Fujita Sokyu

Fujita Sokyu is a Japanese actor born in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, who belongs to the theater group Yen. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of Russian Language. In 1973, after graduating from college, he became a research student at the theater company Un. In 1976,…

Yamagata Isao

Yamagata Isao was a Japanese actor born in London, England, where his acrobat father toured. He grew up in Ichibei-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo. In 1935, he graduated from the Japan Academy of Actors. After completing his military service, he joined the Toho Theater Company in 1936. In 1942, he formed the theater…

Nakaya Noboru

Nakatani Noboru, a Japanese actor born in Takanawa, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, initially enrolled in Chuo University’s Faculty of Law but left to pursue a career in theater. He began his theatrical journey with Bungakuza Theatre Research Institute in 1950, becoming a full member in 1951. His film debut…

Okada Tokihiko

Okada Tokihiko was an actor in the Taisho and early Showa eras born in Miyamoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He entered Zushi Kaisei Junior High School with outstanding results, but was impressed by the "Broken Coin" he saw at the movie theater in Ise Sakicho, and went to Asakusa Rokuku without studying. He…

Yamada Tatsuo

Yamada Tatsuo was a Japanese actor from Toyama best known for his portrayal of biker Jin, the protagonist of Sōgo Ishii's 1980 film Crazy Thunder Road. He died of stomach cancer on July 26, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. (Source: Wikipedia, AsianWiki)

Kishida Shin

Kishida Shin was a Japanese actor, best known for his memorable supporting roles in films and television series. Kishida Shin was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actress Kyoko Kishida and children's author Eriko Kishida were…

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Taguchi Kiyotaka

Taguchi Kiyotaka is a Japanese film and special effects director from Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from Muroran Sakae High School in 1999, he moved to Tokyo and began training at Nikkan Geijutsu Gakuin. He dropped out of the school in 2000. (Source: MyDramlist)

Inoue Jun

Inoue Jun is a Japanese talent, singer, actor, and comedian from Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is known for his work on "Rajio no Jikan", "Megane wo Kakete Mask wo Suruto Itsumo Kumoru" and "Nishi no Petenshi Higashi no Sagishi". He was previously married to Aoki Emi.

Katou Seizou

Seizō Katō (加藤精三 Katō Seizō?, February 14, 1927 – January 17, 2014) was a Japanese voice actor who worked for Haikyo (Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society). Kato was born in Tokyo. He was noted for his role as Megatron and Galvatron from the 1st Transformers series until Transformers:…

Susaki Paradise - Red Light District

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A jobless young couple, Yoshiji and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older…

Ikitoshi Ikerumono

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This is a story about a doctor troubled by his life and a patient who is terminally ill as they travel around the country searching for answers to the eternal questions of what purpose people live for and what they…

Gekikaradou

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Sarukawa Kenta, a marketer for a mid-range drinks company based in Osaka, is transferred to the Tokyo office for a good job. But in the new place, all difficult clients were thrown off on him, and his colleagues are…

Mei no Mei

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Ozu Takaichiro is a 32-year-old single man. He is rationalistic and modernistic in his beliefs. He works and lives in Tokyo, but he is lethargic about everything in his daily life. One day, his older sister and her…

A Little Pond

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The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and despite US reinforcements from Tokyo, the US army is making a hasty disorganized retreat to the southern-most city of Pusan.…

Hokusai to Meshi Saeareba

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Yamada Fumiko, nicknamed Bun, is a poor university student who lives alone in Kita Senju, Tokyo with her talking soft toy Hokusai. A shy person and a day dreamer, Bun makes the people around her happy with imaginative,…

We are Medical Interns

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Ameno Ryuji graduated from a medical school out in a province. He is now a doctor-in-training in the surgery department at a hospital in Tokyo. Every day, he is scolded by senior doctors for not being able to do something…

Anata no Tonari ni Dareka Iru

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Azusa the wife, Otaro the husband, and their only daughter Suzu. They live in a little public dwelling in Tokyo. They're a fairly ordinary family of three living a normal but happy life. That is, until they move into…

In His Chart 2

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Dr. Kuriharai Ichito works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Shindo Tatsuya, who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of…

I Did Not Go to School Until I Wrote "AnoHana" and "KokoSake"

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Okada Mari was a hikikomori back when she went to school. She was socially isolated and alone. However, this all changes when she forces herself to go to Tokyo and become a scriptwriter. (Source: MyDramaList)