Tsuboi Taku

Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…

Sugata Michiko

Sugata Michiko, born Tachibana Ikuko (橘郁子), is a former Japanese actress and singer. Born in Minami 8-jo Nishi 3-chome, Sapporo, Hokkaido, her family ran a dyeing business, Tachibanaya, and had historical roots in Ishikawa Prefecture. Her younger sister, Tachibana Kazuko, was also an actress with…

Sanada Hiroyuki

Sanada Hiroyuki is a Japanese actor and stage actor working in Japanese and British plays and theatre. He is also known as a recording artist in Japan. In Asia, he is most famous for his martial arts roles and historical films. Outside of Japan, Sanada was often credited in his younger days as Henry,…

Nakajima Keiko

Nakajima Keiko was a Japan opera singer. Born in Sata Town, Kagoshima Prefecture.

Goda Mamora

Goda Mamora is a Japanese manga artist born in Ise, Mie, Japan. He studied graphic design at the Osaka General Design Technical School and began working as a freelance illustrator after graduation. In 1993, he debuted with two works, "Tora no Ko ga Yuku!" (虎の子がゆく!) and "Hana no Saku Niwa"…

Ota Ranzo

Novelist.

Hinago Masahiko

Hinago Masahiko is a Japanese director.

Matsunami Shiho

Matsunami Shiho is a Japanese actress born in Niigata.

Kobayashi Tsubasa

Kobayashi Tsubasa is a Japanese actor born on December 24, 1998. He started his acting career as a child actor.

Kandagawa

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness…

Ahiru no Uta ga Kikoete kuru yo.

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the short story "Ahiru no Shiiku" (アヒルの飼育) by Shiina Makoto (椎名誠).

Colorful

8.0

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is 'lucky' and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed…

Manase Juri

Animals: Kikoku-hen

7.5

Umi and Kazao are finally dating. Umi spends days deepening her love with Kazao, who is overseas, through video calls, and feels lonely that he can't get in touch with her. When she discusses the situation with her…

Egoist

7.7

When Kosuke was 14 years old, his mother died. As a young gay person, he spent his adolescence in a rural village and suppressed his feelings. Now, Kosuke is all grown up and he works as a fashion magazine editor in…

Homestay

7.7

Shiro has died temporarily but is told by a mysterious person called "Guardian" that he can do a "homestay" i.e. his soul to reside in another dead person's body so as to find the reason for the latter's death. However,…

Beach Boys

8.0

Upon getting thrown out of his girlfriend Fujiko's apartment, Hiromi decides to head for the ocean. En route, he crosses paths with Kaito, an elite employee of a large multinational trading company in Tokyo who is…

Smells Like Green Spirit

8.3

Mishima Futoshi, a junior high school student in the countryside, is bullied by his classmates. The reason is that he is seemingly gay. In reality, Mishima does like guys, so he does not resist their bullying, and…