Fuuki Harumi

Fuuki Harumi is a Japanese composer, piano player, and koto player. She studied composition at Kunitachi College of Music Graduate School, Japan. In 2012, Fuuki became the youngest musician to be awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Music award at the 36th edition of Japan Academy Film Prize. She…

Fukagawa Yoshihiro

Yoshihiro Fukagawa is a Japanese film director. His film Into the White Night was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In an interview, Fukagawa explains that there have been many versions of Into the White Night, but he wanted to challenge…

Nishiyama Maki

Maki Nishiyama (西山茉希, Nishiyama Maki; born November 16, 1985) is a Japanese model and actress. Also called Maki-chan by her fans, Nishiyama has been best known for her modeling work with the Japanese fashion magazine, CanCam. In 2005, Nishiyama started her career as a model…

Izumi Pinko

Takemoto Sayo (Maiden name: Eguchi, previous stage name: Mikado Mariko), known by the stage name Izumi Pinko, is a Japanese actress, comedian, comic storyteller, and singer born in Tokyo. In 1966, after dropping out of Nippon Music High School, she studied under Maki Shinji and made her debut as a singing…

Hiroki Ryuichi

Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the…

Miura Shion

Miura Shion is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Japan Booksellers' Award. Her work has been adapted for film and television, and her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, English, German and Italian. Being a daughter of a well-known…

Yamamoto Rinichi

Yamamoto Rinichi was a Japanese actor from Hokkaido. In 1953, he signed to the Toei Company and made his film debut in Gakusei Goninotoko. He is most famous for playing villains and appeared more than 200 films. He also had many guest appearances as a villain in television dramas. His final role was…

Nomaguchi Toru

Nomaguchi Toru is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka Prefecture. He belongs to Daxoop. He studied in the Faculty of Agriculture at Shinshu University and began acting when he met a talented senior in the theatre circle.

Takahashi Katsunori

Takahashi Katsunori was born into a musical family as his dad was a high school conductor and his mom was a vocal teacher at Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College. At the age of 3, he began to master the piano and was sent to a special school for gifted kids all through his life. He debuted as a singer…

Haneoka Kei

Japanese composer and arranger who was born in Tokyo, graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Music. His father is Jin Haneoka, a singer-songwriter. His graduation work "Piano Quintet No. 1" received high praise, and he appeared in the "70th Yomiuri Rookie Concert " sponsored by…

Saigo no Okurimono

5.1

Fujiki Sana, a programmer at network game company Neo Genesis, has been researching a “virtual human nurturing game” using artificial intelligence. A simulated foetus created by CG is sleeping in the screen that…

Senkai Musashi Part 1

6.9

28-year-old Manaka Mayu is a caregiver who works for ‘Himawari no Sato’, a facility for the elderly in Tokyo. She has been great friends with her grandmother Fumi since childhood, but has never met her grandfather,…

Senkai Musashi Part 2

6.4

28-year-old Manaka Mayu is a caregiver who works for ‘Himawari no Sato’, a facility for the elderly in Tokyo. She has been great friends with her grandmother Fumi since childhood, but has never met her grandfather,…

Toto Nee-chan: Mo Hitotsu no Monogatari - Fukusuke Ningyo no Himitsu

The spin-off drama special will be set in the pre-war era at the food catering shop "Moritaya" and focus on the family of Morita Soukichi, Teruyo, their eldest daughter Tomie and her husband Hasegawa. After the war,…

Doko ni mo Nai Kuni

8.0

It is August 1945 in Manchuria, Maruyama Kunio is robbed of everything he has by the invading Soviet Occupation troops. Faced with the realities of Japan’s war defeat, he is at a loss for how to protect his wife…

Keishicho Tsuiseki Sosagakari: Kosa

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, Pursuit Investigation Unit, is a department that investigates unsolved cases from a unique perspective and leads them to resolution. They are…

Itoko Doshi

Miyamoto Otome lost her parents when she was 13 years old, and was taken in by her uncle Seiya Uesugi. Soon, the young girl was handed over nearly 10 billion yen, from her relative Genzo, on the condition that she…

Whale Restaurant

A documentary by Keiko Yagi that approaches whales from the perspectives of "food'' and "science". Whale was once the top protein source for Japanese people and was eaten more than cows, pigs, and chickens. However,…

Tensai Bakabon

7.2

Bakabon (Okarina) lives with his Papa (Ueda Shinya), Mama (Matsushita Nao) and younger brother Hajime-chan (Hayasaka Hirara). His bumbling Papa is a free spirit, hates lies and does not have a regular job while his…

Mitsu Kubi Tou

1.0

~~ Adapted from the novel "Mittsu Kubi Tou" (三つ首塔) by Masafumi Yokomizo (横溝正史).