Sawa Ritsuo

Sawa Ritsuo is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Theater Echo. After graduating from Kumagaya High School in Saitama, Japan, he worked at the U.S. military base PX before pursuing a career in acting three years later. He was associated with Theater Etcetera…

Suzuki Kazuo

Suzuki Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He began his acting career as a student. In 1954, he joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company Training Institute. In 1960, he joined the Tokyo Actor's Consumer Cooperative Society. In 1961, he signed a contract with Toho.…

Yamabuki Mayumi

Mayumi Yamabuki was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Okawa Mitsuyo (大川光代). She graduated from Osaka Jogakuin High School and Takarazuka Music School. She was a former member of the Takarazuka Revue and belonged to Japan Pro. She moved to Beijing with her family at the…

Nakamura Kinnosuke II

Nakamura Kinnosuke II is a kabuki actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Ogawa Shinjiro (小川信次郎). He belongs to the house name Manya and his crest is the paulownia butterfly, with an alternate crest being Manya Manegazumi. He dropped out of Keio High School. He is the second son of the…

Boke Mirai

Boke Mirai is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Daisei High School. In 1986, she moved to New York, USA, and returned to Japan in 1989. She is also active as a theater workshop instructor. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Egawa Hisao

Egawa Hisao is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He works for Aoni Production.

Tamae Midori

Tamae Midori is a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with Bungakuza. (Source: MyDramaList)

Isomura Chikako

Isomura Chikako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ueda Hisako (上田寿子). She was affiliated with M Three and was a former representative of the theater company Zokei. She graduated from Nara Women's Higher Normal School. In April 1939, she joined the Art Little Theater…

Azuma Shizuko

Azuma Shizuko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Toho Acting School (東宝演技研究所), she became a contract actress with Toho (東宝). She made her film debut in the 1953 movie "Himawari Musume" (ひまわり娘). Following the end of Toho's exclusive actor…

Iikubo Masayuki

Iikubo Masayuki is a Japanese editor and businessman born in Tokyo, Japan. He is the president of Bungeishunju Ltd. He is the eldest son of Iikubo Yukiteru, who served as vice president of Iikubo Co., Ltd. and president of Iikubo Oil Sales. His grandfather, Iikubo Yukinaga, was the president of Iikubo…

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).

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).

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.

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)

Aiyoku

6.0

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional. (Source: Letterboxd)