Noguchi Hisamitsu

Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Kishi Matsuo

Kishi Matsuo was a Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. He is known as the critic who discovered the filmmaker Yamanaka Sadao. He graduated from Keio University. In 1937, at the strong recommendation of film director Shimizu Hiroshi, he retired…

Mikihiko Nagata

Also known by his pen name Misao Misawa (三沢操). Born in Iida-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo. He was a lyricist and novelist. He was also helping with creating scripts for some radio dramas and training voice actors.

Nire Kotaro

Nire Kotaro was a Japanese actor born in Higashikomagata, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1919, he made his debut in Asakusa's "Mikuniza". In 1922, he served in the military, and after his discharge, he participated in the Arashi Hina Masu no Tabi troupe and toured the countryside. After World War II, he joined…

Okura Chiyoko

Okura Chiyoko is a Japanese actress born in Niihori-cho, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She is known for "Gubijinzo" (1935) and "Hatsusugata" (1936). After World War II, there were two movie appearance records in 1954. In the round-table discussion "Youth During the War, and Now 30 Years Later" published in "Weekly…

Kido Shiro

Japanese film producer . Former Chairman of Shochiku . The current president of Shochiku, Junichi Sakomoto, is his grandson. Born in Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji . He was also book author and director of 1931 movie "Lumpen and his Daughter" (ルンペンとその娘).

Hanashima Kiyoko

Hanashima Kiyoko was a Japanese actress and singer born in Takanawa, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She married Enomoto Kenichi and they had a baby together, but the baby died of tuberculosis. The two divorced, but re-married later. Her subsequent whereabouts are unknown, and she has an unknown year of death.

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…

Fushimi Akira

Fushimi Akira was a Japanese screenwriter born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University, but dropped out. He joined the Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio in Kamata, Tokyo, and in 1926 wrote the script for "Tetsuwan" and made his debut as a scriptwriter. He died on…

Strangers in the City

4.5

Searching for Yukari, a former pupil who has gone missing, cram school teacher Hatano returns to Tokyo for the first time in 12 years. He had once been a teacher at a prestigious girls' high school there, but was forced…

Forget Me Not

6.0

The film is set in a run-down coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka. Michiyo, moved from Tokyo with her young son Mamoru after getting divorced from her husband. When Mamoru is picked on by bullies, a tough local boy named…

Cheonggyecheon Medley: A Dream of Iron

The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during…

Rakugo Monogatari

7.1

Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple,…

The Three Points

The film is separated into three parts all directed by Yamamoto Masashi (Junk Food, Man, Woman & the Wall), with segments set in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Okinawa. The Tokyo chapter features an odd love story starring Aoi…

Kimi no Sukina Uta

7.0

Sousuke is a furniture maker. He was dumped by his fiance. Sousuke begins to live with Chikako Fujieda. She just moved to Tokyo, but they have been friends since their college days. Their relationship develops beyond…

Enkiri-Mura: Dead End Survival

6.0

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine, visit a shrine known for being able to sever connections with evil.…

Kyoto Chiken no Onna Season 6

6.0

Kyoto district public prosecutor Tsurumaru Aya celebrates her 50th birthday and is in good spirits. Then, her mother-in-law, Keiko, suddenly arrives from Tokyo. Aya acts firmly with all violent criminals, but she is…

Keishicho Keizoku Sosahan

7.4

Manami Kishi teaches at the police academy and is widely regarded as an expert in the field of profiling. With the recent abolishment of the statue of limitations for murder, Manami Kishi is asked by the Tokyo Metropolitan…

In a Lonely Planet

6.0

Mari lives a comfortable life as a single woman. She has a nice job at a company and resides in an apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo. A couple lives next to door to her. Mari can hear them argue or making happy conversations…