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".

Kaleidoscope

A photographer, Machiko Ono, and a filmmaker, Naomi Kawase, challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside. The photographer…

Mona Lisa no Hohoemi

7.5

Eguchi Yosuke stars as Tachibana Masayuki, a man in charge of antique auctions. Tachibana is a famous auctioneer who supposedly worked in England for some time, but his colleagues at Weisz Tokyo do not like his nosy…

Watashi no Aozora

8.0

The 62nd NHK Asadora Drama is Watashi no Aozora. Locations include Oma-cho, Aomori and Chuo-ku, Tokyo. This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a…

Swing Man

4.0

First starring movie by Kinoshita Hoka who is active as a unique supporting character in numerous works. Tokyo, Afternoon. Cloudy sky, scrambled intersection. Suddenly, Kida Hotzumi was hit by someone with a metal…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 21: Nishiizu Utsukushiki Satsui

Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei try to solve the sad revenge drama of a woman whose lover was murdered. This time, the investigation was conducted in Tokyo and Nishiizu. It's not just a story of solving a mystery,…

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.…

Best Friend

8.5

While growing up in a blessed family, Makoto, a cousin of Kiyoka's who has a cold personality, came to Tokyo dreaming of a singer. Makoto, who grew up in the country and is innocent, and Kiyoka, who has the opposite…

The Doctor

Kazuma Asou, who helps out in his friend's clinic, is a doctor enjoying a peaceful life on rural Ishigaki Island. However, his father's death causes him to move to Tokyo and he starts working for a big hospital where…

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…