Ishimaru Kanji

Ishimaru Kanji is a Japanese actor and singer. He is represented by 'The Library' agency and the 'Sony Music Entertainment' label. In high school and college, Ishimaru studied saxophone but transferred his third year to the Tokyo University of Fine Arts where he graduated with a degree in voice. Pursuing…

Nakamura Kayano

Nakamura Kayano, formerly known as Masuyama Kayano or Kayano, is a Japanese actress and former member of the idol group AKB48. She was born in Tokyo. Her talent agency is Stardust Promotion.

SUGIZO

Sugihara Yasuhiro is a Japanese singer born in Hadano, Kanagawa. He was raised in a family whose lifeblood is music. With both parents as members of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, he had been trained to play the violin from the tender age of three and quickly mastered an instrument which he would later…

Bengal

Yanagihara Haruo, best known by his stage name Bengal, is a Japanese actor, born in Tokyo, Japan. He debuted in the early 80s. He's represented by the talent agency Knock Out.

Ikeda Tetsuhiro

Ikeda Tetsuhiro is a Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter from Tokyo. He graduated from Kokugakuin University. He belongs to HoriPro. His first directed drama is "Kosodate Play", which started on April 8, 2009, and his first written script was for the movie "Go! Boys High School Drama Club" released…

Mizutani Yutaka

Mizutani Yutaka is a Japanese actor and singer born in Ashibetsu City, Hokkaido, Japan. Mizutani was raised from the age of 8 in Tokyo, Japan. He started acting at the age of 12 when a neighbor introduced him to a children's acting school in the area. When he discovered that going to an acting school…

Morishita Aiko

Morishita Aiko is a Japanese actress who has appeared in a number of feature films and television series. Her real name is Yoshida Kayo. She was born in Musashino, Tokyo. She graduated from Kojimachi Gakuen Girls' High School. She was scouted during her high school studies and debuted as a model. She…

Kadono Takuzo

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

Ito Shiro

Ito Shiro is a Japanese comedian, actor, talent, and moderator born in Takecho, Shitaya-ku, Tokyo. He is a consultant to the Japan Comedy Association. He belongs to Orte Planning. His son is actor and talent Ito Takaaki. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Ichigaya Commercial High School, he hoped…

Aijima Kazuyuki

Aijima Kazuyuki is a Japanese actor born in Saitama, Japan. He joined Mitani Koki's Tokyo Sunshine Boys theatrical troupe in 1983. Aijima was one of the few Tokyo Sunshine Boys to pass the movie auditions to star in their own film - in fact, he stole the lead. Most of them never made it into the film.

The Usual Night

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Half scripted half real "A New Kind of Fake Documentary" starring the members of Fantastics From Exile Tribe It takes place in a boys' dormitory in Tokyo. An extraordinary "usual night" is weaved by facts and fiction.…

Letter from the Mountain

7.8

Highly specialized doctor Michiko finds herself seized with panic attacks. So, she and her partner, Takao, decide to leave behind their stressful lives in Tokyo for a simpler life in the small farming village of Shinshu.

Keiji 7-nin Season 2

7.8

Called the “graveyard of detectives”, the Twelfth Section is ridiculed as the “banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent”. Amagi Yu transfer to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s…

FAKE MOTION: Yukemuri Onsen Takkyu Jikenbo

7.8

One month after Ebisu Nagato Campus High School table tennis club challenged Satsukawa University Shibuya High School, both schools and Tokyo Metropolitan South Hachioji Technical High School make a hot spring trip…

Tabi Suru Sandwich

7.9

Kurumi and Kaede run a "traveling sandwich shop" that wanders around Japan and offers sandwiches made from local produce. (Source: TV Tokyo)

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest

8.1

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan’s Studio Ghibli. Over…

Fragments of the Last Will

8.1

Set in a Siberian detention camp where more than 600,000 Japanese were unfairly detained in 1945 after World War II. (Source: News Yahoo) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Shuyojo kara Kita Isho" (収容所から来た遺書)…

Postman Blues

7.8

Sawaki, a quiet suburban postman, inadvertantly gets mixed up in the violent criminal underworld – eventually becoming the subject of a manhunt by the Tokyo police force. (Source: Mubi)

Midnight Swan

7.8

Nagisa is transgender woman. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika…

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

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A grand tale of love, friendship, and family spanning 70 years, set between the coal industry boom in Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, from 1955 and modern-day Tokyo. The story weaves together the bonds of family,…