Shido Nakamura is a Japanese kabuki performer and actor who was born to a kabuki-performing father in Tokyo, Japan, on September 14, 1972. His movie credits include the 2002 film “Ping Pong,” as well as “Be with You (2004). In 2006, he appeared in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Letters from Iwo Jima.” More recently, he appeared in “Character” (2021) and “Last of the Wolves” (also 2021).

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Manga artist Keigo Yamashiro (Masaki Suda) struggles to rise to the top of his craft due to his inability to create realistic villains. His fortune changes when he witnesses a brutal crime and spots the murderer (Fukase). Instead of revealing the killer's identity to the police, Keigo lies and uses the murderer's face as inspiration for his new manga series. The series becomes a hit – but there’s a horrifying twist: The violent events he depicts in his manga start occurring in real life. As fiction bleeds into reality, Keigo faces a dilemma – how far will he go to protect his secret and newfound success? This 2021 Japanese movie was directed by Nagai Akira.

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Kota Makabe

Takumi (Nakamura Shido) is a man who lives with his wife Mio (Takeuchi Yuko) and their six-year-old son. But when Mio dies suddenly, Takumi’s whole world falls apart. He is heartbroken, and left totally unsure how to make ends meet. He struggles to keep the house in order and his own health begins to suffer, leaving him blacking out on occasion and unable to stop his son from blaming himself for Mio’s death. The young boy’s only consolation is looking at a children’s book Mio once gave him. To book tells the story of a star that vanishes, but returns during the rainy season.

One day, as the heavy rains begin to fall, Takumi and his son come across what appears to be Mio, sitting in a woodland, taking shelter from the rain. But there’s a problem with this “version” of Mio – she doesn’t have any recollection of who she is, and does not recognize either of them. Takumi takes her in and begins to tell her the story of how they met and fell in love. But is this really his dead wife, come back to life? And is the story he is telling her really what happened all those years ago?

“Be With You” is a 2004 Japanese movie, based on a novel by Takuji Ichikawa, and directed by Nobuhiro Doi.

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