Takiguchi Shintaro

Takiguchi Shintaro was a former Japanese actor and announcer born in Shiba-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Okada Yoshiko. In April 1925, he joined Inoue Masao's troupe after graduating from Sakurada Elementary School and appeared as a child actor in the stage play "Rashamen no Chichi". He made his movie…

Osaka Go

Osaka Go is a Japanese novelist and detective writer born in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. His father is illustrator Naka Kazuya. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Chuo University in 1966. During his studies, he was working at Hakuhodo, which he retired from after 17 years. He then became a full-time writer…

Kamiyama Sojin

He appeared in over 70 films between 1917 and 1954. He was the subject of a 1995 TV documentary by the Japanese film director Nobuhiro Suwa. He was born in Sendai, Japan and died in Tokyo, Japan. His wife was actress Uraji Yamakawa.

Kenmochi Tomoki

Kenmochi Tomoki is a former Japanese actor and voice actor. He is from Tokyo but was born in Miyagi prefecture. He worked for the Haiyuza Theater Company, Bungakuza Training Center, and belonged to the Nakazato Office. Kenmochi graduated from Tokai University High School. In the early stages of his…

Naito Yoko

Naito Yoko is a Japanese Actress and model born on May 11, 1981 in Tokyo, Japan. She retired from the entertainment industry in 2005 and became a flower artist. She married in May 2014 and gave birth to her first daughter in December that year, but she divorced on September 2015. (Source: Wikiepedia)

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…

Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi

Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi is a Japanese director and VFX professional born in Kanazawa. While still a student in the Image Department at Musashino Art University, he began his career as a filmmaker concentrating on VTR work. He soon voluntarily dropped out of school to become self-employed. As an openly…

Thomas Ash

Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK (2005) and has lived in Japan for a total of 18 years. Thomas’s first feature documentary, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006), received the Prix du Canton Vaud (best first film) at the 2006 Visions du…

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…

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…

Misuzu

4.0

Tells the life story of Kaneko Teru, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a bookshop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage.…

Engimono: Mitsuo

2.0

Mitsuo comes to Tokyo from Kagoshima to study for entrance exams, but finds himself in a strange Shikotama Dorm, and all the tenants he meets there are increasingly strange.

Heat Shakunetsu

1.0

A young man suddenly rises to the top of the underworld in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Other crime bosses now conspire to take him down.

Totsugawa Keibu Series 37: Tokkyu Azusa Satsujin Jiken

A cash robbery murder case occurs in Tokyo, but the suspects in the case are killed one after another. Is it the culprit of the criminals trying to monopolize the money, or is it the crime of another person? As if…

Haromoni

8.0

Haromo is the title of the sequel to the long-running Japanese variety show Hello! Morning, which it replaced in April 8, 2007 on TV Tokyo and later throughout the country. The show is recorded in HD and stars Morning…

Girl's BOX

2.0

Yua passes an audition in Tokyo after her mother's death. However, the audition turns out to be a fake. Yua finds an old warehouse at a pier with her friend, Naomi, that is remodeled to do a small stage show called…

252 Seizonsha Ari: Episode ZERO

7.9

13 years before the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred, Japan had no hyper rescue teams. In 2009, 2 years before Tokyo is directly hit by an unprecedented typhoon, Hayakawa Yusaku sets his sights on hyper rescue. 252…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 42: Kyushu Hina no Kuni Satsujin Route

A call girl named Eve was killed in Tokyo. To find out the truth of the incident, Totsugawa and Kamei went to Hita, Oita Prefecture, which is thought to be Eve's hometown. The one Hina doll that remained in Eve's room…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 15

Visiting the Shima Peninsula to report on ama divers, Asami Mitsuhiko meets the simple and beautiful ama diver Natsumi and a kind man deeply devoted to his family, Motohashi. One day, former yakuza member and popular…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 32: Ai no Densetsu Kushiro Shitsugen

Inspector Totsugawa flies to Hokkaido in pursuit of the mystery of another corpse floating in Tokyo Bay. The woman who holds the key to the case worked as a volunteer in a Japanese crane sanctuary. Totsugawa reunites…