Fukae Shoki

Fukae Shoki, born Fukae Akiyoshi (深江和久) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor affiliated with Ishihara Promotion (石原プロモーション) and Group 71 (グループ71). During World War II, he served as a special naval youth recruit aboard the aircraft carrier Shinano. After working in…

Egi Toshio

Toshio Egi was born on June 4, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and producer, known for High and Low (1963), Yuki no Concerto (1991) and Zatôichi monogatari (1974). Child activity started at the age of three. Since 1959, he has been active mainly in Nikkatsu films, and has performed with numerous…

Hiraiwa Yumie

The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa Yumie was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to…

Miura Hayato

Miura Hayato is a Japanese screenwriter. He was born in Tokyo. His talent agency is &REAM,Inc.

Miyazono Junko

Junko Miyazono was born on May 30, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan as Junko Miyano. She is an actress, known for Furyô banchô: Inoshika Ochô (1969), Yôen dokufu-den: Han'nya no Ohyaku (1968) and Yôen dokufu-den: Okatsu kyôjô tabi (1969). (Source: IMBd)

Takamine Mieko

Mieko Takamine was born on December 2, 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Inugami Family (1976), Sanada Yukimura no bouryaku (1979) and Hana no nagadosu (1954). She died on May 27, 1990 in Japan. She had a hit song - "Kohan no yado" (Lakeside Hotel) in 1940. (Source: IMDb)

Inagaki Mihoko

Mihoko Inagaki is a Japanese actress and businesswoman born in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tamagawa Gakuen schools and began her studies at Japan Women's University before transitioning to her acting career. In 1956, while still a student, she was scouted and debuted in Nikkatsu's "Hanano Unkou."…

Matsuo Kazuko

Matsuo Kazuko was a Japanese singer born in Kamata, Tokyo (now Kamata, Ota, Tokyo ) and raised in Hakone.

Furuyama Kentaro

Furuyama Kentaro is a Japanese actor born in Suginami ward, Tokyo, Japan.

Kawazu Yusuke

Kawazu Yusuke was a Japanese actor born on May 12, 1935 in Tokyo, Japan.

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…

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)

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.

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.…

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)

Tsuribaka Nisshi

7.8

Hamasaki Densuke is a newly-hired employee who has just joined the big construction company Suzuki Construction. The construction industry is enjoying a boom as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Hama-chan…

The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, the Man Who Created a Hero

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It's April 1956. 18-year-old Ishinomori Shotaro graduated high school with dreams of becoming a manga artist. After graduating, he moved from Miyagi Prefecture to Tokyo. His older sister Yoshie was seeing him off,…

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

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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…