Satoyama II: Japan's Secret Water Garden

8.0

landscape of terraced rice fields, with small streams, coppice woods, and scattered homes. These places of everyday life, shaped by people over many long years, are called “satoyama” and “satoti.” Following…

Blue Song - Proud of My Voice Youth Version

7.0

Story concerns teen amateurs trying to make their musical marks, set in Mutsu, Aomori, Japan.

Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden

A landscape of terraced rice fields, with small streams, coppice woods, and scattered homes. These places of everyday life, shaped by people over many long years, are called “satoyama.” Including the photography…

The Suicide Song

6.4

When Natsuno Anzu hears a hauntingly beautiful song come from the lips of a girl who just moments later commits suicide on her schools premises, she begins to look deeper into her school and the song. Meanwhile, Takashi,…

A Song for Aliens

7.6

When we were 17 we looked at our teacher who was 27 with arrogance but time flies and before we knew it, we were 27 too. We didn't know how hard life could be 10 years later. We didn't know we would meet each other…

The Dogs of Karma

7.7

It centers on Kamo and his partner Tora, who work in the underworld as "avengers for hire," taking on jobs from the victims of violent crimes and families seeking vengeance for wrongs done to them. (Source: mangaupdates.com)…

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

7.2

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues.…

Apollo's Song

7.1

Haunted by childhood trauma, Chikaishi Shogo rejects love, living off a woman he doesn't care for. His only genuine bond is with his childhood friend Watari Hiromi, but when he discovers her feelings, his aversion…

Have a Song on Your Lips

7.9

Yuri Kashiwagi is a genius pianist and part-time teacher in Tokyo. When her former colleague Haruko goes on maternity leave, she asks Kashiwagi to take over for her as the choral advisor at a middle school on one of…

Midnight Sun

7.7

While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can't be exposed…

Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Sawaguchi Yasuko

Sawaguchi Yasuko is a Japanese actress from Nishi, Sakai, Osaka, affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能). She graduated from Sakai Municipal Hiraoka Elementary School (堺市立平岡小学校), Sakai Municipal Uenoshiba Junior High School (堺市立上野芝中学校), and Sakai Municipal…

Harada Yoshio

Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…

Tachi Hiroshi

Tachi Hiroshi is a Japanese actor and singer. He won great popularity through his roles in the TV drama series Seibu Keisatsu and Abunai Deka. He attended but did not graduate from the Chiba Institute of Technology. As a singer, Tachi appeared in the Kohaku Uta Gassen twice. At the 54th Television Drama…

Urobuchi Gen

Gen Urobuchi (born December 20, 1972) is a prolific Japanese author in the Visual Novel industry who currently works under nitro+. He is (in)famous for creating dark, tragic settings and plot twists in his stories, in part due to nearly dying in an epidemic when he was younger. (Indeed, as he put it…

Hyuuga Takashi

Hyuuga Takashi is an actor and model born in Niiza city. He was scouted while he was still a high scholer and debuted in 1999 with the drama L×I×V×E. During the first years of his career he used his real name Fukushima Takashi but after a short while he started using the stage name Hyuuga Takashi.…

Yuki Saori

Saori Yuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born Akiko Yasuda in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. In 1969, Saori Yuki had a hit with "Yoake no Scat (Scat at dawn)", which sold 2 million units in two months,…

Yoshikawa Hinano

Yoshikawa Hinano (Born Takada Ai) is a Japanese actress, fashion model, and singer. She started her fashion model career at the age of 14 and still is a model. She made her acting debut in 1997 in "Moonlight Serenade". The following year she made her international debut in Jean-Pierre Limosin's "Tokyo…

Kuroyanagi Tetsuko

Kuroyanagi Tetsuko is a Japanese actress, television host, and essayist, born in Nogizaka, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. She is known for her pioneering role as Japan's first female television news anchor and talk show host. Affiliated with Yoshida Nahomi Office, Inc., she is also a member of the Japan Art…

Tsuruno Takeshi

Tsuruno Takeshi is a Japanese actor, tarento, and musician, originally from Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for his roles as Shin Asuka/Ultraman Dyna in Ultraman Dyna and as the leader of the musical units Shuchishin and Aladdin. As a member of Shuchishin and Aladdin, he appears…