Sawai Shinichiro

Sawai Shinichiro was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He studied German at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Graduating in 1961, he joined the Toei Company as an assistant director and worked under such directors as Makino Masahiro and Suzuki Noribumi. He won the Directors Guild of Japan…

Yamamoto Kajiro

Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

Fuse Hiroshi

Hiroshi Fuse was born on July 10, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Gorudorasshu (1990), Yonimo kimyô na monogatari (1990) and Umi e (1988). He has been married to Kazuko Inoue since April 2012. He was previously married to Hiro Komura.

Asakura Kayoko

Asakura Kayoko is a Japanese filmmaker from Yamaguchi Prefecture. She graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. After serving as an assistant director of a television program production company, she entered the movie aesthetic school in 2004. (Source: Written by MyDramaList)

Ushio Kenji

Kenji Ushio was born on March 23, 1925 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kamen Rider (1971), Jûgô tanjô! Kamen Raidâ zen'in shûgô!! ( 1984) and Ninja Kyaputâ (1976). He died in 1998.

Furuyama Kentaro

Furuyama Kentaro is a Japanese actor born in Suginami ward, Tokyo, Japan.

Kawazu Yusuke

Kawazu Yusuke was a Japanese actor born on May 12, 1935 in Tokyo, Japan.

Takahashi Teiji

Teiji Takahashi was born on October 20, 1926 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Ballad of Narayama (1958), Early Spring (1956) and Equinox Flower (1958). He died in a car accident on November 3, 1959 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan at only 33 years old. (Source: IMDb; MyDramaList)

Kitabayashi Tanie

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue…

Ao no Umi

7.3

Odate Mai is the daughter of the president of a construction company in Tokyo. When she was 17 years old, she discovered that her mother was actually not her real mother, and by chance she found out that her real mother…

Can & Sulochan

Sulochan, an Indian scientist living in Tokyo, falls in love with a vending machine. (Source: IMDb)

Totsuki Tooka no Shinkaron

7.5

Kobayashi Suzu, who lives alone in Tokyo, has a doctorate in insect taxonomy. Insects are the great love of her life. One day, she is suddenly laid off by the university she has been working for because of her narrow…

Gunjyou Iro no, Toori Michi

7.4

A man, who moved to Tokyo to become a musician, returns to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. He sees the beautiful scenery of his childhood years and the kind people who supports him.

Wakaretara Suki na Hito

10.0

Kihara Jiro is a divorced employee who works at a food chain company in Tokyo's suburbs. On day, the company is sold to a foreign investment funder, and it was decided that there will be a large-scale restructuring…

A Crybaby Boxing Club

10.0

A right-wing extremist group is demonstrating in front of a Korean school in Tokyo. ‘Leave Japan. There’s no place here for you.’ But, what about the inside of the school? The classrooms are filled with all the…

Ito no Mori no Ie

7.4

Housewife Kanako leads an unfulfilling, hurried life in Tokyo. One day, Sakiko, who had been a close friend, suddenly calls her and insists that she come to Itoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture for a class reunion. It has…

Shitamachi Bobsleigh

Yajima Manufacturing is a small factory in a part of Ota district in Tokyo. It is run by Yajima Koichi and his son Kentaro. One day, bobsleigh athlete Yanagida Miki suddenly visits with the request that they make a…

Chotto wa, Darazu ni

10.0

26-year-old single mother Wakamizu Maho is a nurse who works in Tokyo. Following the example of her mother who was also a nurse and brought her up single-handedly, Maho works conscientiously in her job, housework and…

Yama no Tom-san

7.9

Hana, who had been living in Tokyo, starts life in the countryside with her friend Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi, an elementary school student. It is a life that they are unaccustomed to. Hana is a writer and goes…