Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman. Born in Shinagawa- cho , Tokyo (now Shinagawa-ku , Tokyo ). In the 1930s Nikkatsu Kyoto studio joined in, Sadao Yamanaka studied with, Marne SanTaro , Kinugasa fourteen San , Hiroshi Inagaki…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Irie Yu

a Japanese film director / screenwriter who was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and grew up in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture. After a number of short films, including Obsession and Seven Drives which were screened at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2003 and 2004, Irie directed…

Watanabe Katsuya

Watanabe Katsuya is a Japanese director and stage manager known for his work on tokusatsu television dramas. He is from Kanagawa, Japan. After completing vocational school, Watanabe started his career in the film industry as a third assistant director on episodes 10 and 11 of "Choushinsei Flashman"…

Koyama Seijiro

Born in Gifu Prefecture, Koyama attended Nihon University but quit midway to join the independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyokai, where he worked as an assistant director under such directors as Shindo Kaneto, Yoshimura Kozaburo, and Imai Tadashi. He made his directorial debut in 1971 with the…

Kosai Sekine

Kosai Sekine is a Japanese short film director. His sophisticated and witty sensibility is evident throughout all his work. His outsized creativity and storytelling stands poised at the crest of a new wave of branded and interactive content in Japan’s creative community. Sekine made his debut in 2005…

Nishikiori Kazukiyo

Japanese actor , voice actor , director , dancer , leader of the male idol group " Shonentai". Nicknamed " Nikki " by fans , " Nishiki " among members . Born in Tokyo. He auditioned in his fifth year of elementary school and entered the office in July 1977, 6th year of Hirai Minami Elementary School…

Park Jung Bum

Park Jungbum (1976, South Korea) graduated from Yonsei University with a major in physical education. He debuted with the short film Templementary (2000) before enrolling at Dongguk University's Graduate School of Video. In 2008, he released the short film 125 Jeon Seung-chul. This film would form the…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Young and Dangerous 2

7.5

Told in two parts, the first focuses on Chicken's time in Taiwan, following events that were largely skipped over in the previous film. The second follows the Hung Hing Society's efforts to forge an alliance with Taiwan's…

Shiawase no Kioku

7.5

Taro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his oldest daughter Nanami, second daughter Fuyuka and ex-wife Junko still live in the same house which Taro left. One day,…

The Royal Kitchen

7.5

Every seventh day of the seventh month, a phenomenon occurs at Youlan Lake that allows those who have died a chance to live again. A eunuch who cooks for the imperial family travels to the modern day and becomes a…

Mirai e Kimi to.

7.5

This heartwarming family drama centers around people at various crossroads of life, like reconsidering ambitions and professions, getting married, or starting a second career. Each member has their fair share of struggles…

To the Stars

7.5

At an international space camp many years ago, two boys, Wu Wei and Ying Zi Qi, aspired to be successful astronauts. Later, the second phase of the planned project failed twice in a row, and the Chief Engineer Qin…

A Long Goodbye

7.6

Shohei is now retired from his job as a middle school principal. On his 70th birthday, he tells his wife Yoko, first daughter Mari and second daughter Fumi that he has Alzheimer's disease. First daughter Mari is a…

Ruri no Shima Hatsu Koi

7.5

Hatomi Island revisited, it now has 6 foster children. This is Ruri's 3rd New Year's day on the island. Ruri, a second-year high school student who has been living and growing up on the island, heard from Ruri's class…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2019 Rain Special

7.5

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Sakasama Shojo no Tame no Piano Sonata" (さかさま少女のためのピアノソナタ) Kuroki, a struggling piano student, stumbles upon an old music…

Oi Handsome! Season 2

7.6

The sermons of the lovable Ito family's father, Ito Gentaro, strike a chord with the three wandering sisters, eldest Yuka, second Rika, and youngest Mika, who are searching for happiness! Their mother, Chizuru, ignores…