5000 results found for: Tokyo Swindlers
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…
Mizushima Ryotaro
Mizushima Ryotaro was a Japanese actor and film director born in Higashifukuda-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Suzuki Utako, and actor Mizushima Michitaro is his nephew. After graduating from the Japanese-French Law School, he entered "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza". After that, he joined the Yoshizawa…
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.
Bando Tsumasaburo
Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…
Ikeuchi Junko
Ikeuchi Junko, whose real name was Nakazawa Sumiko, was born in Honjo-ku, Tokyo. She made her screen debut with “Kotaishi no Hanayome” (“The Crown Prince’s Bride”) in 1955 after working at a department store and becoming a marquee actress for Shintoho Pictures Co. In her long career, Ikeuchi…
Kawazu Seizaburo
Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…
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.…
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.
Ogawa Tomoko
Ogawa Tomoko is a Japanese actress born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. When she was a child, her family moved to Tokyo and she attended Kitaku Public Prince Elementary School. She also studied ballet while being part of the Toei Young Actor's Group. She made her acting debut in 1960 by appearing in…
Nakayama Shoji
Nakayama Shoji was a Japanese actor from Yushima Tenjin, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.
Hakobune
Japanese Movie - 2023
Yoshinori Nishimura lost his eyesight in an accident but tries to live an independent life with some assistance from his aunt. His former school classmate, Aoi, works as an actor in Tokyo but finds the contrast between…
Kakatte Koi yo Sekai
Japanese Movie - 2023
Hamada Maki is an aspiring screenwriter and it makes sense since she lives with her grandfather, Shoichi, who runs a mini-theatre in Tokyo. Maki meets and falls in love with Arai Kunihide, an employee at a film distribution…
Last Shadow at First Light
Japanese Movie - 2023
Haunted by recurring apparitions, sixteen-year-old Ami embarks on a mystical journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her mother who went missing during a cataclysmic tsunami. Upon her arrival in Tokyo, she meets…
The Making of a Japanese
Japanese Movie - 2023
What are the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society? Following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo for a year, we observe a school system that might differ from other countries.…
A Weather Report
Japanese Movie - 2024
One summer, Hikaru Nishizawa, who was born and raised in Niigata and just graduated from high school, comes to Tokyo alone to meet her father, whom she has never met, without telling her mother Mayumi. A road movie…
Mei no Mei: Fuyu Camp Hen
Japanese Drama - 2024, 3 episodes
The story takes place six months later and tells the story of Ozu, Mei and other immigrants as they take on a "freezing cold camp" in 12 cities and towns in Fukushima during the winter. (Source: Japanese = tv-tokyo.co.jp…
On the Hills of Biei
Japanese Drama - 2024, 3 episodes
Biei Town, spread out at the foothills of the Tokachidake mountain range in Hokkaido. There, Kaoru and Riko, who have come from Tokyo, work hard in training as they aim to start new lives as farmers. However, the integration…
Kataomoi
Japanese Movie - 2023
At 43, Sugishita Kanako leaves her husband Hosei due to his infidelity and takes a job at a downtown Tokyo diner. Although her lie about being 33 is quickly discovered, owner Yoshio and his daughter Yasuha accept her…
The Izakaya Dialogue
Japanese Special - 2023, 1 episodes
Swedish student Mark finds himself disillusioned by the conformity around him in Japan. But his life changes when he crosses paths with Yuuka, who works at a quaint izakaya in Akasaka, Tokyo, and who poses him a question…
4D: Love Transcends Time
Japanese Movie - 2024
Love & loss across space and time. The year is 1898, Tokyo, Japan. A beautiful widow, Sachi, attends a moon-lit Kuchiyose ceremony on the anniversary of her deceased husband’s death - to bring her beloved Anjin back.…
