Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his music. Becoming a professional comedian, he appeared in many famous film comedies, such…

Miyazaki Masumi

Masumi Miyazaki is a Japanese actress and model born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, and made her film debut in the 1983 release "Aiko 16-sai", and was selected as the 11th Clarion Girl in 1985. Miyazaki has appeared nude in multiple films, including…

Naoto Inti Raymi

Nakamura Naoto, better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun." He was born in Mie Prefecture in Japan and later grew up in Chiba Prefecture. For two years from 2001, he used his given…

Shinoda Masahiro

Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Sano Shiro

Sano Shiro is a well known Japanese actor and director, born on March 4, 1955 in Yamanashi City, in the Yamanashi Prefecture. He directed the movie Tales of Terror from Tokyo Vol. 1. (Source: French Nautilijon)

Sanada Hiroyuki

Sanada Hiroyuki is a Japanese actor and stage actor working in Japanese and British plays and theatre. He is also known as a recording artist in Japan. In Asia, he is most famous for his martial arts roles and historical films. Outside of Japan, Sanada was often credited in his younger days as Henry,…

Musaka Naomasa

Musaka Naomasa is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His talent agency is Father's Corporation. (Source: EigaWiki)

Kataoka Tsurutaro

Tsurutarou Kataoka is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards, at the 13th Hochi Film Award and at the 10th Yokohama Film Festival for The Discarnates. -- Wikipedia

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal…

Sharaku Satsujin Jiken

IQ246: Kareinaru Jikenbo

7.3

Homonji Sharaku is the descendant of an esteemed, scholarly aristocratic family in Kita Kamakura, where the line of eldest sons have had a high IQ of 246 passed down from generation to generation. The present 89th…

Two Portraits of MIYAGINO

6.4

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving…

Unbound

7.5

In the mid-18th century, Edo, a metropolis with a population of over 1 million people, developed into one of the world's largest cities during a period of peace. Tsutaya Juzaburo, also known as Tsutashige, was born…

Genkai Shuraku: Kanketsu Special

Genkai Shuraku Kabushiki Kaisha

7.4

In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming. When Masato (Takashi…

Hotspring Sharkattack

5.9

There have been cases of mysterious disappearances of onsen visitors in Atsumi city in S prefecture. The victims were eventually found dead with signs of severe injuries to their bodies resembling a vicious shark attack.…

Welcome! Danjiki's Party

8.0

Shoraku, the deputy chief priest of Rakuji Temple, has been doing calligraphy classes to make money, but he failed. To get his money back, he decides to open a Fasting Dojo, offering a specific diet, in the menu. (Source:…