Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Iwato Shisetsu

He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…

Kubota Atsundo

Kubota Atsundo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He was a member of the Japan Writers Guild (日本放送作家協会) and the Japan Screenwriters Association (日本脚本家連盟). As a child, he was evacuated to Hamamatsu, Japan. After graduating from Hamamatsu High School (浜松一中)…

Kuno Shiro

Kuno Shiro was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Asakusa, Japan. In 1933, he debuted on stage with the Shinpa theatrical group. In 1937, he joined the Todo troupe. In 1945, he became a member of the Enoken troupe. In 1947, he joined the Toho Theater Division. In 1948, he founded the Shortcake…

Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Jerry Fujio

Jerry Fujio is a Japanese singer, actor, and talent. He belongs to Office Kiko. Fujio dropped out of Keio High School attached to Senshu University. His daughters are former actresses Fujio Miki and Fujio Aki. His ex-wife is singer Watanabe Tomoko. Fujio's mother suffered from alcoholism to avoid loneliness…

Miyagi Kenji

Miyagi Kenji was a Japanese manzai (comic duo) performer, host, and actor who formed the comic duo "W Kenji" with Azuma Kenji. His real name was Terashima Fumio (寺島文雄). He was born in Okuma, Watari, Miyagi, Japan. In his later years, he was affiliated with Maseki Geinosha talent agency. At the…

Fukuda Toyoto

Fukuda Toyoto, also known by the erroneous credit Fukuda Toyoshi (福田豊士), was a Japanese actor born in Setagaya, Tokyo. He was the eldest son of Japanese painter Fukuda Toyoshiro. Fukuda attended Japan University's Faculty of Literature but later discontinued his studies in the English Literature…

Mitz Mangrove

Mitz Mangrove was born in the Midori Ward of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture on April 10, 1975. He works mainly as a crossdressing talent but is also an actor, narrator, and drag queen. His father is Tokumitsu Jiro, who served as Isetan's UK president and the deputy manager of their Shinjuku location.…

Dice and Swords

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. While everything is being rebuilt from the ground up, and for the sole purpose of expanding their territory and gaining more power,…

Yami wo Kire

4.0

The time is the Edo period, and the "Tanuma period" is known to the world. Sadanobu Matsudaira, the owner of the Shirakawa clan in Oshu, who was worried about the world of bribery, felt the need for reform. Sadanobu…

Omoide Tsukuri

6.0

A love drama in which three women, who have reached the age of marriage , search for "memories". Norio Nemoto indiscriminately invites people along the public road, "Can you take the questionnaire? I'll give you a…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 9

At a Mizukami-school memorial Noh performance, Wataka, the grandson of the head of the school, Kazunori, is chosen to perform Dojoji while wearing the “Rain-Bringer Mask.” This mask, passed down through generations…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 18: Siberia Tetsudo Satsujin Jiken

This time, the stage is the frigid Trans-Siberian Railway. A horrifying mystery that involves trading companies, hitmen, the Russian mafia, nuclear physicists, and embassies, starting with the murder in Kabukicho,…

Buyuden

Former boxer Ryuhei, who killed a person in a fight, has returned to Kabukicho. Ryuhei has a feeling of frustration with nowhere to go, and fights on the streets at night to try and fill the void. Goro, who runs a…

Inemuri Sensei

Saburo is a director of commercials. After working at an advertising agency, he struck out on his own and became a creator of commercials, concert choreography and song lyrics. At 28, he met Masako who was used as…