Rionne McAvoy

Rionne McAvoy is a documentary filmmaker originally from the Gold Coast in Australia. Now residing in Tokyo, Japan, for over 17 years, Rionne is fully bilingual in English and Japanese. Rionne grew up in South East Queensland, Australia, and at the age of 19 went to Japan for an 8-week karate training…

Yamaguchi Hiroko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Yakushiji Yoko

Yakushiji Yoko is a Japanese actress born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. In 1986, she was selected as the campaign girl "Miss Anmitsu Hime" in the magazine "Nakayoshi." Subsequently, she gained attention as the lead actress in the movie "Another Harajuku…

Kikuchi Yoko

Kikuchi Yoko was a former Japanese idol singer and actress born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, but shortly thereafter moved to Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She was affiliated with Takenouchi Office. In 1982, she won the TBS Award at the Miss Seventeen Contest. This achievement…

Onoda Isamu

Onoda Isamu was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Chuo University in 1941. He was a member of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Drama Group. He also had achievements as an actor. His son, Onoda Masashi, is also a screenwriter and director, and his grandson,…

Mizuhara Maki

Mizuhara Maki, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, is a former Japanese actress. She began her career as a child actress under the name Hagiwara Nobuko after joining Toei Children's Research Institute in 1963. Mizuhara graduated from Toyoko Gakuen High School. There has been no confirmed information about…

Kawaguchi Setsuko

Kawaguchi Setsuko was a Japanese actress born in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. She dropped out of the Faculty of Home Economics at Wayo Women's University. She attended the Toho Performing Arts School and was affiliated with Toho, and later with Shinsei Productions, before joining Takarai Project. In 1963,…

Muramatsu Eiko

Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…

Fujikawa Yanosuke

Fujikawa Yanosuke is a kabuki actor belonging to the theater group Zenshinza, born in Tokyo, Japan. His grandfather was Fujikawa Yanosuke known as one of the seven samurai of Zenshinza. He comes from a family of entertainers, including his aunt, actress Imamura Izumi, his mother, Japanese dancer Fujima…

Kaji Miwako

Kaji Miwako is a Japanese actress born in Shibuya, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Tagen Chofu High School, she graduated from the Stage Arts Academy. She was affiliated with Gendai Seisaku-sha and Blue Bear House. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Dynamite Graffiti

6.6

When he was just seven-years-old, Suei's mother blew herself up with dynamite in a love-pact suicide with the neighbor's son. Suei worked at a factory in the city after graduating from high school and then quit to…

Someday's Dreamers

6.6

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in…

Princess Toyotomi

6.6

National Audit Bureau member Matsudaira Hajime (Tsutsumi Shinichi), Torii Tadako (Ayase Haruka) & Asahi (Okada Masaki) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial…

Olympic no Minoshirokin

6.6

Based on the same-titled novel, the drama is set in the year 1964, the year the Olympics were held in Tokyo. A nation trying to rebuild its economy post world war II, Japan was eager to show the world what it had to…

Sister

6.7

Nagisa Miyoshi and Saho Miyoshi are sisters and very close to each other. Younger sister Nagisa Miyoshi leaves her hometown of Hiroshima and begins to live with her older sister Saho Miyoshi, who has already moved…

Monster Seafood Wars

6.7

Yuta, a young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterward a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the depths and begins to wreak havoc…

Take Me Away!

6.7

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco…

Aruku Aruku Aruku. Shikoku Henro-do.

6.6

The story of Hayama Misa, a down-on-her-luck free-lance writer, leaving her unhappy life in Tokyo as she takes part in the Shikoku Pilgrimage as a lone walking pilgrim. It has been said that if a pilgrim completes…

The Room

6.6

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.

Shiawase no Soup wa Ikaga?

6.7

In Hong Kong, Lam Mei Lan is determined to hold onto her grandfather's noodle shop despite plans for redevelopment in the area. She meets Tao Tetsuya, a from Tokyo who is supposed to be looking after a friend's cats…