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…

Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

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…

Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Yakumaru Gaku

Yakumaru Gaku is a Japanese novelist born in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Komazawa University Senior High School in 1988. He made his debut in 2005 and is a current member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. He passed the Tokyo Kid Brothers enrollment test, but musicals didn't feel…

Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

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…

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…

Oku Keiichi

Oku Keiichi is a Japanese keyboardist, composer, and arranger born in Shiga prefecture. He is presided over "or-lab." Oku graduated from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and dropped out of the master's program at the same university. He joined Hiromi Go's…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Sisterhood

7.0

Because of their violent and ignorant parents, the stepsisters Yui and Ai decide to run away from home, heading for Tokyo. Stealing a bag of documents from a Yakuza catapults the girls into big trouble.