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…

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"…

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…

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…

Arakawa Yu

Japanese actor who is also in the rock band "BACKDRAFT SMITHS" where he is vocals and guitarist . He is from Tokyo . Appear as an actor such as " WATER BOYS " " Kirarin Kirari ". In 2006, he formed a rock band "HI - GOD VOICE" and is in charge of vocals and guitar. In 2013, HI - GOD VOICE was renamed…

Egawa Tatsuya

Tatsuya Egawa is a Japanese manga artist and film director. Egawa has a degree in applied mathematics and taught college mathematics for five months before switching to manga as a career in 1984. He studied under the prolific manga artist Hiroshi Motomiya for four months. Tatsuya's break came when his…

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)

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…

Abe Saori

Saori Abe is a Japanese actress, writer and director from Akiruno City, Tokyo . She graduated from Komazawa Junior College English Department. Blood type is type A. She studied at the New York Film Academy, studying 16mm movie production, participating in more than 30 movie productions, including leading…

Baba Yasuo

Yasuo Baba is a Japanese production company owner, writer, and film director. He is the president of Huichiye Productions (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo). He was born in Tokyo. His maternal grandfather was an architect Koji Fujii . He founded Hoichoi Productions with classmates at a school at Seikei University,…

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…

Hibi Rock

6.4

Hibinuma Takurou is a senior in high school. He isn't very good at studying or sports, but he loves rock music. After graduation Takurou heads to Tokyo. He begins to perform at a legendary live club. When Takurou gets…

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.…

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,…