Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Tarumi Goro

Tarumi Goro was a Japanese actor born in Niimi, Okayama. He graduated from Okayama Prefectural Niimi High School and started his career with the Mingei Theater Company. His eldest son, Tarumi Shuichi, is also an actor and model. Tarumi Goro passed away from a subarachnoid hemorrhage in Tokyo on January…

Saga Zenpei

Saga Zenpei was a Japanese actor and filmmaker born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Japanese Art School. In 1929, he joined the Japan Proletarian Artist Alliance, but became an actor, and in the same year he entered the Tokyo Left Wing…

Tamiya Jiro

Tamiya Jiro was born on August 25, 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan as Shibata Goro. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Showdown at Night's End (1964). He was married to Fuji Yukiko. He died on December 29, 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.

Nogawa Yumiko

Nogawa Yumiko is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966). These films…

Mishima Masao

Masao Mishima was born on January 2, 1906 in Niigata, Japan as Masao Nagaoka. He was an actor, known for Seppuku (1962), Banshun (1949) and Jôi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu (1967). He died on July 18, 1973 in Tokyo, Japan. Source: IMDb

Morishige Hisaya

Morishige Hisaya was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School) and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He appeared in nearly 250 films,…

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…

Moon Jung Suk

Moon Jung Suk was born in Seoncheon, North Pyongan Province in what is modern day North Korea in 1929. She graduated from an Boseong Girls' High School in 1947 after which Moon started her career as a theatre actor alongside her older sister Moon Jung Bok. In 1952, she made her debut as an actress whilst…

Sasaki Kuranosuke

Sasaki Kuranosuke is a Japanese actor born in 1968 as the second son of the Katsuya Sasaki, the only remaining sake brewery in Kyoto. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Gakuin Elementary School, Kyoto City Nijo Junior High School, and Rakunan High School. In 1988, in order to succeed the family business,…

Tokyo Dragon Chef

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Ex-gang members Ryu and Tatsu open the Dragon Diner ramen restaurant after their yakuza family is disbanded by a mysterious guy named Gizumo. Meanwhile, Jin and Kazu, their rivals from yakuza days, open Ramen Ozawa…

Tokyo Shower

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Lee Soo Jin is an actress that used to run away from her problems before getting famous. While filming a difficult commercial shoot, she gets scared and runs away. While on the run from her management company, she…

Woman of Tokyo

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The film tells of a student whose sister supports his studies by moonlighting as a translator. When he hears a rumor that, in reality, she is working as a hostess in a seedy dance-hall, he is devastated. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tokyo Refugees

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Tokieda Shu is a college student in Tokyo. He gets expelled from school for failure to pay his tuition fees, He loses contact with his father who supported his living expenses. Shu now finds himself a refugee in Tokyo.…

Tokyo Fist

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A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After…

Tokyo 23 - Survival City

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Unknown to the people in Tokyo, contestants enter a game called "X Game" to win a 100 million Yen prize. Taking place in the 23 special wards in Tokyo, each contestant is given a watch. The objective of the game is…

Tokyo.Sora

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Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their…

Tokyo Sentimental SP - Ochanomizu no Koi

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Kururi Takuzo (Yoshida Kotaro) is the third-generation owner of a traditional Japanese confectionery shop ‘Kururiya’ in Kototoibashi, Tokyo. His skills as an artisan making the shop’s signature dango are good.…

Tokyo Coin Laundry

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It is a youthful love comedy where Yuto Kurashima encounters varied people and becomes mature step by step. Yuto Kurashima, a magazine writer who cannot make any progress, goes to a coin laundry in Tokyo like he does…

Tokyo Sentimental SP - Senju no Koi

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56-year-old Kururi Takuzo (Yoshida Kotaro) is the third-generation owner of a traditional Japanese confectionery shop ‘Kururiya’ in Kototoibashi, Tokyo. He received a strict education from his father, who was a…