Yagira Yuya

Yagira Yuya is a Japanese actor. He won the Best Actor award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for his role in the highly acclaimed "Nobody Knows". Yagira earned the distinction of being Japan's first winner of a Cannes prize and the festival's youngest winner ever at age 14. The same year TIME magazine…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Sano Hiro

Hiro is an actor from Tokyo who graduated from Meiji Gakuin University (明治 学院 大学), and has been living in Thailand since 2001. Since moving to Thailand, he has become well known to Thai people through movies, dramas and television programs.

Gomi Kunitaro

He moved to Tokyo, and in 1900 (Meiji 33), when he was 25 years old, he joined the "Takada Minoru Ichiza", which was presided over by the new school Minoru Takada, and made many appearances in Hongo, Tokyo. In 1908 (Meiji 41), Yoshizawa Shoten started appearing in the movie studio Yoshizawa Shoten Meguro…

Ishiyama Katsumi

Ishiyama Katsumi is a Japanese actor and television host based in Tokyo. After leaving Meiji University’s Faculty of Literature, he joined the NBK Theatre Company in 1954. He has since worked across theater, film, television, and radio. (Source: MyDramaList)

Miyata Yasuo

Miyata Yasuo is a former Japanese actor from Tokyo, Japan. While studying at Tama River High School in Tokyo, in the spring of 1981, he was scouted by Ryunobu Sasaki, a CM director who was a regular customer of his family's restaurant and appeared in commercials for S.B. Foods' snack "Pafu Stick Corn".…

Matsubara Koji

Matsubara Koji was a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. After leaving the English literature department at Meiji Gakuin University, he joined Shintoho in 1959 and made his film debut under the name Matsubara Ryokuro (松原緑郎). In 1962, he joined Shochiku. After becoming a freelance actor,…

Funahashi Seiichi

Seiichi Funabashi was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Mito High School and later from the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. His younger brother, Kazuo Funabashi, was a screenwriter. Seiichi was a member of the Japan Art Academy and was recognized as a Person…

Kato Kazuo

Kato Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He attended Meiji Gakuin University briefly before leaving to pursue his acting career. Kato was initially affiliated with the Bungakuza theater company starting in 1946. In 1963, he helped establish the theater company Kumo and later…

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Before Dawn

4.0

Adapted from a novel of the same name written by Shimazaki Fujimura. 　Kisoji is all in the mountains. Shozo's son Azoyama Hanzo, who studied at Edo in the end of the Edo period, complains that the temple parasitizing…

Kusunoki Masashige

A 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in his attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura shogunate and is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty. His origin has not been validated…

Ryoma ga Yuku

This renzoku drama chronicles the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo where he meets many people who influence…

Mori Motonari

7.6

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 30

Reporter Asami Mitsuhiko travels to Hokkaido for the travel magazine Tabi to Rekishi, researching the history of the Kitamaebune trading ships. While visiting the Hokkai Yoshu distillery in Yoichi, he notices Mitsuidokoro…

Meijin Choji Bori

Meili

5.8

At 22, Mei Li has faced a life of abandonment and betrayal. Raised by her infertile sister after being left by their parents, she's sexually assaulted by her brother-in-law and secretly gives birth to a daughter. Harassed…

Dorobo Meijin

DOCTORS Saikyou no Meii Season 2

7.6

Surgeon Sagara Kosuke changed the mentalities of the doctors and nurses at Dogami General Hospital with a mixture of severity and cajoling. Before that, the hospital appeared to be a hopeless case. All the director…

DOCTORS Saikyou no Meii

7.7

A surgeon, Sagara Kosuke, resigned from the university hospital where he had worked for 12 years and is returning to work after taking a year off. He had agreed to himself to accept the first job offer that came around,…