Wanibuchi Haruko

Japanese actress , singer, and violinist . Born in Tokyo. Her father was Kenshu Wanibuchi , also a violinist. Her daughter, Risa Wanibuchi , is a model. Her second husband is popular photographer and cinematographer, Tad Wakamatsu.

Watanabe Takeo

Composer, Musician, Poet. Born in Tokyo . His nickname was " Nabetake ". Born as the eldest son of the composer Urato Watanabe. He composes various genres, and has left impressive songs especially in historical drama and animated works. He used many instruments such as the harpsichord , which had never…

Nakamura Azusa

Nakamura Azusa is a former Japanese actress and TV personality. After graduating from Odawara Jonai High School in Kanagawa Prefecture, she graduated from the secretarial department of Tokyo Polytechnic University Women's Junior College. She made her debut in 1987 when she was chosen as "Miss Marlena"…

Oshima Tomoyo

Oshima Tomoyo is a Japanese film editor, known as the editor of Oshima Nagisa's and Terayama Shuji's films in her young days. She is the director of Tokyo Filmex, a film festival.

Suzuki Yasushi

Suzuki Yasushi is a Japanese singer, actor, talent, and voice actor from Ota, Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University College of Economics. He made his first TV appearance in 1957 in "Sebango 16: Kawakami Tetsuharu Monogatari" (NTV). In 1961, he was scouted while performing at a jazz cafe and was…

Matsumura Ayumi

Television producer , screenwriter, and director who belongs to the Deputy Director of Coordination at the Drama Center of the Nippon Television Production Bureau . Born in Tokyo .

Makiguchi Yuji

Makiguchi Yuji was a Japanese film director, assistant director, and producer. He was born in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. After 1999, he retired from the film industry. He passed away on December 5, 2021, at the age of 85.

Ono Yasuhiro

Stage actor, Moderator, MC and comedian. Born in Tokyo.

Tsuji Hisaichi

Born in Hyogo prefecture. He started writing film criticism, while attending the University of Tokyo, and became a regular author of the magazine "Film Criticism". Later on, he become planner, director and producer. He was also a writer, using pen name Tatsuo Nogami . In TV, he was in charge of Toshiba…

Natsu Yusuke

Real name Hisayuki Taura (田浦 久幸). Former stage name Yuki Taura (田浦 幸). Actor. He died at a hospital in Tokyo on January 27, 2010 due to stomach cancer .

Chichibu Suikoden: Hissatsu Ken

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese…

Black Tight Killers

6.7

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish,…

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…

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…

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.

A Female Spy, Elisa

During the Korean War (1950-1953), Park Ho, a Korean secret agent staying in Tokyo has relations with a female spy, Elisa. She, becoming a slave to his love, at last, confesses her identity. Later, she begins providing…

The Scent of Incense

7.3

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble. (Source: TMDB)

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,…