Kurara Haruka

Kurara Harukaa, birth name Yamasaki Kumiko (山崎久美子) was a Takarazuka Revue Top Star before starting her TV and film acting career in 1984 with Toho Entertainment. Her stage name was given by the playwright Yashiro Seiichi. 'Haruka' (遥) means 'aimed at far away' while 'Kurara' is romaji for…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Kadokawa Haruki

Kadokawa Haruki is a Japanese publisher, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He was the son of Genyoshi Kadokawa and inherited the position of president of the publishing house Kadokawa Shoten in 1975. Under his guidance, the company soon branched into film production, and by 1994 Kadokawa had…

Matsumoto Hakuo II

The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

Hanafusa Mari

Hanafusa Mari is a Japanese musical theatre actress and a former Top Musumeyaku (female lead) of the Takarazuka Revue's Snow Troupe and Cosmos Troupe. She made history as the first performer to portray Elisabeth in the Japanese production of the musical "Elisabeth" in 1996. Currently, she is signed…

Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Sekai

Sekai is a member of a Jpop group EXILE as well as a member and co-leader of Fantastics from Exile Tribe. He started dancing at the age of 2 at a dance studio that his mother ran. In elementary school, he passed the audition for the Shiki Theatre Company and for the next three years played young Simba…

Hosokawa Shigeki

Hosokawa Shigeki is a Japanese actor and former model. From 1995 to 2000, he was a professional model. He took time off from modeling in 2002 to study acting more thoroughly. He did not go to an acting school after his high school graduation so he used this time to improve his skill. Though mainly a…

Family Meeting

Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to Taiko' father who bankrupted and drove Shigezumi's…

Megalopolis Expressway Trial 2

7.4

Keiichi Tsuchiya (Skyline GT-R (R32)) tests tyres on a race track. Yamanaka Taka (Silvia K's (S13)) breaks the street course record of his friend Tashiro Junichi (Skyline RS-X (R30)). Junichi has given up racing to…

Floating City

7.3

In the early 1990s, Bo Wah Chuen, at 40, became the top executive of the British East India Company in Hong Kong. Raised in poverty as a Tanka fisherman’s son with little education, Chuen faced ridicule and discrimination…

Kansatsui Asagao

7.8

Asagao is a rookie forensic scientist, who works at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is a licensed doctor and respected by those around her. Asagao lives with her father Taira, who is…

Koshitsu no Nurse Aide

7.6

"Don't confess". It all started with Natsume's words. At a party to celebrate the new beginnings of Mio and Taiga, Soma finally decides to confess his feelings to Mio. Together with Natsume, he carefully prepares her…

Takeda Shingen

7.9

"Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind". NHK Taiga Drama for 1988 is the life story of the famous warlord Takeda Shingen (1521-1573), aka "The Tiger of Kai". There was a very turbulent…

Kansatsui Asagao 2

8.0

Asagao continues her work as a forensic scientist at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father Taira and her husband Shinya are busy with their work as detectives. Her daughter Tsugumi…

GIVER: Revenge Provider

7.0

Giba ("Giver"), a man who seems to lack emotions for others, and his colleagues work at a revenge agency. A mysterious girl called Teika ("Taker") leads the group. The agency takes on requests for vengeance on behalf…

Honey

7.5

Kogure Nao is a shy and cute high school student. One day, Onise Taiga asks her "would you like to date with me on the promise that we will get married?" Nao is unable to turn down his proposal because she is scared…

Nursing Aide at Your Side

7.5

Sakuraba Mio, a nurse aide at Seiryo Medical University Hospital, is a caring and knowledgeable medical enthusiast who often gets into trouble by involving herself in doctors' work. She clashes with the skilled surgeon…