Shimizu Kinichi

Shimizu Kinichi was a Japanese comedian and film actor born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He began his career at 16 in Tokyo, becoming a disciple of Shimizu Kintaro, a leader in Asakusa Opera. During this period, he took the name Shimizu Kinichi and had a child with actress Mine Rei. After Kintaro's death…

Pancho Kagami

Pancho Kagami was a Japanese drummer who also worked as a voice actor and actor. His real name was Kagami Kuniaki. He was affiliated with Altross Music Agency. He was born in Taito Ward, Tokyo. He was the second son of three brothers (one older and one younger). He graduated from the Tokyo University…

Dokumamushi Sandayu

Sandayū Dokumamushi born Iyoshi Ishii on 31 March 1936 in Osaka, Japan is a Japanese actor. He portrayed the role of Daisuke Arashi in the original Ultraman series. He has been a radio personality on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 6, 1969 to the present.

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Takizawa Osamu

Osamu Takizawa was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno.

Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Aikawa Kinya

Aikawa Kinya was a Japanese actor, tarento, and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo and died in 2015 of lung cancer. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nakamura Zeko

Nakamura was an actor and author born on December 6th 1990 in the Kishima District, Saga, Saga Prefecture of Japan. He died on December 6th 1989 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Tokyo, Japan.

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Gekijo Ban: Tabibito Kenshikan Michiba Shusaku

After retiring, Michiba Shusaku, a former medical examiner with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, begins traveling across Japan with a notebook left behind by his late wife. His journey takes him to Matsuyama…

Ghost of Ueno

Satsuki, who works as a social worker in Ueno, finds a diary left by an unidentified homeless man called "Gojo" in a blue tent in a park in Tokyo. Together with Toshi, who lost his wife and also lives in the park,…

August Grove

In 1945, when she was still a child, Nakahara Aya lost her memory in the bombing of Tokyo and went on to survive in postwar Japan. Every year, she attended the Grand Spring Memorial Service and searched for the names…

Shimbashi Koi Story

5.6

Tatsuya, and his outgoing friend Kotetsu, frequent a Shimbashi, Tokyo gay bar called "TUGBOAT". One night they meet Junnosuke. Kotetsu hits it off with Junnosuke, but Tatsuya is interested too, but shy. (Source: MyDramaList)

Karanukan

5.8

Ooyama Hikaru is a famous photographer. He feels a sense of loss while surrounded by glamour in Tokyo. He decides to visit Okinawa. There, Ooyama meets beautiful Ishigaki Mami. When he takes pictures at a waterfall…

Bon Lin

5.9

Natsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon.She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring…

Nagi Diary

Yoriko spends her days carving sculptures by herself using wood cut from the nearby mountains. One day, Yuri, who has been active as an architect in both Tokyo and Taiwan, takes a few days off and visits Yoriko, the…

Totto no Ketsuraku Seishunki

The year is 1946. One year after the end of the war, Tetsuko, who had been living with her mother in Aomori after evacuation, leaves her mother behind and moves to Tokyo alone to find what she wants to do. She begins…

12 Months of Kai

5.9

What would you do if an "impossible thing" was born between humanoids and humans? Kyoka, who works as a web director in Tokyo, gets a personal care humanoid (PCH), Kai. Kai learns various things about the owner. Kyoka…