The Way Back Home

7.4

Childhood friends Hinata and Hayato are training hard in kendo for their final high school inter-high school competition. One day, Hinata is scouted by an entertainment agency. This causes a rift in their relationship.…

Tokunaga Reiko

Tokunaga Reiko, born Sato Reiko (佐藤礼子) in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, is a former actress. She graduated from Shoei Women's Academy High School and, in 1968, passed the Toho New Faces audition, subsequently becoming a trainee at Toho. That year, she made her acting debut in the TV drama "Dekkai…

Saito Emi

After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University, majoring in film, she gained experience as an assistant director under many directors. In 2017, she directed the short film "Tokyo Capsule" under the Young Filmmaker Development Project (ndjc). In 2018, her feature film project "Birth Cry" won the President's…

Han Byeol

Kyung Han Byeol is a South Korean singer, dancer, and former member of PRECIOUS (프레셔스). She made her debut in September 2020 as the group's sub-rapper and maknae with their first digital single, "Let It Shine!". They were managed by UMI Entertainment (유엠아이엔터테인먼트), but after…

Han Woom

Byun Han Woom is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress, and former member of PRECIOUS (프레셔스). She was born in South Korea, but her family lived in Vietnam, Canada and the United States when she was younger. She graduated from Neulpureun High School, so she could adapt to South Korea after living…

Kamiki Ryunosuke

Kamiki Ryunosuke is a Japanese actor. He entered the industry in 1995 when he was only 2 years old. He made his drama debut in “Good News”, which gained him immense popularity through his first full-time role as Naoya, playing the son of SMAP’s Masahiro Nakai. In 2001, he was discovered by Hayao…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Park Gun Woo

Park Gun Woo is a South Korean singer, dancer, musical actor and former member of LC9 (엘씨 나인) and RAINBOW MUZIGAE (무지개). He made his debut in May 2013 as LC9's lead vocalist and rapper (under the stage name J-Hyo) with the mini-album "Skirmish". However, the group was not able to promote…

Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Todo Shinji

Todo Shinji, born Mochizuki Kenichi (望月賢一), is a Japanese actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa. He was previously known by the name Kayama Kosuke (香山浩介). A graduate of the Faculty of Literature at Kanto Gakuin University (関東学院大学), he is currently affiliated with A4 Co., Ltd. (株式会社A4).…

Inoshita Yasuo

Seconded to Keisuke Kinoshita Productions, worked on a number of masterpiece dramas, and then filmed Toshiba Sunday Theater as the core director of TBS's own dramas, and Ryoko Hashida's drama “ Wataru no Sekai wa dainori” . The scriptwriter Taichi Yamada, who worked with many works such as “Bread…

The Garden Apartment

6.1

Umi Ishihara soaks the frame with melancholia as her characters drive into the night with no destination in sight for her effortlessly cool debut feature that explores the limbo state of becoming an adult. The effortlessly…

Risou no Musuko

7.5

Suzuki Umi raised her son Daichi singlehandedly while she worked. Daichi is a high school student and mummy’s boy who has been raised as the perfect, obedient son. He loves his mother and is a high achiever who tries…

Stalker: Nigekirenu Ai

7.9

Made at a time when the word "stalker" began to be used and recognized in Japan, it played a role in introducing the idea of what a stalker was to society in a clear, easy-to-understand story. Umi works at the golf…

Kimi ga Shinu Made Ato 100 Nichi

7.2

Tsuda Rintaro is a high school student with the capacity to predict the lifespan of living things. However, he has struggled with his abilities since he was a child, and he can only gradually observe the people around…

Hitochigai kara Hajimaru Koi mo Aru

7.4

It tells a love story that starts from mistaken identity. Umi is tasked with pretending to be his twin and breaking up with his twin's boyfriend, Chiaki. (Source: IMDb; edited by MyDramaList)

Natsumae owari

Hiroka and Rei are always full of cheer. Umi and Ai are bonded by a firm friendship. The Owadas are a married couple on the verge of collapse. One day, misfortune suddenly befalls them: the kind of personal despair…

Mangaka, Hori Mamoru

It depicts the story of Mamoru, a manga artist who is in a slump and has been living his life deceiving himself as he faces various events that occur when ghosts appear before him. Since winning a new artist award,…

Kiseki no Hito

7.7

Ittaku lives without having a reason. One day, he falls in love with Hana who struggles with her harsh life. Hana's daughter Umi has problems with her ears and eyes. Umi has a hard time dealing with her daily life.…