Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Uno Nobuo

Uno Nobuo was a Japanese playwright, author, and kabuki playwright born in Honjo, Saitama, Japan. He was raised in Kumagaya, Japan, and later lived in Asakusa, Japan. He graduated from Kumagaya Middle School and the Department of Japanese Literature at Keio University. After finishing middle school,…

Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Miyagi Kenji

Miyagi Kenji was a Japanese manzai (comic duo) performer, host, and actor who formed the comic duo "W Kenji" with Azuma Kenji. His real name was Terashima Fumio (寺島文雄). He was born in Okuma, Watari, Miyagi, Japan. In his later years, he was affiliated with Maseki Geinosha talent agency. At the…

Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

Imari Yu

Nagata Kohei

O-Edo Steam Punk

7.1

Oedo is a lively town where various people live. Yuta, who is training as a blacksmith, wants to help people but is weak. One day, he meets the inventor, Hiraga Gennai. Gennai gives Yuta the steam-powered armor that…

Alibi Kuzushi Uketamawarimasu Special

7.4

The wealthy president of Fuzai Construction, Fuzai Kenichi, has been stabbed to death at his home, and the crew rushes to the scene of the crime! However, according to the coroner Higuchi Hideto, even though he was…

Taiyou no Ko

7.3

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should…

Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond

7.4

“Are you Ultraman? Or are you Katsumi Minato?” A mysterious Ultraman, Ultraman Tregear, has appeared in Ayaka City out of nowhere. A question from Tregear on making dreams come true makes Katsumi seek for “his…

Not Me That Went Viral

7.4

One day, a man is suddenly exposed on social media as the ‘murderer of a university student'. In no time, he is forced to face a social media backlash, with his real name and his photo revealed. He insists that it…

Tokubou - Keisatsuchou Tokushu Bouhan Ka

7.5

This world is full of vermin. Wrongdoings by ordinary people run rampant. Food mislabelling, high school girls’ compensated dating, businesses that exploit employees, law-evading drugs … … There is a man who…

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

7.9

Three years after Gamera defeated the Legion, the world faces a new threat from evolved Gyaos, now known as Hyper Gyaos. Ornithologist Nagamine Mayumi returns to aid the Japanese government, while shadowy agents, occultist…

Koibumi Biyori

6.9

"I want everyone else but you to forget about me" is the main topic of the series. Set within a high school known for its liberal policies. 10 love stories are told with each story revolving around love letters. (Source:…

Sister

6.7

Nagisa Miyoshi and Saho Miyoshi are sisters and very close to each other. Younger sister Nagisa Miyoshi leaves her hometown of Hiroshima and begins to live with her older sister Saho Miyoshi, who has already moved…

Kirin ga Kuru

8.0

After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the country and rule in these turbulent times. In the mid-1540s, there is…