Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his music. Becoming a professional comedian, he appeared in many famous film comedies, such…

Maeda Koyo

Maeda Koyo is a Japanese singer. He entered Johnny's office in December 1983, in the third year of junior high school. After that, he played an active role as a leader of the band "Otokogumi". Takuo Noguchi, an MBC talent in Kagoshima, is his cousin. He married former idol Nakamura Yuma in 1998 but…

Tono Eijiro

Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Riju Go

Riju Go is a Japanese film director and actor. Riju started making 8mm films in high school, and his Kyokun I earned a spot at the 1980 Pia Film Festival. In 1981, he made his acting debut with a starring role in the TBS drama Fubo no gosan. The same year, he participated in the production of Kihachi…

Egashira Michiru

Egashira Michiro is a Japanese screenwriter from Kobe City who works for Dream Plus Corporation. She has been a president of the theater company Clock Girls since 2008. Her major works include "Gokusen", "1 liter tears" and others. Her father is a literary critic Matsubara Shinichi. She belonged to…

Natsuki Mari

Mari Natsuki is a Japanese singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and started work as a singer from a very young age, her specialty being jazz and a level of sensuality that was somewhat shocking at the time. She did not marry, which made her quite an icon. But in 2007 she announced…

Wada Soko

Wada Soko is a Japanese actor from Tenei Village, Iwase District, Fukushima Prefecture. He graduated from Fukushima Prefectural Seiryo Joho High School in 1995. After working as a hairdresser, he made his debut as an actor in 2000 after passing the audition for "BULLET BALLET" directed by Tsukamoto…

Wentz Eiji

Wentz Eiji is a Japanese singer, entertainer, and actor. He is a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT and belongs to the production company Burning Productions. Born in Mitaka, Tokyo to a German American father and Japanese mother, Wentz became involved in the entertainment industry at a very young…

YOU

YOU is a Japanese model, television personality, singer, and actress. She began her career as a singer, releasing her first single "chotto dake" ("just a little") in 1985. She next formed the Japanese pop group Fairchild in 1988, with Seiji Toda and Hirokazu Kawaguchi, serving as vocalist and songwriter.…

Futari dake no asa

2.0

While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and passionate young man, but his brother Jiro was only a student of…

Oretachi no Asa

Midori no Asa

Dokufu Oden to Kubikiri Asa

Crimes and misadventures of a girl named Oden. Loosely based on actual story of Takahashi Oden. (Source: IMDb)

The Lost Hopes and Flavors

This is a documentary about the quest of “Pagkaing Iloco” in the midst of a pandemic. (Source: Cinemalaya)

Forevermore: Davao Bombing (Stories of Hope)

Roxas Night Market in Davao City is known for its massage parlors around the area. But one night in September 2016, happiness of the market goers went to a screeching halt when a bomb detonated in the area, resulting…

We Don't Care about Democracy. This Is What We Want: Love, Hope and Its Many Faces

A couple wakes up and talks about a dream. (Source: IMDb)

Love Rescue

9.0

A money-hungry superstar is cursed by a holy being and becomes a member of emergency unit of the foundation. No one recognizes him as a superstar until he learns about true love and sacrifice. He needs to be adaptive…

Lost in Reminiscence

The incinerator of a waste treatment facility, where a fire blazes fiercely behind a circular window. The sound of a government official’s voice over the radio announces that the name of the era is changing. A nameless…