Kato Seiichi

Kato Seiichi was a Japanese actor born in Takahashi Town, Jobo District, Okayama Prefecture. He joined the Tsubouchi Shoyo Literary Society and is known as a stage actor from the early days of the new drama. His father was a Han scholar from the Kumamoto domain, but he died shortly after Seiichi's birth,…

Ichihara Etsuko

Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater…

Kawada Yoshiko

Yoshiko Kawada was born on October 17, 1895, in Niigata, Japan. She was an actress, known for Kurokami yâshâ dainihen (1926), Yôfu gonin onna - Dai sanpen: Sempatsu Oyoshi (1926) and Ari jigoku (1925). She died on March 24, 1970. (IMDB) 1895 (Meiji 28) October 17, Niigata City of the red-light district…

Alan Mak

Alan Mak Siu Fai was born in Hong Kong. In 1986, he studied in the School of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts. Upon graduation in 1990, he started his movie career. Mak made his directorial debut in 1997, with his first film being Nude Fear, which was written and produced by Joe Ma.…

Amano Chihiro

Chihiro Amano is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who has been described as "profusely talented" by movie critic Tom Mes. Amano was born on July 30, 1982. After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 Sayonara Muffler which was shown at…

Chinen Rina

Rina Chinen is a female Japanese entertainer, former singer, model and TV actress. Rina was born in Naha, Okinawa. Rina was trained in dance and song at the Okinawa Actors School, whose graduates include Namie Amuro and SPEED. Debuting in 1996 with the Single "Do-Do for Me", Rina's career transitioned…

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…

Mitsuoka Sanae

Mitsuoka Sanae is a Japanese actress born in Keijo, Korea, during Japanese rule. She temporarily changed her name to Shiroyama Michiko (城山路子) from 1965 to 1966. In April 1941, she entered the elementary section of a national school in Keijo. Around the time of the end of World War II on August…

Kang Soo Yeon

Kang made her acting debut as a child actor in the 1970s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon Taek directed 1986 movie, The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best Actress award at the 1987 Venice International…

Kim Min Seok

Kim Min Seok, formerly known as Laun, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor and former member of ONF (온앤오프; short for ON N' OFF). He graduated from Seoul Performing Arts High School. Before debuting, he was a trainee at BigHit Entertainment alongside BTS. After switching companies, he was…

City ​​Hunter

7.7

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin; whatever Ryo does,…

Nana

7.7

Two girls meet on a train headed for Tokyo. The bubbly girl in white is named Nana and she sits next to a black clad rock girl named Nana as well. They talk briefly and seem to share some common bond, before leaving…

Suishou no Kodou

7.7

Detective Kisaragi Toko of the Eleventh Section of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division was instrumental in solving the case of Toremi, the serial murderer who shocked Japan. Although…

The Sealer

7.8

A beheaded man’s corpse is discovered in Tokyo, cut with an impossibly sharp blade but mysteriously bloodless. Young reporter Sanjo Mio, investigating the case, witnesses a plume of black dust erupting from the wound—visible…

Dr. Coto's Clinic

7.9

After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to…

Siren

7.9

Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Inokuma Yuki. They…

Have a Song on Your Lips

7.9

Yuri Kashiwagi is a genius pianist and part-time teacher in Tokyo. When her former colleague Haruko goes on maternity leave, she asks Kashiwagi to take over for her as the choral advisor at a middle school on one of…

Sonatine

7.6

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with some henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu clan, and the Anan clan.…

Bread of Happiness

7.5

Young married couple Rie and Nao move from Tokyo to Tsukiura in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Nao bakes bread and his wife Rie makes food that complements the bread. Spring, Summer, Autumn…

Hero Season 2

7.9

Kohei Kuryu is a prosecutor at the Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. He looks and thinks differently from the other prosecutors. When he takes on a new case, he first goes to the scene of…