Murakami Koichi

Murakami Koichi is a Japanese entrepreneur born in Taiwan and raised in Tokyo, Japan after the war. He served as the president of Fuji Television and the president of Nihon Eiga Housou. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School and the Spanish Language Department of the Faculty of Foreign…

Tsutsui Shunsaku

Tsutsui Shunsaku is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the theater company Caramelbox and Office PAC. After graduating from Shukutoku Suigetsu High School, he joined the Kyoto Music & Media Arts Shobi, but later dropped out. He joined the theater company…

Kitamura Hisao

Kitamura Hisao was a screenwriter and children's literature writer born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of Waseda University. He studied under Oyama Kaoru and became a member of the "Geki to Hyoron" literary magazine. In 1936, he became a chief writer at NHK's literary department. In 1947, he took turns…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Sakai Sumie

Sakai Sumie was a Japanese actress and voice actress who worked for Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. Her real name was Fujino Sumie. She was formerly credited as Sakai Sumie (坂井 すみ江). She died on October 30, 2024, at the age of 79. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kataoka Masayoshi

Kataoka Masayoshi was a Japanese author and television producer of TV Asahi. He graduated from Tokyo Denki University in 1951 and from the Electrical Engineering Department at Gunma University in 1953. After graduating from university, he started big in 1959 with the TV adaptation of the novel called…

Nishikawa Tatsuro

Nishikawa Tatsuro is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, majoring in film directing. "The Other Home" (向こうの家) is his graduation project. In 2021, he made his TV drama debut with the drama "Gekikarado"…

Kusunoki Mitsuka

Japanese actress and pin entertainer. She is from Tokyo. Her husband is actor and comedian Moro Morooka.

Hokimoto Sora

Hokimoto Sora studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Inspired by the work of director Aoyama Shinji, he started making films during his studies. His graduation film, A Song That Never Ends (2014), an homage to his deceased father made by using archival material and abstract…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu

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Togane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses to cooperate with the police for some reason. Fukamachi Kotaro,…