Shimizu Kinichi

Shimizu Kinichi was a Japanese comedian and film actor born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He began his career at 16 in Tokyo, becoming a disciple of Shimizu Kintaro, a leader in Asakusa Opera. During this period, he took the name Shimizu Kinichi and had a child with actress Mine Rei. After Kintaro's death…

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Dokumamushi Sandayu

Sandayū Dokumamushi born Iyoshi Ishii on 31 March 1936 in Osaka, Japan is a Japanese actor. He portrayed the role of Daisuke Arashi in the original Ultraman series. He has been a radio personality on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 6, 1969 to the present.

Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Nakamura Zeko

Nakamura was an actor and author born on December 6th 1990 in the Kishima District, Saga, Saga Prefecture of Japan. He died on December 6th 1989 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Tokyo, Japan.

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Aikawa Kinya

Aikawa Kinya was a Japanese actor, tarento, and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo and died in 2015 of lung cancer. (Source: 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…

Mizushima Ryotaro

Mizushima Ryotaro was a Japanese actor and film director born in Higashifukuda-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Suzuki Utako, and actor Mizushima Michitaro is his nephew. After graduating from the Japanese-French Law School, he entered "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza". After that, he joined the Yoshizawa…

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,…

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,…

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)

Tsukai! Rock and Roll Dori

Iwashita Midori, a bus guide who dreams of becoming a rock 'n' roller, has taken in her half-sister Yamaguchi Akane, a junior high school student who lives in Hokkaido Hakodate, and moved to Tokyo with her. Midori…

Kimi no Hitomi wo Taihosuru!

A romantic comedy centered on the love affairs of young detectives working at the Dogenzaka Police Station and Criminal Affairs Division in Shibuya, Tokyo. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

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…