Irie Takako

Takako Irie (入江 たか子 Irie Takako, 7 February 1911 – 12 January 1995) was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was Hideko Higashibōjō (東坊城 英子 Higashibōjō Hideko)), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as…

Ashikawa Yoshimi

Ashikawa Yoshimi, born Kono Yoshimi (河野芳美), is a Japanese actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Ono Gakuen Women's High School (小野学園女子高等学校) and is affiliated with Office Mitsui (オフィス三井). She is also known by the name Awaya Yoshimi (粟屋芳美)…

Kato Tokiko

Tokiko Kato is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, actress and activist.She was born in Harbin, Manchukuo, from Japanese parents and graduated from the University of Tokyo. She worked as a visiting professor at Josai International University. (Source: Wikipedia)

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Orikasa Ai

Orikasa Ai, born Orikasa Kikue (折笠きく江) in Adachi, Kitasenju, Tokyo, Japan, is a voice actress, actress, and J-Pop singer affiliated with Axel One (アクセルワン). She made her debut in the anime Little Lord Fauntleroy (小公子セディ). Her interest in theater was sparked in second…

Hidari Tonpei

Hidari Tonpei was a Japanese actor, singer, and talent from Oji, Kita, Tokyo. He is known for "Narayama Bushiko", "Izakaya Choji", and "Kozure Shinbee".

Imai Tadashi

He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…

Bob Werley

Bob Werley is an American actor. In 2001, he moved to Tokyo, Japan. He is currently based in Tokyo.

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…

Namiki Akie

Akie Namiki was born in 1978 at Saitama prefecture and has been acting since she was a teenager. She had a leading role in Aruasa Soup Wa, which won the grand prix at the Pia Film Festival 2004 in Tokyo and in 2006 she featured in Hanauta Dorobo. In 2007, Akie played a young teacher suffering with mental…

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

5.0

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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)

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…

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)