Amano Sojiro

Amano Sojiro was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Amano Sojiro (天野総治郎). He was a member of the founding group of the theatrical company Seinenza. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University. In 1954, he participated in the establishment of the Seinenza…

Kosemura Akira

Akira Kosemura is a composer and pianist hailing from Tokyo, Japan. (Source: akirakosemura.com )

Oshika Tsugiyo

Oshika Tsugiyo is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name is Takashika Tokie (高鹿登喜江). She is affiliated with Sakagami Production. She aspired to be an actress from a young age. She graduated from Zaimu Jogakuin. She was a member of the Shinkokugeki Theater Company from 1952…

Yoshida Tomonori

Yoshida Tomonori is a Japanese actor and former child actor from Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Kamoshida Tomonori. Source: Wikipedia

Matsumoto Jiro

Matsumoto Jiro is a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Musashino Art University. In 1992, while still a student, he debuted by winning the runner-up prize in the 24th Chiba Tetsuya Award with his work "LITTLE FEET." The manga artist Matsumoto Taro…

Matsubara Koji

Matsubara Koji was a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. After leaving the English literature department at Meiji Gakuin University, he joined Shintoho in 1959 and made his film debut under the name Matsubara Ryokuro (松原緑郎). In 1962, he joined Shochiku. After becoming a freelance actor,…

Tagami Yoshiko

Tagami Yoshiko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She dropped out of the Fine Arts Department of Nihon University. Her husband was the actor Shimozawa Masami (下條正巳). Their eldest son is actor Shimozawa Atomu (下條アトム).

Hayashi Koichi

Hayashi Koichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He was affiliated with the Tokyo Actors' Cooperative Association.

Fukuda Yasuhiko

Fukuda Yasuhiko is a Japanese composer born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano at the age of 4. He graduated from Takeheya Senior High School in 1976 and began attending the Department of Literature at Waseda University in 1978. Graduating from Waseda in 1980, Fukuda went on to make his professional…

Nitta Katsue

Nitta Katsue was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Suzuki Katsue. She was a member of the theatrical company Haiyuza. She passed away on May 2, 2003, at the age of 63, due to liver cancer. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

The Van Gogh Downstairs

7.3

Kaburagi Miyako is a 30-year-old "career-oriented" woman working for a major cosmetics company with an annual salary of over 10 million yen. Miyako is suddenly inspired by a painting and aims to study at the Tokyo…

Mio on the Shore

7.4

Mio is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard time adapting to life in Tokyo. Mio takes…

Ouran High School Host Club

7.4

Haruhi Fujioka is a scholar student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictional high school located in Bunky, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the Third Music Room, a place where the…

The Taste of Tea

7.4

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film…

Initiation Love

7.5

In the late 1980s, a job-hunting college student in Shizuoka Prefecture named Suzuki begins an awkward romance with a dental hygienist named Mayu. However, when Suzuki finds a job he moves to Tokyo and the two are…

Followers

7.5

Nara Rimi, an established and popular photographer, meets Hyakuta Natsume who has come to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. Although Natsume suffers setbacks, she grows from these experiences in this story…

Botchan

7.5

Botchan has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher.…

Ai no Nai Koibitotachi

7.3

A love story unfolds about 7 people, including Kume Masakazu. They are in their 30's, live in Tokyo, and have their own views on love and friendship. Kume Masakazu is single and 33-years-old. He works as a struggling…

Control - Hanzai Shinri Sousa

7.3

Segawa Rio, a quick-acting detective, gets transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Violent Crimes Division after she got shot during her previous case. She is made to work together with Nagumo Jun, a level-headed…

Okashi no Ie

7.5

Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making a great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular…