Sugiura Rokuemon

Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture…

Takao Mitsuko

Takao Mitsuko was a Japanese actress and former child actress born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. Later in life, she moved to Tokyo, and in 1921, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio, where her father worked as a costume department worker. In 1955, after the end of World War II, she…

Kofujita Shoichi

Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Unno Katsuo

Unno Katsuo is an actor, voice actor, and entertainer from Tokyo, Japan.

Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Kuri Chiharu

Kuri Chiharu (real name Yamazaki Chiharu, 山崎 慈子), born in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer and actress.

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Dukar Tserang

Dukar Tserang is a notorious Tibetan independent director of movies and documentaries. He is also a musician, sound technician and composer. His works are nationally and internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations in many film festivals, such as the Tokyo FILMeX International…

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…

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.…

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…

Momo to Kiji

8.8

Kojima Momo portrayed the character of Momotaro at a play in nursery school. Since then, she has dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 18, Kojima Momo went to Tokyo to become an actress, but it wasn't easy…

Joryu Tohaiden Aki

15-year-old Aki grew up around a mahjong parlor. During the winter, she moves out to Tokyo and experiences a lot of difficulties, so she decides to survive using her only weapon: mahjong. She goes up against bad adults…

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.