Kato Ai

Kato Ai is a Japanese actress and model. After working as a junior model for the fashion magazine "Pichi Lemon", she made her debut as an actor in the drama "Gift" (Fuji TV series) in 1997. In 1999, Kato starred in the drama "Best Friend" (TV Asahi) for the first time. Around 2000, she appeared in numerous…

Miyamoto Nobuko

She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Kiki Kirin

Kiki Kirin was a Japanese actress from Kanda-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from high school, she started her acting career in the early 1960s as a member of the Bungakuza theater troupe using the stage name Yuki Chiho. She was aiming to become a pharmacist but abandoned college because her leg was injured…

Mizuno Miki

Mizuno Miki is a Japanese actress born in Mie prefecture. She belongs to Office More. She graduated from Hide Girls' Academy High School and dropped out of the Department of English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Meiji Gakuin University. In 1987, when she was in the first year of junior high school,…

Ichikawa Yui

Ichikawa Yui is an actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. She is also known by her nickname, Yui-nyan. As an actress, she has appeared in several dramas (doramas), and in recent years she has concentrated more on her film career. She played a minor role in the movie Ju-on: The Grudge and reprised her…

Shinoda Mariko

Shinoda Mariko is a Japanese idol singer. She is the former captain of AKB48's Team A. After finishing high school, Shinoda Mariko auditioned for the first generation of AKB48 and failed. Not wanting to give up her dreams, she started working part-time in the cafe on the same floor as the AKB48 theater.…

Nakamura Yuri

Nakamura Yuri is a Japanese-born Korean actress and former singer from Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. Nakamura's father was a third-generation Japanese man and her mother was Korean and held citizenship in both South Korea and Japan. Nakamura, like many other multiracial…

Abe Tsuyoshi

Tsuyoshi Abe was born in Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. He's a Chinese-Japanese actor in Japan. Of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent (his grandmother was Japanese), he is able to speak both Mandarin and Japanese fluently. Abe's original name was Li Zhen Dong; after he moved to Japan…

Otake Shinobu

Shinobu Otake is a Japanese film and stage actress, known for The Wind Rises (2013), Go (2001), and Like Asura (2003). She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi).…

Furukawa Kotone

Furukawa Kotone is a Japanese actress born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She began learning ballet when she was a child and loved being in front of people. As an extension of ballet, she decided to start acting and joined the drama club in both middle school and high school. She went to Rikkyo University…

Kyoto Satsujin Annai 25

Kasai Chosakan Kurenai Renjiro 9: Ame ga Moyasu Murasaki no Hono!!

~~ Adapted from the manga series "Kasai Chosakan Kurenai Renjiro: Hono no Profile" (火災調査官 紅蓮次郎・炎のプロファイル) written by Nabeshima Masaharu and illustrated by Tanaka Tsukasa (田中つかさ).

Keishicho Kanshikihan 15: Yoji Yukai ga Abaku Onna no Kanashii Uso

Onsen-i Pokkaya Shinryojo Jiken Karute 6

Shimajima Kaisha

8.0

Umi is a young girl with excellent hearing, so even small out-of-sync sounds give her headaches. Yuko is a violinist from Tokyo who visits the island for a concert. Umi and Yuko meet and a bond forms.

Tetsudo Sosakan 9: Kyoki ga Torokko Ressha ni Notte Kita!? Aizu Tetsudo Shaso ni Hirogaru Satsujin F

~~ Adapted from the story "Umi wo Wataru Satsui" (海を渡る殺意), within the novel "Totsugawa Keibu no Konwaku" (十津川警部の困惑) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Nichiyo Kyofu Series: Best Selection

A Japanese horror omnibus which consists of three stories: > Story 1: "Ayashi no Umi" (怪しの海) A photographer is shipwrecked in a storm and washed up on a deserted island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls…

No Call No Life

7.3

In the summer of the third year of high school, guided by an answering machine message from the past left on a mobile phone, Sakura Umi meets and falls in love with Harukawa Mahiro, the most problematic child in school.…

The Bedmate Game Sharehouse in Japan

Juri joins the adults-only dating show 'Must-Sleep-Together Sharehouse', where contestants must change bed partners daily and show physical affection every day. Inside, she reunites with her ex-boyfriend Yuta, the…