Uchida Sayuri

Uchida Sayuri, born Tachibana Sayuri (橘さゆり) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, is a former Japanese actress and child actress. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School (東京都立代々木高等学校). She was affiliated with Gekidan Tohai (劇団東俳), Horipro (ホリプロ),…

Oda Oideyasu

Oda Oideyasu is a Japanese comedian. His real name is Yoshihiro Oda. He is a member of the Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Head Office. He is the tsukkomi (term used in Japanese comedy) of the comedy duo "Oideyasukoga". His partner in the duo is Koga Ken. He has been choosen as a cultural tourism ambassador for…

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…

Suzuki Masayuki

Suzuki Masayuki is a Japanese director born in Kamiishigami, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He currently serves as the General Director at the Production Center, Programming Bureau of Fuji Television (フジテレビジョン編成局). Suzuki graduated from the Nikkatsu Academy of Arts (日活芸術学院)…

Kawakubo Takuji

Takuji Kawakubo (川久保 拓司 Kawakubo Takuji, born 17 December 1981, in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He graduated from Rikkyo University Faculty of Economics Faculty of Business.

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Fujiwara Keiji

Fujiwara Keiji was a Japanese voice actor, actor, narrator and sound director. Even though he was born in Tokyo, he spent the majority of his childhood in Iwate Prefecture. In high school, he handled vocals in a band he formed with his friend Kotaro Furuichi, future guitarist of rock band The Collectors.…

Aoyama Noriko

Noriko Aoyama who was born in Chiba, Japan is an actress and a former model, known for Legendary Assassin (2008), Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (2010) and Fukigen na jiin (2005). She has appeared in more than 20 films since 2002. (Source: Wikipedia & IMDb)

Koga Mitsuki

Mitsuki Koga is a Japanese actor who is known to be featured in films that involve much martial arts. He trained in Muay Thai, Karate and Boxing before starting his acting career. Best known for his portrayals as Kyosuke Akiba in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., Shinjiro Hayashida from Cromartie High - The Movie,…

Kinjo Yamato

Kinjo Yamato is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Naha, Okinawa, Japan, affiliated with Stay Luck (ステイラック). After graduating high school in 2002, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked part-time at izakayas and as a security guard. He made his acting debut in 2010, primarily in stage productions.…

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)…

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

8.3

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,…

The Usual Night

7.8

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.…

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)

The Last Man the Movie: First Love

Minami Hiromi, a blind FBI special agent, is assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for an exchange program. Nicknamed the “Last Man,” he is regarded as the ultimate trump card who never fails to…