Nishimura Shunichi

Nishimura Shunichi was a filmmaker, TV producer, and screenwriter for Senkosha C.A.L. He is from Sendagi, Tokyo. (Source: MyDramaList)

Aimoto Kumiko

Aimoto Kumiko is a Japanese actress, talent and idol born on May 27, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan.

Kimura Toshie

Kimura Toshie was a Japanese actress born in Minemachi, Omori-ku, Tokyo. Her youngest sister is actress Kimura Natsue. In 1953, she entered the Haiyuza Training Center as a fifth-year student. She died at the age of 39 due to heart problems. (Source: MyDramaList)

Nagata Yasushi

Nagata Yasushi was a Japanese actor born in Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Taipei High School's humanities program and later moved to Tokyo, where he joined the Shinkyo Theater Company in 1930. Nagata made his stage debut in "The New Account of the Battle of Coxinga" and his film debut…

Iwai Yumi

Iwai Yumi is a Japanese actress, presenter, and head of the orthodox Iwai school of Japanese dance. She is from Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Gakuin Department of English Literature at Gakushuin University. Her husband is the actor Funato Jun. (Source: MyDramaList)

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Akutagawa Takayuki

Akutagawa Takayuki was a former Japanese announcer, narrator, and moderator from Tokyo Prefecture. In October 1951, he joined Radio Tokyo (currently TBS) as an announcer. He left Radio Tokyo in December 1959 and became a freelancer in January 1960. His wife is Radio Tokyo announcer Honda Setsuko. (Source:…

Kobayashi Katsuhiko

Kobayashi Katsuhiko was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He died from liver cancer on May 6, 2005, in Tokyo, aged 68. (Source: ja.wikipedia.org)

Sugiura Rokuemon

Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture…

Kuri Chiharu

Kuri Chiharu (real name Yamazaki Chiharu, 山崎 慈子), born in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer and actress.

Throws Out My Hometown

9.0

Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his…

Undercover Boss Ga-me

7.5

Don-Game is a cafe owner who loves jazz and long epic songs. But that’s actually him in disguise. He’s in fact the chief of a secret organization called The Tokyo Police Confidential Investigation Division and…

Blue Sky

7.1

In 1920, a combat fight training school named "Willows" is founded in California. People who want to fight for Korea's independence from Japan gather at the school. Their mission is to bomb the palace of the Japanese…

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…

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…

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…

Chiemi and Kokkunpatcho

Spring in Aomori is dirty... In a snowy northern town, Noriko works as a dental technician. Her father, who had gone to Tokyo to work, brings back a woman younger than herself. Meanwhile, Noriko receives a wedding…

The Winds of God

6.7

Two Osaka comedians, Makoto and Kinta, are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into…

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.