Nakagawa Shun

Nakagawa Shun, born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1987, initially worked as an event manager after graduating from college. At the same time, he studied filmmaking at the New Cinema Workshop in Tokyo. His short film debut "Kalanchoe" (2016) received numerous awards in Japan. His first feature film "Sayonara,…

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Morii Yusuke

Morii Yusuke is a Japanese director and screenwriter, born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1985, studied at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Various assistantships followed, including for Omori Tatushi’s drama "Every Day A Good Day" (2018). Amiko (2022) is his debut film, which won the Golden Prize…

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…

Yoshimura Yu

Yoshimura Yu is a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, and director from Hiroshima. She is also a director of the Television and Radio Writers' Association of Japan and belongs to the Japan Directors Association and Japan Screenwriters Federation. After working at Jiyu Theater, she has been active as…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…