Wanibuchi Haruko

Japanese actress , singer, and violinist . Born in Tokyo. Her father was Kenshu Wanibuchi , also a violinist. Her daughter, Risa Wanibuchi , is a model. Her second husband is popular photographer and cinematographer, Tad Wakamatsu.

Watanabe Takeo

Composer, Musician, Poet. Born in Tokyo . His nickname was " Nabetake ". Born as the eldest son of the composer Urato Watanabe. He composes various genres, and has left impressive songs especially in historical drama and animated works. He used many instruments such as the harpsichord , which had never…

Nakamura Azusa

Nakamura Azusa is a former Japanese actress and TV personality. After graduating from Odawara Jonai High School in Kanagawa Prefecture, she graduated from the secretarial department of Tokyo Polytechnic University Women's Junior College. She made her debut in 1987 when she was chosen as "Miss Marlena"…

Oshima Tomoyo

Oshima Tomoyo is a Japanese film editor, known as the editor of Oshima Nagisa's and Terayama Shuji's films in her young days. She is the director of Tokyo Filmex, a film festival.

Suzuki Yasushi

Suzuki Yasushi is a Japanese singer, actor, talent, and voice actor from Ota, Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University College of Economics. He made his first TV appearance in 1957 in "Sebango 16: Kawakami Tetsuharu Monogatari" (NTV). In 1961, he was scouted while performing at a jazz cafe and was…

Matsumura Ayumi

Television producer , screenwriter, and director who belongs to the Deputy Director of Coordination at the Drama Center of the Nippon Television Production Bureau . Born in Tokyo .

Makiguchi Yuji

Makiguchi Yuji was a Japanese film director, assistant director, and producer. He was born in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. After 1999, he retired from the film industry. He passed away on December 5, 2021, at the age of 85.

Ono Yasuhiro

Stage actor, Moderator, MC and comedian. Born in Tokyo.

Tsuji Hisaichi

Born in Hyogo prefecture. He started writing film criticism, while attending the University of Tokyo, and became a regular author of the magazine "Film Criticism". Later on, he become planner, director and producer. He was also a writer, using pen name Tatsuo Nogami . In TV, he was in charge of Toshiba…

Natsu Yusuke

Real name Hisayuki Taura (田浦 久幸). Former stage name Yuki Taura (田浦 幸). Actor. He died at a hospital in Tokyo on January 27, 2010 due to stomach cancer .

The Winds of God

6.7

Two Osaka comedians, Makoto and Kinta, are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into…

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…

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…

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…

Roomshare no Onna

4.0

The 21st NHK Yorudora, Roomshare no Onna centers on recently divorced Usami Usako, who also has a young son named Tarou. Usako leaves Tarou at her mother's home in Nagano to begin a new life in Tokyo, finding a job…

Secret Journey

8.0

I, documentary video maker, saw a guy named Yuda in the middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple of months later, a lady name…

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…