Sato Naoki

Sato Naoki is a Japanese composer. He rose to prominence in the 2000s, primarily through his work in anime, video games, before breaking into films ca. 2004. His style has a distinctly Western flair while retaining classic Japanese sensibilities. Sato excels at composing brash, bold action music, but…

Kohinata Fumiyo

Kohinata Fumiyo is a Japanese actor, born in Mikasa, Hokkaido. He is a graduate of Tokyo College of Photography which was later renamed Tokyo Visual Arts. He is currently represented by Father's Corporation. (Source: eiga.wikia)

Sano Shiro

Sano Shiro is a well known Japanese actor and director, born on March 4, 1955 in Yamanashi City, in the Yamanashi Prefecture. He directed the movie Tales of Terror from Tokyo Vol. 1. (Source: French Nautilijon)

Hoshino Mari

Hoshino Mari is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kamifukuoka, Saitama. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in Franch Literature. Most well-known for her lead role as Otome Sakamoto in the TBS drama "Kinpachi-sensei". Hoshino has starred in several dramas in recent years. Her…

Watanabe Ikkei

Watanabe Ikkei, born Watanabe Kazuyoshi (渡辺一惠) in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator affiliated with Seinenza Film & Broadcasting (青年座映画放送). He attended Ichinomiya Municipal Yamato Elementary School (一宮町立大和小学校), Toyokawa Municipal…

Tsurumi Shingo

Tsurumi Shingo is a Japanese actor and talent from Tokyo and lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa. He graduated from Seikei University Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science. He belongs to HoriPro. His younger brother, Mikami Yuichi, is also a former actor. Tsurumi made his debut at the age of 12 when…

Emoto Akira

Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor from Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for the best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san. His wife is the…

Mizuno Miki

Mizuno Miki is a Japanese actress born in Mie prefecture. She belongs to Office More. She graduated from Hide Girls' Academy High School and dropped out of the Department of English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Meiji Gakuin University. In 1987, when she was in the first year of junior high school,…

Sato Jiro

Sato Jiro is a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He grew up in Tōgō, Aichi District. He is represented with From First Production. He graduated from Shinshu University Faculty of Economics. His first directed work is Memo (released in 2008), based on his experience of obsessive-compulsive…

Hashizume Isao

Hashizume Isao is a Japanese actor born in Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is the representative of the theater group Yen and belongs to Yen Planning. In 1975, he participated in the founding of the theater group Yen with Akutagawa, Nakaya Noboru, Kishida Kyoko, and Arikawa Hiroshi.…

Eien no Kimi e

6.0

Asakura Harumi, a high school music teacher, and Kyoji Hiyama, a cabaret manager. The two repel each other violently due to differences in circumstances, but eventually, they are attracted to something that does not…

Sou ka, Mou Kimi wa Inai no ka

8.0

The drama is based on a true story of Saburo Shiroyama, during his marriage and after his wife Yoko's death. Yoko's father had been opposed to their marriage, and the couple faced many hardships during their life together.…

Egao wo Kureta Kimi e: Joi to Doukeshi no Chousen

Umi no Ue no Kimi wa, Itsumo Egao

8.3

17-year old high school student and basketball player Migiwa has a secret crush on a boy named Riku. One day, Riku asks her if she surfs, and without thinking she lies and says she does. Migiwa quickly begins practicing…

Megami no Itazura: Kimi ni Natta Boku

7.2

A man from a construction shop falls and bumps into a 9-year-old boy, a goddess changes their souls. The 9-year-old boy tries to save the construction shop from its business crisis in the body of the adult man. (Source:…

Tare Yori mo Kimi wo Aisu

5.0

A woman (Masami Nagasawa) returns to her hometown in Shizuoka, with child in tow, after running away from home to live with a man. Her father runs an unagi (eel) shop and is totally surprised that she now has a child.…

Ryugu Akatsuki no Kimi

A fantasy inspired by the legend of Urashima Taro, who is said to have spent decades living in an undersea realm. Set on the Shonai Peninsula in Kagawa Prefecture, it presents a dream-like depiction of a young man's…

Aruhitotsuzen ni… Kimi ni `Ijime' wa Niawanai

The story of Takuya who witnesses school violence. Soon he becomes victim himself. The film is about the inefficiency of the education system and parents who, despite their sincere intentions, cannot help their children.

Hitoribocchi no Kimi ni

His mother having left him, nine year-old Yudai is forced to live alone and steal from a local convenience store in order to survive. Pursuing the wily thief to get back the stolen merchandise is the first act on the…

Ame-gari no kimi

The screenplay for Bishop Koyama's Rain for the Dead (Ame-agari no kimi) was written by the director himself, based on the eponymous (with regard to the Japanese title) short manga by Waita Uziga (who's also the movie's…