Misumi Hachiro

Misumi Hachiro, born Shibahashi Naoho (芝橋直保) in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, was a Japanese actor also known by the stage names Misumi Hachiro (三角八郎) and Misumi Hachiro (三角八廊). He left the Faculty of Letters at Hosei University (法政大学文学部中退) and began his career with…

Yara Yusaku

Yara Yusaku is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Kawabe Susumu and his former stage name was Kurobe Tetsu. Previously, he was the representative director of the voice actor office vivo, but it was later dissolved, citing his to old age. He is best known for…

Kayama Yuzo

Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Miura Shion

Miura Shion is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Japan Booksellers' Award. Her work has been adapted for film and television, and her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, English, German and Italian. Being a daughter of a well-known…

Yoshida Yoh

Yoshida Yo is a Japanese actress born in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Her real name and old stage name is Yoshida Yoko. She is represented by the talent agency Oranku. She discovered her love for acting after first appearing on stage in 1997, where she stayed until 2007 when she was discovered by…

Suzuki Yoshihiro

Suzuki Yoshihiro is the Director of the Programming Center at Fuji Television Network, Inc. He was formerly associated with Suzuki Corporation. Originally from Kanagawa, Japan, Suzuki graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University in 1991 and joined Fuji Television the same year. He worked in…

Hosokawa Chikako

Hosokawa Chikako was a Japanese actress born in Uchisaiwai, Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Koran Women's School and joined Osanai Kaoru’s Tsukiji Little Theater in 1925, making her stage debut in "Kakujin Kakusetsu". In 1929, at age 23, she left the theater to help form the Shinjuku Theater…

Kurara Haruka

Kurara Harukaa, birth name Yamasaki Kumiko (山崎久美子) was a Takarazuka Revue Top Star before starting her TV and film acting career in 1984 with Toho Entertainment. Her stage name was given by the playwright Yashiro Seiichi. 'Haruka' (遥) means 'aimed at far away' while 'Kurara' is romaji for…

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…

1st Sem

7.1

Maru Marasigan (Darwin Yu), a sixteen-year old incoming freshman from the province, leaves his hometown to study in one of the prestigious universities in Manila. He is accompanied by his mother Precy (Lotlot de Leon)…

That's My Amboy

7.7

Maru is a simple yet determined girl who seeks to do her best in life, inspired by her mother's love for her. Bryan, a young actor and the hottest leading man in the TV and film industry seeks to be truly appreciated…

Crank

8.0

Maru runs around Tokyo. Maru hears from his fellow messenger Hide that he might be leaving Tokyo. (Source: shortshorts.org)

Poot Pitsawat

6.6

Marut stumbles upon a beautiful ghost by chance, Dao. He is immediately smitten by her, but things are not as they seem. Dao is a ghost that acts as a succubus for a scarier entity. Marut helps Dao break free of this…

Poot Pitsawat

7.0

Marut stumbles upon a beautiful ghost by chance, Dao. He is immediately smitten by her, but things are not as they seem. Dao is a ghost that acts as a succubus for a scarier entity. Marut helps Dao break free of this…

Stardust Children

Maruta is driven out of his land after he is considered to be cursed. After wandering through the forest, he encounters a stardust children who are righteous and pure. Maruta befriends Senebu, Bella and other children,…

Kimi to Mata

Maruo, an independent film director, breaks up with his girlfriend Aki because he feels that he doesn't want to have sex with her out of love. Unable to move on, he tries to make a film based on the experience but…

Buchou to Shachiku no Koi Modokashii

7.3

Maruyama Mayumi is an OL who loves her job and has taken a liking to her manager Teiji Osamu who is strict about work and insists on knocking off on time. The two end up spending a night together after a drinking session…

Ohana no Sensei

7.2

Otori Maruko has just been elected into the National Diet of Japan. Originally known as Head of the Otori Flower Arrangement School, which has over 70.000 students nationwide, she gets instructed by the secretary appointed…