Azuma Chiyonosuke

Azuma Chiyonosuke was a Japanese actor and dancer. He appeared in more than forty films from 1954 to 1993. Born in Tokyo, Azuma attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, while studying Japanese dance under Bando Mitsugoro VIII. He joined the Toei studio in 1954 and became a star after his debut film,…

Oda Masao

Oda Masao, born Saiki Masao (斎木政雄) was a Japanese actor born in Waseda, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. He later changed his name to Oda Masao (織田真佐男). He began his acting career at age six and graduated from Tokyo Prefectural School of Arts (東京府立工芸学校). In 1930, he enrolled…

Sudo Ken

Sudo Ken, born Sudo Kenjiro (須藤健二郎) in Azabu, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was also known by the name Sudo Ken (須藤建). He graduated from Waseda Jitsugyo School (早稲田実業学校). Sudo began his acting career in 1934 with the Theatre Antime troupe (劇団テアトル・アンチーム).…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Fukuhara Mitsunori

Fukuhara Mitsunori is a Japanese screenwriter, theatre director and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture and graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Imaging Art. His talent agency is KNOCKS,INC.

Miura Mitsuko

Mitsuko Miura was a Japanese actress active from 1938 to 1964. After graduating from Otsuma Girls' High School, Tokyo, Mitsuko Miura joined the Nichigeki dancing team before signing to the Shochiku film studio. She gave her film debut in 1938 with Hotaru no hikari and appeared in films of Hiroshi Shimizu,…

Nanbara Koji

Nanbara Koji was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He died of myocardial infarction in Chofu, Tokyo at age 74. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yanagisawa Shinichi

Yanagisawa Shinichi was a Japanese jazz singer, actor, voice actor, welfare activist, vaudevillian, and lyricist from Tokyo. He was affiliated with M-Three and served as honorary president of the NPO Japan Abilities Association and honorary director of the Kima Makan in Higashiyamato. During World War…

Koyanagi Yukimi

Koyanagi Yukimi was born on April 9, 1958 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Departures (2008), Bokura no nanoka-kan sensô (1988) and Ringu 0 (2000).

Kiss Shitai Matsuge

5.7

A short "Kareshi wo Loan de Kaimashita" spinoff in which Tae's coworker Yume is the lead. Yume works as a receptionist in a trading company Capital Holdings Tokyo. Similarly to Tae, she would like to bag a rich elite.…

Niwatori Star

6.0

Rakuto is a blond-haired, long-necked and tattooed “Niwatori star” (chicken star). The twenty-something is transplanted into Tokyo from Okinawa. His buddy and roommate Sota is slightly older and sells weed to support…

SKE48 ga Hitoppuro Abisasete Itadakimasu! Pilot

10.0

SKE48 ga Hitoppuro Abisasete Itadakimasu! is a variety TV show featuring members from SKE48. They travel around each public bath in Tokyo.

Secret: Kioku no Mori

Himeno is a junior college student looking for a job. She is invited by a letter from her uncle, Ishinomaki Haruhiko, who lives alone in a mansion in the forest, and heads to his house from Tokyo alone. However, the…

Why Did You Come to Japan? Supercharged Z

A street interview variety show that covers the lives of foreigners in Japan. It is a spinoff of the show but covers stories that cannot be aired on the family-friendly TV Tokyo channel. Their most popular segments…

SKE48 ga Hitoppuro Abisasete Itadakimasu!

10.0

SKE48 ga Hitoppuro Abisasete Itadakimasu! is a variety TV show featuring members from SKE48. They travel around each public bath in Tokyo.

Modern Love

3.0

Psycho-fantasy set in parallel worlds. A woman suffering from heartbreak encounters multiple versions of herself. Abnormal weather bombards Tokyo, which buzzes with excitement over the discovery of a new planet. Theoretical…

Going the Distance

Asahi, who hails from the remote Goto Islands, earns his living as a boxing trainer at a gym in Tokyo and is planning to marry Kaori soon. Asahi invites his childhood friend Hiroto to Tokyo and finds a job for him.…

Midnight Bus

6.3

Takamiya Toshikazu works as a long-distance overnight bus driver from his hometown in Niigata. One night his ex-wife Miyuki, who he divorced sixteen years ago, slips onboard his Tokyo-Niigata bus just as he's about…

Hanzai no Kaiso

4.0

Haruta Hideo, the mayor of Hokkaido’s Kitaura City, disappears while on an official trip to Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division is asked by the Kitaura City Assembly to…