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…

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.…

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…

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"…

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…

Ishihara Yoshizumi

Ishihara Yoshizumi is a Japanese weather forecaster, TV personality, and actor. Born in Zushi, Kanagawa, he is the second son of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, and brother of politicians Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nozawa Hisashi

Nozawa Hisashi was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the Kuniko Mukōda Prize in 1998 for his screenplay Nemureru Mori (A Sleeping Forest) and Kekkon Zen'ya (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1997 for Hasen no marisu (Dotted-line Malice) and the…

Ohara Go

A brother of actor Ken Ohara. Action Director: - Gothic & Lolita Psycho | Gosurori shokeinin (2010) - Slackers 2 | Surakkazu: Kizudarake no yujo (2009) - Oneechanbara: The Movie - Vortex (2009) - Shaolin Baba (2008) - Chanbara Beauty: The Movie | Oneechanbara: The Movie (2008) - Death Trance (2006)…

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,…

Plastic Love Story

4.0

This is an intriguing example of an indie film collective (Tokyo New Cinema) and what they can do. Lots of energy and beautiful scenes, a film about the lives of three women. Stalkers, suicide and love all feature.…

Chotto wa, Darazu ni

10.0

26-year-old single mother Wakamizu Maho is a nurse who works in Tokyo. Following the example of her mother who was also a nurse and brought her up single-handedly, Maho works conscientiously in her job, housework and…

Transit Visuals

Jenny is a Filipina doing her art residency in Tokyo where she meets Michael, an American photographer in transit. They spend a long day together discovering more about each other and exchanging insights on the beautiful…

Shin Keiji Yoshinaga Seiichi

6.7

Yoshinaga Seiichi is a detective of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division. He believes “there is no case that cannot be solved”, and he never gives up on an investigation. His partner…

Oedo Sosamo - Onmitsu Doshin Aku o Kiru!

7.0

A special New Year edition of the highly popular period drama series “Oedo Sosamo”. This year’s installment is called “Onmitsu Doshin Aku o Kiru!,” which roughly translates as “Secret agents cut down evil!”…

Gunjyou Iro no, Toori Michi

7.4

A man, who moved to Tokyo to become a musician, returns to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. He sees the beautiful scenery of his childhood years and the kind people who supports him.

Halloween Nightmare 2

6.0

High school student Nanami lives in Tokyo, Japan. She waits for Halloween because she enjoys dressing up in costumes with her friends. One day, Nanami’s father tells her about a mysterious serial murder case that…

Kaze no Tayori

8.0

Sendai, four years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Kurumi Yoshii was entrusted with the cafe owned by her grandfather and she left that behind to open a cafe in Tokyo, with her friend. All that changes when…

Nigakute Amai - Kibou no Cha

6.0

Kota gets transferred to Fukuoka from Tokyo by his company. In Fukuoka, he doesn't get along with people there and feels lonely. One weekend, Kota participates as a volunteer for a disaster in Hoshino Village. Among…

Ki.Ryu

A dragon was randomly witnessed several times in the city of Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo. Mari Yoshida, an associate professor at Gunma University, started her own investigation upon the civilians' plea…