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Travis Japan no Just! Shin Nihon Isan Season 2

The new season continues the seven members' nationwide quest for the "True Japanese Heritage". (Source: MyDramaList)

Travis Japan no Just! Shin Nihon Isan

Travis Japan travel around Japan and share the unknown charms of Japan, or "True Japanese Heritage," with the whole world in this location-based variety show! What awaits the members is not only the true Japanese heritage,…

Hare no Hi Cinderella Wedding Dress wo Nihon e! Aru Josei no Chosen

60 years ago, people usually wore kimono at their wedding. Only three percent of brides wore a wedding dress. Who started a bridal business in an age like that and brought great change to accepted wedding culture?…

Saiai no Hito: The Other Side of Nihon Chinbotsu

7.1

This side story from "Japan Sinks: People of Hope" retells the story of the aspiring painter (also a part-time waitress), Ai, who encounters the newly resident doctor, Kiseki, in her workplace; and a hidden message…

Twisted Justice

6.4

Movie follows 26 years in the life of a chief inspector until his arrest. He works for the Hokkaido Prefectural Police and is called the "black chief inspector."

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Japanese Humanity and Justice

8.0

Nori Seki is a journalist who learns about the fact that Hanshin Tigers president Inada has a homosexual relationship with a male singer. A man named Katsuji Kogure finds out about this secret and reports it to his…

China to Japan - Japanese Woman with Chinese Mother Tongue

Yamada Shizuka (59) belongs to the second-generation of Japanese who were displaced by the war and left in China. She returned to Japan 20 years ago, a country that was foreign to her, and raised her half-brother’s…

Sing a Song of Sex

6.1

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate and meet up with their inebriated teacher while singing bawdy-drinking songs. (Source: IMDb)

Ichikawa Danjuro XII

Ichikawa Danjuro XII, a Japanese Kabuki actor born in Tokyo, Japan, was known for his contributions to traditional theater. He inherited the stage name Naritaya and was affiliated with the Japan Art Academy, holding the rank of Senior Fifth Rank. His birth name was Horikoshi Natsuo, and he also used…

Kitaura Akiyoshi

Kitaura Akiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in Nagasaki, Japan, and affiliated with Geiei (芸映). Raised in Hiroshima, he was exposed to the atomic bomb at the age of five in the summer of 1945 but survived with only minor burns. After graduating from Hiroshima University of Economics High School (広島経済大学附属高等学校),…

Sugi Giichi

Sugi Giichi, born Sugi Yoshikazu (杉義一) in Uzumasa, Ukyo, Kyoto, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of actor Sugi Kyoji (杉狂児). In 1941, while attending Meisei Gakuen (明星学園), he joined the children’s theater troupe Kamoshikaza (かもしか座) and made his stage…

Kaihara Yukio

Kaihara Yukio was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Municipal Commercial School and began his career at Nikkan Kyoto Film Studio in 1935. His earliest recorded work was on the film Kojin Okichi: Kurofune Jowa, released in 1937. That same year, he worked as the sound…

Cho Hun Hyun

Cho Hun Hyun is a South Korean retired Go player and politician. He graduated from Shinmei Middle School and later in life, he was granted an honorary Ph.D. in Physical Education from Mokpo National University. He began learning Go at the age of four and passed the test for becoming a professional in…

Uchida Maaya

Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼, Uchida Maaya, born December 27, 1989) is a Japanese voice actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 8th Seiyu Awards. She debuted as a singer under Pony Canyon with the song "Soushou Innocence", which is produced by Tomita…

Tomosaka Rie

Tomosaka Rie is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979, in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo. In 1992, Rie Tomosaka joined the entertainment world with the commercial film…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Hitoto Yo

Hitoto Yo, born September 20, 1976 in Taiwan, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Hitoto is best known for her extremely popular debut single "Morai Naki". She is Taiwanese through her father and Japanese through her mother. Hitoto Yo lived in Taipei until her kindergarten years, then moved to Japan…