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…

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…

Iwato Shisetsu

He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…

Jerry Fujio

Jerry Fujio is a Japanese singer, actor, and talent. He belongs to Office Kiko. Fujio dropped out of Keio High School attached to Senshu University. His daughters are former actresses Fujio Miki and Fujio Aki. His ex-wife is singer Watanabe Tomoko. Fujio's mother suffered from alcoholism to avoid loneliness…

Otomo Jun

Otomo Jun was a Japanese actor born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He was affiliated with Sogei Pro, Teatro Kakko, Hanabusa Pro, and the Tokyo Actors Cooperative Association. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School's pre-war Teacher Training Course and worked as a music teacher at Osaka Municipal Namba…

Mitz Mangrove

Mitz Mangrove was born in the Midori Ward of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture on April 10, 1975. He works mainly as a crossdressing talent but is also an actor, narrator, and drag queen. His father is Tokumitsu Jiro, who served as Isetan's UK president and the deputy manager of their Shinjuku location.…

Arishima Ichiro

Arishima Ichiro, born Oshima Tadao (大島忠雄) in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of a steel factory owner. After attending Hioki Elementary School (日置尋常小学校) and Nagoya Middle School (名古屋中学校), where he developed an interest in theater, he…

Mochizuki Yuko

Mochizuki Yuko was a Japanese actress, film director, and politician, serving as a member of the House of Councillors for the Japan Socialist Party. She was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and in 1930, she left Tokyo Municipal Shinobugaoka High School without graduating. Under the stage name…

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Murota Hideo

Murota Hideo was a Japanese actor born in Hokkaido, Japan. He was known for "Kagemusha" (1980), "Original Sin" (1992) and "Endless Waltz" (1995). He died on June 15, 2002, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, due to lung cancer. (Source: IMDb)

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 9

At a Mizukami-school memorial Noh performance, Wataka, the grandson of the head of the school, Kazunori, is chosen to perform Dojoji while wearing the “Rain-Bringer Mask.” This mask, passed down through generations…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 18: Siberia Tetsudo Satsujin Jiken

This time, the stage is the frigid Trans-Siberian Railway. A horrifying mystery that involves trading companies, hitmen, the Russian mafia, nuclear physicists, and embassies, starting with the murder in Kabukicho,…

Buyuden

Former boxer Ryuhei, who killed a person in a fight, has returned to Kabukicho. Ryuhei has a feeling of frustration with nowhere to go, and fights on the streets at night to try and fill the void. Goro, who runs a…

Double Suicide Elegy

7.0

Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 37: Tokkyu Azusa Satsujin Jiken

A cash robbery murder case occurs in Tokyo, but the suspects in the case are killed one after another. Is it the culprit of the criminals trying to monopolize the money, or is it the crime of another person? As if…

Omoide Tsukuri

6.0

A love drama in which three women, who have reached the age of marriage , search for "memories". Norio Nemoto indiscriminately invites people along the public road, "Can you take the questionnaire? I'll give you a…

Nekoben to Toumei Ningen

7.6

Momose Taro, nicknamed “Nekoben”, is described as a genius lawyer by the people around him, and yet he is a poor man who lives in a run-down apartment. To make matters worse, he is 40 and still has no luck with…

Inemuri Sensei

Saburo is a director of commercials. After working at an advertising agency, he struck out on his own and became a creator of commercials, concert choreography and song lyrics. At 28, he met Masako who was used as…

Shirogane Shinjuu

Sakura Shinjuu

9.0

On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become…