Akasaka Akira

Akasaka Akira is a Japanese singer and actor, born on May 8, 1973 in Tokyo. He attended Yada University, and majored in business. He was a member of the j-pop group Hikari Genji. After the group disbanded in 1995, he released music as a soloist. However her was fired from Johnny's for drug use in 2007.…

Kodama Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25 continuously for thirty-six years from its start in April 1975 until he was forced to step down due to poor health at the end of March 2011. His signature catchphrase on…

Horiuchi Masami

Horiuchi Masami is a Japanese actor born in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. He graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Arts. After working at Dekai Planning, Ishibuchi Office, and Office AMI, he belongs to Blue Bear House. He studied screenwriting and directing at Toho Gakuen College of Arts, but was scouted by…

Fujiwara Kei

Kei Fujiwara is a Japanese actress, cinematographer, editor, writer and film director. Fujiwara came from a poor family in the country, and moved to Tokyo to pursue a career in theater. She spent years creating underground theater companies, and collaborated with Shinya Tsukamoto on the plays and 8mm…

Aizawa Yusuke

Aizawa Yusuke, whose English name is Ethan Aizwa, also known in English stage name as Eden Kai, was born on September 24, 1998, in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan but later moved to Hawaii with his family. He graduated high school in Hawaii at Henry J. Kaiser High School Cafeteria in May of 2016, during the…

Yoshida Noriko

Noriko Yoshida is a Japanese screenwriter. Her family moved to Tokyo when she was in 6th grade. She graduated from Meiji University, School of Arts and Letters in 1983. Initially working as an office lady in a securities company for two years after graduation, she later resigned the job to pursue her…

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Inoue Yoshio

Inoue Yoshio is a Japanese musical actor from Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Vocal Music Department, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He made his debut in 2000 while still a college student, playing the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in the musical 'Elisabeth'. He played his first leading…

Habara Daisuke

Habara Daisuke is a Japanese screenwriter, writer and director from Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University College of Art . In 1992, he debuted as a screenwriter , while writing on a wide range of genres, in 2001 he launched the theatrical group Shinjuku Performing Arts Company (present · Showa…

Ando Hiroshi

Hiroshi Ando is a Japanese writer and director. Born in Tokyo, Japan. Hiroshi Ando has several films to his credit including Saraba gokudo dead beat, Blue, Kokoro to karada and Boku wa imōto ni koi o suru. Blue was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.

You Can't Just Look

"Will totally go all the way today!" Nam Seon has been living alone for two months after quitting his job impulsively. One morning, Nam Seon receives a call from his younger sister's middle school classmate Eun Soo,…

Family Meeting

Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to Taiko' father who bankrupted and drove Shigezumi's…

Mitari Kiitari Tameshitari

Katsuta Junpei came to Tokyo with five children, Kenichi, Mariko, Fumio, Shosuke, and Ryoichi. He lives with his children in a military house where war-damaged orphans live. One of the orphans, Mariko, gets sick, and…

Flame of My Love

7.7

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being…

Detective Chinatown

7.8

Strange crimes disrupt Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective shifts. Lin Mo, student of Chinatown's top detective, and Yetian Hao Er, brother of Yetian Hao, find themselves entangled in separate mysteries…

Dr. Coto's Clinic

7.9

After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to…

Have a Song on Your Lips

7.9

Yuri Kashiwagi is a genius pianist and part-time teacher in Tokyo. When her former colleague Haruko goes on maternity leave, she asks Kashiwagi to take over for her as the choral advisor at a middle school on one of…

Nobody Knows

8.3

Four siblings and their young mother move into a small Tokyo apartment. Despite their mother's wild lifestyle, the family lives in chaotic yet loving harmony. After their mother leaves for a new life in Osaka, the…

Sonatine

7.6

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with some henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu clan, and the Anan clan.…

Ototo no Otto

8.0

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian…