Hasegawa Shin

Hasegawa Shin was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1911, he joined a Tokyo newspaper as a journalist. In 1917, he wrote his first novel in the "Narration Club", and in 1927, he founded, with Edogawa Ranpo and other prominent writers, an association to propel…

Sasaki Keisuke

Sasaki Keisuke was a Japanese film director from Tokyo. He graduated from the Fisheries Department of Miyagi Commercial School. Sasaki joined Kaoru Osanai's shingeki movement and joined Shochiku Kinema when it was founded in 1920.

Ichikawa Chieko

She is actress and voice over actress from Osaka prefecture, Japan.

Hattori Takayuki

Hattori Takayuki was born in Tokyo in November 21, 1965. He has worked as a composer, music arranger and musician since 1988. After dropping out of Seikei High, he attended The Conservatoire de Paris. He made his debut as a composer through 1990's "Daihyo Torishimariyaku Deka". In 2010, he served as…

Aso Yumi

Okumura Yumi, better known by the stage name Aso Yumi, is a Japanese actress. She is the niece of singer Chiyo Okumura. She married actor Nagasawa Toshiya in March 2004, and they had one child. The couple separated less than two years later, and officially divorced in 2008.

Ishiguro Hideo

Ishiguro Hideo is a japanese actor under the agency Production Ogi. He was born on January 10th in 1989. He is 180cm tall and weights 64kg. He won the 17th JUNON Superboy Contest in 2004 and in 2005 he debuted as an actor with Gokusen 2.

Ikuta Erika

Ikuta Erika is a former member of Nogizaka46's 1st Generation. She passed Nogizaka46's first-generation member audition in 2011. The group made its CD debut in 2012. She left the group on December 31, 2021, and plans to continue her activities in showbiz. On January 1, 2022, she signed with Ohta Production.

Kichise Michiko

Kichise Michiko is a Japanese fashion model and actress. She was born in Fukuoka. She is currently represented by FLaMme talent office. She reported on her blog that she got married on Christmas Day in 2010. Her husband is a businessman 10 years her senior.

Yoshitaka Yuriko

Yoshitaka Yuriko is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel "Snakes and Earrings" in 2007. While she was preparing…

Takei Emi

Takei was born in Nagoya. Aspiring to become a model, she declared to her parents on her entry to junior high school that she would become a model within three years. In 2006, she entered the 11th Japan Bishōjo Contest and won in not only one but two categories: she received the Model Division Award…

Kyoto Satsujin Annai 25

Tetsudo Sosakan 2: Watashi wa Korosareta - Naruto no Uzu ni Onna no Sakebi!

A man named Wakita is pushed down the stairs. Noriko, a railway investigator, takes him to the hospital in an ambulance. After that, Noriko is drinking with her college friend Hiromi, and is informed that Wakita has…

Nichiyo Kyofu Series: Best Selection

A Japanese horror omnibus which consists of three stories: > Story 1: "Ayashi no Umi" (怪しの海) A photographer is shipwrecked in a storm and washed up on a deserted island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls…

Umi yo Orera no Uta ni Nake

Sea Without Limit

7.0

Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow. He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing…

Izure no Mori ka Aoki Umi

Kensou no Machi, Shizuka na Umi

7.7

At a street corner in Osaka at night, an elderly man speaks to high school girls doing "JK business." "JK" is an acronym standing for joshi kosei (female high school students) and "the business" involves dating services.…

Zoku Tokyo Nagaremono: Umi wa Makkana Koi no Iro

The Volcano Wind

4.0

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found. The second of 8 part 'Gambler'…

In Between Mountains and Oceans

Held once every 20 years at the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, the Shikinen Sengu, a rite central to the relationship between Japanese and the natural world, is explored in this documentary by photographer Miyazawa…