Mayama Tomoko

Mayama Tomoko is a Japanese actress and quilt writer born in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. She graduated from Tokyo Kasei University Women's High School. Her husband is director Ninagawa Yukio, and her daughter is photographer Ninagawa Mika. Her grandfather is actor Tanizaki Juro. Her nieces are actresses Ninagawa…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

Oku Keiichi

Oku Keiichi is a Japanese keyboardist, composer, and arranger born in Shiga prefecture. He is presided over "or-lab." Oku graduated from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and dropped out of the master's program at the same university. He joined Hiromi Go's…

Misawa Akemi

Misawa Akemi is a Japanese enka singer and actress born in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. She currently lives in Tokyo. She passed the 7th Toei New Face, after which she joined Toei and made her debut in 1959 with the NET TV drama "Fuebuki Doji". She made her movie debut in 1961 and is active in historical…

Yomo Harumi

Yomo Harumi is a former Japanese actress and former child actress from Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo. In 1962, she made her debut as a child in the movie "Boku Chin Wandering Record". She announced her retirement in 1975. Yomo was helping with a small restaurant run by her mother but returned temporarily…

Jono Yuki

Jono Yuki is a former Japanese actress born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo. Originally aspiring to be a designer, she worked part-time as a fashion model while attending college, but was impressed by the American movie "Summertime"…

Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

Kimura Shogo

Kimura Shogo is a Japanese actor born in Kumamoto prefecture. Later in his life he moved to Kansai due to his father's work. At the age of 20, he moved to Tokyo and became a salaryman in textile product sales at a trading company. Meanwhile, he began attending small troupe workshops as part of his hobbies.…

Shoji Taro

Shoji Taro was a Japanese singer born in Daidokoromachi, Akita City, Akita Prefecture.. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1965. He graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita Junior High School, and moved to Tokyo to study at the National English School and enrolled in the Waseda University Faculty…

Who Knows a Woman's Heart

2.0

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being…

National Kid

6.0

National Kid is a messenger from the Andromeda Galaxy thirty thousand light-years away, who is immortal and protects the Earth from invaders. His alter ego on Earth is Ryusaku Hata —or Massao Hata in the Brazilian…

Obon's Dipping Contest

Obon, the proprietress of the Oden restaurant "Obon" in Kanda, Tokyo, was originally the female boss of the pickpocket group "Atomic Gumi". Soon, a woman gets into trouble when she takes over photos, which was planned…

Hello Harinezumi

7.5

Akatsuka Detective Agency stands inconspicuously at Shimo Akatsuka in Tokyo’s Itabashi ward, right above a small snack shop run by their landlord. Akatsuka's eccentric chief Kaze Kaoru founded it with her two investigators…

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

7.6

Yowai Konosuke is a psychiatrist and he runs his own small psychiatric clinic in a back alley in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. He listens to his patients carefully and faces their symptoms patiently. He can identify…

Kamikaze Girls

7.7

Momoko yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born two centuries too late. Ardent loner, Momoko was born into the Yakuza heartland. She feels, however, more at home in Versaille than…

Memories of Matsuko

8.1

Sho, a teenager living alone in Tokyo, is visited by his father who brings the ashes of his recently murdered aunt, Matsuko. His father asks Sho to clean her apartment, which is filled with years of collected junk.…

Nagi's Long Vacation

8.2

28-year-old Oshima Nagi works for a home appliance manufacturer in Tokyo. She conforms to her surroundings as she constantly gauges people’s moods. Because of that, her goal is to pass each day without incident.…

Soshite, Ikiru

7.5

Ikuta Toko has been raised by her uncle in the city of Morioka. She's been active as a local idol with the hopes of eventually becoming an actress someday. When she's 19 years old, she's anxiously looking forward to…

Good News

7.8

It is 1970. Shortly after departing Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, a commercial aircraft bound for Itazuke is taken over by members of the Red Army Faction, armed with pistols and blades and demanding that the flight be…