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…

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.…

Hashiyasume Atsuko

Hashiyasume Atsuko, is a member of the alt-idol group BiSH as a founding member. She began acting in addition to her activities as an idol in 2021. BiSH will disband after Tokyo Dome concert in June 2023.

Imagawa Aoi

Imagawa Aoi, commonly referred to as "Aoi", is a Japanese idol, dancer and actor born in Tokyo. He is a member of an idol-group MeseMoa. and belongs to mitt management, a talent agency. In 2015, he won the Jury's Special Award in JUNON Superboy Contest.

Imamura Shohei

Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura is the only Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards. Imamura was born to a comfortably upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo in 1926. For a short time after 1945, when Japan was in a devastated condition following the war, Imamura participated…

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.

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)…

Hasegawa Jun

Hasegawa Jun is a Japanese actor and singer affiliated with STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (formerly Johnny & Associates). He was born in Tokyo, Japan. During his days as a Johnny's Jr., he was part of the group Four Tops together with Yamashita Tomohisa, Ikuta Toma and Kazama Shunsuke. He is working mostly in…

Sudo Maasa

Sudo Maasa, born July 3, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of Berryz Koubou. Sudo Maasa joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. She made her debut as one of the 4KIDS in the Minimoni ja…

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 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,…

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)…

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…

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…