Nakamura Shikaku

Nakamura Shikaku II was an important 20th century supporting onnagata actor. "Active in both Tôkyô and Ôsaka, he was well versed in old onnagata customs and wrote books such as "Kabuki Zuihistu" ("Kabuki Jottings") and "Yakusha no Sekai" ("The Actor's World")." (Samuel Leiter in "New Kabuki Encyclopedia")(Source:…

Takagi Akimitsu

Takagi Akimitsu was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko)…

Ohwaku Morimasa

Ohwaku Morimasa is a Japanese screenwriter from Honjo, Tokyo, Japan.

Shimizu Ichiro

Shimizu Ichiro was a Japanese actor from Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Kitabayashi Sanae

Kitabayashi Sanae is a Japanese actress from Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

Torii Keiko

Torii Keiko is a Japanese actress from Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Tachikawa Mitsutaka

Tachikawa Mitsutaka is a Japanese male actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. He dropped out of Tamagawa University Faculty of Arts. He belongs to Empathy after working for the theater company Yun and the theater group Yen. Tachikawa dropped out of college and joined the theater company Cloud in 1974.…

Toyomi Karita

Toyomi Karita is an actress, known for Tôkyô hanzai chizu (1956), Warning from Space (1956) and Taki no shiraito (1956).

Matsuyama Seiji

Matsuyama Seiji is a Japanese actress from Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.

Ri Reisen

Ri Reisen is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo High School. Her parents are the second-generation of Koreans living in Japan. Her birth name is Lee Cho Ja, and her Japanese birth name is Hoshiyama Hatsuko. She made her debut under the name of Hoshiyama Hatsuko…

Meiji Kaika: Shinjuro Tanteicho

7.3

Set during the early Meiji era, Private Detective Shinjuro Yuki returns to Japan from abroad. Trusted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Detective Yuki attempts to solve some strange cases that have taken…

Mei no Mei

7.3

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…

In His Chart 2

7.4

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…

Susaki Paradise - Red Light District

7.4

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

7.4

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…

Anata no Tonari ni Dareka Iru

7.4

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…

Gekikaradou

7.4

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…

Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone

7.3

Momoko is 75-years-old and lives alone. In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shuzo and married him. They raised two children together, but Shuzo suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded…

Sway

7.3

Takeru returns to his rural hometown for a Buddhist ceremony honoring his late mother, urged by his older brother Minoru, who stayed behind to run the family gas station while Takeru built a successful photography…

A Little Pond

7.4

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.…