Double Trouble

6.0

"Kanki no Uta" is set in a small town somewhere in Japan. Trouble begins when Iizuka, a manager of a local cultural center, realizes the center's concert hall has been double-booked for two all-housewives chorus groups…

The Song from My Heart

6.0

Angel My Song is Your Song

8.0

A love story about a young man who learned that his lover had only one week to live.

Kumamoto Monogatari

7.0

It is an omnibus which includes the three short films: "Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu", "Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta", "Onna Kunishuu Ikki". (Source: Letterboxd)

Bloom in the Moonlight

6.0

This film is biography of the pianist Rentarō Taki. (Source: IMDb)

Rise, Fair Sun

With the wilderness of the Japanese Alps, the virgin forests and green fields as the background, this film depicts the efforts of a farmer and his fellow villagers to resist their land and life development and modernization.

Our Love Song!

8.6

Aki loses her husband-to-be right before their wedding. What is left for her are the three children he had with his ex-wife. This story depicts the transition of Aki and the children instantly becoming a “family,”…

Jun So Min

Jun So Min is a South Korean singer, dancer, former member of PURETTY (퓨리티) and APRIL (에이프릴) and current member of KARD (카드). She graduated from Seoul Broadcasting High School and is on a leave of absence from the Applied Music program at Seokyeong University. She made her debut in…

Nojima Shinji

When the bubble economy was really making its presence felt, Nojima was going quietly out of his head in Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu. Born in 1965, he dropped out of college before graduating, and the first job he managed to get was at a can manufacturing plant. It was this experience…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Naoto Inti Raymi

Nakamura Naoto, better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun." He was born in Mie Prefecture in Japan and later grew up in Chiba Prefecture. For two years from 2001, he used his given…

Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Kojima Haruna

Kojima Haruna (小嶋 陽菜) is a singer, actress, and a former member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Kojima started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an idol group under Stardust Promotion that disbanded in 2001. Initially, she was under contract with Stardust Promotion when she was still with…

Motoki Masahiro

Motoki Masahiro, born in Kitakatsushika, Okegawa, Japan, is a Japanese actor, television host, singer, and former idol. He was a member of the boy group Shibugakitai (シブがき隊), which debuted in 1982 under Johnny & Associates (ジャニーズ事務所). After leaving the agency, he became represented…

Kasamatsu Masato