Tezka Macoto

Tezuka Macoto is a Japanese screenwriter, director and actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Umehara Motoi

Umehara Motoi is a Japanese television producer born in Nerima, Tokyo. He is the former Executive Officer of NTV, Senior Director of Media Strategy Bureau, and former President of Kumamoto Prefectural Television. He graduated from Nihon University College of Art's Department of Drama and joined NTV…

Yanai Mitsuru

Producer and Director. He joined Radio Tokyo in 1958 after graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan University High School and Faculty of Letters , University of Tokyo. After retiring from TBS as a director in 1995, he signed an exclusive contract with them as a drama producer He was mostly known from TBS…

Namiki Ichiro

Namiki Ichiro Namiki was a manzai master and actor from Hongo-ku, Tokyo, in the Showa and Heisei eras. He belonged to the Dosa troupe and toured various places. In 1936, he joined the Sumiko Kurishima Theater Company after traveling around and studied under Kurishima Sagoromo. In 1938, he turned to…

Watanabe Yoshinori

Watanabe Yoshinori, born in Hokkaido, is a Japanese screenwriter. He graduated from the Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University in 1980. Debuted in the 1988 anime "Mister Ajikko". Working in TV TOKYO, he has written many historical dramas and mysteries. It features works with compositional power based…

Takami Jun

Takami Jun is a Japanese novelist born in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun , Fukui Prefecture . Illegitimate child 0f Sakamoto Sannosuke (bureaucrat, politician, and poet). In 1908, he moved to Tokyo with his mother. He grew up in a sword shop near his father's mansion in Azabu Iikura , Tokyo, without ever meeting…

Kaga Yoshiji

Kaga Yoshiji is a Japanese producer born in Setagaya, Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University Faculty of Economics. After college, he hoped to become a film director, but his father opposed this decision. He joined NTV in 1962 as a part-time worker in the performing arts departments. Two years later,…

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…

Wakahara Harue

Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…

Our Escape

Noboru, who lives in a forest on the outskirts of Tokyo, spends his days writing calligraphy inspired by his resentments toward various people, and sticking them onto his tent. One day, he meets a woman named Kifuyu…

Daybreak

6.4

In 1975, Shinichi Nakamichi studies hard at a prestigious university in Tokyo. After graduation, Shinichi Nakamichi lands a job at a big trading company and he seems to have a bright future, but he has a secret he…

Kabukicho Bengonin Rinka

7.1

A young and beautiful female lawyer Rinka has to work at her father’s law firm in Kabukicho (Tokyo’s red light district). In the beginning, she hates dealing with her clients, most of whom are hosts and hostesses…

Hagure Idol: Jigokuhen

7.0

The story of Misora Haebaru, an 18-year-old karate expert from Okinawa who went to Tokyo to enter the entertainment industry in hopes of supporting her family. She gets tricked into being a gravure idol who wears lewd…

The Extraordinary Pursuer

6.4

The film tells the story of Wu Xiao Yue, a Kung Fu girl who travels to Tokyo to pursue the dream of a girl group, but accidentally encounters evil extraterrestrial creatures and plagues the earth. In order to protect…

Gekiteki ni Chinmoku

Set in Ekoda, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, it revolves around college students who belong to a failing club at an art university. (Source: Japanese = gekitekinichinmoku.com || Translation = MyDramaList)

MaTcH

An old Japanese mother, Haruko, comes to Tokyo from Osaka to see her 30 years old son, Shuji. Her purpose of the visit is setting up a matchmaking for him because he is still a single man. However, Shuji already uses…

Dark Side of the Light

3.5

Based on an actual murder that took place in 1996 in Shibuya, Tokyo. One day, Emi Kinoshita receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Takumi Toyonaga. He tells her that her older sister, Tomomi, has disappeared after…

Jikkyosareru Otoko

7.0

Umao is a man targeted as the one who will be the most depressed in the Tokyo Race Course on the internet programme “The Most Depressed Person in Fuchu TV” that is broadcast irregularly. He cries loudly in disbelief.…

Smile

A teen movie that depicts the growth of the heart of a girl who lives with her mother in Tokyo for entertainment activities. (Source: natalie.mu)