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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

Fushimi Akira

Fushimi Akira was a Japanese screenwriter born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University, but dropped out. He joined the Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio in Kamata, Tokyo, and in 1926 wrote the script for "Tetsuwan" and made his debut as a scriptwriter. He died on…

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…

Nakajima Chiaki

Nakajima Chiaki is a Japanese singer, model and actress born on September 6, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…

Tora-san 35: The Go-Between

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On the Goto Islans, Tora-san rescues an old lady and befriends her. She then dies all of a sudden and at her Chritian funeral, he meets the old woman's granddaughter, who lives alone in Tokyo. Back in Shibamata, Tora-san…

Inochi

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The 24th NHK Taiga Drama is Inochi. The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori from devastated Tokyo. On the…

Necchu Jidai Special

After the second season, when Kamuizaki Elementary School was closed, he returned to Tokyo with Junsaburo's assistant again and was transferred to Minami Tamagawa Elementary School, and became a Teacher of 5th grade…

Kimi no Hitomi wo Taihosuru!

A romantic comedy centered on the love affairs of young detectives working at the Dogenzaka Police Station and Criminal Affairs Division in Shibuya, Tokyo. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Tsukai! Rock and Roll Dori

Iwashita Midori, a bus guide who dreams of becoming a rock 'n' roller, has taken in her half-sister Yamaguchi Akane, a junior high school student who lives in Hokkaido Hakodate, and moved to Tokyo with her. Midori…

Oracion

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Oracion is the name of a racehorse, a descendant of the fabled Arabian, King of the Wind. He is purchased by a Tokyo electronics manufacturer from a humble Hokkaido breeder as a gift to his teenage daughter Kumiko,…

Atsuki Hono no Tabi

In 1916, Shiraaki divorced his first wife and was in an artistic sump. One day, Shiraaki meets Akiko, a woman who said she left her husband and went to Tokyo. As they talked about their feelings for their hometown,…

Out of Focus

A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female photographer. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and, upon arrival and on her first day, is tasked…

Yama: Attack to Attack

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the 19th century…

Seishun Ourora Spin: Swan no Namida

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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…