Shiratori Shinichi

Shiratori Shinichi was a japanese director born in Hongo, Tokyo. He was married to Shiratori Akane, a screenwriter. He died on August 22, 2001 from an esophageal cancer. (Source : Wikipedia)

Akaboshi Shoichiro

Akaboshi Soichiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor born on November 25. 1955 in Tokyo, Japan.

Otsuji Shiro

Otsuji Shiro was born on August 5, 1896 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for Niho meiyu no tabi dainihen (1921), Blind Woman's Curse (1970) and Bakumatsu (1970). He died on April 9, 1952. (Source: IMDb)

Minawa Ichiro

Aiming to become a singer, he studied vocal music at the Oriental Music School (currently Tokyo College of Music ). He was interested in stage sound effects by helping his sister, who was an actress of the new cooperative theater company, with the help of a shadow song. Although he joined Million Records…

Mayama Tomoko

Mayama Tomoko is a Japanese actress and quilt writer born in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. She graduated from Tokyo Kasei University Women's High School. Her husband is director Ninagawa Yukio, and her daughter is photographer Ninagawa Mika. Her grandfather is actor Tanizaki Juro. Her nieces are actresses Ninagawa…

Hanayagi Kogiku

Hanayagi Kogiku was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. Her husband is actor Nakamura Takeya. After graduating from Tsukudo Jinjo Elementary School in Ushigome-ku, she adopted the name of Kogiku to become a geisha in Kagurazaka. Even after the war, she was active in Shochiku, Toho, Daiei,…

Meguro Sachiko

Meguro Sachiko was a Japanese actress. She debuted in 1949 with Daiei Tokyo Studio and was married with director Inoue Yoshio from 1955 till 1989

Osaka Go

Osaka Go is a Japanese novelist and detective writer born in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. His father is illustrator Naka Kazuya. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Chuo University in 1966. During his studies, he was working at Hakuhodo, which he retired from after 17 years. He then became a full-time writer…

Ishida Katsuto

Katsuto Ishida is a Japanese director born on October 20, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan. He died from pneumonia on February 2, 2012. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kenmochi Tomoki

Kenmochi Tomoki is a former Japanese actor and voice actor. He is from Tokyo but was born in Miyagi prefecture. He worked for the Haiyuza Theater Company, Bungakuza Training Center, and belonged to the Nakazato Office. Kenmochi graduated from Tokai University High School. In the early stages of 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…

Japonica Virus

2.0

A mysterious infectious disease, "Canie Virus" said to have started in north-east China comes ashore to Japan. The nation falls into disorder and the government tries to enact "The Public Safety Law.” Yoichiro and…

Saikai: Yokota Megumisan no Negai

One day in June 2004, there was a taxi from Niigata prefecture to a hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo. Mr. and Mrs. Hasuike, the abductees who returned from North Korea, were on board. Megumi Yokota's parents and younger brother…

Unbalance

5.0

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the portrayal of this sense of unease. In this work I seized on a very negative…

Life

7.8

Takita Yu lives in a rural town and works as a candle artist. One day he recieves an invitation to a high school reunion from his best friend Takashi and goes to Tokyo, where a multitude of new encounters awaits him.

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…

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…

Starfish Hotel

Yuichi Arisu slaves away in a cold, geometrical office everyday, in a humdrum job, somewhere in the huge, impersonal city of Tokyo. Every night he commutes home to his distant wife, and buries himself in the mystery…