Iwasaki Yoshimi

Iwasaki Yoshimi, also known as Yoshirin, is a Japanese singer and actress born in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. Her older sister is the singer Iwasaki Hiromi. (Source: Wikipedia)

Akutagawa Takayuki

Akutagawa Takayuki was a former Japanese announcer, narrator, and moderator from Tokyo Prefecture. In October 1951, he joined Radio Tokyo (currently TBS) as an announcer. He left Radio Tokyo in December 1959 and became a freelancer in January 1960. His wife is Radio Tokyo announcer Honda Setsuko. (Source:…

Kobayashi Katsuhiko

Kobayashi Katsuhiko was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He died from liver cancer on May 6, 2005, in Tokyo, aged 68. (Source: ja.wikipedia.org)

Nishimura Shunichi

Nishimura Shunichi was a filmmaker, TV producer, and screenwriter for Senkosha C.A.L. He is from Sendagi, Tokyo. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kimura Toshie

Kimura Toshie was a Japanese actress born in Minemachi, Omori-ku, Tokyo. Her youngest sister is actress Kimura Natsue. In 1953, she entered the Haiyuza Training Center as a fifth-year student. She died at the age of 39 due to heart problems. (Source: MyDramaList)

Aimoto Kumiko

Aimoto Kumiko is a Japanese actress, talent and idol born on May 27, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan.

Kato Noriko

Born in Suzuka, Mie, Japan, Kato Noriko graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School. Kato's career began in 1991 as a member of Sakurakko Club, together with Anza Oyama, Miki Nakatani, Miho Kanno, and Hiroko Kurumizawa. On July 25, 1992, she released her first single, a cover of Chisato Moritaka's…

Kitamura Eizo

Kitamura Eizo was a Japanese actor and director born in Shin-Ogawa, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. His wife is actress Seki Etsuko (関えつ子) and his daughter is actress Kitamura Takeko (北村岳子). He graduated from Daishi High School and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature in the Faculty…

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Iwai Yumi

Iwai Yumi is a Japanese actress, presenter, and head of the orthodox Iwai school of Japanese dance. She is from Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka Gakuin Department of English Literature at Gakushuin University. Her husband is the actor Funato Jun. (Source: MyDramaList)

Captain Ultra

6.9

This series is based very loosely on Captain Future, the pulp science fiction saga created by the influential Edmond Hamilton. Originally, this series was aired by Tokyo Broadcasting System right after the end of the…

Five Filosophical Fables

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’ values. As an allegory of an ‘all-consuming’ Tokyo family cannibalizing each…

Keyhunter

6.0

A Keyhunter is someone who solves crimes beyond the ability of the police. The members of Keyhunter, stationed in Tokyo, worked to arrest international criminals and spies.

Daughter-in-law

Man-bok, a city cleaning lady, rescues Palpuni, a rural virgin who is in danger of being taken to the Sachang Cave as soon as they go to Tokyo, and gives him a job as a mother-in-law at the house of the Yangsajang,…

Japan's Organized Crime Boss

6.9

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war…

Joyu Waga Michi

It depicts the life of Haruko Sugimura, who quit her job as a teacher at a girls' school and moved to Tokyo to become an actress. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the autobiography…

Bloody Territories

6.8

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets.

Ceremony of Disbanding

6.7

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly…

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

6.0

After graduating from college, Mariko, who worked for a nursery school, left Tokyo to attend the International Society for Childcare in Munich. Her feelings, when she received the engagement ring from Natsukawa at…

Duel of Night

He was a member of the Majeokdan 20 years ago, and his beloved wife and daughter were taken away by a leader, and he is now living as one of the leading conglomerates among Koreans in Japan in Tokyo. Finally, after…