Sawa Ritsuo

Sawa Ritsuo is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Theater Echo. After graduating from Kumagaya High School in Saitama, Japan, he worked at the U.S. military base PX before pursuing a career in acting three years later. He was associated with Theater Etcetera…

Saruwaka Kiyotaka II

Saruwaka Kiyokata, the second-generation holder of the name, is a Japanese traditional dancer and actor. He is the eighth headmaster of the Saruwaka school, following his father, Saruwaka Kiyokata 7th generation, who was the first-generation headmaster. His eldest son, Saruwaka Seizaburo, is the ninth…

Bando Choemon

Bando Choemon was a Kabuki actor. His real name was Takase Daisuke (高瀬大助), and he was born in Sendai, Japan. He began his career in theater in 1903, performing in a shinpa theater production in Sendai, under the patronage of the impresario Kase Kichibei. Afterward, he traveled and performed…

Matsubara Koji

Matsubara Koji was a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. After leaving the English literature department at Meiji Gakuin University, he joined Shintoho in 1959 and made his film debut under the name Matsubara Ryokuro (松原緑郎). In 1962, he joined Shochiku. After becoming a freelance actor,…

Minami Hiroshi

Minami Hiroshi was a Japanese musician and actor born in Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Nakajima Hiroshi (中島廣), and his former stage name was Minami Hiroshi (南広). He attended Hosei University Industrial School but dropped out. In 1947, he formed the band "Shin Watanabe and the…

Sugai Rei

Sugai Rei is a Japanese actress and TV personality from Tokyo. (Source: Wikipedia JP)

Yoshikawa Kiyoshi

Yoshikawa Kiyoshi is a Japanese composer and arranger from Tokyo, Japan.

Nishikawa Tatsuro

Nishikawa Tatsuro is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, majoring in film directing. "The Other Home" (向こうの家) is his graduation project. In 2021, he made his TV drama debut with the drama "Gekikarado"…

Hayasaka Akira

Hayasaka Akira, born Tomita Yoshisuke (富田祥資), was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. Born in Hojo, Onsen, Ehime, Japan, he grew up in a prominent merchant family and was exposed to pilgrimage culture early in life. He attended Matsuyama Middle School and was in the Naval Academy at the end…

Ito Kazuhiro

Ito Kazuhiro is a Japanese television producer and director from Gifu prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He worked for TBS until July 2015. He is married to the screenwriter Komatsu Eriko. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Keishichou Nasi Goreng ka

6.6

25-year-old Kazahaya Kyoko is appointed to head an investigative division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, called the Nasi Goreng Division. She is an unconventional division head who believes that an entire…

Wolf Girl

6.7

When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of…

Taburakashi Daiko Joyuu Maki

6.7

Todo Maki (Tanimura Mitsuki) has continued to pursue her dream of being an actress in Tokyo. However, the troupe she belongs to breaks up and she gets stuck with a debt of 6 million yen. There is nothing else she can…

Cafe Lumiere

6.8

Yoko is in many ways a typical young Japanese woman: living alone in Tokyo, independent-minded, busy with her work (she's researching the life of the Taiwan-born composer Jiang Wen Ye, famous in the 1930s and now coming…

Pandemic

6.9

Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which can make a population extinct,…

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

6.9

Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry Kazunori Nakamura (Yuta Hiraoka) next month, when her grandmother dies. Her grandmother was like a mom to Maki. While…

Love, Life and Goldfish

6.9

Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful…

Tanshin Hanabi

6.6

A salaryman who lives a happy life with his wife and daughter in Tokyo is suddenly transferred to Kagoshima, a place full of memories where he spent his junior high school years. However, soon after arriving at his…

Kamen Rider Amazon: The Movie

6.5

Theatrical version of episode 16, "Garander's Tokyo Sea of Flames Operation!!" from "Kamen Rider Amazon", depicting Gengoro Beastman's attempt to execute Garander's Tokyo Sea of Flame plan. (Source: Kamern Rider Wiki…

Neko Kare: Shonen wo Kau

6.9

Ai Morikawa is a hard-working career woman at her job in Tokyo. After a long night at work, she returned home on the last train to find a handsome boy at her door. The 16-year old Nagisa is her sister's stepson, suddenly…