Kazu Yuko

Real name Sachiko Matsuyama. Born in Toshima-ku , Tokyo. Miss Kimono in 1981. Wife of singer Hiroshi Itsuki. She was active between 1982-1989, and then retired. Now, she's talent agency CEO and a manager, including her husband.

Wakahara Harue

Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…

Nagayama Yoko

Enka singer and actress. Born in Ota-ku , Tokyo, Japan.

Tanaka Akiko

Screenwriter. Born in Fuchu, Tokyo .

Yanagiya Gontaro I

The first Yanagiya Gontaro was a Japanese rakugoka born in Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1939, he belonged to the Toho Meijinkai. In addition, h becomes a signboard rakugoka of Toho along with the 3rd generation Kinba Sanyutei. Even after the war, he remained popular but fell ill in 1950. At the same time, a…

Yanagiya Gontaro III

The third generation Yanagiya Gontaro is a rakugo storyteller from Kita-ku, Tokyo. He belongs to the Rakugo Kyokai and is a consultant to the association. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Meiji Gakuin University. At Meiji Gakuin University, he was active in the Rakugo Study Group. On April 1, 1970,…

Yanagida Teiichi

Yanagida Teiichi was a Japanese actor and singer from Fukagawa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo. He was active in Asakusa opera during the Taisho era. He is known as "Enoken" and is known as Enomoto Kenichi's master. At the age of 51, he suddenly died of stomach cancer on July 16, 1947, shortly after the war.

Namiki Ichiro

Namiki Ichiro Namiki was a manzai master and actor from Hongo-ku, Tokyo, in the Showa and Heisei eras. He belonged to the Dosa troupe and toured various places. In 1936, he joined the Sumiko Kurishima Theater Company after traveling around and studied under Kurishima Sagoromo. In 1938, he turned to…

Nishi Akemi

Nishi Akemi is a Japanese actress born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Fashion College. She joined Shintoho in 1952, and her oldest recorded appearance is the movie "Koi no Oen Dancho". Her last recorded work is "Jiken Kisha Chabo!" which was produced in 1983.

Takehisa Chieko

Takehisa Chieko was a Japanese actress from Akita Prefecture who was active in the Showa period. After moving to Tokyo she started at Komatsugawa High School, but entered the movie world at the age of 15 and dropped out. She joined the Enomoto troupe Casino Foley in 1930 at the age of 18. She then she…

Theater of Life: Youth Version

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive illusions will be shattered by the ruthless realities of money and power.…

Hanakago no Uta

6.0

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo. (Source: TMDB)

Flame of My Love

7.7

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being…

Rinchi

2.0

Around the Showa era. The Sugawara group of mid-sized Yakuza ruling Tokyo suburbs was crowded with the annual Jinji temples festival banquet. However, recently, Kiyoshi, who has been emerging as a young member of the…

Beyond Mountains and Rivers

Yoshio's family evacuated during the war and settled in a mountain village three or four hours by train from Tokyo.

A Blueprint for Love (Cancelled)

In 2002, 18-year-old Ibuki attends a university in Tokyo and aspires to become an architect. He happens to meet a beautiful woman named Yuna. They spend time together talking about architecture and spend unforgettable…

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…

Alice in Borderland

8.9

Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.…

First Love

8.7

In the late 90s, Yae and Harumichi met and fell in love. After graduating from high school, Yae went off to college in Tokyo, while Harumichi joined the Self-Defense forces as an aviation student, and like that they…

Suga: Road to D-Day

9.3

The forthcoming documentary will follow Suga as he travels across the world in search of musical inspiration for his new album D-DAY, from Seoul to Tokyo, Las Vegas, and beyond. Viewers will see the singer at his most…