Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Koga Mitsuki

Mitsuki Koga is a Japanese actor who is known to be featured in films that involve much martial arts. He trained in Muay Thai, Karate and Boxing before starting his acting career. Best known for his portrayals as Kyosuke Akiba in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., Shinjiro Hayashida from Cromartie High - The Movie,…

Kinjo Yamato

Kinjo Yamato is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Naha, Okinawa, Japan, affiliated with Stay Luck (ステイラック). After graduating high school in 2002, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked part-time at izakayas and as a security guard. He made his acting debut in 2010, primarily in stage productions.…

Imagawa Aoi

Imagawa Aoi, commonly referred to as "Aoi", is a Japanese idol, dancer and actor born in Tokyo. He is a member of an idol-group MeseMoa. and belongs to mitt management, a talent agency. In 2015, he won the Jury's Special Award in JUNON Superboy Contest.

Imamura Shohei

Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura is the only Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards. Imamura was born to a comfortably upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo in 1926. For a short time after 1945, when Japan was in a devastated condition following the war, Imamura participated…

Ayata Toshiki

Toshiki Ayata is a Japanese actor and director born in Nara prefecture. He graduated from Meiji University Faculty of Letters. His agency is knockout. After working at the On Theater Free Theater, he formed the theater company Tokyo Kandenchi with Emoto Akira and Bengal. Although he rarely appears on…

Kawakubo Takuji

Takuji Kawakubo (川久保 拓司 Kawakubo Takuji, born 17 December 1981, in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He graduated from Rikkyo University Faculty of Economics Faculty of Business.

Suzuki Masayuki

Suzuki Masayuki is a Japanese director born in Kamiishigami, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He currently serves as the General Director at the Production Center, Programming Bureau of Fuji Television (フジテレビジョン編成局). Suzuki graduated from the Nikkatsu Academy of Arts (日活芸術学院)…

Hasegawa Jun

Hasegawa Jun is a Japanese actor and singer affiliated with STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (formerly Johnny & Associates). He was born in Tokyo, Japan. During his days as a Johnny's Jr., he was part of the group Four Tops together with Yamashita Tomohisa, Ikuta Toma and Kazama Shunsuke. He is working mostly in…

Sudo Maasa

Sudo Maasa, born July 3, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of Berryz Koubou. Sudo Maasa joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. She made her debut as one of the 4KIDS in the Minimoni ja…

What's Up Connection

When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent…

Inheritance

5.0

Motoharu Fujishima , president of Central Crafts, which manufactures and sells mannequin dolls in downtown Tokyo , goes fishing in a mountain stream and falls from a rocky place and suddenly dies. The heritage, which…

TVO

Satsuki, a high school student living in the countryside, travels to Tokyo to find out the truth about the death of her sister Kiyomi, who has apparently been murdered by her own boyfriend. (Source: Letterboxd)

Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai

6.1

Miyoko and Yusuke love each other. But Yusuke is told to work in Hokkaido where is far from Tokyo for a year. They cannot meet often. There appear another woman and man in front of each of them. They almost lose confidence…

Myong Ja Akiko Sonia

Myeong Ja changes her name to Akiko. As she falls in love with Min Ho, Dong Jin, a left wing intellectual who admired Akiko, is heartbroken and decides to leave for Tokyo. To avoid the forced drafting, Min Ho decides…

Big Town Two Mornings

A movie work planned by the Management and Coordination Agency Regional Improvement Countermeasures Office / All Japan Dowa Countermeasures Council. Kimiko and Kayoko are from the Dowa district of Kansai and are studying…

Tora-san 42: My Uncle

7.8

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Seishun Ourora Spin: Swan no Namida

8.0

16-year-old Hazuki Mika from Sendai sees herself forced to abandon her career as a star ballerina after fatally injuring her Achilles heel during a performance. At the suggestion of her father's acquaintance, she ends…

Megalopolis Expressway Trial 5

7.6

Fifth instalment in the Megalopolis Expressway franchise that despite its title follows the well worn conventions of the series. A street racer, who dominates the racing of his local town, proves his metal by heading…