Ihara Ryoka

She is a Japanese actress who has starred in various titles such as Alice no Toge, Osozaki no Himawari, Kaeru no Oujo-sama and many more.

Otsuru Gitan

Gitan Ôtsuru is an actor and director, known for Hadaka no itoko (2013), Kirin (2012) and Watashi no naka no 8 miri (2009). He was previously married to Marcia.

Miura Shohei

Miura Shohei is a Japanese actor and fashion model. In 2007, Shohei joined the 20th Junon Superboy Contest and won the Photogenic Award as well as the Ideal Lover Award. Before he won these awards and started acting, he had appeared on television variety programs in 2006. He was on TBS's "E Musume!"…

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).…

Sawada Kan

Sawada Kan is a Japanese composer and arranger born on April 9, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. His desire to be a composer came from listening to Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in junior high school. Sawada studied composition and orchestration at Tokyo College of Music. He won the 2nd prize in the composition…

Shida Mirai

Shida Mirai, born in Ayase, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She became recognized after her breakthrough role as Kanda Kazumi in Joo no Kyoshitsu, leading her to more prominent roles, such as Ichinose Miki in 14-year-old Mother. On September 14, 2018 she announced her marriage to…

Tokiwa Takako

Tokiwa Takako is a Japanese film and stage actress. She was born in Yokohama city, Kanagawa prefecture. Tokiwa is one of the most highly praised actresses by both critics and viewers in Japan. She made her sensational debut in Fuji Television drama "Akuma no Kiss" in 1993. Since her debut, she continually…

Uchimura Teruyoshi

Uchimura Teruyoshi , half of the Japanese comedy duo Utchan Nanchan, is one of the most famous and influential comedians in the owarai community. His nickname is Utchan, and his partner, Kiyotaka Nanbara, is known as Nanchan. He was born on July 22, 1964 in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto. Though he has worked…

Ozawa Maju

Maju Ozawa was born on January 3, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gekijôban kamen raidâ Agito: Purojekutô jî fô (2001), Hyakunin no Ijin (2006) and Dong jing gong lüe (2000).

Emoto Tasuku

Emoto Tasuku is a Japanese actor who is from a family of prolific and well-respected character actors. His father is actor Emoto Akira, his mother is actress Tsunogae Kazue, his younger brother is actor Emoto Tokio, and his wife is actress Ando Sakura. He began acting as a young teenager and has since…

Summer Vacation 1999

6.6

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school.…

Jump the Boy! Season 3 BTS

6.7

See behind-the-scenes footage of "Summer Time" from Season 3 of Adiamond Lee's "Jump the Boy!" series.

The Summer of the Ubume

6.7

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with…

Just Another Summer Day

7.4

It was "just" a summer day spent with someone she didn't know, who was drunk and had lost her memory. (Source: Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia)

Water Boys Finale

7.0

Tanaka Masatoshi is having troubles getting into medical school, something he blames on all the time he spent on synchro two years earlier. While on a research trip to a remote southern island of Japan, he is forced…

Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended…

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

6.3

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish,…

Kieta School Bus

Happy-Go-Lucky

7.5

"Fourth grader Takashi and four other classmates struggle to master a move on the horizontal bar - a move their gym teacher states that they must learn or they will be failures in life. While Takashi attempts to master…

Cinderellas of Midsummer

7.2

A story about a group of young people from various educational backgrounds and environments, who fatefully meet at the sea in the middle of summer, and grow up together as they confront their complex feelings and bottled-up…