Ogawa Mayumi

Ogawa Mayumi is a Japanese actress born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from a Japanese and Western Women's Junior College with a degree in Japanese literature. Her father, Shin, was an actor affiliated with the theater group Shin Tokyo, founded before the war. She began studying ballet and Japanese…

Kusaka Takeshi

Kusaka Takeshi was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Toshima, Tokyo. He was the founder of the Shiki Theatre Company. His most known works as a voice actor are Frollo and Vega. And as an actor he is recognized by titles as Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994), Jack and the Beanstalk (1974)…

Haneda Erika

Haneda Erika is a Japanese actress and singer born on March 7, 1973 in Tokyo, Japan. She was part of the Jpop group CoCo.

Maki Hiroko

Maki Hiroko was a Japanese actress from Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

Ito Takashi

Ito Takashi is a Japanese actor born on December 2, 1948 in Tokyo, Japan.

Mayuzumi Toshiro

Mayuzumi Toshiro was a Japanese composer. He studied at Tokyo University of Art and Music and Le Conservatoire de Paris. Mayuzumi organized the "Three Composers' Group" in Tokyo and was a pioneer of contemporary music in the 1950s. Among his achievement was making some of the first electronic music…

Taki Daisaku

Taki Daisaku is a Japanese comedy writer and director from Shiba, Tokyo, Japan.

Otakara Tomoko

Otakara Tomoko is a Japanese actress born on December 24, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tsuboi Taku

Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…

Natsu Junko

Natsu Junko is a Japanese actress from Itsukaichi, Nishitama, Tokyo, Japan.

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 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…

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…

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)

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,…