Japan Sinks

7.2

The first adaptation of the novel as series after the success of the movie Submersion of Japan (1973). The plot follows the idea of the novel - through seismic activity Japan islands begin to sink into the sea. The…

Hymn to a Tired Man

6.0

During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent office. The man is still the bully he was. (Source: imdb)

A Lively Geisha

4.0

Koshizu, a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi. Rival geisha Adakichi, greedy trader Yasukawa and wealthy businessman Asai add up to dramatic turns. (Source: IMDb)

Brave Red Flower of the North

An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death…

Japan's Biggest Face

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This omnibus film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. (Source: Letterboxd)

Japan's Organized Crime Boss

6.9

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war…

Japan's Betrayal Man

5.0

On August 15, 1945, Takeru Yamato, the captain of the kamikaze unit who misunderstood the Jewel Voice Broadcasting as the emperor's encouragement, ordered Taro Hinomoto to sortie. However, fortunately or unfortunately,…

The Hateful Beast

In the Edo era, two men arrive in a village and engage in criminal activity. While one of them becomes successful and rich, the other gets betrayed and ends up in prison, burning for revenge. The truth changes with…

Bloodiest Flower

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships,…

Cho Hun Hyun

Cho Hun Hyun is a South Korean retired Go player and politician. He graduated from Shinmei Middle School and later in life, he was granted an honorary Ph.D. in Physical Education from Mokpo National University. He began learning Go at the age of four and passed the test for becoming a professional in…

Sugi Giichi

Sugi Giichi, born Sugi Yoshikazu (杉義一) in Uzumasa, Ukyo, Kyoto, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of actor Sugi Kyoji (杉狂児). In 1941, while attending Meisei Gakuen (明星学園), he joined the children’s theater troupe Kamoshikaza (かもしか座) and made his stage…

Kaihara Yukio

Kaihara Yukio was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Municipal Commercial School and began his career at Nikkan Kyoto Film Studio in 1935. His earliest recorded work was on the film Kojin Okichi: Kurofune Jowa, released in 1937. That same year, he worked as the sound…

Kitaura Akiyoshi

Kitaura Akiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in Nagasaki, Japan, and affiliated with Geiei (芸映). Raised in Hiroshima, he was exposed to the atomic bomb at the age of five in the summer of 1945 but survived with only minor burns. After graduating from Hiroshima University of Economics High School (広島経済大学附属高等学校),…

Uchida Maaya

Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼, Uchida Maaya, born December 27, 1989) is a Japanese voice actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. She won the Best New Actress Award at the 8th Seiyu Awards. She debuted as a singer under Pony Canyon with the song "Soushou Innocence", which is produced by Tomita…

Tomosaka Rie

Tomosaka Rie is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979, in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo. In 1992, Rie Tomosaka joined the entertainment world with the commercial film…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Hitoto Yo

Hitoto Yo, born September 20, 1976 in Taiwan, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Hitoto is best known for her extremely popular debut single "Morai Naki". She is Taiwanese through her father and Japanese through her mother. Hitoto Yo lived in Taipei until her kindergarten years, then moved to Japan…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…