Nakayama Keiko

Nakayama Keiko is a singer from Tokyo and a former idol singer. Her agency at the time of her idol period was Sun Music Productions. Her father is Satake Akio, an actor. Her maternal grandfather is film director Fuyushima Taizo. In 1975, she was scouted for Fuji TV's "All-star Kazoku Taiko Utagassen"…

Tomura Michiko

Tomura Michiko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She currently belongs to Echoes Co., Ltd. Tomura graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Performing Arts, Acting Direction Course.

Shimada Ryuichi

Shimada Ryuichi was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he worked as an assistant director and also made many industrial PR videos. For his first feature-length film "Nowhere to Go", he received the New Directors Award of the Directors Guild…

Mabuchi Haruko

Mabuchi Haruko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. She died from lung cancer at the age of 75. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hayama Yoko

Hayama Yoko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She dropped out of Yamawaki Gakuen High School. At the age of 7, she joined Gekidan Wakakusa at the recommendation of his mother and started performing arts activities as a child actor. In 1955, she made her silver screen debut with "Shiinomi Gakuen" and…

Ono Shinya

Ono Shinya is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Rikkyo University. Ono belonged to Imura Pro and MC Planning (Tokyo). In 1965, he entered the entertainment world as the 5th gen member of the Theater Research Institute attached to Bungakuza. In 1966, Ono made…

Asaji Naoki

Asaji Naoki is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He belongs to Bungakuza.

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Mizushima Ryota

Mizushima Ryota is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He made his debut in 1978 with NHK's Galactic TV novel "Furusato Series 2 Around Ueno Station".

Shimizu Megumi

Shimizu Megumi is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She graduated from Nishogakusha University.

Ten Urara

The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong…

A

7.5

"A" is a Japanese documentary film about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. The film focuses on a young spokesman for the cult…

Higa Hashiru

The drama is based on a comic book and manga, both created by Joe Shigetsu. Misako Matsumoto, was the daughter of the famous potter Ryuya Matsumoto. However, by studying in Tokyo, she hadn't been to her hometown for…

The Doctor

Kazuma Asou, who helps out in his friend's clinic, is a doctor enjoying a peaceful life on rural Ishigaki Island. However, his father's death causes him to move to Tokyo and he starts working for a big hospital where…

Best Friend

8.5

While growing up in a blessed family, Makoto, a cousin of Kiyoka's who has a cold personality, came to Tokyo dreaming of a singer. Makoto, who grew up in the country and is innocent, and Kiyoka, who has the opposite…

Kaleidoscope

A photographer, Machiko Ono, and a filmmaker, Naomi Kawase, challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside. The photographer…

Mona Lisa no Hohoemi

7.5

Eguchi Yosuke stars as Tachibana Masayuki, a man in charge of antique auctions. Tachibana is a famous auctioneer who supposedly worked in England for some time, but his colleagues at Weisz Tokyo do not like his nosy…

Sono Toki ga Kita

Orthopedic doctor Akino is 48 years old. Her husband, Meiji, is the same doctor, but she is now away from Tokyo to concentrate on treating alcoholism. One day, Soeda, who used to be a painter, comes to her clinic as…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 13: Tokkyu Shina no 21-go Satsujin Jiken

The mystery of the fortune-telling left at the murder scene, is it an invitation to serial murder? In this work, we will follow the mystery of the serial murders hidden in the fortune-telling from Tokyo to Zenkoji…

Watashi no Aozora

8.0

The 62nd NHK Asadora Drama is Watashi no Aozora. Locations include Oma-cho, Aomori and Chuo-ku, Tokyo. This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a…