Shigematsu Osamu

Shigematsu Osamu is a Japanese actor born in Osaka.

Tono Eijiro

Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…

Isayama Hiroko

Isayama Hiroko, a Japanese actress and writer born in Fukuoka, Japan, graduated from Fukuoka Jogakuin High School before pursuing a career in acting. Moving to Tokyo in 1971, she trained at the Actor's Studio attached training institute and made her film debut in 1972 with "Play of White Fingers" (白い指の戯れ).…

Tateishi Ryoko

Tateishi Ryoko was a Japanese actress.

Kimura Daisaku

Daisaku Kimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a cinematographer (over 50 credits) and a director, known mainly for: "Samurai's Promise" (2018), "Memory" (2017), "The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity" (2009). He worked as the Assistant Cameraman on many of Kurosawa Akira’s movies from "The…

Sato Kei

Sato Kei was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Oshima Nagisa, and for several films with Shindo Kaneto, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no Akuryōo He also…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Mitani Noboru

Noboru Mitani was a Japanese actor, born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan. He was known for "A Thousand & One Nights" (1969), "Dodes'ka-den" (1970) and "The Geisha House" (1998).

Hidari Tonpei

Hidari Tonpei was a Japanese actor, singer, and talent from Oji, Kita, Tokyo. He is known for "Narayama Bushiko", "Izakaya Choji", and "Kozure Shinbee".

Yamaya Hatsuo

Hatsuo Yamaya was born on April 4, 1934 in Akita, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ultra Q (1965), Esupai (1974) and Village of Eight Gravestones (1977

Love in the Year of the Tiger

6.4

The year is 1913. Two Poles escape exile and cross the Siberian taiga to China. Crossing the Amur River ends tragically for one of them. The surviving man, unconscious, is found by an old Chinese hunter who takes him…

Madamada Abunai Deka

7.2

Busan, Korea. Silhouettes of two men wearing long coats appear in the dark. These silhouettes were ones of Taka and Yuji, both who disappeared years ago in the sea at Yokohama after a bombing. As undercover cops, they…

Akai Bunka Jutaku no Hatsuko

6.5

15-year-old Hatsuko lives with her elder brother in a humble townhouse. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends…

Last Mail

3.5

Watase Nozomi has a boyfriend named Hasumi Tooru, but he doesn't appear when they are supposed to meet. For the next 2 weeks she can't get in touch with Tooru. Nozomi is devastated and finally decides to go to his…

Indigo Love

A young Taiwanese actress, who is travelling alone for the first time, encounters a series of bad luck while on vacation on Okinawa island. Things go from bad to worse when she arrives at a "luxury hotel" that turns…

Minor Club

Hae Il is a player who goes around clubs in Hongdae hunting for women. He gets beat up one day after messing with someone else's woman. Min Hee finds Hae Il and brings him home but next to him are Ho Soo and Yeon Jae,…

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Jean is an aging actor troubled by his inability to feign death. Haunted by the past, he visits an old estate in order to meet the woman he once loved. She appears to him as if a mirage, as beautiful as she always…

Itoshiki Mono e

This drama tells about pro and cons of surrogacy. One day, Haruna, a medical college student, encounters a blade injury at a party venue held at a part-time job. Haruna first aids a nobleman who was stabbed by a neurose…

Through The Night

4.0

It's 1958, and Yoshio returns home to the Korean shantytown near the ruins of Osaka's arsenal, an area bombed to the ground in the final years of the war. Finding scrap iron still hidden under the rubble of the arsenal,…

Soseongri

Vibrant stars disappears into the night as the sun rises and Ui-seon with her hunched back depends on her stroller to walk around the yard slowly. Sun-bun plants sesame, pulls out grass in her field, and digs out potatoes…