Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Nakamura Kinji

Nakamura Kinji, born Yoshida Kokichi (吉田幸吉) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. His father was the head clerk to the first generation of Nakamura Kichiemon I (初代中村吉右衛門), which led Nakamura to begin his career as a stage actor at a young age. After World War II, he worked…

Ogawa Shinji

Ogawa Shinji, born Ogawa Hirohiko, was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Setagaya, Tokyo. He was affiliated with the Herringbone Agency. He was best known as the dub-over artist of Michael Douglas and Timothy Dalton and for voicing Hyo in Fist of the North Star. Ogawa died from pneumonia…

Shiozawa Toki

Shiozawa Toki, born Shiozawa Toyoji (塩沢登代路) in Nakasato, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Jissen Women's High School (実践女子高等学校) and was affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能) until her death. In 1947, Shiozawa advanced to the second…

Maki Noriko

Maki Noriko (real name Makino Noriko) is a Japanese actress. Born in Manchuri, she moved to Tokyo after the war. She retired from acting in 1973 and an article in 2009 stated that she had died, but the detailed date of her death is unknown. (Source: wikipedia)

Kitamura Eizo

Kitamura Eizo was a Japanese actor and director born in Shin-Ogawa, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. His wife is actress Seki Etsuko (関えつ子) and his daughter is actress Kitamura Takeko (北村岳子). He graduated from Daishi High School and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature in the Faculty…

Ozawa Kazuyoshi

Ozawa Kazuyoshi is a Japanese actor, film director, and producer from Tokyo. He belongs to Gatsby Entertainment.

Zushi Takao

Zushi Takao was a Japanese actor born in Nishinari Ward, Osaka City. He graduated from Meisei High School and belonged to the Homma office. . ActorZushi Yoshitak is his younger brother. He died at the age of 58, in a hospital in Tokyo on April 1, 2005.

Iwasaki Yoshimi

Iwasaki Yoshimi, also known as Yoshirin, is a Japanese singer and actress born in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. Her older sister is the singer Iwasaki Hiromi. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kato Noriko

Born in Suzuka, Mie, Japan, Kato Noriko graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School. Kato's career began in 1991 as a member of Sakurakko Club, together with Anza Oyama, Miki Nakatani, Miho Kanno, and Hiroko Kurumizawa. On July 25, 1992, she released her first single, a cover of Chisato Moritaka's…

“Kutabare” Bocchan

9.0

27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the first time in 10 years after working in Tokyo. As the grandson of the bad guy “Red Shirt” who was punished by Bocchan…

A Wild Namahage

6.0

One day, 300-years-old Namahage is caught in a trap. While being transferred, he manages to escape. While wandering in the suburbs of Tokyo, Namahage meets 11-year-old Mamoru and he begins to live at the boy's house…

Senkai Musashi Part 1

6.9

28-year-old Manaka Mayu is a caregiver who works for ‘Himawari no Sato’, a facility for the elderly in Tokyo. She has been great friends with her grandmother Fumi since childhood, but has never met her grandfather,…

Senkai Musashi Part 2

6.4

28-year-old Manaka Mayu is a caregiver who works for ‘Himawari no Sato’, a facility for the elderly in Tokyo. She has been great friends with her grandmother Fumi since childhood, but has never met her grandfather,…

Kanon

7.7

Kishimoto Ai, Miyazawa Yukari and Kishimoto Akane are sisters. The sisters live apart in Kanazawa, Toyama and Tokyo, but they gather together to attend their grandmother's funeral. There, they learn about their mother…

Tokumei Shikikan Goma Ayaka

7.3

Ayaka Goma works as a police sergeant. One day, a demonstration is held and a hostage situation occurs at Shinsekai Finance. Someone calls the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, demanding that Ayaka come to the…

Tokeru

An emotionally confused teenage girl has a daily ritual: secretly jumping into the river as a form of emotional release. As chance would have it, one day her ritual is discovered by her male cousin, visiting from Tokyo.…

Conflict Saidai no Koso

The head of the Hyodo syndicate, affiliated with Japan's top yakuza syndicate Tendokai, gets killed. Tendokai lieutenant Washio Kazuo figures out that the figure behind the murder is Myojin Yoshinari, who controls…

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.