Takayama Chigusa

Takayama Chigusa is a Japanese actress. She was affiliated with the Tokyo Actors' Cooperative (東京俳優生活協同組合) after working at Nikkatsu (日活). (Source: MyDramaList)

Ichikawa Raizo VII

Ichikawa Raizo VII was a Japanese film and kabuki actor His father was the chief priest of the Honganji temple in Tôkyô. Disciple of Ichikawa Danjûrô IX, he made his debut on stage in January 1896, performing under the name of Ichikawa Eitarô. He took the name of Ichikawa Raizô VII in March 1908.…

Kato Naoki

A film director, writer and producer. Born in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2007.

Ogawa Natsumi

Hamada Minako (née Shimamura; born in Chōfu, Tokyo), better known as Ogawa Natsumi, is a Japanese actress and entertainer managed by Yoshimoto Creative Agency. Her aunt is actress Megumi Tama. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kaga Yoshiji

Kaga Yoshiji is a Japanese producer born in Setagaya, Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University Faculty of Economics. After college, he hoped to become a film director, but his father opposed this decision. He joined NTV in 1962 as a part-time worker in the performing arts departments. Two years later,…

Hoshi Reiko

Real name Kotoko Tada (多田 琴子). Born in Tokyo. After working as a dancer in the Takarazuka Revue , she joined Nikkatsu at the age of 17. During World War II , she traveled to Manchuria with her husband, who was the managing director of Toei after the war. Michiko Hoshi, another actress was her…

Seki Sanjuro V

Seki Sanjûrô V was a tachiyaku actor, who spent the best years of his career in Tôkyô koshibai, performing in venues like the Asakusaza (which became the Hôraiza when he managed it for a few years in the 1910s), the Engiza, the Azumaza or the Waseda Gekijô. His forte were jitsugotoshi roles in…

Tanaka Mayuko

Tanaka Mayuko is a Japanese stage actress and voice actor. She is from Tokyo. She has an O blood type. She is 162 cm tall. She belongs to Group Impact (Kitazawa section) and the theater company Sugoroku.

Tsunehiko Kasahara

Former rugby player, actor. Born in Tokyo City Koishikawa Ward. As a rugby player, his main positions during his active career were Fullback (FB) and Five Eighth (FE). After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Nikkatsu and became an actor. His last movie apperance was in 1942. It is not known…

Azusa Eiko

Actress. Born in Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo.

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…

Road

An international crime thriller that follows two detectives, Kang Cheong Do and Inose, as they track a series of gruesome cross-border murders, characterized by twisted bodies and mysterious dying messages. The story…

Imado Jinja

“I want you to be with me forever. I'll always be there for you.” The Imado Shrine in Tokyo is known as a power spot for matchmaking and, according to the legend, the birthplace of the Maneki-neko (lucky cat) figurine.…

Monster

6.9

The film is about a woman who has lived two very different lives. As a girl, she was known as Tabuchi Kazuko and was often called a monster for her hideous facial features. After leaving her hometown for Tokyo, she…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake

6.3

Two teachers work together at the same high school. Hikawa Toru is a methodical but naive elite graduate from the University of Tokyo while Akagi Masashi is a physical education teacher who is kind-hearted but a little…

M: Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite

6.7

Set in the 1990s, high school student Ayu lives with her mother and grandmother in Fukuoka. She works as a model, but to pursue an acting career, she goes to Tokyo with her grandmother. While attending high school,…

Norwegian Wood

6.7

Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend…

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,…

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)…

Her Granddaughter

6.8

In the wake of her grandmother’s death, Tsugumi Dozono, who used to work at a large electronics company in Tokyo, decides to move to the home her grandmother left behind in the countryside, and work from home. One…