Onoda Isamu

Onoda Isamu was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Chuo University in 1941. He was a member of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Drama Group. He also had achievements as an actor. His son, Onoda Masashi, is also a screenwriter and director, and his grandson,…

Kaji Miwako

Kaji Miwako is a Japanese actress born in Shibuya, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Tagen Chofu High School, she graduated from the Stage Arts Academy. She was affiliated with Gendai Seisaku-sha and Blue Bear House. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Mizuhara Maki

Mizuhara Maki, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, is a former Japanese actress. She began her career as a child actress under the name Hagiwara Nobuko after joining Toei Children's Research Institute in 1963. Mizuhara graduated from Toyoko Gakuen High School. There has been no confirmed information about…

Fujikawa Yanosuke

Fujikawa Yanosuke is a kabuki actor belonging to the theater group Zenshinza, born in Tokyo, Japan. His grandfather was Fujikawa Yanosuke known as one of the seven samurai of Zenshinza. He comes from a family of entertainers, including his aunt, actress Imamura Izumi, his mother, Japanese dancer Fujima…

Nakamura Umenosuke IV

Nakamura Umenosuke IV, born Mitsui Tetsuo (三井鐵男) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor and kabuki performer. He represented the renowned theater troupe Zenshinza, founded by his father, the third-generation Nakamura Kanyemon. His mother was the daughter of the second-generation Dansuro Enji.…

Koga Satoko

Koga Satoko was a Japanese female singer and actress born in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Ueno Gakuen High School's music department.

Kikuchi Yoko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Yamaguchi Hiroko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Kitahara Fumie

Kitahara Fumie, born Abe Fusae (阿部房枝) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress and voice actress. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Nihon University (日本大学). In 1937, she began her career in small theater and later joined the Haiyuza Theater Company (劇団俳優座) upon its founding…

Mizuki Ranko

Mizuki Ranko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

Kotobuki

6.2

Sayo, a single girl who works and lives in Tokyo, visits her parents for her 30th birthday. She suspects that her parents' relationship is shaky. Not being able to become comfortable in her own home, Sayo visits her…

Hold Your Breath Like A Lover

December 30th, 2017. Two years before the Tokyo Olympics, due to a revision of the Constitution, a National Defense Force is created in Japan and it starts military operations. In an incineration plant, a dog goes…

Oh Lucy!

Setsuko, a 55-year-old single ‘office lady’ in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity “Lucy" by her young unconventional English instructor. “Lucy” awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When…

Itsukano, Genkantachi to

10.0

18-year-old Ayame is a high school student. She has decided to go to Tokyo once she graduates from high school. One day, Ayame's older sister Sumire comes back home with her daughter Mayuko who is also 18-years-old.…

From Kobe

4.5

Katsura is a 19-year-old college art major. She moves to Kobe from Tokyo due to her father's work transfer. There, she learns about the Great Hanshin Earthquake from residents in Kobe. Katsura meets a wheelchair bound…

Children Can Draw Wind

Intimate year-long coverage of children growing up freely in a nursery school with more nature than you'd expect in Tokyo's urban Suginami City. A quiet residential neighborhood in Suginami City. The Nakase Nursery…

My Blue Oni

7.2

Riko Tsujimura, an editor at a small publishing house in Tokyo, returns to her hometown for the first time in years. A woman, unexpectedly has to face not only her professional challenge, but also her past, full of…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 32

A man suddenly lost his life on a street in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Beside his body lay a sacred bell (isuzu) from Tenkawa Shrine in Yoshino, Nara, which had apparently fallen to the ground. One morning, a familiar visitor…

Utacon

6.0

Utacon presents a range of music artists from Enka and J-Pop at NHK Hall in Tokyo every week, to continue in the spirit of NHK Kayou Concert as well Music Japan. It also airs worldwide, through NHK World Premium at…