Fukae Shoki

Fukae Shoki, born Fukae Akiyoshi (深江和久) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor affiliated with Ishihara Promotion (石原プロモーション) and Group 71 (グループ71). During World War II, he served as a special naval youth recruit aboard the aircraft carrier Shinano. After working in…

Egi Toshio

Toshio Egi was born on June 4, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and producer, known for High and Low (1963), Yuki no Concerto (1991) and Zatôichi monogatari (1974). Child activity started at the age of three. Since 1959, he has been active mainly in Nikkatsu films, and has performed with numerous…

Hiraiwa Yumie

The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa Yumie was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to…

Miura Hayato

Miura Hayato is a Japanese screenwriter. He was born in Tokyo. His talent agency is &REAM,Inc.

Miyazono Junko

Junko Miyazono was born on May 30, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan as Junko Miyano. She is an actress, known for Furyô banchô: Inoshika Ochô (1969), Yôen dokufu-den: Han'nya no Ohyaku (1968) and Yôen dokufu-den: Okatsu kyôjô tabi (1969). (Source: IMBd)

Kawazu Yusuke

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

Inagaki Mihoko

Mihoko Inagaki is a Japanese actress and businesswoman born in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tamagawa Gakuen schools and began her studies at Japan Women's University before transitioning to her acting career. In 1956, while still a student, she was scouted and debuted in Nikkatsu's "Hanano Unkou."…

Matsuo Kazuko

Matsuo Kazuko was a Japanese singer born in Kamata, Tokyo (now Kamata, Ota, Tokyo ) and raised in Hakone.

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…

Furuyama Kentaro

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

Akai Ito no Onna

6.5

Shimura Yumi is the daughter of a plastic surgeon and was born in Tokyo. When she was 10 years old, her mother, Akagi Toyoko, ran away with a younger man, leaving Yumi behind with her father, Seiko. Toyoko and Seiko…

Tabi no Okurimono Ashitae

9.0

A man and two women travel by train to the city of Fukui from Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. The man formerly worked at a construction company. A woman is a hairstylist and the other woman is about to get married. As they…

Monsieur

6.6

Restaurant Raporu is located in Sangen-Jaya, Tokyo. Since their charismatic chef and owner died, the late chef's son Masaya has taken over the restaurant, but the restaurant is near foreclosure. Masaya's sister Mineko…

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

8.0

January 1946 - a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island (located in the Chubu region of Niigata Prefecture,…

Inpei Sousa

7.1

Elite police official Ryuzaki Shinya heads the General Affairs Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Secretariat. He is a man who sticks to what he believes in and has no regard for rank or the…

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…

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…

Tightrope no Onna

6.4

Tokura Yuri, a struggling pianist in Tokyo, visits her family home in Ashiya City, Hyogo prefecture for the first time in eight years after receiving news of the death of her father, Tokura Ryuji. Yuri had left home…

The Granny Girl

Hatsue and Takashi are an ordinary couple living in an old apartment in Tokyo. As usual, the husband goes to work and the wife does the housework. The two seem to be leading an ordinary life, but Hatsue is carrying…

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…