Yamamoto Kajiro

Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…

Asakura Kayoko

Asakura Kayoko is a Japanese filmmaker from Yamaguchi Prefecture. She graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. After serving as an assistant director of a television program production company, she entered the movie aesthetic school in 2004. (Source: Written by MyDramaList)

Fuse Hiroshi

Hiroshi Fuse was born on July 10, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Gorudorasshu (1990), Yonimo kimyô na monogatari (1990) and Umi e (1988). He has been married to Kazuko Inoue since April 2012. He was previously married to Hiro Komura.

Ushio Kenji

Kenji Ushio was born on March 23, 1925 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kamen Rider (1971), Jûgô tanjô! Kamen Raidâ zen'in shûgô!! ( 1984) and Ninja Kyaputâ (1976). He died in 1998.

Kitabayashi Tanie

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue…

Takahashi Teiji

Teiji Takahashi was born on October 20, 1926 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Ballad of Narayama (1958), Early Spring (1956) and Equinox Flower (1958). He died in a car accident on November 3, 1959 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan at only 33 years old. (Source: IMDb; MyDramaList)

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

Sawai Shinichiro

Sawai Shinichiro was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He studied German at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Graduating in 1961, he joined the Toei Company as an assistant director and worked under such directors as Makino Masahiro and Suzuki Noribumi. He won the Directors Guild of Japan…

Hidari Tokie

Hidari Tokie is a Japanese actress from Toyama prefecture. She graduated from the Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education. After working for My Promortion and Takase Productions, she joined Fathers Corporation.

Nakamura Arisa

Arisa Nakamura was born on January 27, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for The ABCs of Death (2012), Kamen Rider Amazons (2016) and Burakku firumu (2015).

Pocket ni Boken wo Tsumekonde

7.5

Madoka Akagi grew up in a port town in the Kanto prefecture of Japan. After graduating from university, she moved to work at ADventure, a small advertising agency in Tokyo. She came to Tokyo in search of her dreams,…

Ryosangata Riko: Saigo no Puramo Joshi no Jinsei Kumitate Ki

7.5

Komukai Riko is the family's second daughter, with an elder sister who is sturdy and a younger sister who is more free-spirited. Riko was working briefly in Tokyo when she returned to her parent's residence after her…

Jinsei Saiko no Okurimono

7.5

Sasai Ryosuke, a translator who used to be a university lecturer, stays in a small Western-style house that stands at the back of Kishimojindo Temple in Tokyo’s Toshima ward. He has been living alone ever since his…

Unreachable

7.5

Misaki, Yuuka, and Sakura live together in an old house on a corner of Tokyo. Though they are not related by blood, they have been bound together by a strong bond for the last twelve years. (Source: Mubi.com)

Keishicho Zero Gakari

7.5

Superintendent Kobayakawa Fuyuhiko is a naive career police officer who cannot read situations. He was transferred from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s National Research Institute of Police Science to…

Izakaya Fuji

7.6

Eiichi Nishio is an aspiring young actor, who is not well-known yet and only receives roles to play dead bodies. While wandering around Nakameguro, Tokyo, he recognizes the restaurant/bar Izakaya Fuji, which he had…

My Sons

7.6

After the death of his wife, an old man begins to live alone in his old home in Iwate Prefecture. One year later, his youngest son Tetsuo, who lives in Tokyo, returns to his old home town and begins to discuss with…

Nile Perch no Joshikai

7.5

Career woman, Shimura Eriko, works for a large general trading company on equal footing with the men. She is beautiful and highly educated. Her parents have a house in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward. Life seems to be going…

Silent Voice

7.5

People tell lies with words through their cerebral neocortex. However, the moment before a person speaks, the mental reflexes of the limbic system will be apparent. There is a police sergeant with the Tokyo Metropolitan…

Senryokugai Sousakan SP

7.6

Inspector Umizuki Chinami is a career elite and yet treated as a burden. It has been one year since she was assigned to the Eighteenth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division…