Asaka Kodai

Asaka Kodai is a Japanese actor and former idol. He auditioned for Johnny's Entertainment in December 2002 along with Yaotome Hikaru. In 2004, he was put into the junior unit J.J. Express. He left the agency temporarily around Spring 2007 and came back as a M.A.D. member in Summer 2007. In Spring 2008,…

Tokoshima Yoshiko

Tokoshima Yoshiko is a Japanese actress represented by Horipro Inc. She attended Seika Girls High School and began training, working, and performing as a ballerina before transitioning to acting in the early 1990s. She made her actin debut in 1991 with the drama "Vingt Cinq Ans Marriage”. She has…

Arai Ryohei

Arai Ryohei was a Japanese film director. He directed films from the 1930s to the 1950s, especially jidaigeki and ghost movies based on kaidan. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kimura Fumino

Kimura Fumino is a Japanese actress. She was previously married to an acting instructor. The two divorced in 2019. On March 12, 2023, it was announced that she would be getting married to a non-celebrity man and she was expecting her first child. On July 16, 2023, she announced the birth of her first…

Asahina Junko

Asahina Junko, born Echigo Akiko (越後亜紀子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress known by her former stage name, Kobayakawa Jun (小早川純). She was affiliated with the Hiiragi Planning (柊企画) agency. Asahina was of mixed heritage, with a Russian grandfather, making her one-quarter…

Chiba Tetsuya

Chiba Tetsuya is a Japanese actor and director from Kanagawa prefecture. He belongs to ZAZOUS Co., Ltd. He graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He has appeared in many works as a central actor of the theater planning group THE Gazira. In addition to appearing on various other stage…

Okae Kumiko

Okae Kumiko was a Japanese actress who was born Owada Kumiko in Tokyo on August 23, 1956. In 1983, she married actor, Owada Baku, and they had a daughter, Owada Miho, who is also an actress. She died April 23, 2020 of pneumonia due to the new coronavirus.

Okada Eiji

Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed…

Tsuda Kanji

Kanji Tsuda is a Japanese actor. He played Katsuya Tokunaga in the Japanese film The Grudge. He is married and has one child. He is managed by the La Sette talent agency. Tsuda was working part-time at a coffee shop for ten years before he started his successful career. The coffee shop where Tsuda worked…

Sawajiri Erika

Sawajiri Erika is a Japanese actress who is also active as a model and singer. She was born to a Japanese father and an Algerian born-French mother. She became one of Fuji TV's Visual Queens in 2002. On the NTV variety show, The Yoru mo Hit Parade, she became a regular from April until late June. She…

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

6.5

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with a general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments.…

Oedo Prostitute Wife

Yoshiwara is prostitute. Ukumo teaches Kumagoro, who lives in a poor tenement house, sexual skills to “give back.” (Source: Letterboxd)

Rei

A genderless given name, the kanji character can similarly represent a variety of meanings. As such, it’s the perfect symbol for this portrait of early-thirtysomething company employee Matsushita Hikari. Her life…

Grim Reaper Case Book Final

Kusaka Genshiro, who works as a detective as a Shinigami Tsukai, and his partner, the Shinigami Juuran, take on a request to capture the thief "Ginko" who has sneaked into the treasure hall of Edo Castle, while also…

Hanezu

6.7

The Asuka region is the birthplace of Japan. Here, in ancient times, there were those who fulfilled their lives in the midst of waiting. Modern people, apparently having lost this sense of waiting, seem unable to feel…

Pale Moon

6.9

Umezawa Rika, a housewife working part-time at a bank, collects customer deposits. Though praised for her work ethic, she feels a growing emptiness as her relationship with her husband deteriorates. She begins an affair…

Villon's Wife

7.2

Sachi is the long-suffering wife of popular novelist Otani in post-World War II Japan. Brilliant but self-destructive, Otani spends his days drinking, running up debts, and looking for inspiration with other women.…

Violent Cop

7.2

Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague,…