Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Miyagawa Kazuo

Miyagawa Kazuo was a leading film photographer in the Japanese film industry. He is known to the world as a photographer of works directed by Inagaki Hiroshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, etc. After graduating from Kyoto Commercial High School, he joined Nikki Kyoto at the age of 18 as an assistant…

Matsuzaki Yuki

Yuki Matsuzaki is an Japanese actor who had appeared in movies and on television. Matsuzaki appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima and in The Pink Panther 2 where he portrayed Kenji Mazuto, a technology "wiz-kid". He appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as a character…

Sugiyama Kohei

Sugiyama Kohei was a Japanese cameraman born in Hamamatsu Town, Hamana District, Shizuoka Prefecture. After serving as a cameraman for Mizoguchi Kenji's "Genroku Chushingura" from the end of 1941 to 1942, he became the chief engineer of Manchukuo Film Association. At the same association, he was a cameraman…

Yoda Yoshitaka

Yoshikata Yoda was a Japanese screenwriter. He wrote for over 130 films between 1931 and 1989. He is most famous for his work with Kenji Mizoguchi. (Source: Wikipedia)

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)…

Ozawa Yukiyoshi

Ozawa Yukiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in 1974 in the United States as his father, orchestral conductor Ozawa Seiji, was directing the San Francisco Symphony. He comes from a family involved in the arts; along with his father's work in the world of classical music, his mother is former model and actress…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Tanaka Yuuko

Tanaka Yuuko is a Japanese actress. Her supporting role in the 1981 film Eijanaika won her several awards including Best Supporting Actress at the 1983 Yokohama Film Festival. Tanaka became popular after appearing in the serial drama Oshin (1983–84). She was the Japanese voice of "Lady Eboshi" in…

Tabe Mikako

Tabe Mikako is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Starting acting in her teens with a role in the Sailor Moon musicals, she has developed into a lead actress in film and television, playing the heroine in the Asadora Tsubasa, starring in TV comedy series such Yasuko to Kenji and Deka Wanko, and playing…

Enzai: Chichi to Ko no Tabiji

Based on book by Kosugi Kenji (小杉健治).

Red Turnip Public Prosecutor's Hard Fought Records Kyoto Transfer Edition

1.0

~~ Adapted from the novel "Akakabu Kenji Series" (赤かぶ検事シリーズ) by Waku Shunzo (和久峻三).

Jiken 12 ~ Otto Koroshi o Jihaku Shita Onna Tsuma to Aijin no Ma ni Himitsu no Kizuna?

1.0

~~ Adapted from the novel “Kizuna” (絆) by Kosugi Kenji (小杉健治).

The Morning Sun Shines

7.0

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of…

Ushikoku ni Mairu

6.5

One cold midnight, Kenji was riding on a bicycle on a trail in the woods...running away from his own life. When he saw a lady casting "Ushikoku" spell in the woods, a sleepless night begins. To cast 'Ushikoku' spell,…

Dancing Mary

6.9

Timid civil servant, Kenji, takes charge of demolishing a dance hall located in a big shopping mall. No one wants to take the work because the ghost of Mary, a former dancer in the dance hall, interrupts whenever attempts…

Sweet My Home

7.4

A sports instructor in Nagano is named Kiyosawa Kenji. He is fascinated by a model house called Mahou no Ie, which is able to warm the inside of an entire home with only one air conditioner unit. Kiyosawa Kenji decides…

20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

7.6

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book…

What Did You Eat Yesterday? Season 2

8.1

Kakei Shiro and his partner, Yabuki Kenji, live a life full of some hardship but mostly happiness together, with Shiro's specialty in cooking affordable and delicious dishes. As they turn 50, they begin to experience…