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…

Matsumoto Noriko

She was the wife of playwriter, Kunio Shimizu. She died at a hospital in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo on March 26, 2014, due to interstitial pneumonia.

Ozawa Fujio

Ozawa Fujio was a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and lyricist from Tokyo. In 1935, he joined the Daito movie Negamo studio and wrote the original script for the film "Ronin Sugoroku," which was released on September 19 of the same year. After the war, he became a novelist, and many of…

Fumino Tomoko

Fumino Tomoko, born Kamiyama Sumiko (神山澄子), was a Japanese actress from Asakusa, Tokyo. She graduated from Miyoshi Women's High School and was associated with the theater company En. Her acting career began at Daiei before World War II. In 1946, she joined Bungakuza but left in 1963 to co-found…

Moriya Misao

Moriya Misao is a Japanese actress, model, and talent born in Tokyo, Japan.

Kokontei Kikuchiyo

Real name: Yasuyo Noguchi (野口 泰代). Born in Itabashi-ku , Tokyo. She's a Rakugoka - a person whose profession is to perform Rakugo. Rakugo is a type of traditional Japanese storytelling that was established in Japan during the Edo period. These are short anecdotes, humorous stories, passed on…

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 .

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 .

Ochiai Naobumi

A Japanese poet and literary scholar. Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional…

Mayuko Hino

Mayuko Hino is a Japanese musician and actress. She was the founding member of C.C.C.C. (a.k.a. Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) a Japanese noise band. She was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Totsugawa Keibu Series 11: Minami Izu Kogen Satsujin Jiken

This time, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei will try to solve the continuous rape and murders that occurred in Tokyo and Minami Izu. (Source: TBS) ~~ Adapted from the novel “Totsugawa Keibu Series” (十津川警部シリーズ)…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 8

Asami Mitsuhiko, a nonfiction writer, happens to discover the body of a man at a shrine in Tokyo. The deceased is identified as Ashino Takajiro, a master doll artisan who rose to fame more than a decade earlier after…

Tetto Musashino-sen

A sixth-grade elementary school student, because his parents are separated, he will follow his mother to go to Nagasaki in the next semester. This is his last summer vacation in Tokyo. One day, seeing the weather,…

Hocho Mushuku

Kure Ryusuke worked as a cook at Kirinoya, a Japanese restaurant in Tsukiji, Tokyo. But because of some stabbing incident , inflicted by his son, he got kicked out. For now on, wandering around Japanese restaurants…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 13: Tokkyu Shina no 21-go Satsujin Jiken

The mystery of the fortune-telling left at the murder scene, is it an invitation to serial murder? In this work, we will follow the mystery of the serial murders hidden in the fortune-telling from Tokyo to Zenkoji…

Sono Toki ga Kita

Orthopedic doctor Akino is 48 years old. Her husband, Meiji, is the same doctor, but she is now away from Tokyo to concentrate on treating alcoholism. One day, Soeda, who used to be a painter, comes to her clinic as…

Ten Urara

The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong…

Tsubasa wo Kudasai!

4.0

Toko, who is scheduled to graduate from high school in Amami Oshima next spring, goes to Tokyo to visit a childhood friend, Atsuya, who is now attending college. But she is only able to view him from afar, as he is…

The Ugly Duckling

6.1

This is an elementary school version of 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei. Gansuke is an elementary school teacher from Hokkaido who moves to Tokyo to be near his sweetheart Masako, who wants to become a hair stylist. He…

A

7.5

"A" is a Japanese documentary film about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. The film focuses on a young spokesman for the cult…