Yamada Sumiko

Yamada Sumiko was a Japanese actress.

Yamamoto Gaku

Yamamoto Gaku, born in Osaka, is a Japanese actor. He is the nephew of director Yamamoto Satsuo and older brother of actors Yamamoto Kei and Yamamoto Sen.

Nagasaku Hiromi

Harada Tomoyo

Harada Tomoyo is a Japanese actress.

Takito Kenichi

Takito Kenichi is a Japanese actor.

Sometani Shota

Sometani Shota is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo. He is known for his protagonist roles in Himizu and Parasyte. Sometani was a child actor. He has worked in both film and television, gaining his first leading role in Pandora's Box, a 2009 film adaptation of a Dazai Osamu novel. In 2011, he received…

Tsuchiya Tao

Tsuchiya Tao is a Japanese actress, model, and dancer. Her older sister, Honoka, works as a model, while her younger brother, Shimba, is also an actor and voice actor. Chosen from among 2,020 women auditioning for the part, Tsuchiya was cast in the starring role of "Mare", a morning drama serial aired…

Shishido Miwako

Shishido Miwako is a Japanese actress.

Minato Kanae

Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. In youth, she…

Yachigusa Kaoru

Yachigusa Kaoru was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957, she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. Since leaving the Revue, she had been active in film, television, and narration. Her husband, director Senkichi Taniguchi, died on October 29, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The couple had…

Full Moon Ryojo Mystery 9: Sora no Kaidan

Kohei and Ayako visited the 1st Ryozen Temple in Naruto City. They witness three women, Mitsue, Kaoru, and Eriko, arguing in the precincts. The three were called by a letter with the same text from an unknown sender…

Horse Bones

7.3

Mitsuo, a former lead singer of a punk rock group, is now a troubled middle-aged man. After making a mistake, he gets fired from his job at a construction job and is also kicked out of the employee dormitory. He then…

Seven Weeks

7.6

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo’s unknown past. Building…

Tora-san 43: Takes a Vacation

7.6

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together…

Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

7.3

Yuuichi Okano is a baby boomer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. His bald-head looks like a pecoross, a small onion. His Mother, Mitsue has dementia that began soon after her husband, Satoru, passed away 10 years…

Sayoko Is Back

6.5

Nishihama Junior High School is haunted by the legend of Sayoko. Every three years a student is chosen to play the role of Sayoko by his or her predecessor. Sayoko has three missions to accomplish. If they are completed…

Whale Restaurant

A documentary by Keiko Yagi that approaches whales from the perspectives of "food'' and "science". Whale was once the top protein source for Japanese people and was eaten more than cows, pigs, and chickens. However,…

The Day's Organ

7.6

Set towards the end of World War II, Itakura Kaede, who leads kindergartners, and Nonomiya Mitsue, who enjoys music, persuade the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned…

8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers

6.0

This sequel starts with Ayumu, as she wakes up at home in Gunma Prefecture- another suburb of Tokyo right next to Saitama. Living at home with her single father, helping family business- making and delivering konjak,…

Tasha Tudor: A Still Water Story

Documentary exploring the lifestyle of the great American illustrated book author Tasha Tudor, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 92. Directed by Matsutani Mitsue, who documented Tasha's final years. Living in the…