Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within

A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa…

Gion Hayashi

Ginza Namikidori Club Andalucia

Okuzawa, the manager of an exclusive club called Andalucia, is visited by a man named Masuda who says he has never been to such an establishment before. He develops an attraction to veteran hostess Kyoko, but she continues…

Ku Rak Ku Rob

Ranking Crisis

Hoshino Natsuko is secretly a Harvard graduate and IT executive, but is mistaken for a low-status working mom by her status-obsessed acquaintance, Hana, who constantly belittles her. When her daughter Shoko sets her…

Typhoon Club

7.0

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.

Super Invincible Class

A "school variety" that focuses on the SNS situation and the latest trends of teenagers. The teenage corps "Super Invincible Class", whose total number of followers on SNS exceeds 10 million, explains the topics that…

Timeless Love Letters to My Classmates

8.0

Edamatsu Suneo, a part-time pest exterminator, aspires to be a novelist. One day he plagiarizes a novel written in a notebook he happened to come into possession of and ends up winning a literary award. Suddenly becoming…

Otsuka Ai

Ai Otsuka (Tsuka Ai, born September 9, 1982) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, and actress from Suminoe-Ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo," which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly…

Manaki Reika

Manaki Reika is a Japanese actress and former Top Musumeyaku (female lead) of Takarazuka Revue’s Moon Troupe. She was born in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. She is currently signed with Amuse. Her nickname, Chapi, originates from the sound of her real name. She entered Takarazuka Music School…

Sakamoto Koichi

Sakamoto Koichi is a Japanese stuntman, film director, producer, and action coordinator with experience in Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. Affiliated with Alpha Stunts, he also works as a freelance producer and director. Sakamoto is from Senju, Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Senshu…

Ogata Ken

Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]

In television,…

Ogata Megumi

Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tokai University, but left due to lack of interest. She is best known for voicing Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in the Toei version of Yu-Gi-Oh!,…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Kitagawa Chizuru

Kitagawa Chizuru was a Japanese actress from Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. From 1937 to 1942, she appeared in the Shinko Kinema Kyoto historical dramas as a child. She joined Daiei Kyoto in 1946 after the war. In 1953, she became a freelancer and co-starred with Arashi Kanjuro in "Kurama Tengu". Later,…

Nagisa Mayumi

Nagisa Mayumi is a Japanese actress and singer. She was born in Tokyo. After dropping out of high school, she made her debut in 1961 in the film Yuyake Ko yake no Akatonbo. She went sold out as Daiei Film's fresh star. Her stage name, "Nagisa Mayumi", was named by composer Yamada Kosaku. She appeared…

Sakai Noriko

Noriko Sakai is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She debuted in 1986 as an idol singer, and her short hair style, smile, and youthful image became a talking point in entertainment media. She married Yuuichi Takasou in 1998, and divorced on July 31, 2010. She and Yuuichi…

Ohara Koyu

Ohara Koyu is a Japanese film director known for his popular Roman Porno films, Fairy in a Cage (1977) and the Pink Tush Girl series (1978–1980). One of Nikkatsu's most versatile and prolific directors, filming eight movies in 1979 alone, his stylistic preoccupations led him to be known as "King of…