Watanabe Hamako

Watanabe Hamako, born Kato Hamako (加藤濱子) in Hirano, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese singer who was active in the music scene from before World War II through the post-war era. Her maternal grandfather was Japanese American. She graduated from Sohma Girls' School in 1929 and from Musashino…

Tsutsumishita Atsushi

Atsushi Tsutsumishita (堤下 敦, Tsutsumishita Atsushi, born 9 September 1977, in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese comedian. He performs tsukkomi in the double act Impulse. His partner is Toshiyuki Itakura. Tsutsumishita is represented with Yoshimoto Creative Agency. (Source:…

Okawa Shuichi

Real name : Hugh Walker, half British and half Japanese. After graduating from Saint Joseph College (Yokohama), he worked for Shinshin Kinema and Nikkatsu. During World War II, he was enlisted in Japanese army, until the end of the war because he was a British citizen. After the war, he worked for the…

Nishina Yuri

Nishina Yuri is a Japanese actress and former member of the Takarazuka Revue's Moon and Snow troupes. Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, she graduated from Yakumo High School. In 1978, she joined the Takarazuka Revue as part of the 64th class and debuted in "Festival Fantasy/My Lucky Chance." Initially…

Yamaguchi Sayoko

Yamaguchi Sayoko was a Japanese model, actress, and costume designer from Yokohama. She made her debut as a professional model in 1971. Yamaguchi was one of the first Asian models who was featured in top fashion shows and magazines around the world after breaking into the limelight in the 1970s. In…

Izumi Karen

Izumi Karen is a Japanese idol and a member of PiXMiX. She belongs to Toho Entertainment. She is from Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Nasu Hiroyuki

Nasu Hiroyuki was a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Be-Bop-Highschool and Be-Bop-Highschool Kōkō yo Tarō aika. (Source: Wikipedia)

Zombie-Chang

Meirin Yung, known by her stage name Zombie-Chang, is a Japanese singer and model. Originally from Yokohama, she is now based in Tokyo. (Source: Wikipedia)

Shishi Bunroku

Shishi Bunroku was a Japanese novelist and director from Tsukioka-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy and a recipient of the Order of Culture. He went to Keio University's Department of Finance but dropped out. In 1942, he won the Asahi Prize for Culture for "Kaigun" which…

Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Comet-san

7.7

Comet is a girl from space that comes to Earth as punishment and lives with an Earth family as their nanny. Comet has a magic baton that she uses get out of trouble or cause it! ~~ Adapted from Mitsuteru Yokoyama's…

Beginner

6.8

Mimura, Odagiri, Tsutsumi, Matsuyuki, Okina, Yokoyama and two others play aspiring lawyers about to take the bar exam. Each comes from a different background but as the questions in the exams are difficult, they must…

Harajuku Denier

8.0

Set in Harajuku, various young people in various professions are the stars of a story which depicts the people who make up the lively area of Tokyo known as Harajuku. A policewoman named Yokoyama finds her story is…

Kamen no Ninja Akakage

7.5

The masked ninja Red Shadow and his sidekicks Blue and White Shadow save ancient Japan from evil. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the manga series “Kamen no Ninja Akakage” (仮面の忍者 赤影) by Yokoyama Mitsuteru…

Boku no Inochi

7.3

Kawada Michiyo (Kimura Yoshino) lives happily with her husband Daisuke (Kitamura Kazuki) and their three sons. But one day, their lively 4-year-old second son Yuhei (Yokoyama Ayumu) who loves sports, catches a cold…

13-sai no Hello Work

7.2

Matsuoka plays the role of Ogure Teppei, a 35-year-old policeman who dreams of being promoted to the First Investigation Division. One day, he suddenly slips back in time to 22 years earlier, at the height of Japan’s…

The Story of One Century

7.2

The Story of One Century tells the stories of three women, living in three different Japanese eras: Taisho (1912-1926), Showa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989-2019). The first generation takes place in the 1920s at the…

Yudo

7.8

Shiro Miura, an architect, suddenly returns to Marukin Onsen, the public bath house left behind by his late father. The reason for his return is to tell his younger brother Goro, who manages the store, that he will…

Tofu Pro Wrestling

7.3

Miyawaki Sakura is a normal highschooler. After her mother died prematurely, she has been living together with her father Ouroboros Youhei, who runs a tofu restaurant and a prowrestling dojo. Youhei was once a prowrestler…

The 3Bs You Shouldn’t Date

6.9

Kobayashi Haru fell in love before finding out that her boyfriend was actually a married man. At that time, a regular customer predicts that she will wind up meeting 3 different men. She begins encountering them just…