Onoe Taganojo III

Onoe Taganojo III was a Kabuki actor who was popular around the World War II. His real name was Higuchi Kisaburo. His Haimyo (kabuki actor's offstage name) was Baika. His trade name was Otowaya. His uncle was the kabuki actor Asao Kuzaemon. He made a debut in "Suzuki Mondo Uwasa Sinjuku" (Suzuki Mondo)…

Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Jeon Bo Ram

Jeon Bo Ram is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress, and former member of T-ARA (티아라). She graduated from Anyang Arts High School and later obtained an associate's degree in Theater and Film Studies from Myongji College. She is the daughter of actress Lee Mi Young and singer Jeon Young Rok.…

Sekai no Hate Made ItteQ!

8.7

The show features several regular host members going around the world looking at and doing humorous and amazing things, each host having their own little twist and style.

8000 Miles

6.3

The Saitama rappers are Ikku, Mighty and Tom, who together with three other local layabouts try to form a rap act called Sho-Gung. "We need to decide our style: east coast or west coast," proposes Ikku, to which Mighty…

Naoto Shibui's Holiday

Shibui Naoto is a 52-year old single designer with a private office. He spends his daily life with style. (Source: Wikipedia)

Shodo Kyoju

2.0

Bank employee Kawakami Katsuji's life takes mysterious turns after he accepts calligrapher Hisako Katsumura - a woman able to predict one's fortune by their calligraphy style. (Source: AsianWiki)

News Sokuho wa Nagareta

6.9

Set in a television newsroom, it is described as a "real-time" suspense drama, in the style of the popular American series "24." The story focuses on an incident that unfolds during the hours between late night and…

Hakuouki

6.7

Tange Tenzen is made a vassal to the shogun. He is a master of the single long sword fighting style. But in order to defend the honour of his wife, Nagao Chiharu, he loses an arm, and his family is also wiped out.…

Kariya Keibu Series 11: Kyoto Buyo Shumei Satsujin Jiken

Kyoto Prefectural Police Inspector Kariya pursues the mystery of a serial murder over the successor of a famous butoh dancer. The name of the Iemoto of the Sakuragi style, a famous family of Kansai Butoh, will be succeeded…

EXILE Casino

EXILE Casino, later renamed to EXILE Casino JP, is a tv-show where EXILE TRIBE members come together to attempt various challenges in a casino-style format. Players will predict whether a challenge is "possible" or…

Foujita

5.8

Paris in the early 1920s: the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita is the darling of the capital. His very personal style, of naked women in delicate whites, surprises the Montparnasse art scene. In this relationships…

Find the Wasabi in Nagoya

7.3

A reality-game travelogue where 3 Hunters from around Asia compete to find the “secret spice” by going through grueling missions prepared to test them, Nagoya style! (Source: iWant TFC)

Yamamoto Hikaru

Yamamoto Hikaru is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. After winning the Amuse Ohimesama Audition, she was signed onto the Amuse, Inc. talent agency. She starred as the female lead in Kamen Rider W in 2009-2010. (Source: Wikipedia)

Sekiguchi Gen

Sekiguchi Gen is a Japanese commercial and film director born Saitama, Japan. He graduated from Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo.