Mimura Shintaro

Mimura Shintaro was a Japanese screenwriter born in Okayama, Japan. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University but dropped out. His real name Iwai Shintaro (岩井伸太郎). He joined the screenplay collective "Narutakigumi" in Kyoto during the early days of the talkie era. In 1926, he joined the…

Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Yakumaru Gaku

Yakumaru Gaku is a Japanese novelist born in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Komazawa University Senior High School in 1988. He made his debut in 2005 and is a current member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. He passed the Tokyo Kid Brothers enrollment test, but musicals didn't feel…

Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

Takashiro Tsuyoshi

Takashiro Tsuyoshi is a Japanese DJ, filmmaker, and writer. Takashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 18, 1964. At university, he received the “Tokyo International Video Biennale" prize. It was the first in his career. After that, he became a filmmaker of CF and music videos. He married actress…

Shiba Seika

Shiba Seika was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Jonai-cho, Saga City, Saga Prefecture. After graduating from the former Saga Prefectural Saga Junior High School, he joined the international livelihood in Tokyo in 1922 and worked in the company's main building. In May 1923, at the age…

Oku Keiichi

Oku Keiichi is a Japanese keyboardist, composer, and arranger born in Shiga prefecture. He is presided over "or-lab." Oku graduated from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and dropped out of the master's program at the same university. He joined Hiromi Go's…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

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…

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…

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,…

Mukoda Kuniko no Koi Bumi

In the autumn of 1963, as Japan prepared to host its first Olympic Games, the Mukaida family lived quietly in Suginami, Tokyo. Their second daughter, Mukaida Michiko, who had married and moved to Nagoya, had returned…