Haranomoto Kotobuki

Hananomoto Kotobuki I, born Kato Ryuichiro (加藤龍一郎), was a Japanese actor and traditional dancer, serving as the 15th generation head of the Hananomoto school. He was born in Mizi, Hiroshima, Japan. His father, Hananomoto Aoi, was the 14th generation head of the school. His wife, Hananomoto…

Hayasaka Akira

Hayasaka Akira, born Tomita Yoshisuke (富田祥資), was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. Born in Hojo, Onsen, Ehime, Japan, he grew up in a prominent merchant family and was exposed to pilgrimage culture early in life. He attended Matsuyama Middle School and was in the Naval Academy at the end…

Otani Yosuke

Otani Yosuke was born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1970. He made his debut as a screenwriter in 2008 with the drama "Tokyo Ghost Trip." He has since worked on various drama productions, including "Oyakoko Play" (2008) and "Oretachi wa Tenshi da! NO ANGEL NO LUCK" (2009). In 2015, he received the Excellence…

Ito Kazuhiro

Ito Kazuhiro is a Japanese television producer and director from Gifu prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He worked for TBS until July 2015. He is married to the screenwriter Komatsu Eriko. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Dazai Hisao

Dazai Hisao was a Japanese actor born in Senzoku, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. During middle school, due to the impact of military training where he was fired at close range by a machine gun, his hearing deteriorated slightly, and since then, his voice became about one octave higher than others. Although…

Narimiya Hiroki

Narimiya Hiroshige, better known as Narimiya Hiroki, is a Japanese actor. He was born and raised in Tokyo. His parents divorced when he was young, and in his third year of junior high school, his mother died, and he raised his brother by dropping out of school, taking on part-time jobs, and paid for…

Takeuchi Ryoma

Takeuchi Ryoma is a Japanese actor and model, who portrays the main protagonist of Kamen Rider Drive, Shinnosuke Tomari. Ryoma started playing soccer when he was 5, and during high school he played with Tokyo Verdy, but after receiving a recommendation to continue playing in university he thought he…

Toda Erika

Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model by the age of 13. She moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school and started her acting career…

Kamenashi Kazuya

Kamenashi Kazuya, often referred to as Kame, is a Japanese actor and idol from Edogawa, Tokyo. He joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny's at age 12. He made his acting debut in 2005. In 2002, he and five others formed Johnny’s Juniors group, KAT-TUN. At first, KAT-TUN was only meant to be backing…

Kawaguchi Haruna

Kawaguchi Haruna is a Japanese actor and model born in Goto, Japan. She began modeling in the mid-2000s, appearing in the youth fashion magazine "Nicola". She then went on to make her TV acting debut in the series “Tokyo Dogs” in 2009. In 2022, she was called as the "CM Queen" for having 21 brands…

Rinchi

2.0

Around the Showa era. The Sugawara group of mid-sized Yakuza ruling Tokyo suburbs was crowded with the annual Jinji temples festival banquet. However, recently, Kiyoshi, who has been emerging as a young member of the…

Theater of Life: Youth Version

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive illusions will be shattered by the ruthless realities of money and power.…

Beyond Mountains and Rivers

Yoshio's family evacuated during the war and settled in a mountain village three or four hours by train from Tokyo.

Dragon Sakura Season 2

8.1

A few years ago, a group of struggling students at a low-ranked high school made it into Japan’s top college, Tokyo University, thanks to Kenji Sakuragi, a down-on-his-luck lawyer-turned-teacher. But since he left,…

Ishiko and Haneo: You're Suing Me?

8.0

Called Ishiko because she is obstinate, 28-year-old Ishida Shoko graduated at the top of her class at Tokyo University’s law faculty but has failed the bar exam four times. Although she tells the people around her…

A Restaurant with Many Problems

8.1

Tanaka Tamako, betrayed by her boyfriend-turned-chef and arrested after an incident involving sexual harassment of her friend, resigns from her male-dominated restaurant job. She opens a bistro on a rooftop in Jingumae,…

Orange

8.3

During the spring of her 16th year, Takamiya Naho receives a letter from her future self. Upon reading the initial page of the letter, her class was introduced to a transfer student from Tokyo named Naruse Kakeru.…

Bloody Monday Season 2

8.3

Two years have passed since the world’s most heinous act of biological terror took place. Japan is threatened anew by an unfolding and sinister plot to destroy Tokyo with a nuclear device. A plane is hijacked, among…

Alice in Borderland

8.9

Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.…

Suga: Road to D-Day

9.3

The forthcoming documentary will follow Suga as he travels across the world in search of musical inspiration for his new album D-DAY, from Seoul to Tokyo, Las Vegas, and beyond. Viewers will see the singer at his most…