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…

Izakaya Moheji

7.5

A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji. It is a place where regulars…

Miyuki's Wind Bell

Against her will, Miyuki must leave Tokyo and take her two young half-brothers to the country home of their quirky grandmother, but when they arrive, she will discover that she had to leave her home in order to find…

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…

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…

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…

Fuuin Eizou 1 – Norowareta Mori

Dance Studio: Video security cameras had been installed in the dance studio somewhere in Tokyo, whereafter the girl went missing without a trace. Crawling: A female reporter for a local video variety show investigates…

Icarus Under the Sun

On a winter's night, Haruwo arrives in Tokyo and crashes at her friend Atsuko and her boyfriend's place. She freeloads off them and begins working at a mahjong parlor that is quietly doing business on the second floor…

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,…