Kataoka Chiezo

Kataoka Chiezo was a Japanese period drama star, who was active before and after the war. He is considered one of the six big stars in Japanese period dramas. After the war, he became an executive star of Toei and remained a front-line star until his death. His eldest son Motoharu and his daughter Chie…

Taniguchi Senkichi

Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. (a precursor to Toho) in 1933 and began working as an assistant director to Kajirō Yamamoto alongside his longtime friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker,…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Araki Shinobu

Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…

Kobayashi Asao

Japanese actor. Well known for his role of Hyō Asao (VulPanther) in Taiyō Sentai Sun Vulcan. On 28 December 1982, less than a year after Sun Vulcan ended, Kobayashi's co-star Kishida Shin (Arashiyama Daizaburō) died of esophageal cancer, aged 43. Asao Kobayashi was so overcome by the shock of Kishida’s…

Akane Hotaru

Akane Hotaru, also known as Akizuki Anna and Hotaru, was a Japanese actress, HIV/AIDS activist, and AV idol. She was active in many media formats in Japan including mainstream theatrical film and was a popular blogger. She retired from AV work in 2008. Akane was discovered collapsed at home on August…

Hino Michio

Hino Michio was a Japanese actor born in Hakodate, Hokkaido. He graduated from Hokkaido Hakodate Chuo High School and was affiliated with Imura Pro. After junior high school, he joined the Shinkyo Theater Company and later became a member of the Actor’s Studio Theater Company, participating in the…

Kawazu Seizaburo

Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…

Gori Daisuke

Gori Daisuke, born Nagahori Yoshio, was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. Throughout his career, he was under various agencies, including TV Talent Center Tokyo, Yoshizawa Theatre School and then Mausu Production; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. On January…

Tanonaka Isamu

Tanonaka Isamu was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Taito, Tokyo. He was best known for voicing Madame Oyaji in nearly every adaptation of GeGeGe no Kitaro animation series during his lifetime. Previously, he had been attached to Gekidan Togei and then to Theater Echo. At the of his death,…

In Space

A young monk slips between the realms of life and death to be reunited with his grandmother. (Source: IMDb)

Tengoku no Shima

As a capital punishment to replace the abolished death penalty, Japan in 20X0 years has revived island exile. To fulfill a certain purpose, Mikoshiba dares to commit a crime himself and sets foot as an exile on the…

Moomoo Mia

Gerry wants to inform his family about his death by the help of Madame Luring. (Source: Wikipedia)

Level 7

6.5

An elderly person who lives alone is shot to death in his home. Detective Inuyama and other detectives go to the crime scene. There, they learn that the elderly person's 50 million yen that was hidden is now gone.…

Indio

7.1

The story begins in Central Visayas followed by the death of Amaya and Bagani, and the story was setting during the pre-colonial period, where human natives and diwatas (Visayan gods and goddesses) are living together…

Memories Corner

7.6

A young French reporter visits Japan to investigate the phenomenon of ‘Death By Loneliness," which seems to have occurred following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. She interviews various people in Kobe and meets Kenji…

The Morning Set, Milk and Spring

3.0

Middle-aged salaryman Ichiro Sasaki hears of the death of his childhood friend Okabe. Okabe left a message for Ichiro right before his death. From the message, Ichiro learns the truth of a sad cast from the past and…

Mori no Asagao

8.6

New prison guard Oikawa Naoki gets asigned to the death row section. He strikes a friendship with Mitsuru Watase who is on death-row for the revenge murder of the man who killed his parents. Gradually Naoki begins…

Seven Days in Heaven

6.3

Covers the 7 days of the Taoist morning ritual after the death of Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai). The movie examines the effects of his death on his children, nephew, and sister-in-law. (Source: AsianWiki)

Bamboo Flowers

7.3

The actual chandelier-shaped bamboo flowers that blossom only before death inspire this anthology about the lives of different people in Bohol, who have to deal with the ever changing world around them. The erosion…