Kobayashi Mao

Kobayashi Mao is a Japanese actress and news anchor. She is perhaps best known for her appearances on Fuji TV as a weathercaster and on News Zero as a co-anchor, but she has also played several supporting roles in Japanese dramas and movies. Mao was born in Ojiya, Niigata and is a graduate of the department…

Terajima Shinobu

Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress.She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. She won the award for best actress at the 46th Blue Ribbon Awards for Akame 48 Waterfalls and Vibrator, at the 28th Hochi Film Award for Akame 48 Waterfalls and at the 25th Yokohama Film Festival for Vibrator.Her father…

Nakamura Baijaku

Shinichi Mitsui better known as Nakamura Baijaku II, is a Japanese actor, bassist, and composer. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Ogikubo High School and later graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. Nakamura also has relatives who are kabuki actors. Great-grandfather: Nakamura Kanemon…

Sugimura Haruko

Sugimura Haruko was a Japanese actress born in Nishijido, Hiroshima, Japan, then a military town. Her mother was a geisha, and her father, reportedly a military man, died when she was young. She was adopted by a building materials merchant and a teahouse owner in the entertainment district. Her adoptive…

Kawahara Kazuhisa

Kawahara Kazuhisa is a Japanese actor from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for his breakout role in Aibo where he portrays Section 7 Clerk Sergeant Keichi Itami as well as his appearances in the Initial D series as the voice of Seiji Iwaki and Kamen Rider Decade as the villain Apollo Geist.…

Fuji Sumiko

Fuji Sumiko is a Japanese actress and moderator from Gobo City, Wakayama Prefecture. She received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2007, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays in the spring of 2016. She graduated from Osaka Municipal Honjo Junior High School. She became a fan of Takarazuka Revue…

Kataoka Ainosuke VI

The 6th generation Kataoka Ainosuke is Yamamoto Hiroyuki. Yamamoto Hiroyuki was born on March 4, 1972, in Jinnanbe-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka. His parents ran a manufacturing business in Sakai, Osaka and did not have any association with the world of Kabuki. At the age of 5, Hiroyuki passed the…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Matsu Takako

Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is Matsumoto Koka (Matsumoto Koka the First). Her father is Matsumoto Koshiro IX, Kabuki actor and head of the Buyo house;…

Yami kara Kita Shojo

Rei, the seven-year-old daughter of Tsukioka Shinji, who runs a coffee shop "Dolls" in Morioka, was seriously injured when she was hit by a car on a snowy road. But while she was in the hospital, she began to show…

Pickpocket

2.0

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a…

Toshi Densetsu Sepia

7.3

Owlman Saiki Takehiko is a guy who is no good at anything no matter what he does. One day, he creates an urban legend of the Owlman and starts posting these rumours on internet bulletin boards. A man dressed in a brown…

Ten no Hakobune

3.0

Kurotani Nanami grew up in a poor farmer’s household that suffered from inadequate state support to the earthquake victims. She works at a club as she attends university and constantly sends her family money. One…

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…

SP: The Motion Picture

7.5

When Kaoru Inoue (Junichi Okada) opposes Soichiro Ogata (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Soichiro makes the cryptic remark "It couldn't be helped. It was for a greater cause ..." One month later, at an event hall in Roppongi…