Asano Yuko

Asano Yuko is a Japanese actress.

Asano Atsuko

Asano Atsuko is a Japanese actress who debuted at the age of 15 after playing a minor role in the series "Eden No Umi". She was born in Adachi, Northern Tokyo, Japan. She began acting in feature films and, by 1983, won a Best Supporting Actress Award from the Japan Academy Prize for Yokiroh. Since 2003,…

Nogiwa Yoko

Nogiwa Yuko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tsubata Town in Kawakita, Ishikawa, and raised in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, as well as Amanuma, Tokyo. She attended Rikkyo University's Department of English and American Literature. She was selected as the university's first Miss Rikkyo. After graduating…

Hara Setsuko

Hara Setsuko became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these…

Watanabe Ikkei

Watanabe Ikkei, born Watanabe Kazuyoshi (渡辺一惠) in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator affiliated with Seinenza Film & Broadcasting (青年座映画放送). He attended Ichinomiya Municipal Yamato Elementary School (一宮町立大和小学校), Toyokawa Municipal…

Emoto Tokio

Emoto Tokio is a Japanese actor represented by Knockout. He was born in Tokyo as the second son of actor Emoto Akira and actress Tsunogae Kazue and grew up in Shimokitazawa. His older brother is actor Emoto Tasuku and his sister reportedly works in movies. In 2003, Emoto passed an audition and made…

Yusuke Santamaria

Yusuke Santamaria, born Nakayama Yusuke, is an actor and singer born in Ōita Ōita Prefecture, Japan who premiered primarily on Japanese networks such as JDTV and JHJ. He was best known for his work on many popular game shows, television programs, and shorts. He is also known simply as "Yūsuke". His…

Koizumi Kotaro

Koizumi Kotaro, born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the former Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto.

Suzuki Honami

Honami Suzuki is a Japanese actress. She made a comeback in the 2011 NHK Taiga historical drama "Himetachi no Sengoku". She married Kawai Kazuhito in 1994 but got a divorce in 1997. In October 1998, Suzuki remarried Ishibashi Takaaki, a popular comedian and actor. On January 1, 1999, Honami announced…

Morinaga Yuki

Morinaga Yuki, born in Osaka, is a Japanese actor and model.

Shione: A Certain Form of Love

A work about life of Eikichi Takahashi, a wood carver who died at a young age, leaving a comet-like brilliance in the world of Japanese sculpture.

4 Out: Mo Ichido, Play Ball

After being cut from a corporate baseball team and giving up on his dream, Yagami takes a job at a sports center for people with disabilities. There, he meets a group of individuals with disabilities who share a passion…

The Tales of Kurashiki

When Aoi and Kiichi, high schoolers in Kurashiki city, come across their friend Beniko trying to calm down her autistic brother Kyosuke, Aoi tries to help and makes the promise to shoot fireworks from Mount Tsurugata…

I Am a Cat

6.4

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and television shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants…

Slightly Future, in a Room

6.6

In the near-future, the Japanese government has begun experimenting with male artificial womb transplants in order to solve the problem of childlessness. Takashi is one of the first transplant recipients, and becomes…

The Devil's Path

7.1

Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story,…

Passion for Punchlines

8.3

A drama based on a true story of two comedians as they overcome their crippling insecurities on the path to fame. They were two people who weren't even nice all the time. One of them is Wakabayashi Masayasu and the…

Genome Hazard

7.4

A man struggles to reconcile what appears to be his own false identity. After finding his wife’s corpse in his home and then receiving a phone call from her, he discovers he can’t trust his own memories of who…

A Restaurant with Many Problems

8.1

Tanaka Tamako, betrayed by her boyfriend-turned-chef and arrested after an incident involving sexual harassment of her friend, resigns from her male-dominated restaurant job. She opens a bistro on a rooftop in Jingumae,…