Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan, and the second daughter of Higuchi Noriyoshi, a low-ranking official in the Tokyo Prefecture. She is recognized as the first professional female writer in modern Japan. She began her education at Hongo Elementary School in 1877 but withdrew…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Okamoto Kido

Okamoto Kido was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Okamoto Keiji (岡本啓二). He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the age of three, he began studying classical Chinese texts under his father's guidance, and at nine, he began learning Chinese…

Kosai Sekine

Kosai Sekine is a Japanese short film director. His sophisticated and witty sensibility is evident throughout all his work. His outsized creativity and storytelling stands poised at the crest of a new wave of branded and interactive content in Japan’s creative community. Sekine made his debut in 2005…

Nakazawa Yuko

Nakazawa Yuko is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume. Yuko Nakazawa was one of five runners-up in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese rock idol. After…

Kayama Mika

Kayama Mika is a former Japanese gravure idol, actress, and former AV actress from Kanagawa, Japan. Her previous stage name was Oda Arisa (小田有紗 ). She began her career in 2004 as a gravure idol affiliated with Anchor Agency, releasing the image video and photo book "touch me, baby" in July through…

Setoyama Misaki

Misaki Setoyama was born in Tokyo in 1977. After graduating from the Waseda University’s School of Political Science and Economics, she worked as a freelance journalist before, and for a while after, starting Minamoza in 2001 — the theater company she founded on determinedly gender-blind, non-hierarchical…

Minami Akina

Minami Akina, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese gravure idol and tarento signed to Free Style Company. She has been dating Japanese comedian and actor Hamaguchi Masaru since 2014. They married in May 2018. On July 20, 2022 they announced that they have welcomed their first child, a baby boy.

Tsuruta Koji

Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…

Uemura Tomoya

Uemura Tomoya, known simply as Tomoya, is a Japanese singer, dancer and member of NEXZ (ネクスジ / 넥스지). Before debuting, he spent 2 years and 7 months as a trainee at age 13, though has been dancing since the age of four and participated in the "All Japan Super Kids Dance Contest 2016" and…

Benitsu Bame Oyuki

Oyuki, the daughter of a master swordsman in the Yaegaki-style, is a skilled practitioner of the secret technique "flying sword". She embarks on a journey alongside the naive samurai Isawa no Fujiyoshi, hailing from…

Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro

10.0

The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture). Average rating of 40.2% ~~ Based on the life of a famous two-man comedy act writer,…

Murakami Rena: Kyukyoku Meiki Tsuma

Tommy, also known as Tomio, runs a Western-style pornographic distribution company. The next purchase is Las Vegas. He came to Tomio’s guesthouse with his mistress, Reina. Men and women who were open to sex were…

Tabigara Sukurenai Osen

Unfolds on the bizarre journey of Osen, a gambler and wielder of the Yaegaki-style kodachi, and Ogin, a master pickpocket. (Source: Japanese = toei-video.co.jp || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the manga…

Mystic Flower Life Yukio Nakagawa

Documentary about avant-garde floral artist Nakagawa Yukio, known for his unorthodox style of using bunches of rotting tulips and entire heads of napa cabbage. Illuminates the secrets of his creativity through his…

TRICK: The Movie

7.5

Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing…

Aozora no Tamago

7.6

Torii is a hikikomori who can make deductions even when he's given a very small amount of information. His friend Sakaki works in an insurance company, and he's the only person who can help Torii to break out of his…

From Me to You

7.7

Well-meaning but socially awkward, Kuronuma Sawako is nicknamed "Sadako" by her high school classmates because of her similar hair style with the main character from the horror movie "Ring." She doesn't have friends…

From Me to You

7.9

Well-meaning but socially awkward, Kuronuma Sawako is nicknamed "Sadako" by her high school classmates because of her similar hair style with the main character from the horror movie "Ring." She doesn't have friends…

Gokusen Season 2

8.0

Half a year has passed, and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko finds herself a teacher of a few young kids, who don't really benefit much from her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate, she is…