 German film We Monsters, and stars Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King. Jason Blum serves as a producer under his Blumhouse Television banner.
The Lie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2018. It was later released on October 6, 2020, by Amazon Studios, as the first installment in the anthological Welcome to the Blumhouse film series. | null | null | null | null | 18 |
[
"Man from Montreal",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Fat Buddies",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Hello World (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Voice cast
Takumi Kitamura as Naomi Katagaki:A 16-year-old high school student living in Kyoto in 2027 and the film's protagonist. Kitamura's experience as a library committee member in his elementary days made him understand his character in the film as a "soft and warm boy" who spends time feeling comfortable with books.
Tōri Matsuzaka as adult Naomi Katagaki / Sensei:Naomi Katagaki's future-self from 10 years later in 2037 and a chief officer in Alltale Management Facility. Matsuzaka was a "little worried" about what kind of animal he would be voicing in this film after dubbing the main character in Paddington (2014) but was relieved to find out it would be a human being instead.
Minami Hamabe as Ruri Ichigyō:Naomi Katagaki's classmate and a fellow book committee member. Hamabe described her character in the film as an "honest and clumsy girl, [with] a strong core". Despite being not used to voice acting, she was given "trial and error" by Itō.Also appearing in the film are Haruka Fukuhara as Misuzu Kadenokōji, the class idol who become friends with Ichigyō; Minako Kotobuki as Yiyi Xu, adult Katagaki's Chinese subordinate; Rie Kugimiya as the crow; and Takehito Koyasu as Tsunehisa Senko, adult Katagaki's colleague and professor at Alltale Management Facility. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
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"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"simulated reality"
] | null | null | null | null | 24 |
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[
"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"resurrection"
] | null | null | null | null | 26 |
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[
"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"mortality"
] | null | null | null | null | 29 |
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[
"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"afterlife"
] | null | null | null | null | 35 |
|
[
"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"death of a close person"
] | null | null | null | null | 43 |
|
[
"Hello World (film)",
"main subject",
"digital immortality"
] | null | null | null | null | 49 |
|
[
"Hell Girl (film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Hell Girl (Japanese: 地獄少女, Hepburn: Jigoku Shōjo) is a 2019 Japanese film adaptation of the anime series of the same name by Takahiro Omori. It is directed by Kōji Shiraishi and distributed by GAGA Pictures and Constantin Film. It was released on November 15, 2019.Plot
In 1965, a teenage girl uses the Hell Correspondence to contact Ai Enma, the Hell Girl, a mysterious figure who can send someone who you have a grudge against to Hell in exchange for forfeiting your own soul to Hell once you die. She sends a girl who has bullied her to Hell, but shows regret. Ai tells her that there's no point, as it is already done. In 2019, that same girl, now aged and ill, has told her journalist son, Jin Kudo, her story right before she dies. He then publishes the story.
High schooler Miho Ichikawa attends a concert by Maki, a charismatic rising musician, where she is groped by a pervert. Another girl, Haruka Nanjo, who is obsessed with Maki, saves her and the two become close friends. Miho skips school to go with Haruka to a concert by Sanae Mikuriya, a popstar. During the concert, a man jumps on the stage and slashes Sanae's face with a knife. Kudo and Maki, who were in attendance, detain him. Sanae is taken home and becomes distraught after seeing the scars on her face. She comes across Kudo's article, and at midnight, goes to the Hell Correspondence site and types in the name of her attacker, Nagaoka Takuro. She sees a vision of Hell, and meets Ai, who gives her a straw doll with a red thread tied around it. She is told that once the thread is untied, Nagaoka will be sent to Hell, but when she dies, Sanae will also go to Hell.
Sanae meets with Kudo to discuss the Hell Correspondence, and he advises her to not pull the thread, and to move on with her life. However, pushed over the edge by a cruel letter from Nagaoka, Sanae pulls the thread in front of Kudo, and the doll dissolves. Nagaoka is dragged to Hell. His mother goes to the Mikuriya residence to beg forgiveness. Sanae tells her that she sent her son to Hell, and resumes her singing career with Maki as her manager.
During Sanae's performance, Ai appears before Sanae and says she must take her to Hell. She explains to the confused Sanae that Nagaoka's mother had put her name in Hell Correspondence and has just pulled the thread. Later, Nagaoka's mother visits Sanae's parents and commits suicide.
After Sanae's disappearance, Maki held an audition to replace Sanae. He chose Haruka as the new soloist. He made Haruka eat the drugs he is taking called "candies" then they kissed. Afterwards, Haruka meet with Miho who is still waiting for her after the auditions however Maki told her to stay away from Haruka since she is not pure.
One day, Miho goes to Haruka's residence wherein she saw that Maki drove Haruka home and they kissed before he leaves. Haruka entered her home and beat her mother. Bothered by the noise Miho decided to knock on the door. Haruka's mother opened it and Miho saw Haruka's mother bruised faced. Haruka showed up and beats Miho and told her to stay away from her.
Distraught Miho walks home thinking Haruka is being brainwashed by Maki. She goes to Kudo's apartment to find more information about Maki. Kudo confirmed that Maki is a dangerous man. He gives "candies" to everyone around him. Also, Kudo played a voice recorder wherein Maki is having a conversation with his henchman about killing Haruka during the live performance as a sacrifice to cleanse the world.
The next day, Kudo and Miho kidnaps Haruka and told her about the sacrifice. After being released, Haruka goes straight to Maki's house. She told him that Kudo knows about the drugs and the sacrifice without mentioning Miho is in it.
Kudo placed a bug in Haruka's bag and hears everything. Before he can send a text message to Miho that Haruka knows about the sacrifice, one of Maki's henchman knocked him out.
When he wakes up, he was in an abandoned building with Maki. Maki stabs Kudo, killing him. The next day, while Miho is having breakfast she hears about Kudo's murder and decided to access the Hell link by midnight to send Maki to hell.
Miho attended the concert and pulls the string of the doll sealing the contract with Hell Girl. Hell girl appears and sends Maki to hell. Miho jumped in the stage before the metal block collapsed, saving Haruka while Maki disappears.
Haruka and Miho reconcile and become friends again. Around the same time, Maki's disappearance and his true colors was finally revealed on publics. Causing both Maki's album and single's sales dropped rapidly and his men later arrested to the police thanks Kudo's testimony before his death. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Hell Girl (film)",
"based on",
"Hell Girl"
] | Hell Girl (Japanese: 地獄少女, Hepburn: Jigoku Shōjo) is a 2019 Japanese film adaptation of the anime series of the same name by Takahiro Omori. It is directed by Kōji Shiraishi and distributed by GAGA Pictures and Constantin Film. It was released on November 15, 2019.Plot
In 1965, a teenage girl uses the Hell Correspondence to contact Ai Enma, the Hell Girl, a mysterious figure who can send someone who you have a grudge against to Hell in exchange for forfeiting your own soul to Hell once you die. She sends a girl who has bullied her to Hell, but shows regret. Ai tells her that there's no point, as it is already done. In 2019, that same girl, now aged and ill, has told her journalist son, Jin Kudo, her story right before she dies. He then publishes the story.
High schooler Miho Ichikawa attends a concert by Maki, a charismatic rising musician, where she is groped by a pervert. Another girl, Haruka Nanjo, who is obsessed with Maki, saves her and the two become close friends. Miho skips school to go with Haruka to a concert by Sanae Mikuriya, a popstar. During the concert, a man jumps on the stage and slashes Sanae's face with a knife. Kudo and Maki, who were in attendance, detain him. Sanae is taken home and becomes distraught after seeing the scars on her face. She comes across Kudo's article, and at midnight, goes to the Hell Correspondence site and types in the name of her attacker, Nagaoka Takuro. She sees a vision of Hell, and meets Ai, who gives her a straw doll with a red thread tied around it. She is told that once the thread is untied, Nagaoka will be sent to Hell, but when she dies, Sanae will also go to Hell.
Sanae meets with Kudo to discuss the Hell Correspondence, and he advises her to not pull the thread, and to move on with her life. However, pushed over the edge by a cruel letter from Nagaoka, Sanae pulls the thread in front of Kudo, and the doll dissolves. Nagaoka is dragged to Hell. His mother goes to the Mikuriya residence to beg forgiveness. Sanae tells her that she sent her son to Hell, and resumes her singing career with Maki as her manager.
During Sanae's performance, Ai appears before Sanae and says she must take her to Hell. She explains to the confused Sanae that Nagaoka's mother had put her name in Hell Correspondence and has just pulled the thread. Later, Nagaoka's mother visits Sanae's parents and commits suicide.
After Sanae's disappearance, Maki held an audition to replace Sanae. He chose Haruka as the new soloist. He made Haruka eat the drugs he is taking called "candies" then they kissed. Afterwards, Haruka meet with Miho who is still waiting for her after the auditions however Maki told her to stay away from Haruka since she is not pure.
One day, Miho goes to Haruka's residence wherein she saw that Maki drove Haruka home and they kissed before he leaves. Haruka entered her home and beat her mother. Bothered by the noise Miho decided to knock on the door. Haruka's mother opened it and Miho saw Haruka's mother bruised faced. Haruka showed up and beats Miho and told her to stay away from her.
Distraught Miho walks home thinking Haruka is being brainwashed by Maki. She goes to Kudo's apartment to find more information about Maki. Kudo confirmed that Maki is a dangerous man. He gives "candies" to everyone around him. Also, Kudo played a voice recorder wherein Maki is having a conversation with his henchman about killing Haruka during the live performance as a sacrifice to cleanse the world.
The next day, Kudo and Miho kidnaps Haruka and told her about the sacrifice. After being released, Haruka goes straight to Maki's house. She told him that Kudo knows about the drugs and the sacrifice without mentioning Miho is in it.
Kudo placed a bug in Haruka's bag and hears everything. Before he can send a text message to Miho that Haruka knows about the sacrifice, one of Maki's henchman knocked him out.
When he wakes up, he was in an abandoned building with Maki. Maki stabs Kudo, killing him. The next day, while Miho is having breakfast she hears about Kudo's murder and decided to access the Hell link by midnight to send Maki to hell.
Miho attended the concert and pulls the string of the doll sealing the contract with Hell Girl. Hell girl appears and sends Maki to hell. Miho jumped in the stage before the metal block collapsed, saving Haruka while Maki disappears.
Haruka and Miho reconcile and become friends again. Around the same time, Maki's disappearance and his true colors was finally revealed on publics. Causing both Maki's album and single's sales dropped rapidly and his men later arrested to the police thanks Kudo's testimony before his death. | null | null | null | null | 5 |
[
"The Bronze Bride",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Shin Ultraman",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 3 |
|
[
"Shin Ultraman",
"based on",
"Ultraman"
] | null | null | null | null | 11 |
|
[
"Ape Escape 2",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Ape Escape 2",
"followed by",
"Ape Escape 3"
] | null | null | null | null | 12 |
|
[
"Ape Escape 2",
"follows",
"Ape Escape"
] | null | null | null | null | 18 |
|
[
"First Kiss (TV series)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | First Kiss (ファースト・キス, Faasuto Kisu) is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji TV in 2007. Mao Inoue played the lead role for the first time in getsuku drama. The first episode received a viewership rating of 19.7%. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"First Kiss (TV series)",
"different from",
"First Kiss"
] | null | null | null | null | 4 |
|
[
"First Kiss (TV series)",
"different from",
"First Kiss"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"Nobuta wo Produce",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Nobuta wo Produce (野ブタ。をプロデュース, Nobuta o Purodyūsu) is a Japanese television drama produced and aired in 2005 by NTV. The television show is based on the book of the same name by Gen Shiraiwa (ISBN 4-309-01683-9). The story follows the high school lives of Kiritani and Kusano as they attempt to make a shy Kotani into the most popular girl in school.Plot overview
Introducing Nobuta
Shuji Kiritani (Kazuya Kamenashi) is a very popular high school boy who is close to Mariko Uehara (Erika Toda), the most popular girl in school, but whom he does not actually love. Akira Kusano (Tomohisa Yamashita), his classmate, does not really have any friends - something that is attributed to the fact that he cannot read the atmosphere well, or rather, he chooses to ignore the atmosphere.
One day, a very shy girl, Nobuko Kotani (Maki Horikita) transfers to their school and is instantly picked on by a group of girls for her shyness. As a testimony to their youth, Shuji and Akira team up and decide to "produce" her, to make her popular. They nickname her "Nobuta". | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Sweet Home (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Ace Attorney Investigations 2",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Gyakuten Kenji 2, also known as Ace Attorney Investigations 2, is an adventure video game developed by Capcom. It was released in Japan for the Nintendo DS in 2011 and for Android and iOS in 2017. It is the sixth entry in the Ace Attorney series, and a sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009).
The game follows prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, detective Dick Gumshoe and the teenage thief Kay Faraday, who investigate five cases; they face off against judge Hakari Mikagami, a rival character who is part of a "prosecutor purge" that removes weaker prosecutors from duty. The gameplay is divided into two types of phases: investigations, where the player searches the crime scene for evidence and talks to witnesses, and rebuttals, where they aim to find contradictions in witnesses' testimonies using the evidence found during the investigations.
The development team, which included director Takeshi Yamazaki, producer Motohide Eshiro and character designer Tatsuro Iwamoto, created the game for the series' tenth anniversary and finalized its direction during a five-day stay in the Capcom Manor in 2010. The game took shorter than usual to create, as the developers had the original Ace Attorney Investigations to use as a base, leading to an increased focus on the game's story. Reviewers were positive about the game, citing its story and the new "logic chess" gameplay mechanic as highlights. Following the 2021 localizations of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and Resolve, it remains the only Ace Attorney game to not have seen an official English release, although a fan translation was released in 2014; video game publications have commented on the lack of an English release and included it on lists of games they wanted to see localized. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
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"Ace Attorney Investigations 2",
"follows",
"Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth"
] | Gyakuten Kenji 2, also known as Ace Attorney Investigations 2, is an adventure video game developed by Capcom. It was released in Japan for the Nintendo DS in 2011 and for Android and iOS in 2017. It is the sixth entry in the Ace Attorney series, and a sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009).
The game follows prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, detective Dick Gumshoe and the teenage thief Kay Faraday, who investigate five cases; they face off against judge Hakari Mikagami, a rival character who is part of a "prosecutor purge" that removes weaker prosecutors from duty. The gameplay is divided into two types of phases: investigations, where the player searches the crime scene for evidence and talks to witnesses, and rebuttals, where they aim to find contradictions in witnesses' testimonies using the evidence found during the investigations.
The development team, which included director Takeshi Yamazaki, producer Motohide Eshiro and character designer Tatsuro Iwamoto, created the game for the series' tenth anniversary and finalized its direction during a five-day stay in the Capcom Manor in 2010. The game took shorter than usual to create, as the developers had the original Ace Attorney Investigations to use as a base, leading to an increased focus on the game's story. Reviewers were positive about the game, citing its story and the new "logic chess" gameplay mechanic as highlights. Following the 2021 localizations of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and Resolve, it remains the only Ace Attorney game to not have seen an official English release, although a fan translation was released in 2014; video game publications have commented on the lack of an English release and included it on lists of games they wanted to see localized. | null | null | null | null | 14 |
[
"Siren (video game)",
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Siren is divided into stages, each taking place in one of ten areas in the village of Hanuda, and organized chronologically in a table called the "Link Navigator". In order to complete a stage, the player must accomplish a primary objective that usually involves reaching an exit point, subduing undead enemies called shibito, or finding an item. Objectives in different stages are interconnected via a butterfly effect, and a character's actions in one stage can trigger a secondary objective in another stage.
There are miscellaneous items scattered throughout each stage that give the player further insight into the plot's background. Once obtained, these items are archived in a catalog and can be viewed at any time during the game's duration. The game's player characters possess a psychic power known as "sightjacking", which enables them to see and hear what a nearby Shibito or human sees and hears, and thus pinpoint its position, as well as gain knowledge of their activities and of the position of obtainable items. The clarity of each target depends on the distance from the player character. Once a point of view is located, it can be assigned to one of certain buttons of the controller to easily switch between multiple points of view. However, the player character is unable to move during use of the ability and is thus vulnerable to attack.
The game encourages the player to avoid Shibito rather than fight them. Characters can walk silently, avoid the use of a flashlight, and crouch behind objects to elude detection. Certain mission objectives require the player character to use items and/or the environment to distract Shibito from their activity, in order for them to achieve a goal. Others require the player to escort a non-player character. Player characters can also shout at any time in order to get the attention of nearby Shibito. Within most stages, the player character can hide in certain places such as cupboards and lock doors to prevent Shibito from entering. When a Shibito hears a sound made by the player character, it will search in the direction from which they heard the sound. If a character is seen by a Shibito, the latter will pursue the character to kill them either with a melee or ranged weapon or by strangulation. The Shibito will also shout to alert other nearby Shibito. Once the character has remained out of the Shibito's sight for a period of time, the Shibito will give up and resume its usual habits. Weapons are available for the player throughout the game, ranging from melee weapons to firearms. While Shibito can be knocked out in combat, they cannot be killed and will reanimate after a short period of time. If a character is injured, they will eventually recover after a short period of time. Characters will also lose stamina during combat and while running, which will also naturally refill after a short amount of time.Plot
The story of Siren is told through the alternating perspectives of ten survivors of a supernatural disaster in the (fictional) rural Japanese town of Hanuda (羽生蛇村, in the Japanese version) in 2003 (Heisei year 15). These events are presented outside of chronological order and deal primarily with the efforts of the viewpoint characters to both escape the town and find answers to what has happened in the three days immediately following the disaster.
Initially presented as being merely an earthquake the disaster is rapidly shown to be far more bizarre and wide-ranging. The majority of the population has become infected with an unknown affliction that appears to severely damage cognitive function, causing them to bleed from the eyes, become violently hostile on sight towards anyone not also infected and seemingly immortal, able to recover and heal from even the most grievous of injuries in a short time. All natural water sources and rainfall in the town have been replaced with a strange liquid (referred to as "Red water") and the town, previously located in a mountainous region deep inland, has become an island surrounded on all sides by an ocean of the red water with no other land in sight. Furthermore, multiple sections of the town appear to have been replaced with past versions of themselves with buildings destroyed by landslides 27 years prior, although derelict as if abandoned for decades, suddenly reappearing or replacing their more modern counterparts.
It is revealed over the course of the game that Hanuda, which is a strongly isolationist community due to historical religious persecution, follows a unique syncretic faith known as the "Mana Religion" that incorporates many Christian and Shinto traditions. The senior figures of this faith, in particular the nun Hisako Yao, had attempted to call forth and appease their god Datatsushi (堕辰子) through ritual human sacrifice of a girl named Miyako Kajiro who they considered holy for her psychic abilities. When Kyoya Suda, an outsider to the town who had arrived to investigate online ghost stories, accidentally stumbles on the ceremony, Miyako, unwilling to be killed, uses the momentary distraction he provides to flee the scene and causes the ritual to fail. It is this failure that creates the disaster, pulling the entire town into another world where space and time are severely distorted.
The eponymous 'Siren' of the title, heard regularly all across the town throughout the game's events, is the Datatsushi's call, compelling Hanuda's residents to infect and immerse themselves in the ocean of red water, thus creating an army of subordinates called shibito (屍人, lit. "corpse people"). The shibito then go about building a nest to house the Datatsushi's corporeal form once it is summoned, as well as killing and converting any remaining humans left in Hanuda. Despite Kyoya being able to slay the Datatsushi at the end of the three days, the story concludes with only one of the ten viewpoint characters; elementary school student Harumi Yomoda escaping from Hanuda alive and returning to the real world, as she is the only remaining human in the town not infected in some way by the red water. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
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[
"64 Ōzumō",
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|
[
"Zen (2009 film)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Zen (禅) is a 2009 film directed by Banmei Takahashi and starring Nakamura Kantarō II as Dogen, and Yuki Uchida as Orin. The story is based on the novel Eihei no kaze: Dōgen no shōgai written by Tetsuo Ōtani in 2001.The film is a biography of Dōgen Zenji, a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. After travelling to China to study, Dogen founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. The Buddhist Film Foundation described it as "a poignant, in-depth, reverent and surprisingly moving portrait of Eihei Dogen." | null | null | null | null | 1 |
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"Zen (2009 film)",
"main subject",
"Dōgen"
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[
"F1 Pole Position 2",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Ganryu (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Ganryu is a 1999 side-scrolling hack and slash action-platform arcade video game developed and originally published by Visco Corporation exclusively for the Neo Geo MVS. It is loosely based upon the battle of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi on Ganryū-jima island against Sasaki Kojirō, who is also known as Sasaki Ganryū, hence the reasons for the abbreviated name of the game. In the game, players assume the role of either Musashi or Suzume on a journey to defeat a resurrected Kojirō and his legion of evil ninjas and monsters terrorizing Kyoto. A sequel, titled Ganryu 2: Hakuma Kojiro, was developed Storybird Studio and published by Just for Games and PixelHeart. It released on 22 April 2022 to generally mixed reception. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Japanese War Bride",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Japanese War Bride",
"main subject",
"Korean War"
] | null | null | null | null | 3 |
|
[
"MotoGP '07",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"7 Blades",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Plot
7 Blades is based on the 1990 film Zipang, directed by Japanese filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi. The game takes place in mid-17th century Japan, during which the Tokugawa shogunate was gaining power. The game is set on the man-made island Dejima, which the Japanese government is using to house Western foreigners and where a Christian group is trying to separate from the rest of the country. The main character is Gokurakumaru, a violent mercenary and poor womanizer. He travels with his gun-wielding love interest (Oyuri) and sidekick (Togizo). The latter provides comic relief and holds the swords as Gokurakumaru collects them one by one. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Bravoman",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"MotoGP (2000 video game)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
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[
"MotoGP (2000 video game)",
"followed by",
"MotoGP 2"
] | null | null | null | null | 8 |
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"Real World (novel)",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Real World is a 2003 novel written by Natsuo Kirino. It was published in English by Vintage Books on July 15, 2008. The story describes the lives of four teenage girls (Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan and Kirarin) and how they deal with a teenage boy who goes on the run after being accused of murdering his mother. It is a mosaic novel, featuring the perspectives of all five teenagers. The action takes place in a suburb of Tokyo. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Woman of Tokyo",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Anna in Kungfuland",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | Plot
Anna (Miriam Yeung) is an aspiring actress, and her father was a monk of the Shaolin temple who defected to Japan after representing the temple during a martial arts tournament. There he met a Japanese woman and later bore Anna. He starts a martial school in Japan, although he dreams of being reconciled with his former mates.
Anna enters a martial arts tournament, which she hopes will lead to her getting her acting career started. She falls in love with the marketing executive (Ekin Cheng) who organized the tournament. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Todome no Kiss",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Robotics;Notes DaSH",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"narrative location",
"Japan"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"main subject",
"friendship"
] | null | null | null | null | 25 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"main subject",
"loneliness"
] | null | null | null | null | 29 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"main subject",
"career choice"
] | null | null | null | null | 31 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"based on",
"Sound! Euphonium"
] | null | null | null | null | 37 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"main subject",
"self-discovery"
] | null | null | null | null | 39 |
|
[
"Liz and the Blue Bird",
"main subject",
"school graduation"
] | null | null | null | null | 40 |
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