Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

Oku Keiichi

Oku Keiichi is a Japanese keyboardist, composer, and arranger born in Shiga prefecture. He is presided over "or-lab." Oku graduated from the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, and dropped out of the master's program at the same university. He joined Hiromi Go's…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

Misawa Akemi

Misawa Akemi is a Japanese enka singer and actress born in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. She currently lives in Tokyo. She passed the 7th Toei New Face, after which she joined Toei and made her debut in 1959 with the NET TV drama "Fuebuki Doji". She made her movie debut in 1961 and is active in historical…

Yomo Harumi

Yomo Harumi is a former Japanese actress and former child actress from Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo. In 1962, she made her debut as a child in the movie "Boku Chin Wandering Record". She announced her retirement in 1975. Yomo was helping with a small restaurant run by her mother but returned temporarily…

Yakumaru Gaku

Yakumaru Gaku is a Japanese novelist born in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Komazawa University Senior High School in 1988. He made his debut in 2005 and is a current member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. He passed the Tokyo Kid Brothers enrollment test, but musicals didn't feel…

Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Tsushima Toshiaki

Tsushima Toshiaki was a Japanese composer born in Okayama, Japan. He graduated from Ehime Prefectural Imabari Technical High School, Electrical Engineering Department. He moved to Tokyo and attempted to enter the Tokyo Institute of Technology, but was unsuccessful. Instead, he enrolled in the Music…

Jono Yuki

Jono Yuki is a former Japanese actress born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo. Originally aspiring to be a designer, she worked part-time as a fashion model while attending college, but was impressed by the American movie "Summertime"…

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…

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…

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…

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…