Yakushiji Yoko

Yakushiji Yoko is a Japanese actress born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. In 1986, she was selected as the campaign girl "Miss Anmitsu Hime" in the magazine "Nakayoshi." Subsequently, she gained attention as the lead actress in the movie "Another Harajuku…

Kikuchi Yoko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Yamaguchi Hiroko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Onoda Isamu

Onoda Isamu was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Chuo University in 1941. He was a member of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Drama Group. He also had achievements as an actor. His son, Onoda Masashi, is also a screenwriter and director, and his grandson,…

Mizuhara Maki

Mizuhara Maki, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, is a former Japanese actress. She began her career as a child actress under the name Hagiwara Nobuko after joining Toei Children's Research Institute in 1963. Mizuhara graduated from Toyoko Gakuen High School. There has been no confirmed information about…

Kaji Miwako

Kaji Miwako is a Japanese actress born in Shibuya, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Tagen Chofu High School, she graduated from the Stage Arts Academy. She was affiliated with Gendai Seisaku-sha and Blue Bear House. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Rionne McAvoy

Rionne McAvoy is a documentary filmmaker originally from the Gold Coast in Australia. Now residing in Tokyo, Japan, for over 17 years, Rionne is fully bilingual in English and Japanese. Rionne grew up in South East Queensland, Australia, and at the age of 19 went to Japan for an 8-week karate training…

Kawaguchi Setsuko

Kawaguchi Setsuko was a Japanese actress born in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. She dropped out of the Faculty of Home Economics at Wayo Women's University. She attended the Toho Performing Arts School and was affiliated with Toho, and later with Shinsei Productions, before joining Takarai Project. In 1963,…

Nakamura Umenosuke IV

Nakamura Umenosuke IV, born Mitsui Tetsuo (三井鐵男) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor and kabuki performer. He represented the renowned theater troupe Zenshinza, founded by his father, the third-generation Nakamura Kanyemon. His mother was the daughter of the second-generation Dansuro Enji.…

Fujikawa Yanosuke

Fujikawa Yanosuke is a kabuki actor belonging to the theater group Zenshinza, born in Tokyo, Japan. His grandfather was Fujikawa Yanosuke known as one of the seven samurai of Zenshinza. He comes from a family of entertainers, including his aunt, actress Imamura Izumi, his mother, Japanese dancer Fujima…

Before Next Spring

7.4

The film is a fresco of the daily life of a group of young Chinese people in a Tokyo suburb; their story is told through a series of minor actions, some moments of intimacy and others of despair, especially of great…

On the Street

7.4

Arakawa Aoi works at a secondhand clothing store in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. He lives a simple life. In his free time, he likes to browse used bookstores or go to bars by himself. Things become more complicated when Aoi…

Canary

7.4

Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come…

Second Blue

7.4

Tateishi Daichi, a book designer working at a design company in Tokyo, is so absorbed in his love of reading that he has little interest in real-life romance. One day, his contact at Marufuji Publishing is replaced,…

Nasake no Onna

7.4

Matsudaira Matsuko is a tax investigator from the countryside who is suddenly called to work at the Tokyo Tax Investigation Bureau. Her rather unorthodox methods of investigating tax evaders shocks the rest of the…

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…

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…

Shinjuku Seven

7.3

Nanase runs a pawnshop in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. He is a genius appraiser able to distinguish fakes from originals. He gets pretty much everything at his pawn shop. When clients come to his shop,…

Shinigami San

7.3

Kennin Gido is a detective. He belongs to a mysterious division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He is the only member in the division. There, Kennin Gido reinvestigates cases that received not-guilty verdicts.…

Tora-san 16: The Intellectual

7.4

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…