Kokontei Kikuchiyo

Real name: Yasuyo Noguchi (野口 泰代). Born in Itabashi-ku , Tokyo. She's a Rakugoka - a person whose profession is to perform Rakugo. Rakugo is a type of traditional Japanese storytelling that was established in Japan during the Edo period. These are short anecdotes, humorous stories, passed on…

Ochiai Naobumi

A Japanese poet and literary scholar. Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional…

Mayuko Hino

Mayuko Hino is a Japanese musician and actress. She was the founding member of C.C.C.C. (a.k.a. Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) a Japanese noise band. She was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Seiroku Saito

Seiroku Saito is a Japanese actor and comedian, born in Kita-ku, Tokyo. He was a member of the Kin-chan family - a family of entertainers who collectively refer to talents raised by Kin-chan, (Kinichi Hagimoto), or who made a break in his variety show.

Kawashima Ippei

Old stage name Kinoshita Hiotto (木下 陽夫 ). Belongs to the theater company NLT . Born in Tokyo .

Kojika Ban

Kojika Ban, born Kojika Atsushi (小鹿敦) in Asakusa, Kappabashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Initially interested in painting, he became passionate about theater after joining his high school drama club at Omiya High School (大宮高等学校). He later pursued a degree in Theater Studies…

Moriya Misao

Moriya Misao is a Japanese actress, model, and talent born in Tokyo, Japan.

Fumino Tomoko

Fumino Tomoko, born Kamiyama Sumiko (神山澄子), was a Japanese actress from Asakusa, Tokyo. She graduated from Miyoshi Women's High School and was associated with the theater company En. Her acting career began at Daiei before World War II. In 1946, she joined Bungakuza but left in 1963 to co-found…

Ishikawa Rei

Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…

Iizuka Mayumi

Japananese voice actress , actress , singer and DJ. Born in Tokyo. She's most known from her anime and video games voice roles, such as characters in "Pokemon", Super Smash Bros. Series or " Sorcerous Stabber Orphen ". She also works in many internet radio stations, CM's and appears on stage. She also…

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…

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…

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…

Roomshare no Onna

4.0

The 21st NHK Yorudora, Roomshare no Onna centers on recently divorced Usami Usako, who also has a young son named Tarou. Usako leaves Tarou at her mother's home in Nagano to begin a new life in Tokyo, finding a job…

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…