Ueki Mariko

Ueki Mariko is a former Japanese actress born in Numata, Gunma, and originally from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Chuo University with a degree in literature and was affiliated with the Nishioka Akira Office. Ueki began her acting career at age four with the Wakakusa Theatre Company, later joining…

Fujimoto Sanezumi

A Japanese film producer. He served as the head of production for Toho Studios. He was co-producer of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. He also produced many other films, including Yasujirō Ozu's The End of Summer, Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom and Japan's Longest Day and several films directed…

Koda Hiroko

Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…

Motoki Sojiro

A Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director. He was most famous for producing several films for Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Ikiru and Throne of Blood. He also produced films for other directors, including Mikio Naruse, for whom he produced…

Akutagawa Yasushi

Akutagawa Yasushi was a Japanese composer and conductor. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Music in 1949 and studied composition with Hashimoto Kunihiko, Shimofusa Kanichi and Ifukube Akira at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai (The Three) along with Dan Ikuma and Mayuzumi…

Hashimoto Shinobu

Hashimoto Shinobu was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai". Hashimoto was born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan on 18 April 1918. In 1938 he enlisted…

Naruse Mikio

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 (towards the end of the silent period in Japan) to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki (working-class drama)…

Baisho Mitsuko

Baisho Mitsuko, born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Imamura Shohei, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also appeared in the films of Kurosawa Akira. She won awards for best actress…

Brian Tee

Jae-bum Takata, known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-American actor. Tee was born in Okinawa, to a Korean-American father and Japanese mother. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where…

Suo Masayuki

Suo Masayuki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and author. He graduated from Rikkyo University in 1981, with the major in French Literature. In 1982, along with fellow filmmakers Fukuoka Yoshiho, Isomura Itsumichi, Mizutani Toshiyuki and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded a production company called…

Toaru Love Hotel no Saijokai Nite

Hikari has been living on the top floor of a love hotel in Tokyo for the past year. She makes a fortune through sexy live streams and sugar daddy dating, and claims that her mother is sick and she needs to earn 10…

Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

During the late Edo period, Kasahara Ryosaku works as a doctor in a small town of the Fukui Domaine. He becomes aware of a surefire way to prevent smallpox. The method originated in a foreign country. Ryosaku asks…

I Was a "Secret Bitch"

6.4

Hiromi is a 26-year-old single woman. She is popular with guys. Her hobby and specialty is getting men to like her using small talk and a shy persona. If a guy confesses his feelings for her, Hiromi leaves them. Hiromi's…

Platinum Town

6.5

Yamazaki Tetsuro (Oizumi Yo), an elite salaryman with Yotsui Corporation, returns to his hometown of Midorihara for the first time in years when his childhood friend, Kumazawa Kenji (Hirayama Koji), invites him to…

Frankenstein Conquers the World

6.6

During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and…

Summer's Tail

6.7

Yvette is literally a faint-hearted schoolgirl songster whose poetic soul makes her the apple of her mother's eye and popular throughout the student body. Overexerting herself while performing at a school concert,…

Made in Yamato

The film consists of five films about Yamato in the post-Corona period. > Story 1: "The Fourth Eye" [Tominaga Masanori] It depicts a bewildered father who is introduced to his stepfather by his estranged daughter.…

Goodbye Newspaper

7.8

Kodera Masao, the president of Japan’s largest newspaper has finally reached a decision. He has assessed that the sale of his newspaper, which is a symbol of Japan, to a foreign investor is inevitable after a sharp…

MPD Psycho

6.7

MPD-Psycho Story 1 By shooting down the man called Nishizono, Detective Kobayashi perished the personality of Kazuhiko Amamiya in himself. The return of Isono and Flower Murder Case brings end to the ordinary life…