Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Nakamura Yuri

Nakamura Yuri is a Japanese-born Korean actress and former singer from Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. Nakamura's father was a third-generation Japanese man and her mother was Korean and held citizenship in both South Korea and Japan. Nakamura, like many other multiracial…

Tanba Tetsuro

Tanba Tetsuro, born Tanba Shozaburo (丹波正三郎), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, entertainment promoter, and paranormal researcher. He founded the Tamba Production Company (丹波プロダクション) and the actor training institute Tamba Dojo (丹波道場). Additionally, he researched spiritualism…

Yuki Saori

Saori Yuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born Akiko Yasuda in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. In 1969, Saori Yuki had a hit with "Yoake no Scat (Scat at dawn)", which sold 2 million units in two months,…

Matsudaira Ken

Matsudaira Ken, born in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a Japanese actor. His real name is Sueshichi Suzuki. Active both on television and on stage, he also sings. Matsudaira is most widely known for jidaigeki roles, having made his debut with Shintaro Katsu in an episode of the television series Zatoichi. For…

Kiuchi Midori

Kinouchi Midori is a former Japanese idol and actress. In early 1978 she scored her biggest hit with "Yokohama Eleven", which reached the Oricon top 30. That same year she announced her retirement because of her marriage to composer and arranger Tsugutoshi Goto. They divorced 4 years later, and she…

Shiga Kotaro

Shiga Kotaro was a Japanese actor. He was born in Hyogo Prefecture. On April 9, 2019, newspapers reported that Shiga had to undergo emergency surgery for a stroke. According to his agency, he had been experiencing numbness and had difficulty producing words due to cerebral thrombosis. As such, he received…

Kote Shinya

A Japanese actor, voice actor, writer, and director. He is represented with Office PSC. Kote graduated from Takehaya Senior High School. He also graduated from Waseda University School of Education. After belonging to the theatre club in the university, Waseda University Theater Club, Kote presided…

Sugiura Asami

Sugiura Asami, known mononymously as Asami, is a Japanese model, actor, and former AV Idol. Asami was only nineteen when she starred in her debut film "Kiss Me Or Kill Me: Todokanakutemo Aaishiteru" (kiss me or kill me　届かなくても愛してる). She had opted against attending university after…

Uchida Yuki

Uchida Yuki is a Japanese actress, and a popular 1990s Japanese idol, model and singer. She practiced fencing in high school and ranked 3rd in a tournament in Tokyo in 1991. She began her career as a model in commercials, notably for the confectionery company Lotte, then debuted in acting in 1992 in…

Yamato Detective Diary

Depicts the story of a young female detective. Madoka, who got a job in her detective business, is given the job of searching for a woman who left her husband and left home, but at the same time her sister Mahoro…

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

6.2

The film centers around Birdie, a young Japanese book thief who is caught by a store clerk named Umeko. As their encounters grow increasingly fraught with tension and desire, the two become lovers and begin committing…

The Future Diary Season 2

7.5

It focuses on the love triangle and the diary will demand the cruel trials with the higher barriers. Will the singles choose love or friendship? (Source: Netflix)

The Future Diary

8.1

In this reality series, complete strangers meet and receive a diary holding the script to their very own love story. Will true romance follow? (Source: Netflix)

Our Secret Diary

8.4

Nozomi, a second-year high schooler, finds a love letter on her desk from Setoyama, the popular guy at school. Unsure if it's a prank, she replies in a secret exchange diary. However, the letter was actually meant…

The Making of "Tampopo"

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami’s film “Tampopo” (1985). (Source: Letterboxd)

Fictitious OL Diary

7.2

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway filled with passengers and get off from work to the nearest subway station.…

Kamo, Kyoto e Iku.

7.1

Career-minded government official Ueba Kamo leaves her post at the Ministry of Finance after her mother’s sudden death to take over the family’s struggling Kyoto inn, Ueba-ya. With no experience and surrounded…

Yunbogi's Diary

7.6

Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Daegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs. Consisting of a series…