Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Uno Nobuo

Uno Nobuo was a Japanese playwright, author, and kabuki playwright born in Honjo, Saitama, Japan. He was raised in Kumagaya, Japan, and later lived in Asakusa, Japan. He graduated from Kumagaya Middle School and the Department of Japanese Literature at Keio University. After finishing middle school,…

Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Miyagi Kenji

Miyagi Kenji was a Japanese manzai (comic duo) performer, host, and actor who formed the comic duo "W Kenji" with Azuma Kenji. His real name was Terashima Fumio (寺島文雄). He was born in Okuma, Watari, Miyagi, Japan. In his later years, he was affiliated with Maseki Geinosha talent agency. At the…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Asano Shiro

Asano Shiro is one of Japans first directors.

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Torihada Minoru

Torihada Minoru is a male Japanese comedian and actor who claims to come from Sakhalin. He has an Internet channel called "Torijajiira Hōsō" (トリジャジーラ放送, or Torijazeera Broadcast), a parody of Al Jazeera. The central concept of his act is that Torihada claims to be an extreme right-winger…

Hamano Shizuka wa Jiken ga o Suki 5: Kokyu Kaiga ni Himerareta Satsujin no Nazo

Heizo, the owner of the Odagiri family, who is a customer of Shizuka's "Cat's Hand Shokai", opens a gallery showcasing expensive works of art such as paintings. Shizuka, who went to the gallery with Toranosuke and…

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hyaku Monogatari

7.5

An anthology special consisting of ten different short stories. >> Story 1: "Tobira no Muko" (扉の向こう) [Director: Shinozaki Makoto] >> Story 2: "Tera ni Azukerareta Riyu" (寺に預けられた理由) [Director:…

Heibon Punch

8.0

Aki Mashima is a tubby 30-year-old indie movie director who meets a young actress named Mika, whose small breasts conform to his ideal image of the female form—even though she dreams of getting gigantic implants…

Shiawase no Jikan

The drama, unlike the other versions, is told through the eyes of the main character, Tomoko, and not, as in the original story, her male protagonist Tatsuhiko. The title met with much criticism due to its excessive…

Engawa Lovers 2

The second installment of the humanity comedy "Engawa Lovers," which depicts the everyday life of men who love the veranda, set on the veranda of an old Japanese house. A fledgling movie director, Daisuke Hagiwara…

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity

7.2

A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa,…

Boku no Tomei na Dokyonin

Aida Ritsu, a second-year high school student, begins living alone at his grandmother’s house after his parents are transferred overseas for work. However, on his very first morning there, he finds an unfamiliar…

Tokyo Yakyoku

7.6

Koichi Hamanaka suddenly returns to the tightly knit community, a shopping district, in a corner of Tokyo that he once called home. His whereabouts and his activities over the past few years are a mystery to everyone,…

Sayonara wo Moichido

Surgeon Takagi Shuhei reunites with his former lover, Mukai Kyoko, for the first time in six years. However, Takagi now has a fiancée, Okazaki Saori, while Mukai has a husband, Asakura Koichi. Not long after their…

Sister

6.7

Nagisa Miyoshi and Saho Miyoshi are sisters and very close to each other. Younger sister Nagisa Miyoshi leaves her hometown of Hiroshima and begins to live with her older sister Saho Miyoshi, who has already moved…