Tokyo Kurds

It is difficult to get refugee status in Japan. In 2016, the number of recognized as refugees was 28 out of 10,901. For the past 20 years, Turkish Kurds have been fleeing from prejudice and persecution and coming to…

Tokyo Midnight Run

6.8

The story features Nao and Haruka being invited by their friend to play the Santa game in Shibuya on Christmas Eve i.e. doing good deeds for others and uploading the evidence on SNS. However, their friend fails to…

Tokyo Boys Collection Episode 1

Ikki is the ace pitcher on his baseball team, but he quits playing when his mother gets sick and he has to care for her and work part-time. He is acting out against his father, an aspiring musician who neglects the…

Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan

4.0

Tokyo Black Hole reveals the rarely discussed truth about real-life events in "Year Zero" of post-war Tokyo. It follows a young man living in present-day Tokyo who travels back in time and has "hands-on" experiences.…

Tokyo Decibels

6.9

University professor Chuya's big dream is to make a sound map of Tokyo, so he spends his days collecting sounds in Tokyo and analyzing them. One day, his girlfriend Fumi dumps him and a mysterious woman named Mariko…

Tokyo Capsule Hotel

Riko who works at a capsule hotel, came to Tokyo thinking she might be able to find something though she still hasn’t been able to achieve anything. One day, Riko finds something that someone forgot in a capsule.…

Tokyo Bang Bang

Tokyo Dara Dara Musume

7.4

Tokyo Noir

Yakuza's Narumi decides to retire, after doing his last job, but the gun fires during weapons trafficking transaction, killing an undercover investigator disguised as his opponent. Narumi, who has been chased by the…

Tokyo Blood Type House

8.0

The story is about 3 people who live together in a share house.

Koda Hiroko

Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…

Fujii Rokusuke

Originally from Tokyo , his real name is Rikusuke Tanaka, and he used Ayamine and Rokuyo as his haiku names . Originally a fishmonger as a family business, he became an actor by becoming a disciple of Yoho Ii , who follows the Shinpa trend . He was active in the Ii troupe and the Shizuma Kojiro troupe…

Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Yagi Keiko

After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities…

Ebara Tatsuyoshi

Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.

Inoue Kohei

Born in Tokyo, Inoue is a Japanese film director and a commercial planner. His major films include Excited Death (Moosic Lab 2018 Grand Prix for Short Films) and Dong Teng Town (TIFF 2020). He has also worked on a video for Nogizaka 46. Excited Death is his first feature film. (Source: TMDB)

Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…