Ishiyama Katsumi

Ishiyama Katsumi is a Japanese actor and television host based in Tokyo. After leaving Meiji University’s Faculty of Literature, he joined the NBK Theatre Company in 1954. He has since worked across theater, film, television, and radio. (Source: MyDramaList)

Tamiya Torahiko

Tamiya Torahiko was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo and raised in Kobe. Due to his father's seafaring job, he moved frequently. Tamiya attended the First Kobe Middle School and the Third Higher School, graduating in 1933. He studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University, where he participated…

Endo Haru

Endo Haru was a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. She was affiliated with Gekidan Shiki, Talent Agent, Tokyo Actor's Pro, Gekidan Ars Nova, and Gekidan Bara-za before joining Aoni Production. Endo passed away on September 20, 1999, at the age of 66. (Source: MyDramaList)

Ichikawa Kazuko

Ichikawa Kazuko is a former Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1954, she joined Daiei Film Company and made her debut the same year in the Daiei film "Shiroi Fuji no Mine". (Source: MyDramaList)

Tsuji Imari

Tsuji Imari is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She began her career with Shin Tsukiji Gekidan in April 1937 until its dissolution. She then joined Mizuho Gekidan in 1943, which later merged into Haiyuza Theater Company, where she stayed until August 1962. In 1963, she moved to Gekidan Nakama…

Sana

Sana is a former Japanese gravure idol born in Tokyo, Japan. She was affiliated with Metal Box. She began her career as a gravure idol in 2004. In 2008, she took a break from her entertainment activities, and her blog ceased updating after September 5 of the same year. However, in January 2009, she…

Umeura Yoichi

Umeura Yoichi is a Japanese television and film producer born in Tokyo. He has served as the head of Toho Television and as the President of Tokyo Eiga Shinsha. In 1993, Umeura became President of Tokyo Eiga Shinsha, a subsidiary of Toho, where he continued his work in television film production. However,…

Utena Masataka

Utena Masataka is a Japanese film decorator based in Tokyo, Japan, currently affiliated with Toho Eizo Bijutsu Co., Ltd. During his student years, Utena worked part-time on commercial sets and was inspired to pursue a career in the film industry after visiting a film set of Kurosawa Akira. In 1990,…

Ando Mitsuo

Ando Mitsuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He began his career with the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1947 at the age of 18, remaining until 1953. He made his film debut in 1958 with Toei in "Jigoku no Gozen Niji" and continued into the 1960s, appearing in gangster films and action movies…

Uchiki Eiji

Uchiki Eiji is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Keishicho Zero Gakari

7.5

Superintendent Kobayakawa Fuyuhiko is a naive career police officer who cannot read situations. He was transferred from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s National Research Institute of Police Science to…

Izakaya Fuji

7.6

Eiichi Nishio is an aspiring young actor, who is not well-known yet and only receives roles to play dead bodies. While wandering around Nakameguro, Tokyo, he recognizes the restaurant/bar Izakaya Fuji, which he had…

My Sons

7.6

After the death of his wife, an old man begins to live alone in his old home in Iwate Prefecture. One year later, his youngest son Tetsuo, who lives in Tokyo, returns to his old home town and begins to discuss with…

Senryokugai Sousakan SP

7.6

Inspector Umizuki Chinami is a career elite and yet treated as a burden. It has been one year since she was assigned to the Eighteenth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division…

Chanpon Tabetaka

7.6

In early 1965, a child violinist who was expected to be a prodigy, came up to Tokyo from Nagasaki and lived in lodgings. In the 1970s, the violinist faced a setback during the uproar over the US-Japan security treaty.…

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

7.6

Takakura’s Takata Goichi is a fisherman in a small coastal village in Japan. He’s called to Tokyo when his estranged son, Kenichi, is diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Kenichi refuses to see him, and Takata,…

Miyako ga Kyoto ni Yattekita!: Futari no Natsu

7.6

One day in summer, Sorayoshi witnessed Miyako, who was supposed to be visiting Tokyo, coming out of Kyoto station with a strange man, rolling her carry-on bag. Who in the world is she going to Tokyo with...? With this…

Unreachable

7.5

Misaki, Yuuka, and Sakura live together in an old house on a corner of Tokyo. Though they are not related by blood, they have been bound together by a strong bond for the last twelve years. (Source: Mubi.com)

Jinsei Saiko no Okurimono

7.5

Sasai Ryosuke, a translator who used to be a university lecturer, stays in a small Western-style house that stands at the back of Kishimojindo Temple in Tokyo’s Toshima ward. He has been living alone ever since his…

There Was a Father

7.6

A widowed father, Horikawa, raises his son Ryohei after a tragedy leads him to leave his teaching job in Tokyo and move to Ueno. Over ten years later, Ryohei has graduated from college and become a teacher. Though…