Onoe Toka

Onoe Toka, born Ishida Tsunekichi (石田常吉), in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He initially trained under the Osaka actor Ichikawa Danjaku and performed with various theater troupes. In 1925, he became a disciple of Onoue Matsunosuke and joined the Nikkatsu Daishogun Studio. There is no information…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Furuoya Masato

Masato Furuoya was a Japanese actor who was born in Kawasaki city of Kanagawa Prefecture. He made his debut in 1977 and starred in many movies and TV dramas. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th…

Ogata Ken

Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]

In television,…

Katase Rino

Rino Katase is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th Japan Academy Prize for Gokudō no Onnatachi 2 and Yoshiwara Enjō.

Tsukitei Hosei

Tsukitei Hosei, formerly known as Yamasaki Hosei, is a Japanese solo comedian and rakugo performer, signed with Yoshimoto Kogyo. He is best known for being one of the five members (and the only solo comedian) of Downtown Gaki no Tsukai's regular cast. His role on the show is usually divided up between…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director, known for his eminent film scores for world famous directors. Hisaishi was born as Fujisawa Mamoru, on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan. At the age of five, he started taking violin lessons, at which he made rapid progress. At the age of nineteen,…

Imaizumi Rikiya

Won the Mito Short Film Festival Grand Prix for Stop Jerking Off(2007) and the Tama New Wave Grand Prix for Two-Timer(2009). He made his commercial feature film debut with the music documentary Tama no Eiga in 2010. I Catch a Terrible Cat(2012) was screened at numerous film festivals overseas, and won…

Kamishiraishi Moka

Kamishiraishi Moka is a Japanese actress, fashion model, singer and TV personality from Kagoshima prefecture. She adopted the name 'adieu' as her singer stage name. Her noteable performances include the films Mirai and A Forest of Wool and Steel, and the dramas Gibo to Musume no Blues and 3 Nen A Gumi.…

From the End of the World

7.4

Hana is a high school student. Her parents suddenly died in an accident. Since then, Hana doesn't have any hope to live. One day, a man introduces himself to Hana as an agent from a special government agency. He asks…

Wife's Power Outage

7.1

Hana and Yusuke, a couple living in Tokyo, have been distant in their relationship after an incident three years ago, and spend more and more time alone. Unable to close the gap between them, the two are in a karaoke…

Goldfish on the Seaside

7.4

Hana is an 18-year-old girl who lives in a foster home. At the age of 18, she is about to leave the facility. Then, an 8-year-old girl, Harumi, enters the foster home. Identifying her past self with Harumi, some feelings…

Treasure Hunt

"Wanna know a secret?” Lan, the new, quiet girl in class gives Mie and Hana an origami rabbit. In the rabbit’s folds hides a treasure map. Answering riddles one by one leads Mie and Hana to an adventure through…

Tree of Heaven

7.5

Hana is a bright young girl who lost her father at a young age. When her mother returns to Japan, she comes with her new Korean husband and his son Yunsuh. Yunsuh's mother died during his 10th birthday and after her…

Kyu-Chan's Upside-Down Jackpot Battle

10.0

Hisashi Namiki (Kyu Sakamoto) who admires the singer and Miyoshi Tange (Jerry Fujio) who admires the yakuza go to Tokyo. Because of this, Yakuza was involved in a territorial battle, and against his will, Kisa became…

Bride of Noto

6.0

This movie is about how families get separated between city and country life. The director, Mitsuhito Shiraha, lost his cousin at an earthquake in Kobe. The cameraman, Hideo Yamamoto, known from "Fireworks" (Hana-Bi),…

She Taught Me Serendipity

7.2

Toru returns to the campus of his Kyoto university after a long hiatus. He’s carrying an open umbrella on a sunny day with not a trace of self-consciousness. He meets his only friend, the goofy loquacious Yamane…

Fireworks from the Heart

7.4

On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for leukemia. She then discovers that her older brother Taro has become…

Ashita Tenki ni Naare

8.6

Hana Sakai is a single mother, and she lives alone with her 5-year old daughter, Mimi. By chance, she meets a producer from NTV, Tokumura Shuji. He sees potential in her, and decided to recruit her for the position…