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…

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.

Kofujita Shoichi

Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…

Takao Mitsuko

Takao Mitsuko was a Japanese actress and former child actress born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. Later in life, she moved to Tokyo, and in 1921, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio, where her father worked as a costume department worker. In 1955, after the end of World War II, she…

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

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)

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…

Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Unno Katsuo

Unno Katsuo is an actor, voice actor, and entertainer from Tokyo, Japan.

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…

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…

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…

Secret Journey

8.0

I, documentary video maker, saw a guy named Yuda in the middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple of months later, a lady name…

Tenka

8.8

The story is about a 17-year-old girl, Tenka, who was born and raised in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Her family moves to Tokyo when her father changes his job. Tenka stays for a short period of time with her grandfather,…

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…