Inoue Yoshio

Inoue Yoshio is a Japanese musical actor from Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Vocal Music Department, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He made his debut in 2000 while still a college student, playing the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in the musical 'Elisabeth'. He played his first leading…

Shiba Toshio

He was born on April 27, 1947 in Taito-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Kyoko Mano. Their daughter is actress Yuki Shibamoto. Shiba formerly went by his real name, Toshio Shibamoto (柴本俊夫 / SHIBAMOTO Toshio).

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Akasaka Akira

Akasaka Akira is a Japanese singer and actor, born on May 8, 1973 in Tokyo. He attended Yada University, and majored in business. He was a member of the j-pop group Hikari Genji. After the group disbanded in 1995, he released music as a soloist. However her was fired from Johnny's for drug use in 2007.…

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Inoue Waka

Waka Inoue is a Japanese idol, tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro, Tokyo as Naoko Aramura. Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga. Waka's main claim to fame in the tarento circles is her bustline. Although she moved away from bikini modeling as her primary work in 2006, she has continued to…

Diamond Yukai

Tadokoro Yutaka, mostly known by his stage name Diamond Yukai, is a rock singer and actor. He is the vocalist for the Japanese rock band Red Warriors. He has acted in the Hollywood films Tokyo Pop and Lost in Translation and is often seen on television variety shows. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kimura Kaela

Kimura Kaera is a Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, fashion model, and television presenter. Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a British father and Japanese mother, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine Seventeen. On September 1, 2010, Kimura married actor Eita after…

Uchiyama Koki

Koki Uchiyama is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Saitama Prefecture affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group. He won Best Male Rookie at 5th Seiyu Awards. He also received one of Best Voice Actors at Tokyo Anime Award Festival in 2015. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kawai Ami

Ami Kawai (河合亞美） Kawai Ami?, born on December 15, 1967) is a Japanese television and theater actress from Tokyo, best known for her role as Marsha in Kidou Keiji Jiban and Lamie in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.

Follow the Light

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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

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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.…

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…

Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Bestseller Kara no Chousenjou

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1. "Poseidon no Batsu" A large real estate company’s social gathering is held on board the cruise ship ‘Poseidon’ as it goes around Tokyo Bay. Then, the company president, Kudo Ryoko, is fatally stabbed. The…

Kansatsu no Ichijo-san

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Yuki Maria, a highly accomplished detective who has been working her way up the career ladder at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, is suddenly abandoned by her fiancé on her…

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…

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,…

Cutie Honey: The Live

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A live-action TV remake of the popular manga by Go Nagai, "Cutie Honey: The Live" premiered on TV Tokyo on October 2, 2007. Starring gravure idol Mikie Hara as Honey, the series focuses on a set of three transforming…