Matsumura Tatsuo

Matsumura Tatsuo was born December 18, 1914 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa as the third son of his family. His father, Takeshige, served as a board member for Nippon Columbia. During college, he belonged to a rugby club. In 1938, he graduated from Hosei University and formed a theater troupe. He was recruited…

Kudo Asuka

Asuka Kudo is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Tokyo Gakkan High School and Tokyo University of Agriculture. He is represented by Papado. His father is a former professional baseball player(pitcher) Kimiyasu Kudo and his younger sister is professional golfer Haruka Kudo. He is the first and eldest…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

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…

Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Matsuda Seiko

Seiko Matsuda is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal idol" by the Japanese media. Matsuda was born in the Kamachi clan, which was from the Saga Genji line and was also a former sengoku daimyo of Yanagawa Domain. However,…

Takeda Rina

Rina Takeda is a Japanese actress and black belt in Ryukyu Shorin-ryu Karate. She was born on June 15, 1991 in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is currently represented by Sony Music Artists, Inc. Reportedly, Takeda was first inspired to get into karate at the age of 10 when she witnessed her father get eliminated…

Akimoto Sayaka

Akimoto Sayaka is a Japanese actress. She is a former member of AKB48's Team K, as well as the unit DiVA, until her graduation in 2013. She is a former captain of Team K. She was born to a Japanese father and a Filipina mother. As an actress, Akimoto has appeared in both Japanese and American productions…

Duel with Samurai

7.0

During the Ming dynasty in China, the coastal areas were rampant. A Wokou who refers to himself as the Nippon Ronin (Chan Hung Lit) colludes with the local coastal tyrants of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces and cult…

Ike! Ushiwaka Kotaro

4.0

It is a followup series to Go! Greenman and the fourth in a series of tokusatsu shows primarily produced by Toho and Nippon TV, though it does not share canon with any of the shows preceding it. (Source: Wikizilla)

Sanbyakurokujugoya: Tokyo-hen

Koroku, who hates marriage of convenience, loves Teruko, and Ranko, an Osaka girl, relentlessly longs for Koroku. (Source: Nippon Eiga)

Saiyuki

6.0

This remake of the hit series of the same title (aka Monkey), which was aired from 1978 to 1980 was made especially for the TV station Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)'s 40th anniversary, which also made…

For You

Work from the short film omnibus project Father, which heartwarmingly depicts parent-child relationships, and was produced through crowdfunding from individuals and corporations. Directed by Tsukinoki Takashi, who…

LEADERS II

7.7

In 1934, Japanese demand for automobiles has grown rapidly from the bitter experience of the disrupted logistics network as a result of the Great Kanto Earthquake 10 years earlier. Ford and General Motors from the…

Keibuho Usui Koichi - Mind

7.4

A manager at a real estate company has been stabbed to death and a high school teacher has been beaten to death with a metal bat at a different location. In addition, a police officer and a junior high school student…

Ninosan Special: Dream Derby

Derby matches, one of Ninosan's famous segment, got an upgrade in this 2 hour prime time special. Various celebrities, models, athletes, and even Nippon Television news announcers will be challenged in original competitions…

Origami

Atsushi Suwa, a painter, is offered a contract to paint a portrait of a couple’s deceased son. In order to learn about him, he studies photos of him and draws the faces of his family and a friend, who talk about…

We’re Millennials. Got a Problem? International

7.4

Masakazu, Yamaji, and Maribu belong to the so-called Yutori generation, notorious in Japan for its lack of ambition. Masakazu’s sake brewery is on the verge of bankruptcy, and his marriage is on the rocks. But the…