Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Fukuma Kenji

Kenji FUKUMA is a poet, film maker, film critic and scholar of English literature and cultural studies. Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He started to write as early as the late 1960s. He has studied and wrote about the works of modern poets such as Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden. As a film…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Itami Juzo

Juzo Itami, born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself. The son of Mansaku Itami, prewar director of satiric jidai-geki, Jūzō worked initially as an actor, appearing regularly in Japan and occasionally in English-language…

JU!iE

JU!iE graduated from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and went to the U.S. by herself to enter in Berklee College of Music. She has started her music career in NY after graduate. In 2022 she joined HoriPro International Inc. / HT Entertainment Inc. to start her music career in Japan.…

Futagawa Buntaro

A specialist in jidai-geki, Futagawa is remembered largely for the silent films he made at Makino Productions in collaboration with popular action hero Tsumasaburō Bandō. Several of these survive: Kageboshi (Edo Kaizokuden: Kagebōshi, 1925) is admired for having introduced a greater psychological…

Tanaka Teruzo

Tanaka Teruzo, born Tanaka Teruo (田中輝夫) in Wada, Mitoyo, Kagawa, Japan, was a Japanese stage designer. was a Japanese stage designer. He graduated from Kagawa Prefectural Mitoyo Middle School (香川県立三豊中学校) and, in 1934, Kyoto College of Technology (京都高等工芸学校).…

Toptap Jirakit Kuariyakul

"Toptap" Jirakit Kuariyakul is an actor born in Nan Province. He graduated from Strisrinan School in Nan before moving to Bangkok to study at Mahidol University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration majoring in marketing. Toptap modelled as a child and got his start…

Hong Kyung Min

Hong Kyung Min is a South Korean pop-rock singer known for his versatility. He is one of a few singers in Korea that excels at many different styles of music, from rock to dance to ballad. He has also proven himself a talented musician and a well rounded entertainer. In 2000, the single “Shaky Friendship”…

Sakamichi no Mukou ni wa Aozora ga Hirogatte Ita.

8.6

This is the first official TV show starring the new idol group "Boku ga Mitakatta Aozora"! With comedy duo Chocolate Planet as MCs, the show is a bold and intense training program designed to shape the strongest idols…

Shachikujin Yaboo

Being a corporate slave is fine. So, let's work ourselves to the bone! In the Reiwa era, where work style reform is encouraged, tolerance for individual circumstances and diverse working styles is considered ideal.…

Oshi Nochi Joshi, ni Dekiai Sarete

Sena is an office worker known for being highly capable and dedicated to her job, while never neglecting her sense of style. One day, her secret crush, the handsome weather forecaster Kusakabe, arrives as her new section…

Blood & Sweat

Suzumiya Aki is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division. She possesses an exceptional nose and tenacity at crime scenes and has solved numerous challenging cases. However,…

Blue Demon

6.3

Shun is a transfer student who can't seem to adjust to his new class and falls into mild depression. However, one day he meets some fellow students by chance in front of a creepy Western-style mansion called the "Jailhouse"…

Yaneura no Koibito

6.6

Saijo Kinuka is a housewife and has a 17-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son with her husband. Due to the death of her father-in-law, she moves to a Western-style house in Kamakura left behind by him together with…

Kamen Rider Decade: Protect! The World of Televikun

6.9

"Kamen Rider Decade: Protect! The World of Televikun" is the Hyper Battle DVD for Kamen Rider Decade. Like Kiva's DVD, it is another "Choose Your Own Adventure" style story. The viewer's choices throughout the DVD…

A Summer Solstice Story

The film “Summer Solstice Story” was produced in 1992. Now, with Aina The End as the new heroine, director Shunji Iwai himself takes on the task of remaking it. Through his unique style, characterized by the heavy…

Mendona Hitobito

Yudai is a dull high school freshman who’d rather play hooky than be isolated at school. He gains a friend when he accidentally injures a Western-style restaurant owner and helps out as recompense. Yudai’s neighbour…

A Stitch of Life

7.3

Seamstress Ichie inherits her grandmother’s dressmaking shop. She uses the shop’s old sewing machine to make Western-style clothing, which is extremely popular with locals, but she continues on the path laid out…