Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Ji Sung Hwan

Ji Sung Hwan is a South Korean singer, dancer, former member of N.CUS (엔쿠스) and current member of WeNU (위앤유). He made his debut in August 2019 (under the stage name Hwan) as N.CUS's main vocalist with their first mini album, "Matchless Love". However, their agency, Kyuri Entertainment (규리…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Araki Shinobu

Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

Iwashiro Taro

Iwashiro Taro is a Japanese composer, arranger, pianist, and music producer born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, he entered the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Yoshimura Yu

Yoshimura Yu is a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, and director from Hiroshima. She is also a director of the Television and Radio Writers' Association of Japan and belongs to the Japan Directors Association and Japan Screenwriters Federation. After working at Jiyu Theater, she has been active as…

Hoshikuzu Revengers

7.5

Kusunoki Haru gets talked into trying her hand at running an entertainment agency by a CEO who is an acquaintance. However, she loses everything after it goes bankrupt. All she has left is a struggling five-member…

Kingyo Club

7.5

Irie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or higher education, instead choosing to live his life idly. When he notices a first-year student named Harukawa Koto being bullied,…

The Last Goze

10.0

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). The film dramatizes the life of the late Kobayashi Haru, who as the last goze,…

Route 29

Tonbo is a lonely cleaner who is unable to communicate with people more than necessary. She goes on a trip with a young girl named Haru, who is a bit different from ordinary girls. During their trip, Tonbo's bond with…

Miss Pilot

7.5

A young aspiring female pilot named Tezuka Haru has been desperately hunting for a job for a while now, but nothing seems to come about. Without thinking about the consequences, she takes and barely passes the necessary…

Before/After

In January 2020, Kawakubo Haru was busy with the deadline for a one-man play script. Then, suddenly, another person who claims to be herself appears. Where did she come from and why did she appear? (Source: Japanese…

Tokyo, I Love You

Rihito, a dancer who has just returned to Japan, joins forces with his childhood friends Haru, Noah, Eugene, Ray, and Dan to save his best friend, Simon, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor with only three months…

Tokyo Forecast

A collection of three short stories: >> Story 1: "Haru & Urara" (はるうらら) Haru and Rei, who have similar faces and personalities. The story unfolds as the two girls visit their father, for the first time in…

Pension: Koi wa Momoiro

7.0

Shiro runs the pension "Love Is Pink" (“Koi wa Momoiro”) with his daughter Haru. The pension is located on the outskirts of Tokyo. Haru has a problem with her leg, but she works hard and tries to get more guests.…

Gakeppuchi Hotel

7.4

A once exclusive hotel in the outskirts well-known to only people in the know, is now on the brink of bankruptcy with a debt of 300 million yen, under the management of incapable and unmotivated staff. The diligent,…