Precious Lara Quigaman

Precious Lara Quigaman is a Filipina actress, multi-product endorser and beauty queen who won the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the fourth Filipino to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. Prior to winning…

Fukuma Kenji

Kenji FUKUMA is a poet, film maker, film critic and scholar of English literature and cultural studies. Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He started to write as early as the late 1960s. He has studied and wrote about the works of modern poets such as Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden. As a film…

Hayashi Toru

Hayashi Toru is a Japanese director. Since he was in college, he was in charge of the props of the era play under the image director of Kyoto, Yoshinobu Nishioka. After coming to Tokyo, he worked as a freelance assistant director and debuted as a director of the series drama "101st Proposal" in 1991.…

Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. (source: Wikipedia)

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

Miyake Kuniko

Kuniko Miyake was born on September 17, 1916 in Saitama, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Until the End of the World (1991) and Escapade in Japan (1957). She died on November 4, 1992 in Japan. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991. Miyake joined the Shochiku studio…

Shimojo Atom

Atomu Shimojou was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. He is the son of actor Masami Shimojou and actress Yoshiko Tagami. He was also the first dubbing voice actor of Eddie Murphy. He passed away on January 29, 2025, at the age of 78. The news was officially announced…

Murano Takenori

Murano Takenori is a japanese actor born on April 19, 1945 in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan.

Sekiguchi Tomohiro

Real name is Tomohiro Sekiguchi (reading the same). Blood type is type A. Height 183 cm. He is from Tokyo . He belongs to Sankei (former · Hiroshi Sekiguchi office). His father is a moderator and actor Hiroshi Sekiguchi , my mother is a former singer , Sachiko Nishida , the only son of the Sekiguchi…

Minosuke

Minosuke is a Japanese stage actor, voice actor, and drummer born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Nihon University Tsurugamine High School. He is affiliated with the agency Mashu. During high school, Minosuke joined the light music club where he was invited by his senior to join the band "Uchoten"…

Welkame

6.3

The 81st NHK Asadora is Welkame. The story revolves around a young woman named Nami, who was born and raised in a minshuku (a type of inn). She leaves for Tokyo to work for a magazine publisher, but is soon laid off.…

The Graduates

6.3

Akimoto Kayoko, a senior student in high school, is adept at practically anything she does and makes good grades. She has her mind set on entering a university in Tokyo. Nishi Takumi, who is a member of the baseball…

Home Away from Home

6.4

A taxi driver, young girl, and backer packer travel through fantastical Tokyo that is connected with each of their homes in Africa, Europe, and South East Asia. Akiko is a Japanese woman who figures in those travels.…

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…

Ura Aka - L'Aventure

6.5

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…

Ecstacy of the Angels

6.3

Ecstasy of the Angels is the first film Wakamatsu made in co-operation with the Art Theatre Guild Japan (ATG). The police station in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, which is blasted by a bomb in the film, later became…

Our Huff and Puff Journey

6.3

Four female high school students in Fukuoka, Japan are big fans of Japanese rock band "CreepHyp.” They decide to go to Tokyo to attend their live concert.

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,…