Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Nakamura Zeko

Nakamura was an actor and author born on December 6th 1990 in the Kishima District, Saga, Saga Prefecture of Japan. He died on December 6th 1989 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Tokyo, Japan.

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Mizushima Ryotaro

Mizushima Ryotaro was a Japanese actor and film director born in Higashifukuda-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Suzuki Utako, and actor Mizushima Michitaro is his nephew. After graduating from the Japanese-French Law School, he entered "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza". After that, he joined the Yoshizawa…

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

Ikeuchi Junko

Ikeuchi Junko, whose real name was Nakazawa Sumiko, was born in Honjo-ku, Tokyo. She made her screen debut with “Kotaishi no Hanayome” (“The Crown Prince’s Bride”) in 1955 after working at a department store and becoming a marquee actress for Shintoho Pictures Co. In her long career, Ikeuchi…

Takizawa Osamu

Osamu Takizawa was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno.

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

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…

Niham no Tabi

Iwai Hanako came back to her hometown of Niihama five years ago, having departed from a restaurant in Tokyo. Acting as a stand-in for her sister, Haruko, who abruptly set off for overseas studies, Hanako now takes…

Paradise Lost

How do you live in this world where you have lost your dream of paradise? How do you get your hope back? A man named Shinya Yamaguchi collapsed from a heart attack on the outskirts of Tokyo and died. Shinya used to…

Nagi no Umi

A family drama set in a small village along the Uwakai, which is rich in nature and has islands of various sizes. Keisuke, who came to Tokyo to become a musician 10 years ago, receives a call from his hometown. It…

The Dancing Homeless

A documentary that captures the activities of the dance troupe “Sokerissa!” (which comes from the Japanese, “sore ike!” “Step forward!”) who are led by the choreographer Yuki Aoki who works with the homeless…

A Tale of the Riverside

Koji's been taking care of the guesthouse where he was born and raised since his father ran away with a strange woman. Meanwhile, Miho, a runaway from Tokyo, starts to work at Koji's guesthouse. One day, Koji tells…

NiziU 9 Nizi Stories

9.5

A show to commemorate NiziU’s first anniversary. The show will begin by streaming long interviews with each of the nine members, where they will talk about their experience in the Nizi Project, as well as life in…

Twiceborn

5.7

On July 15, 1991, Satoru Ichijo is about to give a lecture at Tokyo Dome. Time goes back to a fateful spring day right before his college graduation. Satoru received a message from the spiritual world and realized…

Tsumugu

Part of the Alice Film Collection, a short film on the Textile industry in Sabe City, Fukui Prefecture. Wataho is a third-year university student who dreamt of working in a video production company in Tokyo. But, one…

Reiwa Uprising

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a cross-dressing candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan's Upper House. (Source:…

Saikou no Bakayarou Aomori Junjou Hen

Teru, who has returned to his parents'house in the countryside, reunites with his childhood friend Michio, who has lost his dream in Tokyo and is withdrawn at his parents' house. A childhood friend, Masami also appeared…