Awashima Chikage

Awashima Chikage was a Japanese actress who first appeared in films in the 1950s. She died on 16 February 2012, aged 87, from cancer. (Source: Wikipedia)

Uno Jukichi

Uno Jukichi was a Japanese actor. He formed Gekidan Mingei with Osamu Takizawa.

Tanaka Sumie

Tanaka Sumie was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Tokyo. She was most well-known for her long collaboration with film director Naruse Mikio and for writing screenplays for Japan's first major female director Tanaka Kinuyo. Member of the Bungakuza theatre company, she was married to playwright…

Mizuki Yoko

Mizuki Yoko was a Japanese screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, she later graduated from Bunka Gakuin and began writing screenplays to support her family after her father died. Mizuki was active in the 1950s era of the Japanese studio system and is notable for her work with directors Tadashi Imai and Mikio…

Matsumura Tatsuo

Matsumura Tatsuo was born December 18, 1914 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa as the third son of his family. His father, Takeshige, served as a board member for Nippon Columbia. During college, he belonged to a rugby club. In 1938, he graduated from Hosei University and formed a theater troupe. He was recruited…

Ohtani Kentaro

Kentarô Ohtani was born in 1965 in Kyoto, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Blue Green (1988), A Woman's Work (2002) and Avec mon mari (1999). (IMDB)

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Kosugi Isamu

Kosugi Isamu was a Japanese actor and director. His son, Kosugi Taichiro (小杉太一郎), was a Japanese composer.

Uchihira Mio

Uchihira Mio was born in Tokyo. After graduating from a junior college in Tokyo, she worked at a publishing distribution company. While working, she attended the Tokyo Copywriter Training Course. Afterwards, she aimed to become a screenwriter and studied at the Scenario Center. Through participating…

Sakuma Yoshiko

Yoshiko Sakuma was born on February 24, 1939 in Tokyo, Japan as Ryoko Sakuma. She is an actress, known for Furusato wa midori nariki (1961), Isan sôzoku (1990) and Earthquake Bird (2019). She was previously married to Mikijirô Hira.

Swordsman with an Umbrella

When Iron Umbrella was a child, he woke one night to find his parents murdered by a sinister man with a long sword scar across his forehead. Ironman comes upon the boy and decides to raise him as his own. Iron Umbrella…

Cruelty on the Streets of Myongdong

A man’s son was murdered, driving him to look for the people responsible and avenge his son.

The Death Duel

The Ching Wu Association was the leading martial arts society in China during the Japanese occupation. Many patriots went to train their fists in order to go into battle for their country. This is the story of Ching…

Long Live the Island Frogs

The film was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Ai Areba Koso

A husband who was paralyzed in an accident saves a boy and thinks about suicide.

Wife of a Transiency College Student

Hostess Rumi was to meet Akimoto, who runs a private taxi . One that day, Sanae, a female student, forgot her diamond ring in Akimoto's car, so Rumi searched for Sanae and handed her lost. This led to the friendship…

The Four Roughnecks

4.0

Takeo Natsuki was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site,…

The Devil Is Calling

Yuri Ehara was suddenly dismissed from a travel agency for no reason. This exemption begins a series of strange events and tragedies, that end with the woman being accused of murdering her newly wed husband. Fighting…

From the Highway

FROM THE HIGHWAY (1970) was produced by Cathay Pictures, a Hong Kong studio that was, for a time, a competitor of Shaw Bros. It's a historical action drama set in the 1910s at a time when warlords were running rampant…

Evening Primrose

1.0

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver…