Nabe Osami

Nabe Osami is a Japanese actor, comedian, talent, radio personality, voice actor, and screenwriter from Omori, Tokyo, Japan.

Koike Asao

Koike Asao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Tokyo. He graduated from Aoyama High School and joined the Bungakuza Acting Research Institute in 1950, making his stage debut in "The People of Mount Kunlun." In 1963, following a split in Bungakuza, he helped found the modern theater…

Yang Yong Hi

Yang Yong Hi is a Japanese-born Korean (or Zainichi) film director. Born in Osaka in 1964 as a second-generation Korean. She studied Korean literature at Korea University in Tokyo and media studies in New York. She has worked as a teacher, actress, radio host and foreign correspondent for TV. Having…

Watanabe Fumio

Fumio Watanabe was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.

Jeffrey Rowe

Canadian actor, voice actor and producer. Originally from Prince Edward Island though living on and off in Tokyo and Vancouver since 2003. Speak English, French and Japanese. Involved in drama and theatre since his teens (Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice). Many lead and featured roles in TV and film…

Numata Yoichi

Numata Yoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yubara Village, Maniwa District, Okayama Prefecture. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Sixth Junior High School and dropped out of Nihon University's Film Department. After working as a trainee at the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Theater Company, he joined Toyoko…

Nishikiori Kazukiyo

Japanese actor , voice actor , director , dancer , leader of the male idol group " Shonentai". Nicknamed " Nikki " by fans , " Nishiki " among members . Born in Tokyo. He auditioned in his fifth year of elementary school and entered the office in July 1977, 6th year of Hirai Minami Elementary School…

Sato Natsuki

Sato joined AKB48 as a second-generation member in 2003. After graduating in 2012, she has been running a nail salon in Tokyo. In February of 2017, she announced her marriage. She had her first son in March 2018 and her second son in October 2020. In February 2022 she announced on her Instagram account…

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman. Born in Shinagawa- cho , Tokyo (now Shinagawa-ku , Tokyo ). In the 1930s Nikkatsu Kyoto studio joined in, Sadao Yamanaka studied with, Marne SanTaro , Kinugasa fourteen San , Hiroshi Inagaki…

Sato Shimako

Sato Shimako is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Her husband is the film director Takashi Yamazaki . In 1992, she made his directorial debut in the movie “Tale of a Vampire” and won the Aboriaz Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Ura Aka - L'Aventure

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Machiko can't shake the feeling of emptiness in her day-to-day life as a manager of a clothing store in Aoyama, Tokyo. One day, the casual words of Sayaka, a younger and charismatic store staff, stirs Machiko into…

The Egoists

6.5

Kazu is the only son of a prominent family. In spite of his distinguished upbringing, he spends most of his time gambling all his money away in Tokyo. He meets Machiko, the number one pole dancer at a club in Kabukicho,…

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

6.5

Tough girl biker Ako comes across Mei and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls. When the second gang calls in their boyfriends…

Crazy Thunder Road

6.5

A nihilistic tale of warring biker gangs and ultra-nationalist militias. When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the…

Life of Mariko in Kabukicho

6.5

Mariko works as a bartender at a small bar in the alleyways of Shinjuku Golden Gai, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo. She also works as a private detective. One day, she receives a request from an organization. Their request…

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

6.6

School teacher Ichikawa, sometimes known as Zebraman, suddenly awakes 15 years later in the year 2025. The megapolis known as Tokyo has now been renamed to Zebra City. The city has become virtually crime free due to…

Suna no Utsuwa

6.5

On December 11, 1960, an elderly man was found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective who has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda". Detective Yoshimura…

The Terrible Couple

6.6

Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle’s house,…