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).

Catching the Stars of This Summer

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when club activities were restricted, Japanese students launched an astronomical observation event called the "Star Catch Contest" via remote meetings. What began as a collaboration…

Casting 1147km

A project to find the male lead for a Korean-Japanese co-produced romance drama! 6 aspiring actors, a one-of-a-kind opportunity! A 1,147km journey from Seoul to Tokyo, and auditions for the male lead in a Korean-Japanese…

Totto no Ketsuraku Seishunki

The year is 1946. One year after the end of the war, Tetsuko, who had been living with her mother in Aomori after evacuation, leaves her mother behind and moves to Tokyo alone to find what she wants to do. She begins…

Nagi Diary

Yoriko spends her days carving sculptures by herself using wood cut from the nearby mountains. One day, Yuri, who has been active as an architect in both Tokyo and Taiwan, takes a few days off and visits Yoriko, the…

Gekijo Ban: Tabibito Kenshikan Michiba Shusaku

After retiring, Michiba Shusaku, a former medical examiner with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, begins traveling across Japan with a notebook left behind by his late wife. His journey takes him to Matsuyama…

Ghost of Ueno

Satsuki, who works as a social worker in Ueno, finds a diary left by an unidentified homeless man called "Gojo" in a blue tent in a park in Tokyo. Together with Toshi, who lost his wife and also lives in the park,…

August Grove

In 1945, when she was still a child, Nakahara Aya lost her memory in the bombing of Tokyo and went on to survive in postwar Japan. Every year, she attended the Grand Spring Memorial Service and searched for the names…

DQN no Hoshi ni Totsugimashita

DQN is an internet slang term that refers to someone who is thoughtless, rude, and unreasonable. The main character, housewife Azusa, and her family move from Tokyo to her husband's hometown. Then her husband, who…

Midsummer Fruit

Ayumi and her husband, Ryoma, who met by chance and run a grape farm together. Every winter, Ryoma leaves his house and fields to his wife and goes to Tokyo to work. In the meantime, Ayumi lives with her mother-in-law,…

Shimbashi Koi Story

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Tatsuya, and his outgoing friend Kotetsu, frequent a Shimbashi, Tokyo gay bar called "TUGBOAT". One night they meet Junnosuke. Kotetsu hits it off with Junnosuke, but Tatsuya is interested too, but shy. (Source: MyDramaList)