Byplayers: What if 100 Supporting Characters Make a Movie

7.5

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. (Source: genkinahito.wordpress.com)

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 25th Anniversary Special - Movie Director Edition

7.1

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Hako" (箱) Yoshino Sakuko wakes up confined in a narrow box resembling a coffin, relying on her smartphone to seek help. She tries calling emergency services…

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

6.6

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

Gekijouban Himitsu x Senshi Phantomirage ~Eiga ni Natte Chodai Shimasu~

7.2

They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through…

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Kawaguchi Setsuko

Kawaguchi Setsuko is a former Japanese actress who was active in the early 1950s. She was born in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan. Her husband is the former actor Namishima Susumu (波島進), and their eldest daughter is also a former actress, Ogura Kayo (小倉加代). She graduated from Gunma Prefectural Kiryu…

Saki Cato

Saki Kato was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1989. She is a choreographer, actor and filmmaker. Kato began dancing from a young age and appeared in musicals in middle school. After experiences in theater production, choreography and acting, she studied at the Actor’s Course at Eiga Bigakkou where she…

Rosa Aguirre

Rosa Aguirre was a Filipina actress who worked for Sampaguita Pictures and Lvn Pictures. She was married to actor Miguel Anzures and mother of former child actor Narding Anzures. She made her first movie on 1938, Himagsikan ng Puso, with Rudy Concepcion. Under X'Otic Pictures and Eiga Hekusa she made…

Aoyama Erina

Aoyama Erina is a Japanese model, actress and AV idol. She originally started her career as a model with the name Ren Suzuki, but gradually switched her career to AV. While she was working in AV, she had a chance to be in "Sora Aoi's TSUMUGI" (directed by Hidekazu Takahara). She played a role, a daughter…

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Wakahara Harue

Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Oohara Tokio

Tokio Ohara is a director and actress, known for "Nagoshi: Summer purification" (2014), "Nagoshi no Harae" (2016) and "Saotome: The Woman Who Plants Rice" (2014). (Source: IMDB) She is an autodidact filmmaker with an interest in women's social stories. She made shorts and an experimental feature and…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Fukansho ni Natte Iku Korekara no Bokura ni Tsuite

eiga.com award-winning short film at Tanabe Benkei Film Festival. The story follows a guy named Ken who is struggling with his dream of being a musician in Tokyo. He has lost all songwriting inspiration. He returns…

Happy Endings

"Hajimete no Eiga" (lit. The First Movie) depicts high school students struggling to make a movie. "Tori o Mi ni Iku" (lit. Going to See the Birds), staring at the vivid love patterns of four men and women who visited…

Dead End

8.0

This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business. Source: theMoviedb

Gemini Woman

It depicts a woman's obsession with robbing a man in a triangular relationship. (Source: Eiga)

Penta Sky

A family picture depicting a boy sending a penguin born in Japan to his hometown of Antarctica. (Source: Eiga)

Tsukishima Kyoso

A short story that comically depicts the family swaying in various turmoil triggered by the hospitalization of the head of the family. (Source: eiga)