Top Cast
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Kenichi Hagiwara
Kenichi Yamakawa (Shôken)
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Yuji Matsuzaki
Yuji Hara (Yotchin)
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Noboru Takahisa
Noboru
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Michiyo Aratama
Hisako
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Hiroshi Ohguchi
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Mika Hijiri
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Hisano Yamaoka
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Fujio Suga
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Akira Nagoya
Overview
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
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School Dance
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Metal Lords
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Coda
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Krush Groove
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Sunshine on Leith
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Grace of My Heart
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BECK
A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
Drumline: A New Beat
A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.
Jersey Boys
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.