Murano Takenori

Murano Takenori is a japanese actor born on April 19, 1945 in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan.

Precious Lara Quigaman

Precious Lara Quigaman is a Filipina actress, multi-product endorser and beauty queen who won the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the fourth Filipino to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. Prior to winning…

Shimojo Atom

Atomu Shimojou was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. He is the son of actor Masami Shimojou and actress Yoshiko Tagami. He was also the first dubbing voice actor of Eddie Murphy. He passed away on January 29, 2025, at the age of 78. The news was officially announced…

Hayashi Toru

Hayashi Toru is a Japanese director. Since he was in college, he was in charge of the props of the era play under the image director of Kyoto, Yoshinobu Nishioka. After coming to Tokyo, he worked as a freelance assistant director and debuted as a director of the series drama "101st Proposal" in 1991.…

Fukuma Kenji

Kenji FUKUMA is a poet, film maker, film critic and scholar of English literature and cultural studies. Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He started to write as early as the late 1960s. He has studied and wrote about the works of modern poets such as Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden. As a film…

Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. (source: Wikipedia)

Ishihara Yoshizumi

Ishihara Yoshizumi is a Japanese weather forecaster, TV personality, and actor. Born in Zushi, Kanagawa, he is the second son of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, and brother of politicians Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kitagawa Mika

Kitagawa Mika, born Ono Teruyo (大野照代) in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She initially pursued ballet and aspired to become a ballerina during her time at Hosui Elementary School (芳水小学校), later attending Osaki Junior High School (大崎中学校) and Teikyo Girls' High…

Minosuke

Minosuke is a Japanese stage actor, voice actor, and drummer born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Nihon University Tsurugamine High School. He is affiliated with the agency Mashu. During high school, Minosuke joined the light music club where he was invited by his senior to join the band "Uchoten"…

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…