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)

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…

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)…

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…

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".

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…

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…

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…

Takeda Kozo

Takeda Kozo, born December 27, 1972 in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actor and former professional kick boxer.

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 25th Anniversary Special - Masterpiece Revival

6.7

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Kino Koen" (昨日公園) Nakajima Miwa, now attending a Tokyo university, reunites with her childhood friend Machida Takako in their hometown, only to learn…

Take Me Away!

6.7

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco…

Amnok River Flows

6.7

This drama portrays the turbulent life of Lee Mi Reuk, a Korean expatriate who fought for the freedom of his country while studying medicine in Tokyo during the period when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. He…

Sauce-san no Koi

6.7

Uno Masanao, a 19-year-old student of a university of the arts, works part-time at a convenience store in Tokyo. Every night, a mysterious older woman Gota Mika comes to this convenience store and only buys sauce.…

Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun

6.8

Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice ninja, leaves his hometown of Iga to go to Edo (Tokyo). There, for his final training, he must find himself a master, and protect his master with his life, whilst upholding the ninja code.

Profound Desires of the Gods

6.8

Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well for the…

Angel

6.8

Romantic fantasy film starring Fukada Kyoko and based off of the best selling series of written works by Sakurazawa Erika. In a corner of Tokyo various hopeless romantics are reminded of the love, friendship, and familial…

Shiawase no Soup wa Ikaga?

6.7

In Hong Kong, Lam Mei Lan is determined to hold onto her grandfather's noodle shop despite plans for redevelopment in the area. She meets Tao Tetsuya, a from Tokyo who is supposed to be looking after a friend's cats…

Monster Seafood Wars

6.7

Yuta, a young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterward a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the depths and begins to wreak havoc…

H-Man

6.8

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police - until a young scientist…