Tarou Kanja

A businessman , the House of Lords member and Baron . Born in Tokyo . His real name is Taro . He is also a playwright and musician , and has created many comedies and popular songs under the pseudonym of the Taro Kanja. He began writing plays under the pseudonym of Taro Kanja, and was active as a comedy…

Kuni Soten

Kuni Soten was a Japanese actor born in Kikugawa, Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Shimada Town Commercial Supplementary School. He was affiliated with Kokuto Eiga, Shochiku, Toho, Shintoho, NAC, and others. His wife was actress Satsuki Fujie (五月藤江). (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia ||…

Saegusa Genjiro

Saegusa Genjiro was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Shibuya-mura, Toyoma-gun, Tokyo. In March 192, he graduated from Tokyo Physics School, and in May of the same year, joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio Supervision Department. He made his debut as a director in "Minzoku no Reimei"…

Ose Itaru

Ose Itaru, born Sato Kakuto (佐藤格), was a Japanese actor from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School (東京都立新宿高等学校) and the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University (早稲田大学). In 1955, he joined the Bungakuza (文学座) theater company,…

Shiba Seika

Shiba Seika was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Jonai-cho, Saga City, Saga Prefecture. After graduating from the former Saga Prefectural Saga Junior High School, he joined the international livelihood in Tokyo in 1922 and worked in the company's main building. In May 1923, at the age…

Takashiro Tsuyoshi

Takashiro Tsuyoshi is a Japanese DJ, filmmaker, and writer. Takashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 18, 1964. At university, he received the “Tokyo International Video Biennale" prize. It was the first in his career. After that, he became a filmmaker of CF and music videos. He married actress…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Atsuta Yuharu

Atsuta Yuharu was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and grew up in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in 1922, he joined the Shochiku Corporation, and due to his love for painting, he entered the photography department of the Shochiku Kamata Studios. After 15 years as an…

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…

Mimura Shintaro

Mimura Shintaro was a Japanese screenwriter born in Okayama, Japan. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University but dropped out. His real name Iwai Shintaro (岩井伸太郎). He joined the screenplay collective "Narutakigumi" in Kyoto during the early days of the talkie era. In 1926, he joined the…

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…

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

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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…

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…

Yodaka no Hoshi

6.9

28-year-old Towa Hongo works as a research worker at a painting company. 10 years ago, she came to Tokyo from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. At an early age, her father died and her mother remarried, but her relationship…

Sonjo Sokora Shotengai

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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…