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…

Yamamoto Kiyoshi

Yamamoto Kiyoshi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After growing up in Malaysia, Yamamoto attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School and then graduated from Meiji Gakuin University's Department of Psychology. After his directorial debut in 2003, he has been involved in the production…

Yokoo Dekao

Yokoo Dekao was a Japanese film actor active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He featured in over 90 films. Born in Saga Prefecture, Yokoo studied Western painting at the Tokyo Bijitsu Gakko (now the Tokyo University of the Arts). He joined the art department of the Shochiku studio in 1923, eventually becoming…

Katou Yuusuke

54th The TV Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2007, “Life”) 57th The Television Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2008 “Last Friends”) 76th The Television Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2013, “The Best Divorce”) International Drama Festival in TOKYO Tokyo Drama Awards Kids…

Nakahara Shoko

Shôko Nakahara was born on July 9, 1970 in Kumamoto, Japan. She is an actress and producer, known for Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Tsunagaru (2016) and Bijitâ Q (2001).

Abe Nagisa

Abe Nagisa is Japanese singer and actress from Obihiro City, Hokkaido. In charge of trumpet at the brass band from junior high to high school. She went to Tokyo as a musical audition when she was in high school, and had experience as a musical back dancer while taking lessons at the theater company.…

Nakayama Shoji

Nakayama Shoji was a Japanese actor from Yushima Tenjin, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.

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…

Tamura Nami

Tamura Nami is a Japanese actress born in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo.

Kayama Yoshiko

Actress | Writer. Yoshiko Kayama was born on January 1, 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Arashi wo yobu jûhachinin (1963) and Edogawa Rampo no injû (1977).

The Unnameable Dance

Tanaka Min is a unique dancer and actor who has reconstructed on film some of his notable performances in theaters and on streets around the world. The dancer's past and present mingle in the dance, with all he sees…

Shimane ga Drama ni Naru Nante!

7.2

Iwami Shinnosuke, a second-year high school student in Shimane, wanted to go to Tokyo as soon as he graduated from high school in order to become a musician. Shinnosuke was still playing the guitar on the roof of the…

Actress Montage

Four unsold actresses. An idol who sought help from medicine and religion. A newcomer who endures power harassment on the stage of a big chance. A housewife who chose reality over dreams. A rough stone of an actress…

Tororo Soba to Watashi: Mama Teki Ajido

It’s the third summer for Mei Ling as an international student. Her boyfriend Naoto takes her out for a picnic date to Mt. Takao, a nature landmark in Tokyo. After climbing, they get to a famous soba noodle shop.…

Truth: The End of the Funeral

A man died in an accident. On the night after the funeral, three women in mourning clothes appear at a man's atelier in a prime location in Tokyo. "Who are you!?" "I was going out with him." "Me too!". Single mother…

Mankai Movie A3!: Autumn & Winter

8.6

"Director! Please make our talent blossom!" Veludo, a suburb of Tokyo, is a mecca for actors and home to many theatre companies along its famous Veludo Way. The film audience's point of view will overlap with that…

Shiosuke to Amami: Soba ga Dekiru Made Tantei

7.8

A spin off to the drama series 'Ishiko to Haneo: Sonna Koto de Uttaemasu?' Amatsuyu Kayami, nickname Amami, is a law student of The University of Tokyo. She will partner with Shiozaki Keisuke, a soba restaurant staff…

My Father's Tracks

7.5

Kitamura Taiga's mother died when he was a child, and he blames his father’s rally racing obsession for it. Resentful, he moves to Tokyo for university. Years later, he learns from childhood friend Uechi Miho that…

Leo's Return

8.0

Leo, an actor playing the lead in his breakthrough role, returns home to Tokyo after the pandemic canceled his film shoot only to face more problems with his wife. (Source: MUBI)

Far Away, Further Away

A marriage is weaker without something in common. Sayoko is a seemingly carefree woman but she hides doubts about her marriage behind her cheerful demeanor. After five years of being in Tokyo, it is apparent that she…