Miyagawa Kazuo

Miyagawa Kazuo was a leading film photographer in the Japanese film industry. He is known to the world as a photographer of works directed by Inagaki Hiroshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, etc. After graduating from Kyoto Commercial High School, he joined Nikki Kyoto at the age of 18 as an assistant…

Tajitsu Yasuyoshi

After graduating from Keio University in 1950, he joined the director of Toho Photo Studio . Became a Toho employee in 1953 . Was the assistant director under Akira Kurosawa and Shūe Matsubayashi . He was assigned to the Faculty of Literature in 1963 and became a contractor in 1965 . 1971 in Japan…

Sanjo Miki

Sanjo Miki graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Sakuramizu Women’s Commercial School and went to work for Daiei Studios in their accounting department. After the war, she caught the eye of Daiei president Nagata Masakazu and was approached to appear in a film. She debuted in 1946 and continued to appear…

Omura Senkichi

Small, thin, weasely, buggy-eyed actor typically cast as comic relief. Born the son of a vaudeville entertainer in 1922, Omura made his film debut in 1933 at age 11. He joined PCL (later Toho) in 1934. In 1938 he was sent to war, and was away from Japan until the war’s end in 1945. His first major…

Sasaki Sumie

Sasaki was born on June 22, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. She has a younger brother and sister. In 1951, she married journalist Akira Aoki. The two remained married until Aoki's death of lung cancer in 2003. In 1951, Sasaki joined a theater troupe and acted in her first play, Sono Imoto. She won an award for…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Mifune Toshiro

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He also portrayed Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's…

Imamura Shohei

Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura is the only Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards. Imamura was born to a comfortably upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo in 1926. For a short time after 1945, when Japan was in a devastated condition following the war, Imamura participated…

Kagawa Kyoko

Kagawa was born in Tokyo in 1931. She originally wanted to become a ballerina. She was discovered by a film studio after winning a beauty contest and began a career in acting. Her first major film role was in a movie Mado Kara Tobidase (Jump Out of the Window). She became a household name for her role…

Oguni Hideo

Born in Aomori, Japan, Hideo, was a prolific Japanese writer who completed over 100 screenplays. He is best known for co-writing screenplays for a number of films directed by Kurosawa Akira, including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden Fortress. His first film with Kurosawa was…

The Quiet Duel

7.5

During the war, young doctor Fujisaki, got infected with syphilis from the blood of a patient. When he got back home he decided to leave his fiancee. Meanwhile, doctor Fujisaki and his father took to work new nurse.…

Shinjuku Midnight Baby

5.1

Secret auctions have been held for decades in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where people buy and sell babies. These exclusive gatherings portray the selfishness and greediness of the various people who come to buy or sell. The…

Sousa Kaigi wa Living de!

7.5

Morikawa Shoko is a detective with the Criminal Investigations Department’s Special Unit. She has a strong sense of justice and became a police officer to make the best of her tremendous energy. Once there is a case,…

Answer - Keishichou Kenshou Sousakan

7.3

With advances in forensic science, more criminals are being proven innocent through DNA testing. To prevent wrongful convictions, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s First Investigative Division establishes the Evidence…

Love Distance

7.3

It is early summer in 2020 at a time when social interaction is restricted and many people are spending time at home. Six people living in an apartment building meet and find themselves relating to each other. Two…

Saigo no Yakusoku

7.5

Janitors Satoru Mashiko and Haruo Iio are driving towards Energy Bio Corporation for work when motorcycle courier Nozomu Gotou passes by them. Gotou goes to deliver a package to Yuriko Niimi, the daughter of the president…

Homestay

7.7

Shiro has died temporarily but is told by a mysterious person called "Guardian" that he can do a "homestay" i.e. his soul to reside in another dead person's body so as to find the reason for the latter's death. However,…

Meet the Monkey

7.2

Mako, Kiyo, and Satsuki are three college students visiting Nikko Toshogu Shrine for winter vacation, a place said to have many power spots and benefits for romance. Kiyo has had a relationship before, but Mako and…

Kaseifu Kuromi wa Kusatta Kazoku wo Yurusanai

7.1

Kuromi Kiyoka is a housekeeper who has a secret and is pursuing an "ideal family" by any means. Kuromi has been assigned to work for the Haibara family, which appears to be an ideal family but is actually filled with…

Captivated, by You

7.8

Not exactly your normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill high school student, Hayashi Miyoshi marches to his own beat. Frank, guileless, and full of quirks, Hayashi has a knack for quietly drawing the attention of classmates…