Ogawa Hirooki

Ogawa Hirooki was a Japanese composer born in Shinbashi, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. He served as a director of the Japan Composer's Association. He graduated from Daikura High School of Commerce's Junior Division in 1943, and furthered his studies in vocal music under Tachimatsu Fusako and Sonoda Seiichi,…

Killer Khan

Killer Khan was a former sumo wrestler from the Kasugano stable and a professional wrestler. He was born in Yoshida, Nishikanbara, Niigata, Japan. His real name was Ozawa Masashi (小澤正志). In sumo, he achieved the highest rank of Makushita 40. After transitioning to professional wrestling, he…

Takeguchi Roncha

Roncha Takeguchi is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka, Japan. He is affiliated with Mai Promotion and is a member of the theater troupe Hagewa, focusing primarily on stage productions. In 2000, after relocating to Tokyo, he became a member of Hagewa. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kusano Hayato

Kusano Hayato is a Japanese actor born in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. When he was 2 years old, his family moved to Ibaraki, Japan. He debuted as a professional boxer at the age of 18 from the Yamaguchi Tsuchiura Boxing Gym, but retired at the age of 21 due to injury. He then pursued acting under the mentorship…

Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Kumano Ryuji

Kumano Ryuji was a Japanese actor born in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Mukojima Technical High School. After a career as a professional boxer, he joined Toho and the theater company "Gekidan Sedai". In his later years, he performed primarily under the stage name Katsushika…

Kura Tadaoyshi

Kura Tadayoshi was a Japanese actor born in Kameido, Koto, Tokyo. He debuted in 1963, appearing in the television drama "Tentekomai Monogatari" while in the second grade. In 1974, he graduated from Seisoku High School in Shiba Park, Minato. He retired from the entertainment industry in 1985 at age 30.…

Segawa Shinzo

Segawa Shinzo, born Tamura Takashi (田村隆), was a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He was a member of the Zenshinza theater troupe and performed in numerous stage productions. Segawa passed away on August 21, 1989, at the age of 63. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kokontei Shincho III

Kokontei Shincho III was a Japanese rakugo performer born in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Kokontei Shinsei V, younger brother of Kanbaratei Basso X, niece of actress Ikebata Shino, and nephew by marriage of actor Nakao Akira. It should be noted that there are two other individuals…

Yamada Harumi

Yamada Harumi is a former Japanese actress born in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Yakumo High School. She was affiliated with Ichitani Planning and later with Hosoya Office. Since elementary school, she has been active as a model in girls' magazines and in commercials. In June 1969, while…

Monsieur

6.6

Restaurant Raporu is located in Sangen-Jaya, Tokyo. Since their charismatic chef and owner died, the late chef's son Masaya has taken over the restaurant, but the restaurant is near foreclosure. Masaya's sister Mineko…

Fly, Dakota, Fly!

8.0

January 1946 - a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island (located in the Chubu region of Niigata Prefecture,…

Ashio kara Kita Onna

5.7

It is 1906, near the end of the Meiji period. The government has tried to let the pollutants produced from the Ashio Copper Mine deposit in the pond of Yanaka Village which is in the lower reaches of the Watarase River…

Slight Fever of 100°C - Island Breeze of Love

8.5

Awajishima, the beautiful Seto Inland Sea island with a rich natural environment. One day, Chinami, an island resident, witnesses her boyfriend and hopefully fiancé, cheating on her. On top of that, she loses her…

Totsuki Tooka no Shinkaron

7.5

Kobayashi Suzu, who lives alone in Tokyo, has a doctorate in insect taxonomy. Insects are the great love of her life. One day, she is suddenly laid off by the university she has been working for because of her narrow…

Wakaretara Suki na Hito

10.0

Kihara Jiro is a divorced employee who works at a food chain company in Tokyo's suburbs. On day, the company is sold to a foreign investment funder, and it was decided that there will be a large-scale restructuring…

A Crybaby Boxing Club

10.0

A right-wing extremist group is demonstrating in front of a Korean school in Tokyo. ‘Leave Japan. There’s no place here for you.’ But, what about the inside of the school? The classrooms are filled with all the…

Terminal

7.3

55-year-old Kanji Washida has worked as an attorney for the past 25 years in Hokkaido, Japan. He has lived alone all that time. That was his punishment that he gave to himself 25 years ago when he worked as judge.…

Tightrope no Onna

6.4

Tokura Yuri, a struggling pianist in Tokyo, visits her family home in Ashiya City, Hyogo prefecture for the first time in eight years after receiving news of the death of her father, Tokura Ryuji. Yuri had left home…

Shitamachi Bobsleigh

Yajima Manufacturing is a small factory in a part of Ota district in Tokyo. It is run by Yajima Koichi and his son Kentaro. One day, bobsleigh athlete Yanagida Miki suddenly visits with the request that they make a…