Hanabu Tatsuo

Hanabu Tatsuo was born in Fukugawa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo (now Koto Ward, Tokyo). He is best known for being an actor that largely appeared in supporting roles in jidaigeki dramas. In 1930, he entered Tokyo Prefectural Third Middle School (currently Ryogoku High School, Tokyo) as a first-year student…

Uozumi Sakie

Uozumi Sakie was born in Kunitachi, Tokyo. She is an announcer and actress who has appeared in a few dramas, mostly as a guest, since 2012. Her first drama role was as a news announcer in 2012's "Shichinin no Keiji". She appeared in her first movie role in 2019's "Kamen Rider Zi-O The Movie: Over Quartzer".…

Ikeda Tadao

Ikeda Tadao was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Sendagaya, Harajuku, Tokyo. He graduated from the Literature Department of Bunka Gakuin (文化学院). Ikeda was affiliated with several theater companies, including Gekidan Sokakuza (劇団創作座), Shinkyo Gekidan (新協劇団), Gekidan Gendaiza…

Okazaki Yuki

Okazaki Yuki was born in Asakusa, Taito in Tokyo. She is a Japanese actress and singer. She dropped out of Nihon University College of Art. She studied ballet as a child. She began acting as a child, appearing on TV and on stage where she performed in Japanese versions of popular Broadway plays like…

Sumida Takashi

Sumida Takashi is a Japanese actor and comedian born in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. He belongs to the agency Production Jinrikisha. He's also a lecturer at the agency's newcomer training course called "School JCA".

Hanakuma Yusaku

Yusaku Hanakuma is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist, and was born in 1967 in Tokyo. He studied art at Chiyoda Art Technical College and the premier Setsu Mode Seminar in Tokyo. He is the winner of numerous manga awards, including the GARO Magazine Nagai Katsuichi Award and the 13th Annual Award…

Tsuboi Taku

Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…

Mayuzumi Toshiro

Mayuzumi Toshiro was a Japanese composer. He studied at Tokyo University of Art and Music and Le Conservatoire de Paris. Mayuzumi organized the "Three Composers' Group" in Tokyo and was a pioneer of contemporary music in the 1950s. Among his achievement was making some of the first electronic music…

Kawarasaki Choichiro

Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki…

Frank Nagai

Frank Nagai was a Japanese singer known for his attractive baritone voice. His real name was Nagai Kiyoto. Nagai was born in Matsuyama, Miyagi, Japan. He had his major debut in 1954 when he was discovered by composer Yoshida Tadashi. He had many hit songs such as Yurakucho de Aimasho, Tokyo Night Club,…

Inochi aru Kagiri

3.0

After moving to Tokyo Kida Toshiyuki starts a music career while working. Then he marries and went back home, where he discovers he suffers from muscular dystrophy. One day he fell on the stage and decided to stop…

Watashi wa Zettai Yurusanai

6.0

At the age of 15, Yoko is raped by a group of guys. Her family neglects her and she becomes the target of bullies at school. She turns to an older man. Yoko later moves out to Tokyo. She receives plastic surgery and…

Kohaku no Yume

6.0

In the year 1879, a fourth child is born to Narue Gihei, the owner of Narueya, a rice shop in Osaka Senba, and his wife Chiyo. They give their second son the name Manjiro. He grows up to be outstanding in his studies.…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 72

When university professor Oshima Kenzo is murdered in Tokyo, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei take on the case. The victim’s dying message—“Totsugawa”—raises immediate questions, especially since no…

Onkio Haus Melody-Go-Round

A documentary film on the famous recording studio Onkio Haus Inc. (株式会社音響ハウス, Kabushiki-gaisha Onkyō Hausu) located in Ginza, Tokyo. Founded in December 1974, the recording studio has witnessed the…

Songs of Triumph

A documentary set in the “National Sanatorium Tama Zenseien“, a facility for people with Hansen’s disease that is located in Higashi-murayama, Tokyo. The crew of the film interviewed former Hansen’s disease…

Akogare no Sora no Shimo Kyoukasho no nai Shougakkou no Ichinen

A documentary film on the Wako elementary school, a private school in the Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. The school is known for its unique teaching method, which is to encourage the independent activity of its students rather…

Matsuo Suzuki to 30-pun no Joyu

6.6

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of WOWOW, Matsuo Suzuki, the artistic director of Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon and the leader of Otona Keikaku in Tokyo, will write, direct, and perform in an original omnibus comedy…

Devil

1.0

Saeki moves to Tokyo to attend university and takes boarding in a quiet residential area. Living there, too, are Teruko, the teenage daughter of the home's owner, and their relative, Suzuki. Although still a high school…

Tsumugu

Part of the Alice Film Collection, a short film on the Textile industry in Sabe City, Fukui Prefecture. Wataho is a third-year university student who dreamt of working in a video production company in Tokyo. But, one…