Kimura Toshie

Kimura Toshie was a Japanese actress born in Minemachi, Omori-ku, Tokyo. Her youngest sister is actress Kimura Natsue. In 1953, she entered the Haiyuza Training Center as a fifth-year student. She died at the age of 39 due to heart problems. (Source: MyDramaList)

Nagata Yasushi

Nagata Yasushi was a Japanese actor born in Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Taipei High School's humanities program and later moved to Tokyo, where he joined the Shinkyo Theater Company in 1930. Nagata made his stage debut in "The New Account of the Battle of Coxinga" and his film debut…

Aimoto Kumiko

Aimoto Kumiko is a Japanese actress, talent and idol born on May 27, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan.

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)

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…

Kuri Chiharu

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

Nishimura Shunichi

Nishimura Shunichi was a filmmaker, TV producer, and screenwriter for Senkosha C.A.L. He is from Sendagi, Tokyo. (Source: MyDramaList)

Akutagawa Takayuki

Akutagawa Takayuki was a former Japanese announcer, narrator, and moderator from Tokyo Prefecture. In October 1951, he joined Radio Tokyo (currently TBS) as an announcer. He left Radio Tokyo in December 1959 and became a freelancer in January 1960. His wife is Radio Tokyo announcer Honda Setsuko. (Source:…

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…

Keishicho Keizoku Sosahan

7.4

Manami Kishi teaches at the police academy and is widely regarded as an expert in the field of profiling. With the recent abolishment of the statue of limitations for murder, Manami Kishi is asked by the Tokyo Metropolitan…

Kyoto Chiken no Onna Season 6

6.0

Kyoto district public prosecutor Tsurumaru Aya celebrates her 50th birthday and is in good spirits. Then, her mother-in-law, Keiko, suddenly arrives from Tokyo. Aya acts firmly with all violent criminals, but she is…

Strangers in the City

4.5

Searching for Yukari, a former pupil who has gone missing, cram school teacher Hatano returns to Tokyo for the first time in 12 years. He had once been a teacher at a prestigious girls' high school there, but was forced…

Forget Me Not

6.0

The film is set in a run-down coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka. Michiyo, moved from Tokyo with her young son Mamoru after getting divorced from her husband. When Mamoru is picked on by bullies, a tough local boy named…

Cheonggyecheon Medley: A Dream of Iron

The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during…

Rakugo Monogatari

7.1

Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple,…

The Three Points

The film is separated into three parts all directed by Yamamoto Masashi (Junk Food, Man, Woman & the Wall), with segments set in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Okinawa. The Tokyo chapter features an odd love story starring Aoi…

8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers

6.0

This sequel starts with Ayumu, as she wakes up at home in Gunma Prefecture- another suburb of Tokyo right next to Saitama. Living at home with her single father, helping family business- making and delivering konjak,…

Kimi to Arukou

6.1

Romance ensues between a 34 year old female high school teacher and her 17 year old student. The two eventually flee their small rural town to the big city of Tokyo, Japan....

Kimi no Sukina Uta

7.0

Sousuke is a furniture maker. He was dumped by his fiance. Sousuke begins to live with Chikako Fujieda. She just moved to Tokyo, but they have been friends since their college days. Their relationship develops beyond…