Kitamura Hisao

Kitamura Hisao was a screenwriter and children's literature writer born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of Waseda University. He studied under Oyama Kaoru and became a member of the "Geki to Hyoron" literary magazine. In 1936, he became a chief writer at NHK's literary department. In 1947, he took turns…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Tsutsui Shunsaku

Tsutsui Shunsaku is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the theater company Caramelbox and Office PAC. After graduating from Shukutoku Suigetsu High School, he joined the Kyoto Music & Media Arts Shobi, but later dropped out. He joined the theater company…

Fujiwara Yayoi

Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Yayoi embarked on her artistic journey in 2016 by studying fine arts at University of the Arts London and graduated with a BA in Performance: Design and Practice in 2019. Fujiwara continued her education at the New National Theatre Tokyo Drama Studio from 2020…

Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Hokimoto Sora

Hokimoto Sora studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Inspired by the work of director Aoyama Shinji, he started making films during his studies. His graduation film, A Song That Never Ends (2014), an homage to his deceased father made by using archival material and abstract…

Murakami Koichi

Murakami Koichi is a Japanese entrepreneur born in Taiwan and raised in Tokyo, Japan after the war. He served as the president of Fuji Television and the president of Nihon Eiga Housou. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School and the Spanish Language Department of the Faculty of Foreign…

Kataoka Masayoshi

Kataoka Masayoshi was a Japanese author and television producer of TV Asahi. He graduated from Tokyo Denki University in 1951 and from the Electrical Engineering Department at Gunma University in 1953. After graduating from university, he started big in 1959 with the TV adaptation of the novel called…

Nukui Riran

Nukui Riran is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan.

Kusunoki Mitsuka

Japanese actress and pin entertainer. She is from Tokyo. Her husband is actor and comedian Moro Morooka.

Boyhood

6.0

A boy struggles to fit in as he moved from Tokyo to the countryside in World War II-era Japan. Adapted from the novel by Hatano Isoko.

The Blue Pearl

8.0

The Blue Pearl follows a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers) in a superstitious coastal town. Noe is meek and affectionate, while Riu is strong-willed and jaded by city life. Despite their differences,…

Sunflower Girl

8.0

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to…

Dancing Girl

6.0

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness. (Source: MUBI)

Yoru no Cho

6.0

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. (Source: IMDB)

Foggy Airport at Night

Shingo was interrogated by Prosecutor Iguchi at the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office. He is a student at Jouhoku University Graduate School. Aspiring to be a composer, he was aiming to study in France. In the demonstration…

Secret Gold

~Adapted from Tetsuro Morikawa's (森川哲郎の) "Tokyo Handgun Street" (東京拳銃街).

Jubilation Street

5.0

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. (Source: TMDB)

The Trio's Engagement

6.0

Three jobless men start working simultaneously in a big store in Tokyo. As they get involved with the boss' daughter, and they think that they might have an affair with her, they try to separate from their fiancés.…

Closing Time

The life and love of three young women working in a Tokyo department store. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Heiten Jikan" (閉店時間) by Ariyoshi Sawako (有吉佐和子).