May'n

May’n is a vocalist who was a finalist in the 2003 HoriPro Talent Scout Caravan “Love Music Audition”. In 2005, she made her major debut at 15 years old with the single “Crazy Crazy Crazy”. In 2007, she was chosen to be the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in the anime Macross Frontier. She has…

Yamaguchi Karin

Yamaguchi Karin is a Japanese actress born in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Her parents' home is "Chiyoda Bookstore", a long-established foreign bookstore in Nihonbashi Kabutocho. After graduating from Ochanomizu University Junior and Senior High School and Toho Gakuen College Junior College, she became an actor…

Fujita Yosuke

Fujita Yosuke, born in Kobe in 1963, won the Grand Prize at the Torino Film Festival with his 8mm film Tora in 1987 while still attending university. In the 1990s, he worked for the comedy theater troupe Otona Keikaku. After creating a series of documentary and short films, he made his feature film…

Tamada Shinya

Tamada Shinya is a Japanese screenwriter and director, born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1986, works as a scriptwriter and director both for Japanese TV and for theater. His feature film debut “Lust In A Karaoke Bar” (2018) was based on the play of the same title that he wrote for his own theater troupeKikaku…

Ohira Toru

Ohira Toru was Japanese narrator and voice actor from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He was a representative of Ōhira Production. One of his most known roles is the dub voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars. He was also known for his many narration roles, most notably in the Super Sentai series. He was a…

Anazawa Masahiro

Anazawa Masahiro is a former Japanese idol and actor from Kanagawa, Japan. He joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates and performed in 1995 as a trio on KinKi Kids's crowning program "Soko Go KinKi Dai Broadcasting" with Asakura Kazuo and Sakurai Sho. Anazawa made a regular appearance…

Mori Tatsuya

Mori Tatsuya was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1956 and studied at Rikkyo University. In 1986, he began working for a TV production company. He then went freelance, shooting two documentaries about the Omu Shinrikyo sect, entitled A (1998) and A2 (2001). A was shown at the Berlin International Film…

Sakamoto Junji

Sakamoto Junji was born in Sakai (Osaka Prefecture) in 1958. He started his career as an assistant director, working with Ishii Sogo, among others. His directing debut Knockout (1989) won a number of newcomer awards. His movies My House (2003) and The Projects (2016) were both screened at Nippon Connection…

Tamori

Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya. For more than…

Sugimoto Miki

Sugimoto began her career as a model and television personality. She made her film debut in Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971), which starred Reiko Ike. Sugimoto's and Ike's careers would become closely linked in several of Toei's Pinky Violent films, in which they were usually cast as rivals. In 1973,…

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…