Nomura Mami

Mami Nomura is a Japanese actress from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is a member of the Touhou Geinou agency. A versatile actress, she appears in contemporary and historical roles. Since 1990, she has portrayed Youko in the TBS series "Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari". Mami made her debut in…

Ushio Mantaro

Ushio Mantaro was a Japanese actor.

Shimizu Mayumi

Shimizu Mayumi is a Japanese actress born in Muroran, Hokkaido.

Shibuya Aki

Gori

Gori, whose real name is Teruya Toshiyuki, is a Japanese comedian, actor and director. He formed the comedy-duo, "Garage Sale" in 1995. In 2006, he directed his first film, “Detective Boggy”. Since then, he’s worked on 8 shorts and 2 features. “Born Bone Born” the latest feature film he directed…

Hamada Torahiko

Hamada Torahiko was a Japanese actor born in Nahari Town, Aki District, Kobe Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University [Faculty of Letters. Hamada belonged to the Haiyuza Theater Company. After working as a research student at the mobile theater company Mizuho Theater Company, he joined the theater…

Natsuki Yoko

Natsuki Yoko is an actress, born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. She started her career in the 1977 movie "Karate for Life". One of her television roles was as Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyoubanki: Abarenbo Shogun. She also regularly appeared in Abare Hasshu Goyou Tabi. (Source:…

Nakamura Ganjiro II

Nakamura Ganjiro II was a Japanese film and Kabuki actor born in Osaka. He's mostly known in the west for his role in "Conflagration" (1958), "The End of Summer" (1961) and "Floating Weeds" (1959). The current holder, the fourth generation of "Nakamura Ganjiro" name, is his grandson.

Takagawa Yuya

Hirano Shunichi

Joined TBS after graduating from Waseda University's First Literature Department of Drama. Debuted as director in 1999. "Summer Snow" and "GOOD LUCK !!" won the title back prize of The Television Drama Academy Awards. In recent years, she has also participated in activities at the Shimane Film Festival…

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)