Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Yamamoto Kaichi

Yamamoto Kaichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has been a major figure in Nikkatsu and appeared in both contemporary and historical dramas. In 1895, when he was 18 years old, he joined the new school "Otojiro Kawakami Ichiza" led by Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899 when he was 22 years old, he participated…

Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

Tanami Yasuo

Tanami Yasuo is a Japanese screenwriter and producer from Tokyo, Japan.

Oizumi Akira

Ohizumi Akira was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

Tora-san 16: The Intellectual

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Tora-san returns to his family's shop in Shibamata, Tokyo to find himself accused of being the father of a 17-year-old girl. It turns out that Tora-san had only given help to the girl's mother after her husband had…

Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku

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In 1921, Miyazawa Kenji left a wealthy family and went to Tokyo. Standing on his own two feet, he lived there for 8 months. Late summer, Kenji received a telegram from his family. Worried about his younger sister Toshi,…

56-nenme no Shitsuren

7.4

Nakagawa Saori is a chef apprentice at "Chez Nishijima", a prestigious French restaurant in Tokyo in year 2020. Despite winning various French cuisine contests, Saori does not appreciate her cookings and spends her…

Damena Otoko ja Dame Desu ka?

7.4

Gonta, a good-looking man living a false life in Tokyo, and Katsuyo, whose grandma is a powerful and energetic woman who lives an honest life in the countryside, suddenly exchange bodies one day. (Source: MyDramaList)…

The Ramen Girl

7.5

Abruptly abandoned by her boyfriend, a young American woman finds herself suddenly alone and adrift in Tokyo. Lost in the shuffle of a foreign culture and seeking to console herself, Abby winds up hanging out in her…

Keishicho Kosatsu Ichika

7.5

The First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is based in the Dai-Tokyo Police Station , is headed by Keiichiro Funakoshi, the Chief of the First Investigation Division . This is a department…

Surname Confidential

7.5

The story takes place at a police station in Nakano, Tokyo - a community-based precinct handling cases of all sizes, from arguments between pedestrians and neighborhood disputes to theft and fraud. Assigned to the…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2024 Summer Special

7.4

An omnibus special comprised of four segments: >> Story 1: "Tomobikimura" (友引村) Fujisaki Rin is a typical college student in Tokyo. Along with her close friends, Takahashi Soma and Hibino Yamato, her life takes…

Spring Has Come

7.4

In February, Hajime Tokita and his daughter travel to Tokyo from Hiroshima, looking for an apartment for Riko who will start college soon. Along the way, Hajime thinks back to his late wife and raising his daughter…

Suna no Utsuwa

7.5

Set around Halloween, 2018 in Shibuya, Tokyo. A dead body that was beaten to death is found. Detective Imanishi begins to investigate the case. The only clue in the case is that the victim said the Tohoku dialect word…