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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

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…

Yomo Harumi

Yomo Harumi is a former Japanese actress and former child actress from Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo. In 1962, she made her debut as a child in the movie "Boku Chin Wandering Record". She announced her retirement in 1975. Yomo was helping with a small restaurant run by her mother but returned temporarily…

Misawa Akemi

Misawa Akemi is a Japanese enka singer and actress born in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. She currently lives in Tokyo. She passed the 7th Toei New Face, after which she joined Toei and made her debut in 1959 with the NET TV drama "Fuebuki Doji". She made her movie debut in 1961 and is active in historical…

Kizudarake no Love Song

10.0

Yoshimura has a younger half-sister Yuka Kawahara. Six months ago Yuka's mother passed away, and she came to Tokyo looking for help from her only close relative, Yoshimura. Yuka is an aspiring songwriter that attends…

Shinano no Colombo Jiken File 1

A dismembered corpse of a man in a plastic bag was found at Lake Yatori in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture. Around the same time, at the Minami-Shinagawa police station in Tokyo, a taxi driver, Tozawa, complained that…

Kowloon de Aimashou

6.6

Kaoru Saegusa is a cheerful and dynamic 30-year old woman who is still single. She works at the Tokyo Branch Office of Oedo Travel Agency. One day, she is sent to Hong Kong on business where she meets Shutaro Kamisanjo,…

Pikaresuku Ningen Shikkaku

2.0

In 1948, a man and a woman commit suicide by drowning in Tamagawa Aqueduct, Tokyo. The woman was a beautician Tomie, and the man was a writer Osamu. The story presents the events that led to this tragedy. ~~ Adapted…

Kokoro

9.0

Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown district of Tokyo where customs and traditions run deep and neighbors…

Kyoto no Themis Onna Saibankan 1

Kyoto District Court judge Akiko Matsumiya just passed the bar exam while in college and is attracting attention from the media. Akiko was steadily building up her career, but when her husband Tadanori, whom she left…

Et Alors

6.0

Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo but he is unable to get used to the facility's policy of respecting the residents' freedom…

Joshiana

2.5

This drama follows the story of Ootsuki Makoto, a first-year announcer at a television station in Tokyo. Now, this small city girl has to go through some tiring times as she tries to adjust to the Tokyo lifestyle.…

Tama Minamisho Tatakiage Keiji: Chikamatsu Heikichi 3

A housewife is found stabbed to death, wearing just underwear, in a house in a luxury residential area of ​​Tama, Tokyo. The first person to discover her is her husband, and the police inspection showed no signs…