Amano Sojiro

Amano Sojiro was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Amano Sojiro (天野総治郎). He was a member of the founding group of the theatrical company Seinenza. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University. In 1954, he participated in the establishment of the Seinenza…

Kosemura Akira

Akira Kosemura is a composer and pianist hailing from Tokyo, Japan. (Source: akirakosemura.com )

Oshika Tsugiyo

Oshika Tsugiyo is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name is Takashika Tokie (高鹿登喜江). She is affiliated with Sakagami Production. She aspired to be an actress from a young age. She graduated from Zaimu Jogakuin. She was a member of the Shinkokugeki Theater Company from 1952…

Yoshida Tomonori

Yoshida Tomonori is a Japanese actor and former child actor from Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Kamoshida Tomonori. Source: Wikipedia

Matsumoto Jiro

Matsumoto Jiro is a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Musashino Art University. In 1992, while still a student, he debuted by winning the runner-up prize in the 24th Chiba Tetsuya Award with his work "LITTLE FEET." The manga artist Matsumoto Taro…

Matsubara Koji

Matsubara Koji was a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. After leaving the English literature department at Meiji Gakuin University, he joined Shintoho in 1959 and made his film debut under the name Matsubara Ryokuro (松原緑郎). In 1962, he joined Shochiku. After becoming a freelance actor,…

Tagami Yoshiko

Tagami Yoshiko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She dropped out of the Fine Arts Department of Nihon University. Her husband was the actor Shimozawa Masami (下條正巳). Their eldest son is actor Shimozawa Atomu (下條アトム).

Hayashi Koichi

Hayashi Koichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He was affiliated with the Tokyo Actors' Cooperative Association.

Fukuda Yasuhiko

Fukuda Yasuhiko is a Japanese composer born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano at the age of 4. He graduated from Takeheya Senior High School in 1976 and began attending the Department of Literature at Waseda University in 1978. Graduating from Waseda in 1980, Fukuda went on to make his professional…

Nitta Katsue

Nitta Katsue was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Suzuki Katsue. She was a member of the theatrical company Haiyuza. She passed away on May 2, 2003, at the age of 63, due to liver cancer. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Striving to Live

Isahaya Seichiro and Suganuma Tamiko, co-workers at Sone Mining Company's Tokyo Headquarter, are in love with each other. Upon finding out that Tamiko is courted by their boss's son, he decides to break up with her…

Nikoyon Monogatari

The trials and tribulations of day laborers living in San'ya, Tokyo. (Source: nikkatsu.com || edited by MyDramaList) Adapted from a novel written by Suda Torao(須田寅夫).

A Woman's Testament

6.5

A Film in Three Parts. The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. She is investing in a company on the one hand, and…

Onna no Za

7.6

A Women's Place follows the daily lives of the Ishikawa family who own a general goods store in Tokyo. The film's opening sees the Ishikawa children rush to the bedside of their father after hearing that he collapsed.…

Kyu-Chan's Upside-Down Jackpot Battle

10.0

Hisashi Namiki (Kyu Sakamoto) who admires the singer and Miyoshi Tange (Jerry Fujio) who admires the yakuza go to Tokyo. Because of this, Yakuza was involved in a territorial battle, and against his will, Kisa became…

The Hunter’s Diary

10.0

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl…

On the Road: A Document

7.0

Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor…

Autumn Interlude

Setsuko became friends with Hiroshi in Karuizawa, but she was sick and decided to return to Tokyo with her father, Sotaro, who came to pick her up. Sotaro met Yasuko, who he once loved, but back at the time, they couldn't…

An Inn at Osaka

7.0

Mr. Mito, a Tokyo businessman, is demoted and sent to Osaka. There, he finds lodging in the titular inn and makes the acquaintance of many of the town's citizens. Notable among them are the maids at the inn, a hard-drinking…

Kuroi Tobakushi

Koji Himuro is a make-out artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception that is actually an undercover gambling operation run by an international gambling…