Imai Tadashi

He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…

Kato Tokiko

Tokiko Kato is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, actress and activist.She was born in Harbin, Manchukuo, from Japanese parents and graduated from the University of Tokyo. She worked as a visiting professor at Josai International University. (Source: Wikipedia)

Irie Takako

Takako Irie (入江 たか子 Irie Takako, 7 February 1911 – 12 January 1995) was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was Hideko Higashibōjō (東坊城 英子 Higashibōjō Hideko)), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as…

Ashikawa Yoshimi

Ashikawa Yoshimi, born Kono Yoshimi (河野芳美), is a Japanese actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Ono Gakuen Women's High School (小野学園女子高等学校) and is affiliated with Office Mitsui (オフィス三井). She is also known by the name Awaya Yoshimi (粟屋芳美)…

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…

Orikasa Ai

Orikasa Ai, born Orikasa Kikue (折笠きく江) in Adachi, Kitasenju, Tokyo, Japan, is a voice actress, actress, and J-Pop singer affiliated with Axel One (アクセルワン). She made her debut in the anime Little Lord Fauntleroy (小公子セディ). Her interest in theater was sparked in second…

Bob Werley

Bob Werley is an American actor. In 2001, he moved to Tokyo, Japan. He is currently based in Tokyo.

Hirajima Natsumi

Hirajima Natsumi is a Japanese tarento and actress, born on May 28, 1992 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was part of team B and graduated from the group on January 27, 2012. She is represented with One Eight Promotion (Source: Wikipedia, AsianWiki).

Namiki Akie

Akie Namiki was born in 1978 at Saitama prefecture and has been acting since she was a teenager. She had a leading role in Aruasa Soup Wa, which won the grand prix at the Pia Film Festival 2004 in Tokyo and in 2006 she featured in Hanauta Dorobo. In 2007, Akie played a young teacher suffering with mental…

Hidari Tonpei

Hidari Tonpei was a Japanese actor, singer, and talent from Oji, Kita, Tokyo. He is known for "Narayama Bushiko", "Izakaya Choji", and "Kozure Shinbee".

Spinning around My Whirl

7.2

Yono Miyako is a single 30-year-old contract worker. It's been a year since she left her dream city of Tokyo and returned to her hometown of Ibaraki. No matter how hard she works, she doesn't get rewarded, and she…

3 Nin no Shingurumaza - Sutekina Jinsei Gyakuten Monogatari

7.2

A special based on real-life stories. Three single mothers that have created little miracles for themselves and their family. Three parts in one special: "Tokyo University and Green Curry", "For you" and "The Notebook…

Tokumei Keiji Kakuho no Onna

7.3

Aya is a detective at the Kanagawa Prefecture Police Station. Yuriko is newly assigned to work at the same police station. She previously worked in the office of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Aya and the…

The Dancing Girl of Izu

7.3

Izu no Odoriko is based on the story The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata. It tells the story of the interactions between a young male student from Tokyo, and a small group of travelling performers that he…

Yowamushi Pedal

7.3

Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku at Sohoku High School. He loves anime and games so much that he rides his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over…

Round About Midnight

7.3

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are…

Lost in your Eyes

7.3

BAZAAR invites the 77th Academy Award for Best Special Effects Award winner Anthony Ramolinara to write and direct the "Lost in your eyes" microfilm. Temporarily remove all the shackles on the streets of Tokyo, and…

Revolver Lily

7.2

Yuri became a spy at the age of 16. She killed 57 people over a period of 3 years. Now, in 1924, she runs a small bar in Tokyo. Shinta is a boy whose family was murdered. He holds a key to the missing funds left by…

Heaven's Coin

7.2

A woman named Aya is working in Hokkaido for a doctor, Shuichi, that left Tokyo for personal reasons. Aya is both deaf and mute, and she's secretly in love with Shuichi. After a while, Aya tells him that Shuichi has…

Utsubokazura no Yume

7.3

18-year-old Saito Mifuyu is a simple girl who grew up in Nagano. After her mother’s death, her father brings his lover over which displaces Mifuyu in her own home. She arrives in Tokyo following an invitation from…