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).

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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.

Ishikawa Rei

Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…

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…

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…

Pikaresuku Ningen Shikkaku

2.0

In 1948, a man and a woman commit suicide by drowning in Tamagawa Aqueduct, Tokyo. The woman was a beautician Tomie, and the man was a writer Osamu. The story presents the events that led to this tragedy. ~~ Adapted…

Kokoro

9.0

Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown district of Tokyo where customs and traditions run deep and neighbors…

Kyoto no Themis Onna Saibankan 1

Kyoto District Court judge Akiko Matsumiya just passed the bar exam while in college and is attracting attention from the media. Akiko was steadily building up her career, but when her husband Tadanori, whom she left…

Et Alors

6.0

Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo but he is unable to get used to the facility's policy of respecting the residents' freedom…

Tama Minamisho Tatakiage Keiji: Chikamatsu Heikichi 3

A housewife is found stabbed to death, wearing just underwear, in a house in a luxury residential area of ​​Tama, Tokyo. The first person to discover her is her husband, and the police inspection showed no signs…

Mukoda Kuniko no Koi Bumi

In the autumn of 1963, as Japan prepared to host its first Olympic Games, the Mukaida family lived quietly in Suginami, Tokyo. Their second daughter, Mukaida Michiko, who had married and moved to Nagoya, had returned…

Tenka

8.8

The story is about a 17-year-old girl, Tenka, who was born and raised in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Her family moves to Tokyo when her father changes his job. Tenka stays for a short period of time with her grandfather,…

Kowloon de Aimashou

6.6

Kaoru Saegusa is a cheerful and dynamic 30-year old woman who is still single. She works at the Tokyo Branch Office of Oedo Travel Agency. One day, she is sent to Hong Kong on business where she meets Shutaro Kamisanjo,…

Shinano no Colombo Jiken File 1

A dismembered corpse of a man in a plastic bag was found at Lake Yatori in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture. Around the same time, at the Minami-Shinagawa police station in Tokyo, a taxi driver, Tozawa, complained that…

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…