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…

Yamagata Isao

Yamagata Isao was a Japanese actor born in London, England, where his acrobat father toured. He grew up in Ichibei-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo. In 1935, he graduated from the Japan Academy of Actors. After completing his military service, he joined the Toho Theater Company in 1936. In 1942, he formed the theater…

Nakaya Noboru

Nakatani Noboru, a Japanese actor born in Takanawa, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, initially enrolled in Chuo University’s Faculty of Law but left to pursue a career in theater. He began his theatrical journey with Bungakuza Theatre Research Institute in 1950, becoming a full member in 1951. His film debut…

Okada Tokihiko

Okada Tokihiko was an actor in the Taisho and early Showa eras born in Miyamoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He entered Zushi Kaisei Junior High School with outstanding results, but was impressed by the "Broken Coin" he saw at the movie theater in Ise Sakicho, and went to Asakusa Rokuku without studying. He…

Yamada Tatsuo

Yamada Tatsuo was a Japanese actor from Toyama best known for his portrayal of biker Jin, the protagonist of Sōgo Ishii's 1980 film Crazy Thunder Road. He died of stomach cancer on July 26, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. (Source: Wikipedia, AsianWiki)

Kishida Shin

Kishida Shin was a Japanese actor, best known for his memorable supporting roles in films and television series. Kishida Shin was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actress Kyoko Kishida and children's author Eriko Kishida were…

Taguchi Kiyotaka

Taguchi Kiyotaka is a Japanese film and special effects director from Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from Muroran Sakae High School in 1999, he moved to Tokyo and began training at Nikkan Geijutsu Gakuin. He dropped out of the school in 2000. (Source: MyDramlist)

Naito Eisuke

Naito Eisuke, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982, graduated from the Film School of Tokyo and subsequently began directing independent movies while working as a teacher at a special education school. His short film The Prince of Milk (2008) was invited to Nippon Connection in 2010 and also to many other…

Inoue Jun

Inoue Jun is a Japanese talent, singer, actor, and comedian from Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is known for his work on "Rajio no Jikan", "Megane wo Kakete Mask wo Suruto Itsumo Kumoru" and "Nishi no Petenshi Higashi no Sagishi". He was previously married to Aoki Emi.

Katou Seizou

Seizō Katō (加藤精三 Katō Seizō?, February 14, 1927 – January 17, 2014) was a Japanese voice actor who worked for Haikyo (Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society). Kato was born in Tokyo. He was noted for his role as Megatron and Galvatron from the 1st Transformers series until Transformers:…

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…

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…

Boku no Machi Isha Shugyo

A drama commemorating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Youth Theater. Koichi (Naoto Ogata), a physician who works at a hospital in Kofu City, is about to leave his parents in Tokyo for a year. He also…

Kinjirareta Asobi

4.0

Eiko, a successful psychiatrist, and her husband Yohei are happy to have her sister Ayumi stay with them when she comes to Tokyo to visit her boyfriend. But no one is prepared for the feelings that develop between…

Winds of God

4.0

Pic follows the misadventures of Makoto and his not-so-bright sidekick Kinta, who flub their way through a Tokyo talent contest, head out into heavy traffic and, when the bandages come off, find they've traded in their…

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…

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…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 4

While visiting Sado Island on assignment for a magazine, Asami Mitsuhiko encounters a middle-aged man named Komatsu at Sai no Kawara. After returning to Tokyo, Mitsuhiko happens to find Komatsu collapsed near his neighborhood.…