Kofujita Shoichi

Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takao Mitsuko

Takao Mitsuko was a Japanese actress and former child actress born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. Later in life, she moved to Tokyo, and in 1921, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio, where her father worked as a costume department worker. In 1955, after the end of World War II, she…

Unno Katsuo

Unno Katsuo is an actor, voice actor, and entertainer from Tokyo, Japan.

Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Dukar Tserang

Dukar Tserang is a notorious Tibetan independent director of movies and documentaries. He is also a musician, sound technician and composer. His works are nationally and internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations in many film festivals, such as the Tokyo FILMeX International…

Sugiura Rokuemon

Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture…

Kuri Chiharu

Kuri Chiharu (real name Yamazaki Chiharu, 山崎 慈子), born in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer and actress.

Isobe Hiroshi

Isobre Hiroshi is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and narrator, born in Tokyo.

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Blood For Blood

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous…

Joshi Kokosei Satsujin Jiken

Akiko Nanjo is 24 years old. Burning with the idea of "well-rounded education," she was assigned as a Japanese language teacher at a private High School in a corner of Musashino in Tokyo. As soon as she was assigned,…

Koukou Kyoushi

2.0

Dr. Koichiro Kitayama, who has worked as an English teacher at Shirayuki Girls' High School in Osugi City, Tokyo, has lost his job due to bankruptcy. Kitayama, who has no teaching experience, and students who are mainly…

The Dancing Girl of Izu

7.5

Izu no Odoriko is based on the story The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata. It tells the story of the interactions between a young male student from Tokyo, and a small group of travelling performers that he…

Autumn Interlude

7.3

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and…

Sabita Hono

In the early hours of April 13th, someone kidnapped five-year-old hemophiliac Kazuya Maruyama from Tanemura General Hospital in Setagaya, Tokyo. Soon, the desperate parents are contacted by the kidnapper, who blames…

Ichibanboshi

1.0

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. ~ Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Takase in the lead two months into the series when Takase became ill. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Aa Tokyo…

The 25th Hour

Five men, who do not know each other's identities, set up an operation to steal a diamond worth 100,000 dollars and infiltrate a villa on the hillside of Mt. Bush in Tokyo. However, since one of them was a subordinate…

The Invincible of the Far East

Dr. James Park, a world authority on nuclear research, visits Tokyo to attend a World Nuclear Power Seminar and is kidnapped by unknown people. Accordingly, the South Korean intelligence agency ordered spy agent HS-7…

Love in the Mud

7.4

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father…