Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

Yakumaru Gaku

Yakumaru Gaku is a Japanese novelist born in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Komazawa University Senior High School in 1988. He made his debut in 2005 and is a current member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. He passed the Tokyo Kid Brothers enrollment test, but musicals didn't feel…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Oku Keiichi

Oku Keiichi is a Japanese keyboardist, composer, and arranger born in Shiga prefecture. He is presided over "or-lab." Oku graduated from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and dropped out of the master's program at the same university. He joined Hiromi Go's…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Yomo Harumi

Yomo Harumi is a former Japanese actress and former child actress from Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo. In 1962, she made her debut as a child in the movie "Boku Chin Wandering Record". She announced her retirement in 1975. Yomo was helping with a small restaurant run by her mother but returned temporarily…

Misawa Akemi

Misawa Akemi is a Japanese enka singer and actress born in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. She currently lives in Tokyo. She passed the 7th Toei New Face, after which she joined Toei and made her debut in 1959 with the NET TV drama "Fuebuki Doji". She made her movie debut in 1961 and is active in historical…

Learning at a Correspondence Course Junior High School After 60 Years

Documentary about elderly people who couldn't finish junior high school after the war taking classes for correspondence school. Kanda Hitotsubashi Junior High School in Tokyo's Chiyoda-ku is frequented by numerous…

Bundesliga

Kanegon, a 28 year old, moves into his abandoned school after returning to his hometown from Tokyo. He practices his table tennis skills everyday to fulfil his dream of joining the Bundesliga, a prominent table tennis…

Shin Shock Kan

Yamazato Ryota & Karahashi Yumi will be proposing new "Aru Aru" on Saturday afternoon! Young comedians will introduce trending places and things. They will strive to gain the "sympathy" of the Reiwa era's most notable…

Joryu Tohaiden Aki

15-year-old Aki grew up around a mahjong parlor. During the winter, she moves out to Tokyo and experiences a lot of difficulties, so she decides to survive using her only weapon: mahjong. She goes up against bad adults…

Momo to Kiji

8.8

Kojima Momo portrayed the character of Momotaro at a play in nursery school. Since then, she has dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 18, Kojima Momo went to Tokyo to become an actress, but it wasn't easy…

Midnight Bus

6.3

Takamiya Toshikazu works as a long-distance overnight bus driver from his hometown in Niigata. One night his ex-wife Miyuki, who he divorced sixteen years ago, slips onboard his Tokyo-Niigata bus just as he's about…

Going the Distance

Asahi, who hails from the remote Goto Islands, earns his living as a boxing trainer at a gym in Tokyo and is planning to marry Kaori soon. Asahi invites his childhood friend Hiroto to Tokyo and finds a job for him.…

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.

Kiss Shitai Matsuge

5.7

A short "Kareshi wo Loan de Kaimashita" spinoff in which Tae's coworker Yume is the lead. Yume works as a receptionist in a trading company Capital Holdings Tokyo. Similarly to Tae, she would like to bag a rich elite.…