Human Comedy in Tokyo

6.8

'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny splits in human relationships to light, and through the three episodes…

Taichi Kiwako

Taichi Kiwako, also known by her stage name Shimura Taeko, was a Japanese actress born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. She was separated from her biological mother shortly after birth and adopted by her foster parents, a fact she discovered during high school. Kiwako attended Ushigome Nakano Elementary School,…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Watanabe Chumei

Watanabe Chumei is a Japanese film and television score composer and orchestrator, who has also worked on tokusatsu shows and mecha anime. His son, Watanabe Toshiyuki, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series. For his work on anime, Watanabe Chumei received an Award of…

Ito Shiro

Ito Shiro is a Japanese comedian, actor, talent, and moderator born in Takecho, Shitaya-ku, Tokyo. He is a consultant to the Japan Comedy Association. He belongs to Orte Planning. His son is actor and talent Ito Takaaki. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Ichigaya Commercial High School, he hoped…

Ezawa Moeko

Moeko Ezawa was born on March 28, 1939 in Hyogo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ôedo: (Maruhi) onna isha arashi (1975), I Want To (1979) and Trap of Lust (1973). She passed away on December 26, 2022 at the age of 87.

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Kobayashi Satomi

Kobayashi Satomi is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She won the award for best newcomer at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for Exchange Students. She was previously married to screenwriter Koki Mitani. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takahashi Issei

Issei Takahashi, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer. Takahashi was born as the eldest son and, since his mother had married three times, he has four half-brothers, including the musician Yuma Abe. He looked after his younger siblings when they were infants and has been…

Nagatsuka Kyozo

Nagatsuka Kyozo is a Japanese actor, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: Asiacue)

Katsuji Ryo

Katsuji Ryo, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Horikoshi High School. He won the 29th Japan Academy Awards as Best Newcomer for Aegis (2006). He married actress Maeda Atsuko in July of 2018 after co-starring in the drama 'Dokonjo Gaeru' (2015) and movie 'Taberu Onna' (2018). They…

Tokyo Densetsu: Kyofu no Ningen Jigoku

5.7

Yumeaki Hirayama’s horror manga gets another adaptation. This movie consists in five different stories set in Tokyo, where the desires are swirling, random women are overwhelmed by unimaginable fear due to human…

Hitokowa 1: Evil Comes Home

6.4

An anthology of odd and eerie stories. Each one a contemporary precautionary tale. > Story 1 "A Friend's Secret" (知ってはいけない友達の秘密) > Story 2 "Wrong Number" (送り○チガイ) > Story 3 "What…

Ningen no Shomei

6.7

One day in Tokyo in 1974, a black youth with a scruffy appearance mysteriously dies inside a hotel elevator headed for the top floor. He had been stabbed deep in the chest with a knife. A single tear ran down his cheek.…

Ningen no Shomei

7.4

The police raid a club in Roppongi, Tokyo - a trendy area of the city that attracts youths and, more recently, drug trafficking. When a drug dealer tries to escape from a club with a gun in hand, the whole club goes…

Pikaresuku Ningen Shikkaku

2.0

In 1948, a man and a woman commit suicide by drowning in Tamagawa Aqueduct, Tokyo. The woman was a beautician Tomie, and the man was a writer Osamu. The story presents the events that led to this tragedy. ~~ Adapted…

Ningen no Tsubasa Saigo no Kyatchiboru

Adapted from Hidehiko Ushijima novel, "Disappearing Spring" (消えた春) . Inspired by real story of Shinichi Ishimaru, professional baseball player, who died as a member of the Kamikaze Special Attack Team in WWII.…

Ningen no Kuzu

2.0

At one point, the punk band vocalist Kiyujuro, who was also popular among critics, has abandoned his colleagues from the acid incident caused by the members and is now in a hot spring inn, run by his grandmother. However,…

The Fallen Angel

6.9

A depressed artist makes his way to Tokyo where, struggling with addiction, his attempts to connect with people are frustrated by his own self-loathing. (Source: Netflix Japan)