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.

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Nakajima Chiaki

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

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…