Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Imori Miyuki

Imori Miyuki is a Japanese entertainer, idol, actress and singer born in Shimonita, Gunma, Japan. She is represented by the talent agency Horipro. While still in high school, she was selected as a winner among 120,000 contestants in the 9th Horipro Talent Scout Caravan competition in 1984. She made…

Shibata Yoshiyuki

Shibata Yoshiyuki is a Japanese actor born on June 11, 1967 in Kyoto, Japan.

Ito Toshihito

Ito Toshihito was a japanese actor born on February 16, 1962 in Niigata, Japan. He passed away on May 25, 2002 from brain hemorrhage.

Shiro

Shimomoto, born August 14, 1948 in Osaka, Japan, is a Japanese actor and director best known for appearing in many pink and V-cinema films. He started his career as an actor in director Takahashi Banmei’s pink films in the early 1970s. He has worked with Takahashi in many other films and has also…

Watanabe Noriko

Watanabe Noriko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. In 1983, she won the Japan Academy prize for Newcomer of the Year for her role in the movie "Tsumiki Kuzushi" and, in 1986, she won the Yokohama Fil, Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress on her role in the movie…

Saionji Akio

Saionji Akio was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Osaka prefecture, Japan.

Ogura Hisao

Ogura Hisao is a Japanese producer, director, and screenwriter from Nagano, Japan. He graduated from Sophia University (上智大学) and began his career as a freelance assistant director and director at Fuji Television's (フジテレビ) First Production Department. In the early 1990s, Ogura joined…

Imai Masayuki

Imai Masayuki was a Japanese playwright and actor born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force before starting his acting career in the second half of the 1980s. The founder of the stage company Elle Company, he was the author and the main actor of the play…

Katsuragi Yoko

She was born in Yotsuya (now known as Shinjuku), Tokyo on April 6, 1930. In 1946, she graduated from Kojimachi Women's Commercial School in Tokyo (currently the Tokyo Shiba Commercial High School) and joined the Shochiku Opera Company after the war. In 1948, she caught the eye of Kinoshita Keisuke and…

Taiyo wa Ugokanai: The Eclipse

7.3

Takano Kazuhiko is an agent of Asia Net Communcations (AN Communications), a secret intelligence organization that operates under the disguise of a news distribution company. Following a massive explosion at the construction…

Zero - Episode Zero

7.3

Spin-off series to Zero Ikkaku Senkin Game streaming exclusively on Hulu. The episodes will reveal the past of the series protagonist Zero, played by Shigeaki Katō of the idol group NEWS. However, it will do so by…

Hit Me Anyone One More Time

7.3

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was…

The Silent Service

7.4

A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) submarine sank in a maritime accident near Japan. Japan was shocked by the news that the survival of all 76 crew members, including the captain, Second Lieutenant Shiro…

Aimitagai

7.4

Azusa works as a wedding planner. One day, she suddenly learned that her close friend Kanau had passed away. Because she could not recover from the bad news, Azusa could not proceed with her marriage with her boyfriend,…

Top Caster

7.5

Haruka Tsubaki hops on a plane from New York to Tokyo. She will be filling in the newscaster position on a news program that will begin airing on CNB Television. Haruka used to work as an anchor and was called "the…

Kao Dake Sensei

7.5

A young male part-time high school teacher is ridiculed for being "the teacher with only a face". Despite confusing the entire student body, he manages to change his students' outlooks on life. (Source: News Yahoo;…

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

7.2

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.

Chichi to Musuko no Chika Idol

7.2

A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that left his son in a coma. Wanting to know more about his son's life, he…

Kaze no Mukou he Kakenukero

7.6

Story of a girl who lost her father, meets a man and keeps challenging the jockey's dream after the earthquake. (Source: News Yahoo) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Kaze no Mukou he Kakenukero" (風の向こうへ駆け抜けろ)…