Watase Tsunehiko

Watase Tsunehiko was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Koutei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle. His older brother is the actor Watari Tetsuya. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nakamaru Shinsho

Nakamaru Shinsho is a Japanese actor. His daughter was actress Nakamaru Shion who passed away on July 11, 2022.

Sato Ryuta

Ryuta Sato is a Japanese actor. His career in the entertainment business begun when he joined the music band Kisarazu Cat's Eye as a guitarist. He debuted as an actor in 2000 in the TBS drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park. He won best actor award at the 58th Television Drama Academy Awards for ROOKIES.

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Jinnai Takanori

Jinnai Takanori is a Japanese actor, film director, and singer. He was born in Okawa, Fukuoka. He made his directorial debut with Rockers (ロッカーズ or Rokkazu), a 2003 film based on his years as vocalist for the punk rock band The Rockers (ザ・ロッカーズ).

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…

Natsuki Shizuko

A pioneer of Japanese detective novelists, she was called the "Queen of Mysteries". The novelist Hitoshi Igarashi is her brother. Most of her titles, were adapted to the specials.

Saito Tatsuo

A prolific actor from the classic years of Japanese cinema. Saito Tatsuo is perhaps best known for featuring in the works of director Ozu Yasujiro, especially his early silent films. As time went on, Saito appeared less and less in this famous director's films, prompting questions as to why that linger…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Kawachi Tamio

Kawachi Tamio was a Japanese actor. He was a student at Kanto Gakuin University when Ishihara Yujiro, one of his neighbors in Zushi, Kanagawa, invited him to join the Nikkatsu studio. He made his debut in A Slope in the Sun (1958) playing Ishihara's younger brother. The studio initially sold him as…

Tama Minamisho Tatakiage Keiji: Chikamatsu Heikichi 7

A gang member is found dead on a riverbed with broken sunglasses and his scarf torn off. Perhaps because of the heavy rain on the day of the incident, those fragments could not be found. Chikamatsu Heikichi sets on…

Flowers and Rain

6.0

Yoshida, a returnee who spent his childhood in London, attends high school without being able to adapt to the Japanese atmosphere of a blocked and rural society. Eventually, as he started to distance himself from school,…

Azuki Beans and Raindrops

Yuki, who works for a real estate company, continues to live with Nobu, her ex-boyfriend who was supposed to have broken up with her. However, something happens that prompts Yuki to urge Nobu to leave her house. Meanwhile,…

Silent Rain

7.2

Yukisuke, a young bio-archeologist with a limp, gets to know Koyomi, a young woman, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk…

A Woman Wavering In The Rain

6.9

Using the alias of Kenji Iida, Norio lives a quiet life. Every morning, he changes into the other person and leaves for work. He works at a factory and never talks about himself there. One day, a male co-worker asks…

It Rains, and It’s the End

Hiyori, who dreams of becoming a photographer, works part-time while uploading her own photos on social media. Despite being fed up with the workplace harassment from her boss, Mutsumi, and having limited options other…

Jack and Betty Monogatari

~~ Adapted from the textbook "The Jack and Betty Story: There Was Always America" (ジャック・アンド・ベティ物語―いつもアメリカがあった) by Konno Tsutomu (今野勉) and Horikawa Tonko (堀川とんこう…

The Gift of Your Heart

7.7

Aihara Ame, once insecure in high school in Nagasaki, found solace in Asano Taiyo, the only person who treated her warmly. After graduation, she moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming a patissier, never revealing…

Dare to Love Me

7.1

Sin Yun Bok, a disciplined scholar from Seongsan Village, South Korea, is entrusted with the important task of preserving the heritage of the Joseon Dynasty and recovering valuable cultural artifacts for his family.…