Kuri Chiharu

Kuri Chiharu (real name Yamazaki Chiharu, 山崎 慈子), born in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer and actress.

Kofujita Shoichi

Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…

Sugiura Rokuemon

Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture…

Takao Mitsuko

Takao Mitsuko was a Japanese actress and former child actress born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. Later in life, she moved to Tokyo, and in 1921, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio, where her father worked as a costume department worker. In 1955, after the end of World War II, she…

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Unno Katsuo

Unno Katsuo is an actor, voice actor, and entertainer from Tokyo, Japan.

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Iwai Yumi

Iwai Yumi is a Japanese actress, presenter, and head of the orthodox Iwai school of Japanese dance. She is from Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Gakuin Department of English Literature at Gakushuin University. Her husband is the actor Funato Jun. (Source: MyDramaList)

Dukar Tserang

Dukar Tserang is a notorious Tibetan independent director of movies and documentaries. He is also a musician, sound technician and composer. His works are nationally and internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations in many film festivals, such as the Tokyo FILMeX International…

Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Totsugawa Keibu Series 49: Tokkyu Shirasagi Satsujin Meiro ~Echizen Take Ningyo no Nazo~

This time, we will take a closer look at the truth of the murder of the president of a jewelry store in Tokyo, set in the magnificent scenery of Echizen, including Tojinbo, a strange victory in Fukui Prefecture. Guest…

Since Then

6.0

On March 11th 2011, a massive earthquake strikes eastern Japan. Shoko, who works at a shoe store in Tokyo, is unable to contact her boyfriend Masashi who lives in the worst-hit region. As aftershocks continue, she…

Aji Ichimonme: 2013 Special

7.0

One day, Ihashi Satoru, the assistant chef at the venerable Tokyo restaurant Fujimura, receives news of a class reunion. It has been 20 years since he graduated from culinary school. Proud that he has become a chef…

Saibaku: Madi ni Shamisen Kanaderube

A documentary that records the last two years of Yujiro Takahashi, a Japanese folk song singer and Tsugaru shamisen master who passed away in September 2012. Born in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture in 1934, Yujiro moved…

Gachiban Expanded

7.0

Monji, the proud 20-year-old school uniform wearing Yankee gang leader, is invited to Tokyo by a member of a Yakuza gang. Trouble happens, a fight breaks out, and Monji inadvertently stabs the younger brother of the…

Sonjo Sokora Shotengai

4.0

In 2000, Aoyama Makoto returns to the deserted shopping street in his hometown of Bungo Takada City in Oita Prefecture for the first time in 15 years. The death of his mother spurred him to resign from the event company…

Hoso Kinshi VTR!: Senritsu no Film

A horror film in which a news crew visits a scary spot where there are whisperings of bad rumors to find out the truth behind the rumors. Rubi Aiba is summoned to a certain office in Tokyo. She is told that there is…

Penguin Fufu

6.9

When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan…

The Next Generation: Patlabor Dai 2 Sho

6.7

Labors are robots used in various industries like construction. With their introduction to Japan, a new type of crime became prevalent: Labor Crime. To combat this, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police created a unit of Patrol…