Kinjo Yamato

Kinjo Yamato is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Naha, Okinawa, Japan, affiliated with Stay Luck (ステイラック). After graduating high school in 2002, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked part-time at izakayas and as a security guard. He made his acting debut in 2010, primarily in stage productions.…

Hashiyasume Atsuko

Hashiyasume Atsuko, is a member of the alt-idol group BiSH as a founding member. She began acting in addition to her activities as an idol in 2021. BiSH will disband after Tokyo Dome concert in June 2023.

Koga Mitsuki

Mitsuki Koga is a Japanese actor who is known to be featured in films that involve much martial arts. He trained in Muay Thai, Karate and Boxing before starting his acting career. Best known for his portrayals as Kyosuke Akiba in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., Shinjiro Hayashida from Cromartie High - The Movie,…

Imagawa Aoi

Imagawa Aoi, commonly referred to as "Aoi", is a Japanese idol, dancer and actor born in Tokyo. He is a member of an idol-group MeseMoa. and belongs to mitt management, a talent agency. In 2015, he won the Jury's Special Award in JUNON Superboy Contest.

Imamura Shohei

Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura is the only Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards. Imamura was born to a comfortably upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo in 1926. For a short time after 1945, when Japan was in a devastated condition following the war, Imamura participated…

Ayata Toshiki

Toshiki Ayata is a Japanese actor and director born in Nara prefecture. He graduated from Meiji University Faculty of Letters. His agency is knockout. After working at the On Theater Free Theater, he formed the theater company Tokyo Kandenchi with Emoto Akira and Bengal. Although he rarely appears on…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Kawakubo Takuji

Takuji Kawakubo (川久保 拓司 Kawakubo Takuji, born 17 December 1981, in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He graduated from Rikkyo University Faculty of Economics Faculty of Business.

Hasegawa Jun

Hasegawa Jun is a Japanese actor and singer affiliated with STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (formerly Johnny & Associates). He was born in Tokyo, Japan. During his days as a Johnny's Jr., he was part of the group Four Tops together with Yamashita Tomohisa, Ikuta Toma and Kazama Shunsuke. He is working mostly in…

Sudo Maasa

Sudo Maasa, born July 3, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of Berryz Koubou. Sudo Maasa joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. She made her debut as one of the 4KIDS in the Minimoni ja…

The Tale Of Iya

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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.

Beijing Watermelon

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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…

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

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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,…

Shimokitazawa Die Hard

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Snack bar owner and her regular patron tell 11 different stories about the worst day in the lives of people in their neighborhood of Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One of those instances involve a Tokyo politician being kidnapped…

Stigmatized Properties: Possession

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Unable to give up on his dream of becoming a celebrity, Kuwata Yahiro moves from Fukuoka to Tokyo and, through an unexpected turn of events, begins working as a celebrity who lives in haunted properties. "A room guaranteed…

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.…