Tono Eishin

Tono Eishin was a Japanese actor and voice actor, born in Okubo, Yodobashi, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Seikei High School (成蹊高等学校) and later studied at the Haiyuza Training Institute (俳優座養成所) as a 12th-term student. He made his film debut in 1962 with Aobeka Monogatari (青べか物語).…

Hayashi Hiroshi

He was born in Kyoto on January 31, 1905. His real name is Inagaki Saburo. He dropped out of his junior high school and moved to Tokyo. He began acting on stage soon after. In 1940, he married Takeda Moto. With her, he had two children but the two divorced in 1965. After WWII, he joined Shin Toho and…

Kuga Yoko

Kuga Yoko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Her real name and maiden name is Koga Yoko. She belongs to Oscar Promotion. Her father is Koga Seiichi, the chairman of Oscar Promotion Co., Ltd. In 1988, she made her debut as an actress in the Fuji TV drama "Netsuppoino!". After…

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,…

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…

Naganuma Ikuya

Naganuma Ikuya is a Japanese actor, born in Osaka, Japan. He started activities as a part of NEXTEEN in 2010. He appeared in stage performances and TV dramas in Osaka and Kyoto while living in Osaka before moving to Tokyo in 2019. That same year, he appeared on stage in the New National Theater, appeared…

Kai Minori

Kai Minori is a Japanese writer from Shizuoka. She graduated from the Osaka University of Arts. Following graduation, she moved to Kyoto and helped out at a small published. She started her general brand "Loule" before getting her start as an author. After moving to Tokyo, she became an assistant to…

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…

Takada Minoru

Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…

Nakki wa Tsumujikaze

Natsuki Hoshino, who has transferred from Nagasaki to the school "Ichitsuki Gakuen" in Tokyo, falls in love with her senior at first sight. However, her senior likes Natsuki's older sister and girl, ends up in an unexpected…

Attack! Hakata Street Gang

Gang war breaks out in the streets of Hakata in a feature length Sogo Ishii’s film that is more fascinating in depicting its own time than as a story driven movie. The film doesn’t shine technically, but does offer…

Mechanko Mickey

A lovely young girl returns home alone from the U.S. to live with her grandmother in Tokyo, whom she has not seen since her childhood. This coming-of-age comedy depicts the main character's school life and interactions…

Yama: Attack to Attack

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the 19th century…

It's a Man!

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It was a CD debut just before the time man set of starring in, Shinobu Nakayama of the debut was also in operation. Other performers were gorgeous faces such as veterans such as Toshiyuki Nishida and Rino Katase, Ai…

Taniguchi Rokusan Shoten

"Taniguchi Rokusan Shoten" is a rice cracker shop that continues for five generations in downtown Tokyo. The owner, Shigeru Izumiya, is stubborn and super energetic. However, he would like to pass his business on to…

Keyhunter

6.0

A Keyhunter is someone who solves crimes beyond the ability of the police. The members of Keyhunter, stationed in Tokyo, worked to arrest international criminals and spies.

Natsu no Deai

6.0

A rancher who pours his heart into keeping thoroughbreds set in the majestic Nasu Highlands at the All-Sunday's first all-terrain was encountered with a woman from a Tokyo veterinarian and a trainee volunteer, To reconsider.…