Iwasaki Kaneko

Iwasaki Kaneko is a Japanese actress born in Hakodate, Hokkaido. She graduated from Tachibana Girls' High School in Kugahara, Ota. In 1949, she enrolled at the Haiyuza Training Institute and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company after graduating in 1952. Currently, she serves as the representative of the…

Yabe Kenji

Hirano Shunichi

Joined TBS after graduating from Waseda University's First Literature Department of Drama. Debuted as director in 1999. "Summer Snow" and "GOOD LUCK !!" won the title back prize of The Television Drama Academy Awards. In recent years, she has also participated in activities at the Shimane Film Festival…

Tankobo Kibaji

Tankobo Kibaji is a Japanese actor.

Yamamoto Osamu

Yamamoto Osamu is a Japanese actor.

Nishikawa Kiyoshi

Hamamura Jun

Jun Hamamura was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 1995

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Kazami Akiko

Kazami Akiko was a Japanese actress.

Honda Daisuke

Hakobune

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

The Izakaya Dialogue

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

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.…