Iikubo Haruna

Iikubo Haruna is a Japanese idol, fashion model and actress. She is a 10th generation member of Morning Musume. She is a former model for the Japanese fashion magazine Love Berry. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, Haruna won a special award at the exclusive auditions for the fashion magazine Love…

Satsuki Emi

Satsuki Emi is a Japanese actor under Stardust Promotion Inc. She was recruited to the company after being a finalist in Stardust Promotion's "2nd Star☆Audition." She was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and is currently living in Tokyo. (Source: Japanese = Stardust Promotion || Translation = milo__ian…

Nemi Zong

Nemi Zong, a Taiwanese-Japanese actress and model, was born in Taiwan and moved to Japan at the age of five. In 2007, she participated in the 5th Tokyo Girls Collection Beauty Pageant at Saitama Super Arena, where she reached the final selection. This led to her being discovered by the Japanese talent…

Katayama Shinzo

Born in 1981 in Osaka prefecture, Japan, Katayama Shinzo worked as an assistant director for Nobuhiro Yamashita before becoming an assistant director for Bong Joon Ho on two of his projects: Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009). His debut feature, Siblings of the Cape (2019), won the Best Picture – Feature…

Hiroki Ryuichi

Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the…

Takakura Ken

Takakura Ken was a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brought to his roles. He won the Japan Academy Prize four times, more than any other actor. After graduating from Meiji University in Tokyo, Takakura attended an audition on impulse in 1955 at the Toei Film…

So Geon

So Keun, formerly known as Ken or So Ken and currently known as So Geon, is a South Korean singer, dancer and member of NEXZ (ネクスジ / 넥스지). He was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, although his parents were both born and raised in Korea, making him a Zainichi Korean. He participated in the…

Komukai Minako

Minako Komukai is a Japanese AV actress, YouTuber and former gravure idol from Itabashi, Tokyo. She became a popular gravure idol by the age of 15. She was selected as Fuji Television Visual Queen in 2001. Minako Komukai made her debut in the AV industry in 2011. She belongs to the entertainment production…

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis (born Michael Brian Curtis) is a Japanese actor, singer, and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where…

Kadono Takuzo

Kadono Takuzo is a Japanese actor, born on August 10, 1948, in Tokyo, Japan.

Mio on the Shore

7.3

Mio is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard time adapting to life in Tokyo. Mio takes…

Unreachable

7.4

Misaki, Yuuka, and Sakura live together in an old house on a corner of Tokyo. Though they are not related by blood, they have been bound together by a strong bond for the last twelve years. (Source: Mubi.com)

Ouran High School Host Club

7.4

Haruhi Fujioka is a scholar student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictional high school located in Bunky, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the Third Music Room, a place where the…

The Taste of Tea

7.4

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film…

Initiation Love

7.5

In the late 1980s, a job-hunting college student in Shizuoka Prefecture named Suzuki begins an awkward romance with a dental hygienist named Mayu. However, when Suzuki finds a job he moves to Tokyo and the two are…

Followers

7.5

Nara Rimi, an established and popular photographer, meets Hyakuta Natsume who has come to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. Although Natsume suffers setbacks, she grows from these experiences in this story…

Botchan

7.5

Botchan has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher.…

April Story

7.3

Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl from the countryside of northern Hokkaido, leaves her family and gets on a train bound for Tokyo so she can attend the university of her choice; to be near the boy, she fell in love with, who…

The Van Gogh Downstairs

7.3

Kaburagi Miyako is a 30-year-old "career-oriented" woman working for a major cosmetics company with an annual salary of over 10 million yen. Miyako is suddenly inspired by a painting and aims to study at the Tokyo…

Okashi no Ie

7.5

Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making a great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular…