1213 results found for: Nihon Ansatsu Hiroku
The Life Heritage
Japanese Drama - 2005, 5 episodes8.9
An elementary school student who can't accept that he is alive. A mysterious woman with the "power of life", a boy with a jagged heart. A story of human adolescence, that everyone looks back on, once or twice. The…
The Murder Corps
Japanese Movie - 19752.0
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan. (Source: themoviedb)
A Brief Message from the Heart
Japanese Movie - 19954.0
Hiroshi finds his sister Maki's short message to their mother who abandoned them eighteen years ago. He sends it to a collection held by Fukui Prefecture and wins a prize. Hiroshi decides to search for his mother,…
The Strange Pair
Japanese Movie - 19882.0
Based on the comic book by Juzou Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.
Darkness in the Light
Japanese Movie - 20018.0
Kanbe Toshio, a middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest…
Willful Murder
Japanese Movie - 19817.2
A Japanese reporter tirelessly tries to solve the mystery surrounding the death of his country's railways president.
The Great Battle of Japan : Yukaba Sea
Japanese Movie - 19837.0
In 1905, the Japanese army, who won the fierce battle of the 203 Highlands, was attacking a Baltic fleet in the Sea of Japan in a deciding battle in the Russo-Japanese War. At that time, Kanda (Hiroyuki Okita),…
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Japanese Movie - 1978
The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan. (Source: IMDb)
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Japanese Movie - 19956.9
Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.
Ota Tadashi
Ota Tadashi was a Japanese composer and pianist born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He became acquainted with the organ at the age of 8 and began studying piano and composition at the age of 15. After graduating from commercial school in 1919, he composed numerous songs and children's…
Kamei Fumio
Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…
Ko Hideo
Ko Hideo, born Yoshida Hideo (吉田英男) in Tomari, Sakhalin, Russia, was a Japanese singer and actor. The youngest of eight siblings, he was adopted by his maternal aunt's family shortly after birth. Both his biological and adoptive families were involved in the paper industry and had connections…
Horikoshi Kenzo
Horikoshi Kenzo is a Japanese film producer. He is the representative of the film production and distribution company Eurospace and also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the Anime and Manga Faculty of Kaishi Professional…
Higashi Yoichi
Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…
Aoe Shunjiro
Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…
Iwato Shisetsu
He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…
Sakabe Fumiaki
Sakabe Fumiaki, born Sakabe Yuji (坂部裕治), is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Gunma, Japan. He is affiliated with the Gekidan Bungakuza (劇団文学座) theater troupe. (Source: MyDramaList)
