Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Kawamura Hikaru

Kawamura Hikaru is a Japanese talent and former gravure idol born in Tokyo. She belongs to MJ Management. In 1999, she released an album as a member of an idol unit called "Southpaw." She established her own company in 2014 and is also involved in menu development and cosmetics production for major…

Kim Soo Jin

Kim Soo Jin is a Japanese actor and director of Korean descent born in Tokyo. He studied in Tokai University Yoyogi Campus.

Yanai Mitsuru

Producer and Director. He joined Radio Tokyo in 1958 after graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan University High School and Faculty of Letters , University of Tokyo. After retiring from TBS as a director in 1995, he signed an exclusive contract with them as a drama producer He was mostly known from TBS…

Kagami Megumi

Kagami Megumi is a former Japanese actress and AV idol born in Tokyo, Japan.

Hazumi Tsuneo

Hazumi Tsuneo was a Japanese film critic and film producer born in Tokyo. He also made his debut as a screenwriter when he was 23. His real name is Matsumoto Eiichi, and he is different from the film director Matsumoto Eiichi, who was active in the era of silent films. In 1934, at the age of 25, he…

Tsuga Shizuko

Real nam Shizuko Sunaga. Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Hongo-ku, Komagome Sakashita-cho. Her father was also an actor working with the stage name Kiyoshi Toga, and her brother Kazushi Toga, was child actor. She had break in acting, between 1931-1935. After World War II she back to business again.…

Saito Akari

Saito Akari is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the Faculty of Career Design of Hosei University in March, 2017. As an actress, she has appeared mainly on stage plays, as well in movies and dramas. She also has starred in cultural programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture,…

Sasazawa Saho

Novelist. Born in Yodobashi Town ,Tokyo Prefecture. Real name Masaru Sasazawa. He writted almost 380 books, from criminals, romances to history books. He's mostly known from his suspense/crime one. Also he was author of few mangas, for example "Kogarashi Monjiro" (木枯し紋次郎). Also he has few…

Matsumoto Arisa

Arisa Matsumoto is a Japanese romance advisor and former AV actress born in Tokyo.

Yoshino's Barber Shop

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In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair…

Home: The House Imp

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A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a Zasikiwarashi (Japanese yokai). A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife,…

Afro Tanaka

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Based on manga by Masaharu Noritsuke, about the unique daily life of an afro-haired young guy. Tanaka has to move to Tokyo for his work, where he meets a beautiful young lady at a Goukon (group date). This is their…

Follow the Light

7.2

In a fading village in the Japanese countryside, the school is about to be closed, which weighs heavily on the students. Freshly arrived from Tokyo with his father after an acrimonious divorce, the shy Akira escapes…

Odayaka-ya

7.2

A short film documenting a couple who, after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami, uproot their urban Tokyo lives and plant themselves in a traditional, natural farming community in rural Sagamiko, Kanagawa Prefecture,…

Shokatsu Damashii

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A young woman's strangled corpse was found at a boat dock in a park in Koto district, Tokyo. Her belongings are nowhere to be found, and her identity is unknown. There was no sign of her clothes being disheveled or…

The Woman in the Rumor

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Hatsuko Mabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession.…

Beijing Watermelon

7.1

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters…

The Tale Of Iya

7.1

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan’s last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna’s humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.

Atai no Elegance

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Yakushiji Momoko is a single mother working as a truck driver. Momoko recently moved from Ibaraki to Tokyo, and realised that the elementary school her daughter will be attending is one of those where only celebrity…