Hoshida Yoshiko

Hoshida Yoshiko is a Japanese producer and director from Tokyo, Japan. She served as the general director and managing director at Kyodo Television (共同テレビジョン). Hoshida developed an interest in the entertainment industry early, influenced by her father's career. She graduated from the…

Watabiki Katsuhiko

Watabiki Katsuhiko was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Nihon University Tsurugaoka High School and in 1965 dropped out of Nihon University College of Art. In 2005, he suffered a thoracic aneurysm and withdrew from the stage he was scheduled to appear on. In August 2018, advanced cancer cells were…

Suzuki Takuji

Suzuki Takuji was born in 1967, Japan. He directed ''I am a cat stalker''(2009), ''Gegege no Mori''(2010), ''People of Poppo Town''(2012), ''Usagi no Usagi''(2012) and ''Jogging migratory bird''(2015) was screened at Pia film festival in 2015. (Source: JIFF)

Nishimura Kyotaro

Nishimura Kyotaro, real name Kihachiro Yajima was born in Ebara- machi, Ebara-gun, Tokyo (currently Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo ). Mostly known from his detective stories. He has written 619 original works as of March 2019. He also used the pseudonyms Shunsuke Kurokawa and Kyo Nishizaki. He died on March 3,…

Lily

Lily was a former Japanese singer-songwriter and actress born in Tenjin, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. She belonged to the former Alpha Agency. Lily is half-Japanese because her father was a US Air Force officer. She died of lung cancer at the age of 64 on November 11, 2016. Her eldest son is JUON…

Ezawa Moeko

Moeko Ezawa was born on March 28, 1939 in Hyogo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ôedo: (Maruhi) onna isha arashi (1975), I Want To (1979) and Trap of Lust (1973). She passed away on December 26, 2022 at the age of 87.

Fujiyoshi Kumiko

Fujiyoshi Kumiko is a Japanese actress and narrator born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. She is married to the actor and former singer Yosuke Tagawa. They have a son born in 200, when she was 39 years old. In 2017, she was accused of having an extra-marital affair with a married producer working at Asahi…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Mariya Tomoko

Mariya Tomoko is a Japanese actress, singer, writer, and Musashino Art University lecturer from Minato-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Takarazuka Music School in 1980, scoring the highest points in her graduation exam. She joined the Takarazuka Revue as a 66th gen member. In 1989, she won the 39th Minister…

Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name

2.0

Mike Yokohama is a private investigator who comes across a job where he must retrieve a girl from a get-away. (Source: TMDb)

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…

Ishimatsu: the One-Eyed Avenger

8.0

Memoir Michinoku Conflict: Death Guard

The Forest of Love

6.5

Murata Jo is a ruthless criminal. On the surface, he is cheerful and lively. But he emotionally controls other people, milks them for money and makes them commit brutal crimes. ~~ Based on a real criminal case, named…

Rape Training: Training of Female Dogs

Byplayers Season 3

7.1

Set in "Byplaywood", a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote…

Gendai-jin

Mori Ogino of the Ministry of Construction Administration of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport was in a mistress relationship with the hostess of Ginza while having a wife who is under medical treatment…

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

Adapted from Tsuneyuki Mori novel with the same title. Although the book is a fiction, it is based on the true stories of the Kamikaze Unit, known from suicide attacks. The title "Moonlight" is taken from Ludwig van…

Bar April: Soredemo Hito wa Koi wo Suru

Nagasawa Masami and Mori Nana visits "Bar April" where Satoh Takeru is the bartender! The three actors from the movie, "April, come she will" will answer serious questions about love and relationships, while sipping…