Kataoka Keiji

Kataoka Keiji is a Japanese director and television producer for NHK. Born in Tokyo, he majored in civil engineering at university where he his interest in video production began after encountering the world of show business in New York. He joined NHK in 1982 and has been producing and directing television…

Shumon Mizuho

Shumon Mizuho is a Japanese actress born on November 14, 1973 in Tokyo, Japan. Her maiden name is Tanaba Mizuho. She is also known as Okura Mizuho. In 2006 she married the actor Okura Koji after dating for five years. The two met when co-starred in a musical in 2001. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takagi Jiro

Takagi Jiro, born Takagi Kinjiro (高木緊二郎) in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Waseda Technical High School (早稲田高等工学校) and joined the Taiisen Artist Group (太泉アーチストグループ) in 1949. Takagi made his film debut in 1950 and was contracted with…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Wakayama Kiichiro

Wakayama Kiichiro is a Japanese actor and director born on November 30, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. On November 28, 2013, he was arrested by the Chiba Prefectural Police Matsudo Police Department for violating the Stimulant Control Law for possessing a small amount of stimulants at his home in Minami-Azabu.…

Uno Naomi

Uno Naomi is a Japanese actress born on August 26, 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is the announcer Uno Kazuo and her older sister is the actress is Uno Ayumi. Naomi started her acting career as a child actor in 1996, influenced by her older sister. She graduated from Waseda university's faculty of…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Ayukawa Hiroshi

Ayukawa Hiroshi, born Kumaki Chuyo (熊木中庸) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor whose date of death is not recorded. He was associated with the Miki Office and N.A.C. He completed his education at Kaijo Junior High School and attended Meiji University but did not graduate. After working at the…

Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Suzuki Utako

Suzuki Utako was a Japanese actress born in Kanda-ku, Tokyo. Her husband is actor Mizushima Ryotaro. She graduated from Kanda Elementary School. In 1938, she retired from the actress business, which lasted more than 30 years. Her whereabouts after her are unknown. However, her husband Mizushima died…

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…