Hama Yuko

Hama Yuko is a Japanese actress born at Meguro in Tokyo. She was married to Ichikawa Ennosuke III, a kabuki actor, and gave birth to Kagawa Teruyuki, who also became an actor, before divorcing three years later in 1968. She started working in the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Kako Zanmu

Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…

Kakiuchi Ayami

Kakiuchi Ayami was the sixth actress to play Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn in the Sailor Moon musicals. Her first musical was the 2001 musical Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady, and her final show was the 10th-anniversary show, Ai no Sanctuary. After her work in the musicals, Ayami released a single…

Nogiwa Yoko

Nogiwa Yuko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tsubata Town in Kawakita, Ishikawa, and raised in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, as well as Amanuma, Tokyo. She attended Rikkyo University's Department of English and American Literature. She was selected as the university's first Miss Rikkyo. After graduating…

Wakamura Mayumi

Wakamura Mayumi is a Japanese actress. She decide to be an actress at age sixteen when she saw a stage show which was made by a famous professional actor's stage production. Later she joined his stage production to be an actress. In February 2004, she was married to a religious group "Shakusonkai" leader…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Minamida Yoko

Yoko Minamida was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her. She died in Tokyo.

Fuji Tatsuya

Born in China to Japanese parents in 1941, Tatsuya Fuji has appeared in 50 films since 1964. He shot to fame in the 1976 erotic art film, In the Realm of the Senses and has starred in two films (Empire of Passion and Bright Future) that have been entered into the Cannes Film Festival.

Hyunri

Hyunri is an actress born in Tokyo to Korean parents. She belongs to the Hirata office. She is a trilingual who speaks three languages; Japanese, English, and Korean fluently. While she was a student at Aoyama Gakuin University Faculty of Law, she studied abroad at Yonsei University in South Korea and…

Tetsudo Sosakan 2: Watashi wa Korosareta - Naruto no Uzu ni Onna no Sakebi!

A man named Wakita is pushed down the stairs. Noriko, a railway investigator, takes him to the hospital in an ambulance. After that, Noriko is drinking with her college friend Hiromi, and is informed that Wakita has…

Shi ga Futari wo Wakatsu Made: Iro no nai ao

4.9

The first film in an action series following the fates of a man and woman who bear deep emotional scars and darkness within them. Japanese-Chinese Meihua is all alone in the world. Seeing no point in living, he avoids…

Boukyou

7.5

Three stories from the Shiratsuna Island: **Mikan no Hana Shiratsuna Island, Japan's last island city, is merging with a city across the shore. Tomita Misato, a housewife on the island, despises her older sister, novelist…

Maria

8.4

Sora, the third of four sisters, inherits from her father Sakamoto Medical Practice in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Sora sees even those with no money and the waiting room is always crowded with penniless patients. Keeping…

Umi no Taka

Umi no Hatake

Umi de no Hanashi

7.3

This movie is about a girl named Kaede Fukino (Aoi Miyazaki) who finds out that her dad is having an affair. When she questions her mum about this she gets more than she bargained for. She soon learns that her life…

Umi no Mieru Rihatsuten

8.2

Set in a barbershop in a small town by the sea, this is a story about a quiet but passionate one-hour encounter between an old owner and a young customer. (Source: NHK)

Umi ni Furu

7.3

Miyuki Amagai becomes the first female pilot of the Shinkai 6500 in Japan. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) had put effort into her first submersible across the organisation. Miyuki’s…

Umi no Hajimari Tokubetsu Hen

7.6

Set three years before the events of the main story, this special, which aired between episodes 8 and 9, follows Mizuki and Tsuno, as they explore the possibility of a romantic relationship. (Source: MyDramaList)