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…

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)

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

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…

Katou Yuusuke

54th The TV Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2007, “Life”) 57th The Television Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2008 “Last Friends”) 76th The Television Drama Academy Award / Director Award (2013, “The Best Divorce”) International Drama Festival in TOKYO Tokyo Drama Awards Kids…

Mariya Tomoko

Mariya Tomoko is a Japanese actress, singer, writer, and Musashino Art University lecturer from Minato-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Takarazuka Music School in 1980, scoring the highest points in her graduation exam. She joined the Takarazuka Revue as a 66th gen member. In 1989, she won the 39th Minister…

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.

Koike Asao

Koike Asao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Tokyo. He graduated from Aoyama High School and joined the Bungakuza Acting Research Institute in 1950, making his stage debut in "The People of Mount Kunlun." In 1963, following a split in Bungakuza, he helped found the modern theater…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Kimi wa Toki no Kanata e

6.8

The story is about 1560 Japan when samurais were trying to battle each other for power and territory and Kimura was dueling with his rival when a time slip sucked them up into 20th Japan and deposited him in Tokyo.…

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…

The Rapeman 7

Mild-mannered high school teacher by day, masked, knife-wielding rapist for hire by night, Rapeman rights wrongs through penetration, teaching the evil women of Tokyo respect for their elders, for society, and for…