Kataoka Chosei

Kataoka Chosei was a former Kabuki actor, former onnagata, and actor born in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo. He appeared in almost all movies starring Matsunosuke, mainly as an onnagata. After appearing in the movie "Senma Kesazukin" directed by Nagao Shiroku, which was released in 1926, he disappeared from the…

Ueda Yoshihiko

Ueda Yoshihiko is a photographer and Professor of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. Among his many awards are the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, and the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award. In 2011 he launched Gallery…

Hasegawa Shin

Hasegawa Shin was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1911, he joined a Tokyo newspaper as a journalist. In 1917, he wrote his first novel in the "Narration Club", and in 1927, he founded, with Edogawa Ranpo and other prominent writers, an association to propel…

Hanayama Keiko

Hanayama Keiko is a Japanese actress from Niigata prefecture. Her agency is Empathy. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Vocal Music. She also works as a musical singing teacher.

Adachi Kentaro

Adachi Kentaro is a Japanese comedian born in Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He belongs to Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Headquarters (Tokyo Yoshimoto). Adachi is an Osaka NSC 21st gen member. From 1998 to 2003, he worked with Uematsu Teppei as a combination "Sugar Life". He worked as a combination…

Takasugi Teppei

Takasugi Teppei is a Japanese male actor, voice actor, and narrator born in Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University, and made his debut in 1938. After working for the theater company Small Theater, Toho Theater Club, Takarazuka Theater, and theater company Togei, he became the Tokyo Actor's Life Cooperative…

Sato Toshizo

After being a police officer, he became a Liberal Party magistrate. His first performance as a substitute for the performance of Sudō Sadanori Ichiza in Ako in 1884. After that, he moved to Tokyo, and in 1926 he organized Isamizu Theater with Yoho Ii and Yoshimi Mizuno.

Kamiyama Sojin

He appeared in over 70 films between 1917 and 1954. He was the subject of a 1995 TV documentary by the Japanese film director Nobuhiro Suwa. He was born in Sendai, Japan and died in Tokyo, Japan. His wife was actress Uraji Yamakawa.

Santo Akiko

Santo Akiko is a Japanese politician, actress, voice actor, and TV personality born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo . She was most active as an actress from 1962 to 1972. In 1974 she started her political career and became a member of the House of Councilors belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party and the 32nd…

Yamamoto Yoshihisa

He is a Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Tokyo. He is a representative director of video production company "Aspros Drago".

Make the Last Wish

7.0

Koike Minami returns from the USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister’s wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo. (Source: Mubi) ~~ Adapted loosely from…

Shimokita Slow Life

2.0

Two young people, Naoki and Kyoko, start their new life in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One day, Naoki gets informed that he lost the competition for the "Young Cameraman Award". Naoki's frustration towards photo shooting…

Whistling After Dark

8.0

A film shot by Toyama Tomoko, a third year student of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, as her graduation project. The film depicts the development and mental images of a young…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 41: Shindai Tokkyu Satsujin Jiken ~Sayonara Blue Train~

A murder case occurs in the sleeper limited express Hayabusa! Inspector Totsugawa approaches the mystery of the murder trick that pierced the blind spot of the train operation timetable. Hayabusa Express, which connects…

Kaze ni Maiagaru Vinyl Sheet

6.0

A story about a woman who finds new life through her fateful encounter with an American man and their permanent separation. Kudo Rika quits a bank to work at UNHCR in Tokyo, where she meets Ed, who later becomes her…

Marital War In Kibogaoka

Hiroko, who has been married for seven years, has just moved to a new house purchased on a 35-year loan in Hope or Hill, a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. She is told by a housewife of the tennis companion…

Miyoko Asagaya Kibun

2.0

Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 1970's in Asagaya District of Tokyo where Shinichi Abe began his career with then model girlfriend Miyoko.

Shitsuji Kissa ni Okaerinasai Mase

2.0

At the elegant butler's cafe, Common Rose, located in a quiet residential area in Tokyo, various dramas of young people, take place during their blissful hours.

252 Seizonsha Ari: Episode ZERO

7.9

13 years before the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred, Japan had no hyper rescue teams. In 2009, 2 years before Tokyo is directly hit by an unprecedented typhoon, Hayakawa Yusaku sets his sights on hyper rescue. 252…

Kenka Bancho Gekijoban: Zenkoku Seiha

8.0

Based on a delinquent battle-themed video game series - a high school senior named Takashi the toughest fighter at Rashin High School. When he travels to Tokyo during a class field trip, he’s almost immediately attacked…