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.

Okada Mariko

Okada Mariko is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Yoshida Yoshishige, until his death in 2022. Her father was the noted silent film actor Okada Tokihiko, who before his early death (the year following his daughter's birth) starred in Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Chorus (1931). As an adult,…

Kim Sung Joong

Kim Sung Joong, formerly known professionally as Gon, is a South Korean singer, dancer and former member of ARGON (아르곤). He made his debut in March 2019 as the group's main vocalist with their first single album, "Master Key". Later that year, they launched their first Japan Live "Master Key"…

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…

Todo Shinji

Todo Shinji, born Mochizuki Kenichi (望月賢一), is a Japanese actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa. He was previously known by the name Kayama Kosuke (香山浩介). A graduate of the Faculty of Literature at Kanto Gakuin University (関東学院大学), he is currently affiliated with A4 Co., Ltd. (株式会社A4).…

Suda Anna

Suda Anna is a Japanese performer, rapper, model and actor. She is a member of the Japanese all-female dance and vocal groups E-girls, Happiness, and SudannaYuzuYully. Anna is represented with LDH. Anna is half Filipino. She speaks Japanese as well as Tagalog. Born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, she began…

Sugino Kiki

Kiki Sugino, born as Seo Yeong Hwa, is an actress and producer. Sugino was born in Hiroshima, Japan to Korean parents (Japanese-born Koreans are known in Japan as "Zainichi Koreans"). She made her debut as an actress in Korea in the 2005 film "One Shining Day". Kim Ki Duk cast her in a small role in…

Higashino Ayaka

Higashino Ayaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka prefecture. She belongs to Tristone Entertainment. In high school, she studied acting at a vocational school. She later moved to Tokyo and joined Tristone Acting Lab (TSAL), an actor training center operated by Tristone Entertainment. In 2018 she was…

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…

Nani ka Okashii

7.8

A listener of a radio program requests for a live broadcast as the amusement park her family used to go is closing down; however, the listener is a mother who submitted the request with the goal of finding the culprit…

In Another Language

Summer 2020. Pedestrians have begun to return to Tokyo. In one corner of a cafe, a man and woman are taking part in a One Coin English Cafe where participants can casually enjoy English conversation for a small price.…

Not Famous Man

This documentary follows Udon Ono, an udon craftsman who lives and works in a car in Tokyo. He quit a regular job which exploited him and became an independent udon craftsman after training at famous stores and chain…

Suton

Sae, a woman living alone in Tokyo, begins working at a neighborhood café. Her life seems placid, but an encounter with a customer triggers an avalanche of memories from her past, revealing the background of the bitter…

Cafune

Maye Sora, a 19-year-old university student living in Tokyo, receives news of her grandfather's death. Busy with moving with the help of her friends, she puts off confirming the news. (Source: shortshorts.org)

Wasurenagusa no Saku Machi de: Azumino Shinryoki

Tsukioka Mikoto, who graduated from the nursing faculty of a national university in Matsumoto, Shinshu, spends her busy days working as a nurse in the internal medicine ward of a small general hospital in Azumino.…

Carmen Comes Home

6.4

A village in Nagano Prefecture is expecting a distinguished visitor: Okin, who rose to fame in Tokyo under her stage name Lily Carmen, is coming home to visit her father. What no one knows is that Okin is famous in…

MaTcH

An old Japanese mother, Haruko, comes to Tokyo from Osaka to see her 30 years old son, Shuji. Her purpose of the visit is setting up a matchmaking for him because he is still a single man. However, Shuji already uses…

Kokando Josho Sapuri

Tanimura Yuji, who works in the Sales Department at a publishing company, has been plain since his school days and has never been good at anything. One day, while living such a life of low self-esteem, he happens to…