Shimojo Masami

Shimojo Masami was a Japanese actor born in Busan, South Korea, to parents from Iki, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Busan First Commercial School and lived in Busan until age 20 before moving to Tokyo to pursue a career as a film director. In 1936, he joined the Shinkyo Theatre Company and debuted…

Taguchi Tomorowo

Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer, and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan…

Higashino Keigo

Higashino Keigo was born in the Ikuno Ward of Osaka City. He incorporates his experience in his hometown into his works, notable examples include "Byakuya" and "Namiwa Shonen Tanteidan". Originally, his last name was read as Tono but his father changed the reading to Higashino. He graduated from the…

Michelle Ye

Michelle Ye is a Chinese actress and producer. In 1999, she won the Miss Chinese International competition. Michelle signed a contract with TVB from 1999 to 2005. After she left TVB, She signed with Rich & Famous Talent Management Group Limited to pursue a movie career. Ye is fluent in Cantonese, English,…

Asano Tadanobu

Tadanobu Asano is an actor and musician born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He grew up with parents engaged in a bohemian lifestyle - his mother often drove Asano around while listening to Led Zeppelin and his father was a painter. At school, Asano often felt like an outcast, sometimes being taunted…

Takashi Fujimura

Hiroi Ryutaro

Takahashi Manami

Takahashi Manami is a Japanese actress.

Lotlot de Leon

Lotlot de Leon is a Filipino actress. She is the daughter of actress Nora Aunor and actor Christopher de Leon by adoption. Former US Navy Donald Olson and Eva Rodriguez are her biological parents. She is also the sister of actress Matet de Leon, actor Ian de Leon, Kenneth and Kiko. She was married to…

Kamimura Kaisei

Kamimura Kaisei is a Japanese actor and model affiliated with Flash Up Inc.

Kanzarashi ni Koishite

7.5

Mizuki moves from Tokyo to Shimabara city as the newest employee of the city office with the mission to revive Ginryu, a town favorite. The store specialises in kanzarashi a classic of the small town with a special…

Ginrei no Oja

Tony Schneider, a famous Austrian skier who lost six of his friends in an avalanche, leaves his native country to travel to Japan. While working on a cargo ship, he becomes friends with the Japanese head cook, Kotani,…

Closing Time

The life and love of three young women working in a Tokyo department store. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Heiten Jikan" (閉店時間) by Ariyoshi Sawako (有吉佐和子).

Candy and Kiss

6.4

Maeda Taiki works in a clothing store in Tokyo. He is a shy boy who has no confidence in himself and believes he is ugly. Yagii Haruhisa is the manager of the shopping center where Maeda works; he is handsome, kind,…

Life Can Be So Wonderful

6.9

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama film. "The World Is Sometimes Beautiful" Noeda is 38 years old and has lived in Tokyo for 19 years. For 11 years now, she has…

Sugar & Spice

6.7

A Tokyo suburb with a middle American feel, the city of Fussa is home to a US military base with its wide avenues, second-hand clothing stores peddling American merchandise and bars catering largely to G.I.s. Shiro…

Aijin

Sugimoto Natsuko, a female clerk at a department store in Tokyo, starts helping a university professor with a manuscript after work. One evening, they both confess their love for each other and she becomes his lover.…

Ecchan

7.4

It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this,…

Silent

8.5

Tsumugi Aoba fell in love with So Sakura, who attended the same high school. They both shared an interest in music. Their relationship got deeper and deeper, but, suddenly, Sakura said goodbye to her without giving…

It All Began When I Met You

7.2

The film follows various different people and couples in 6 loosely connected stories. All of the stories are set at Tokyo Station and take place just before Christmas. The different characters range from a company…