Kido Shiro

Japanese film producer . Former Chairman of Shochiku . The current president of Shochiku, Junichi Sakomoto, is his grandson. Born in Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji . He was also book author and director of 1931 movie "Lumpen and his Daughter" (ルンペンとその娘).

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Noguchi Hisamitsu

Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…

Kishi Matsuo

Kishi Matsuo was a Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. He is known as the critic who discovered the filmmaker Yamanaka Sadao. He graduated from Keio University. In 1937, at the strong recommendation of film director Shimizu Hiroshi, he retired…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Mikihiko Nagata

Also known by his pen name Misao Misawa (三沢操). Born in Iida-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo. He was a lyricist and novelist. He was also helping with creating scripts for some radio dramas and training voice actors.

Hanashima Kiyoko

Hanashima Kiyoko was a Japanese actress and singer born in Takanawa, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She married Enomoto Kenichi and they had a baby together, but the baby died of tuberculosis. The two divorced, but re-married later. Her subsequent whereabouts are unknown, and she has an unknown year of death.

Ishikawa Rei

Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…

Okura Chiyoko

Okura Chiyoko is a Japanese actress born in Niihori-cho, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She is known for "Gubijinzo" (1935) and "Hatsusugata" (1936). After World War II, there were two movie appearance records in 1954. In the round-table discussion "Youth During the War, and Now 30 Years Later" published in "Weekly…

Nire Kotaro

Nire Kotaro was a Japanese actor born in Higashikomagata, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1919, he made his debut in Asakusa's "Mikuniza". In 1922, he served in the military, and after his discharge, he participated in the Arashi Hina Masu no Tabi troupe and toured the countryside. After World War II, he joined…

Kiri no Hata

1.0

"Kiri no Hata" revolves around the failings of the Japanese judicial system and the efforts of the sister of a falsely indicted defendant to gain representation by a prominent Tokyo defense attorney. The prominent…

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....

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,…

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…

Kenka Bancho Gekijoban: Zenkoku Seiha

8.0

Based on a delinquent battle-themed video game series - a high school senior named Takashi the toughest fighter at Rashin High School. When he travels to Tokyo during a class field trip, he’s almost immediately attacked…

Miyoko Asagaya Kibun

2.0

Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 1970's in Asagaya District of Tokyo where Shinichi Abe began his career with then model girlfriend Miyoko.

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…