Matsuzaki Makoto

Matsuzaki Makoto was a former Japanese actor and former Self-Defense Forces member. His real name was Sawai Ichiro (澤井一郎). His father was the actor Sawai Saburo (沢井三郎). He joined the Self-Defense Forces in 1957 and was discharged in 1959. He became famous for serving as the cushion carrier…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Wakahara Harue

Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…

Tajitsu Yasuyoshi

After graduating from Keio University in 1950, he joined the director of Toho Photo Studio . Became a Toho employee in 1953 . Was the assistant director under Akira Kurosawa and Shūe Matsubayashi . He was assigned to the Faculty of Literature in 1963 and became a contractor in 1965 . 1971 in Japan…

Thomas Ash

Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK (2005) and has lived in Japan for a total of 18 years. Thomas’s first feature documentary, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006), received the Prix du Canton Vaud (best first film) at the 2006 Visions du…

Hongo Naoki

Hongo Naoki is a Japanese singer and actor from Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. He works exclusively for New Century Records. After working as a Ground Self-Defense Force officer, in 1971, he participated in the audition program "Star e Bakushin!!" on Nippon Television and won the Grand Champion. In the…

Shimada Ryuichi

Shimada Ryuichi was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he worked as an assistant director and also made many industrial PR videos. For his first feature-length film "Nowhere to Go", he received the New Directors Award of the Directors Guild…

Kohinata Sie

At the age of fifteen, she met her father's acquaintance production president and debuted as a model at Soen. After working as a model in female magazines such as Olive and an an, she became an actress. She also appeared in films, television dramas, and variety shows. From 1997, she has also performed…

Matsumura Shingo

Shingo Matsumura is a Japanese director and screenwriter born in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture. Graduated from Waseda University in 2013 with his film "Striking Out in Love". The film was screened at the Busan International Film Festival and awarded the Skip City Award at the Skip City International D-Cinema…

Ohsaki Akira

Ohsaki Akira was born in Gunma Prefecture in 1961. After studying under Tatsumura Jin, he took part in the making of documentary programs and commercials, then going freelance to work as an assistant director for Kitano Takeshi, Suwa Nobuhiro, Shinohara Tetsuo, and others. Also, he was in charge of…

A Fond Face from the Past

4.9

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist…

Jidai wo Tsukutta Otoko Aku Yu Monogatari

7.5

Aku Yu was a songwriter who put out more than 500 songs in his lifetime. His songs spanned a wide genre from idol songs, enka, folk songs to songs for anime and commercials. He was called a hit maker for the many famous…

Yuganda Hamon

7.6

Sawamura Masahiko is a reporter with a local newspaper, Shin Kanagawa Nippo. One day, he gets a scoop on a hit-and-run case. Morimoto Atsukoa, the grieving wife of the man who died, is reportedly the culprit. Masahiko…

Pirate of the Lost Sea

7.0

Swept by the ocean waves, nine kids find themselves on a remote island where they meet one-eyed pirate who owns the island and promises to bring them back to their family. On the journey in the sea, the ship of one-eyed…

Rak Prakasit

7.1

Nid is a working woman who asked for a job as a secretary at Puchit's farm, but instead was assigned to be a manager working in the farm. As a boss and an employee working together almost everyday, Nid and Puchit eventually…