Ishimatsu Yoshihiro

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…

Mihashi Ko

Mihashi Ko was a Japanese actor who flourished during the Taisho and Showa eras. His real name was Ohashi Yoshio (大橋芳雄). Born in Tokyo, he dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and joined the New Theater Association. He made his debut on stage in February 1920 in "Blue Bird"…

Nakajima Chiaki

Nakajima Chiaki is a Japanese singer, model and actress born on September 6, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.

Kamiyama Sojin

He appeared in over 70 films between 1917 and 1954. He was the subject of a 1995 TV documentary by the Japanese film director Nobuhiro Suwa. He was born in Sendai, Japan and died in Tokyo, Japan. His wife was actress Uraji Yamakawa.

Sato Toshizo

After being a police officer, he became a Liberal Party magistrate. His first performance as a substitute for the performance of Sudō Sadanori Ichiza in Ako in 1884. After that, he moved to Tokyo, and in 1926 he organized Isamizu Theater with Yoho Ii and Yoshimi Mizuno.

Kataoka Chosei

Kataoka Chosei was a former Kabuki actor, former onnagata, and actor born in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo. He appeared in almost all movies starring Matsunosuke, mainly as an onnagata. After appearing in the movie "Senma Kesazukin" directed by Nagao Shiroku, which was released in 1926, he disappeared from the…

Fushimi Akira

Fushimi Akira was a Japanese screenwriter born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University, but dropped out. He joined the Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio in Kamata, Tokyo, and in 1926 wrote the script for "Tetsuwan" and made his debut as a scriptwriter. He died on…

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…

Ueda Yoshihiko

Ueda Yoshihiko is a photographer and Professor of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. Among his many awards are the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, and the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award. In 2011 he launched Gallery…

Hasegawa Shin

Hasegawa Shin was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1911, he joined a Tokyo newspaper as a journalist. In 1917, he wrote his first novel in the "Narration Club", and in 1927, he founded, with Edogawa Ranpo and other prominent writers, an association to propel…

Shitsuji Kissa ni Okaerinasai Mase

2.0

At the elegant butler's cafe, Common Rose, located in a quiet residential area in Tokyo, various dramas of young people, take place during their blissful hours.

Make the Last Wish

7.0

Koike Minami returns from the USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister’s wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo. (Source: Mubi) ~~ Adapted loosely from…

Shimokita Slow Life

2.0

Two young people, Naoki and Kyoko, start their new life in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One day, Naoki gets informed that he lost the competition for the "Young Cameraman Award". Naoki's frustration towards photo shooting…

Whistling After Dark

8.0

A film shot by Toyama Tomoko, a third year student of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, as her graduation project. The film depicts the development and mental images of a young…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 41: Shindai Tokkyu Satsujin Jiken ~Sayonara Blue Train~

A murder case occurs in the sleeper limited express Hayabusa! Inspector Totsugawa approaches the mystery of the murder trick that pierced the blind spot of the train operation timetable. Hayabusa Express, which connects…

Kaze ni Maiagaru Vinyl Sheet

6.0

A story about a woman who finds new life through her fateful encounter with an American man and their permanent separation. Kudo Rika quits a bank to work at UNHCR in Tokyo, where she meets Ed, who later becomes her…

Marital War In Kibogaoka

Hiroko, who has been married for seven years, has just moved to a new house purchased on a 35-year loan in Hope or Hill, a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. She is told by a housewife of the tennis companion…

252 Seizonsha Ari: Episode ZERO

7.9

13 years before the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred, Japan had no hyper rescue teams. In 2009, 2 years before Tokyo is directly hit by an unprecedented typhoon, Hayakawa Yusaku sets his sights on hyper rescue. 252…

Cafe Kichijoji de

8.0

The popular comedy manga "Café Kichijoji de" is now on the air as a live-action drama, marking TV Tokyo's first attempt at a daytime series. The original story revolved around the misadventures of five handsome men…

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.