Ikeda Toshiharu

Ikeda Toshiharu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He won the award for Best Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for Mermaid Legend. (Source: Wikipedia)

Mochizuki Yuko

Mochizuki Yuko was a Japanese actress, film director, and politician, serving as a member of the House of Councillors for the Japan Socialist Party. She was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and in 1930, she left Tokyo Municipal Shinobugaoka High School without graduating. Under the stage name…

Sasabe Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Sasabe was born on January 8, 1958 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture. He graduated from Meiji University before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin (now the Japan Academy of Moving Images). He worked as an assistant director to Yoichi Sai, Seiji Izumi, and Yasuo Furuhata before…

Isomura Itsumichi

Itsumichi Isomura is a Japanese film director. He won the award for “Best Director” at the 20th Yokohama Film Festival for "Ganbatte Ikimasshoi".

Matsuura Masako

Matsuura Masako is a Japanese screenwriter and director. She was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture and graduated from Yokohama National University.

Yoshida Daihachi

Yoshida Daihachi is a Japanese film director and writer. He won the award for Best New Director at the 29th Yokohama Film Festival for Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!(2007). He also won many awards for his film The Kirishima Thing (2012) for Best Director at the 67th Mainichi Film Awards and Director…

Noguchi Masahiro

Noguchi Masahiro is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of the Faculty of Letters, Meiji University and graduated from the Theater Department of Yokohama Broadcasting Film College. He belongs to Yume Kobo.

Tsukishiro Kanato

Tsukishiro Kanato is a Japanese stage actress, voice actress, and singer, formerly the Top Star of the Moon Troupe in the Takarazuka Revue. She hails from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. She is currently represented by Stardust Promotion. She entered the Takarazuka Music School in 2007 and debuted in 2009…

Hasegawa Kazuhiko

Hasegawa Kazuhiko is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun. (Source: Wikipedia)

Joe Yamanaka

Yamanaka Joe was a Japanese musician, actor, and professional boxer from Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His real name is Yamanaka Akira and his ring name during his professional boxer days was Jo Akira. Born as the only mixed-race child of the seven siblings. His father is "African-American". He…

Yokoyama Hideo Suspense

8.2

There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery. Story 1 - 18th Hole / 18ban Hole (18番ホール) Story 2 - Misinformation / Goho…

Daisan no Jikou

7.0

Kusumi Shohei of the Yamanashi Perfectural Police is investigating a case occurred 20 years ago, the statute of limitation of which is about to run out . Suspect Takeuchi Toshiharu raped Honma Yukie and killed her…

Nurse ga Konkatsu

6.7

Yokoyama Yoko works as the director of the matchmaking company "Nurse’s Friend". Her company provides matchmaking services only to nurses. Yoko is also a former nurse and has a hard time finding a man to marry. As…

Comet-san 2

~~ Adapted from Mitsuteru Yokoyama's (横山光輝) manga with the same title

Ashita mo Mata Ikite Ikou

7.0

Saori Kimura and Yumika Yokoyama were close friends, similar to sisters, and star volleyball players in high school. Saori Kimura was picked for the national volleyball team. Yumika Yokoyama was shortly later diagnosed…

Senritsu: Ghost Hotel

7.1

The first instalment in director Kazuhiro Yokoyama's popular horror series SENRITSU: GHOST HOTEL, brings you fifteen tales that seem only slightly odd at first, but leave you with an unsettling aftertaste that grows…

Climber's High

7.1

Based on a novel by Yokoyama Hideo reporting of an airplane crash at the fictional Kita-Kanto Shimbun. The story is based on the real life incident of the 1985 airplane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. On August…

Replay & Destroy

7.4

Inseparable since university days, Yokoyama Kaname, Mano Mahiro and Nitta Hiroshige have been sharing an apartment for one and a half years. While the three friends of more than five years are playing a high stakes…

Raison D'etre: Documentary of AKB48

7.7

Takahashi Minami led AKB48 as its first general manager and now she graduates from the group. Yokoyama Yui takes the role of general manager and carries out a new system. AKB48's sister groups HKT48 and NMB48 are on…

Kowai Nichiyoubi

6.5

The original series of "Kowai Nichiyoubi (Scary Sunday)" had 4 "navigators" who introduced the episodes. They were Yokoyama Yu, Sato Takashi (who has left Johnnys) and Nagatani. There were 10 episodes and 1 Review…