Watanabe Fumio

Fumio Watanabe was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.

Sato Shimako

Sato Shimako is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Her husband is the film director Takashi Yamazaki . In 1992, she made his directorial debut in the movie “Tale of a Vampire” and won the Aboriaz Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Jeffrey Rowe

Canadian actor, voice actor and producer. Originally from Prince Edward Island though living on and off in Tokyo and Vancouver since 2003. Speak English, French and Japanese. Involved in drama and theatre since his teens (Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice). Many lead and featured roles in TV and film…

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman. Born in Shinagawa- cho , Tokyo (now Shinagawa-ku , Tokyo ). In the 1930s Nikkatsu Kyoto studio joined in, Sadao Yamanaka studied with, Marne SanTaro , Kinugasa fourteen San , Hiroshi Inagaki…

David Sakurai

David Sakurai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the age of 18, he moved to Japan where he received his theatrical training and honed his skills in the indie film scene in Tokyo. After relocating back to Denmark in 2008, Sakurai proved himself a strong, versatile actor having been cast in a variety…

Kaneko Nobuo

Kaneko Nobuo was a Japanese actor, culinary researcher, host, and talent born in Shitaya, Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in a family of dentists and struggled with tuberculosis from a young age, facing a prognosis that he might not live past 20. Despite his health challenges, he graduated from Kyoka Gakuen…

Yang Yong Hi

Yang Yong Hi is a Japanese-born Korean (or Zainichi) film director. Born in Osaka in 1964 as a second-generation Korean. She studied Korean literature at Korea University in Tokyo and media studies in New York. She has worked as a teacher, actress, radio host and foreign correspondent for TV. Having…

Nabe Osami

Nabe Osami is a Japanese actor, comedian, talent, radio personality, voice actor, and screenwriter from Omori, Tokyo, Japan.

Kurihara Hideo

Hideo Kurihara is a Japanese actor from Tochigi Prefecture. After graduating from high school in 1984, he moved to Tokyo and joined the Shiki Theatre Company. He appeared in numerous productions including the musical "The Lion King '' and left the group in 2009. After leaving the company, he continued…

Tane Rakuko

Tane Rakuko is a Japanese actress born in Ishikawa, Japan, represented by Office PSC (オフィスPSC). At 20, she moved to Tokyo and began hosting shows at Mikado (ミカド) in Akasaka, marking the start of her acting career. She joined the research institute of the Sanjuninkai Theater Company (劇団三十人会)…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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,…

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,…