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…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Kofujita Shoichi

Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…

Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Kawamura Reikichi

Kawamura Reikichi was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Kawamura Ishigoro (河村石五郎). After graduating from the preparatory department of Nishijin Castle Commercial School in Kanda, he made his stage debut at the age of 13 at Shinshaza in Nakasu. He joined an…

Chiba Sachiko

Chiba Sachiko was a Japanese actress. She was born to an upper-class family as Chiba Tsuruko. She married director Naruse Mikio, but divorced him due to differences in class and a clash between her mother and Naruse. She quit acting as per her mother's wishes and instead managed a high-end restaurant,…

Hasegawa Shin

Hasegawa Shin was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1911, he joined a Tokyo newspaper as a journalist. In 1917, he wrote his first novel in the "Narration Club", and in 1927, he founded, with Edogawa Ranpo and other prominent writers, an association to propel…

Mihashi Ko

Mihashi Ko was a Japanese actor who flourished during the Taisho and Showa eras. His real name was Ohashi Yoshio (大橋芳雄). Born in Tokyo, he dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and joined the New Theater Association. He made his debut on stage in February 1920 in "Blue Bird"…

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

Nakamura Zeko

Nakamura was an actor and author born on December 6th 1990 in the Kishima District, Saga, Saga Prefecture of Japan. He died on December 6th 1989 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo Blood

6.8

It is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.

Tokyo Coin Laundry

6.8

It is a youthful love comedy where Yuto Kurashima encounters varied people and becomes mature step by step. Yuto Kurashima, a magazine writer who cannot make any progress, goes to a coin laundry in Tokyo like he does…

Tokyo Sentimental SP - Ochanomizu no Koi

6.8

Kururi Takuzo (Yoshida Kotaro) is the third-generation owner of a traditional Japanese confectionery shop ‘Kururiya’ in Kototoibashi, Tokyo. His skills as an artisan making the shop’s signature dango are good.…

Tokyo Dragon Chef

6.9

Ex-gang members Ryu and Tatsu open the Dragon Diner ramen restaurant after their yakuza family is disbanded by a mysterious guy named Gizumo. Meanwhile, Jin and Kazu, their rivals from yakuza days, open Ramen Ozawa…

Woman of Tokyo

6.9

The film tells of a student whose sister supports his studies by moonlighting as a translator. When he hears a rumor that, in reality, she is working as a hostess in a seedy dance-hall, he is devastated. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tokyo Shower

6.9

Lee Soo Jin is an actress that used to run away from her problems before getting famous. While filming a difficult commercial shoot, she gets scared and runs away. While on the run from her management company, she…

Tokyo Refugees

6.9

Tokieda Shu is a college student in Tokyo. He gets expelled from school for failure to pay his tuition fees, He loses contact with his father who supported his living expenses. Shu now finds himself a refugee in Tokyo.…

Tokyo Camouflage Hour

6.8

A naive, fair-skinned country boy from Yamagata moves to Tokyo for work and has a one-night stand with an older city woman. As they navigate their feelings, they question whether their connection is real or just a…

Tokyo Marigold

6.8

21-year-old Eriko breaks up with her boyfriend after their date at the circuit. But life without a boyfriend is indeed dull. Boredom occupies her even after she completely switches her job. Then she meets Tamura at…

Tokyo Fist

6.9

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After…