Tokyo Design ga Umareru Hi

6.8

Mutsumi is a rookie designer and she is employed at small design company Lemon Design. She is busy with prep work for magazine shoots, like scouting locations and working with photographers. She has doubts about her…

Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality

7.7

In this second episode, we explore the vast rail network that crisscrosses the metropolis. With 148 train lines carrying some 40 million passengers daily, Tokyo hosts the world's largest and most interconnected urban…

Tokyo Friend Park Special 2019

9.0

Tokyo Friends Park special feature. Takuya Kimura, Kyoka Suzuki and Sawamura Ikki from the Sunday Theater, Grand Maison Tokyo. From Tuesday's drama "You and I on the G-String" Haru, Taishi Nakagawa and Yuki Matsushita.…

Tokyo Furugi Biyori

Tokyo Adios

3.0

The semi-autobiographical story of an underground comedian in Japan's vibrant comedy scene. (Source: IMDB)

Tokyo Miracle City: Shinise - Tokyo's Time-Honored Businesses

In this fourth episode, we focus on Tokyo's "shinise" or long-established businesses. Tokyo is home to more than 3,000 shops and businesses with over a century of history. In the 20th century, Tokyo was razed to the…

Tokyo Miracle City: Anime - Captivating the World Frame by Frame

8.0

In this third episode, we delve into one of Japan's most successful exports: "anime." Every year Japan produces some 2,300 hours of animated films and series: an incredible 400 plus titles, with the vast majority made…

Tokyo High Tide

Murakami Hiroyasu, director of the documentary Nagare, turns his camera on an elderly homeless man who digs for freshwater clams along the Tama River estuary. His life brings into relief numerous issues confronting…

Tokyo Telepath 2020

Summer 2018. Tokyo has become a giant building site in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Behind the ambitious buildings' facades, an even more far-reaching transformation is unfolding: the city is…

Tokyo Butterfly

"SCORE" was a popular band formed by four university students. The band was offered a major contract, but they broke up after a minor misunderstanding. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties…

Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Yagi Keiko

After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities…

Ota Yu

Joined TV Tokyo in 2002.

Atsumi Mari

Born in Tokyo to parents who were also actors, Atsumi went on to appear in 28 films after quitting high school in 1968 to pursue the profession. She flaunted her attractive body, which soon made her into a sex idol in Japan. Daei, the company under which she was on contract, went bankrupt however in…

Tanaka Hosaki

Born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied at Keio University, where he joined the KAKI-KUU-KYAKU Theater Company in 2016. He has directed an independent film that won the Grand Prix in the Science Fiction category at the 9th TOHO CINEMAS Student Film Festival.

Kakisawa Aya

Pastry chef from Tokyo .

Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Ebara Tatsuyoshi

Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…