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,…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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).

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,…

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…

Unbalance

5.0

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the portrayal of this sense of unease. In this work I seized on a very negative…

Life

7.8

Takita Yu lives in a rural town and works as a candle artist. One day he recieves an invitation to a high school reunion from his best friend Takashi and goes to Tokyo, where a multitude of new encounters awaits him.

Starfish Hotel

Yuichi Arisu slaves away in a cold, geometrical office everyday, in a humdrum job, somewhere in the huge, impersonal city of Tokyo. Every night he commutes home to his distant wife, and buries himself in the mystery…

Haromoni

8.0

Haromo is the title of the sequel to the long-running Japanese variety show Hello! Morning, which it replaced in April 8, 2007 on TV Tokyo and later throughout the country. The show is recorded in HD and stars Morning…

Kansen Bakuhatsu - Pandemikku Furu

A new type of influenza called "H5NI type" in a cold village facing the Sea of ​​Japan confirmed one after another. The government will try to completely contain the village and eradicate it, but the virus will…

The 33 Photos that Can't Be Talked About

In the very early morning hours of March 10, 1945, U.S. bombers dropped incendiary devices on the capital city of Tokyo. No one knows exactly how many people perished in the attack, but estimates range from 100,000…

Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9-Gakari Season 3

7.4

Criminal Investigation First Division Ninth Sub-division is a section created to handle impossible murders and atrocious crimes with complicated backgrounds that happen within the city. They're the most powerful from…

Saikai: Yokota Megumisan no Negai

One day in June 2004, there was a taxi from Niigata prefecture to a hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo. Mr. and Mrs. Hasuike, the abductees who returned from North Korea, were on board. Megumi Yokota's parents and younger brother…

Japonica Virus

2.0

A mysterious infectious disease, "Canie Virus" said to have started in north-east China comes ashore to Japan. The nation falls into disorder and the government tries to enact "The Public Safety Law.” Yoichiro and…

My Darling of the Mountains

6.4

Two blind masseurs named Tokuichi and Fukuichi travel between seaside spas in the north and hot springs in the south, earning the respect of hotel owners and patrons alike. When Tokuchi meets a beautiful woman from…