Kochi Momoko

Discovered, along with actors Akira Takarada and Yu Fujiki, in Toho's sixth annual New Face Contest in 1953, Momoko Kochi was immediately cast in her first film, A WOMAN'S HEART RELEASED. Two pictures with Toho's veteran director Kajiro Yamamoto followed the next year. It was probably in his mentor…

Chiaki Minoru

Chiaki Minoru was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. In real life, he was the last of the seven actors to die. Chiaki was…

Honda Ishiro

Honda Ishiro was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for his kaiju and tokusatsu films, including several entries in the Godzilla series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career. His early film career included working…

Tachikawa Hiroshi

Tachikawa joined the Haiyuza acting training institute fresh out of high school. He appeared prominently on stage before premiering in film for Toei studios in 1952. In 1954 Tachikawa became a contracted actor for Toho studios. His career was interrupted in 1958 when he was seriously injured in an auto…

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Matt Evans

Matt Evans is a Filipino actor of American descent. He was born to his father, Thalmage Eugene Evans, an American citizen, and his mother, Vivien Mercado Nicolas, a Filipino. He has two half-siblings: Mark, who is fully Filipino, and Akira, who is half-Japanese. He studied college at Far Eastern University,…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Kurosawa Yu

Yu Kurosawa is a Japanese former Actress and Model. She is the granddaughter of Akira Kurosawa. She has been married to Mitsuru Matsuoka since January 2, 2002. They have one child.

Maeda Noriko

Japanese model signed under Ten Carat Co. Ltd. Married to actor and model Hibino Akira.

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

The Crying Wind

5.5

Seikichi, 70, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by…

How Do I Cope with My Husband's Depression?

10.0

Noriko is an unpublished comic artist and writer. Her husband, Akira, works for a company that is being restructured. Recently, the company has been plagued by complaints about its products, and Akira, who has a strong…

Tenshi ga Kureta Mono

7.4

Mai (Yuki Shimizu) is a normal high school girl, full of dreams and hopes for new encounters and exciting adventures. Through her friend, she meets handsome Kagu (Akira Kagimoto), but her first impression of him couldn't…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 11

Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has been assigned to Toyama, visits a hot spring inn in Omaki Onsen with the guidance of administrative officer Komiyama Sanae, and meets Satake and Hatanaka,…

Saikou no Omotenashi

2.0

Tategami Trading is a major general trading company. Its Sales Department is home to the Special Sales Division which is focused on business entertainment. Suzuki Chie heads a team of individualistic members. The sensual…

Konno Bin Suspense Kiso 235

At first glance, Shimanaga Shoichi seems like an ordinary old man who was assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Second Mobile Investigation Unit just before retirement, but in fact, he is a legend…

Tokyo Suibotsu?!

5.5

This heartwarming story is set in the Tokyo Waterworks Bureau. To instill a sense of urgency in Mitsushima Nagisa, a new waterworks employee who isn't taking her job seriously, her supervisor, Izumizawa Kotaro, and…

Return of the Vagabond

8.0

~~The 3rd film of the famous “Wataridori” (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets…

Stardust Over The Town

6.4

“Osamu Yamada and Hello Nights”, a band headed by a former employee of major record label Osamu Yamada, followed by drinking buddies Toshiki, Akira, and Goro as the chorus, and a singer who is not popular at all…

Seven Samurai

8.6

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply…