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…

Captain Tokio

6.6

"In the year 20XX, anarchy reigns over Tokyo after a devastating earthquake destroyed the city. Isolated from the rest of the country, the chaos-ridden city is ruled over by an autocratic governor (Izumiya Shigeru)…

The Taste of Fish

7.2

Shuntaro Akagi works as an elite businessman at a general trading company in central Tokyo. He's been chosen as the personnel department head while still in his mid-thirties, and expects to soon marry his sweetheart,…

The Policeman's Lineage

7.8

After World War II, Seiji joins the Tokyo police force and during his training makes friends with Hayase, a former Imperial Army officer. Seiji is perplexed by the murder of a male prostitute who was rumored to be…

Rakujitsu Moyu

2.0

Koki Hirota was the only civilian hanged as a Class A war criminal by the Tokyo Tribunal after World War II. His life is the subject of "Rakujitsu Moyu" ("The Setting Sun Burns"), a drama based on the novel by Saburo…

Star Hime Sagashi Tarou

9.0

“Star Hime Sagashi Taro” is a variety program that was broadcast on TV Tokyo TXN series from September 11, 2010 to September 24, 2011. Following the previous program “Welcome TV”, it is also a program provided…

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…

Rock Fujiyama

Rock Fujiyama was a Japanese music variety television show that was broadcast by TV Tokyo from April 3, 2006, to March 26, 2007. It is the substantial remake of Heavymeta-san (Mr. Heavy Metal) that was broadcast in…

The School of Water Business

6.0

Sanae Yamashita (Becky) gets expelled from high school and must now go the Tokyo Water Business Public High School aka The School of Water Business. This school of last resort teaches the "Water Trade" business (bar…

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…