Nishi Akemi

Nishi Akemi is a Japanese actress born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Fashion College. She joined Shintoho in 1952, and her oldest recorded appearance is the movie "Koi no Oen Dancho". Her last recorded work is "Jiken Kisha Chabo!" which was produced in 1983.

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…

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…

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.

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…

Kido Shiro

Japanese film producer . Former Chairman of Shochiku . The current president of Shochiku, Junichi Sakomoto, is his grandson. Born in Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji . He was also book author and director of 1931 movie "Lumpen and his Daughter" (ルンペンとその娘).

Namiki Ichiro

Namiki Ichiro Namiki was a manzai master and actor from Hongo-ku, Tokyo, in the Showa and Heisei eras. He belonged to the Dosa troupe and toured various places. In 1936, he joined the Sumiko Kurishima Theater Company after traveling around and studied under Kurishima Sagoromo. In 1938, he turned to…

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)

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…

Fuuin Eizou 1 – Norowareta Mori

Dance Studio: Video security cameras had been installed in the dance studio somewhere in Tokyo, whereafter the girl went missing without a trace. Crawling: A female reporter for a local video variety show investigates…

Izakaya Moheji

7.5

A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji. It is a place where regulars…

Tabi no Okurimono Ashitae

9.0

A man and two women travel by train to the city of Fukui from Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. The man formerly worked at a construction company. A woman is a hairstylist and the other woman is about to get married. As they…

Sakamichi no Ie

7.1

The bedding shop that Terashima Yoshitaro runs counters the flashy bargain sale of a large store with quality service. It steadily boosts sales. This is all thanks to Terashima whose only purpose in life is stashing…

Jouryuu Kaikyuu - Fukumaru Hyakkaten Gaishoubu

7.5

At the venerable Fukumaru Department Store in Kobe, Samejima Shizuo, who worked her way up from a part-timer, has been through a lot and built a career at the western confectionery department. She became a full-fledged…

Kakashi to Racket

6.8

Aki transferred from Tokyo to a school on a rural island. Tamako was born and raised on the island. Now, they attend the same middle school. Aki was a member of the soft tennis club back in Tokyo, but an incident caused…

Convenience Store Yume Monogatari

6.0

Koichi lives in Tokyo. He hears that his father Kozo has a heart attack and rushes back to his hometown. Kozo ran a liquor store for years. Despite the opposition of Kozo and people around him, Koichi changes the liquor…

born, bone, boon.

6.5

Hitoshi returns from Tokyo to his hometown on Aguni Island to introduce his new wife Yoko to his family. However, his real reason for coming back is the island's cultural tradition of "senkotsu," or washing the bones…

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…

Saibaku: Madi ni Shamisen Kanaderube

A documentary that records the last two years of Yujiro Takahashi, a Japanese folk song singer and Tsugaru shamisen master who passed away in September 2012. Born in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture in 1934, Yujiro moved…