Ichikawa Suisen III

Ichikawa Suisen III was a Japanese actress and dancer associated with the Shochiku era of Kabuki in Japan. Born as Horikoshi Kikue (堀越喜久榮) in Tsukiji, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, she comes from a family deeply rooted in Kabuki tradition. Her father was the fifth-generation Ichikawa Shinnosuke,…

Nishio Toku

Nishio Toku was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He was represented by Tokyo Actors' Consumer's Cooperative Society. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ogawa Hirooki

Ogawa Hirooki was a Japanese composer born in Shinbashi, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. He served as a director of the Japan Composer's Association. He graduated from Daikura High School of Commerce's Junior Division in 1943, and furthered his studies in vocal music under Tachimatsu Fusako and Sonoda Seiichi,…

Omiya Teiji

Omiya Teiji was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and a member of the Tokyo Actors Consumer Cooperative Society when he died. He attended Nihon University, but withdrew before completing his degree. He was known for playing the roles of kind old men in many 1970s anime series. During his life, he achieved…

Sekiguchi Gen

Sekiguchi Gen is a Japanese commercial and film director born Saitama, Japan. He graduated from Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo.

Matsumoto Sayuki

Matsumoto Sayuki is a Japanese talent and former gravure idol. She debuted as a singer under the name Jimi Shijimi (ジミ・シジミ) on August 17, 2011. She graduated from Mie Prefectural Yokkaichi Nishi High School. Scouted during junior high, she moved to Tokyo at age 18 and began her career in…

Amano Shinji

Amano Shinji, originally known as Matsumoto Tomotaka (松本友孝), is a Japanese actor affiliated with Kindai Kikaku Center. Born in Senju Nakamachi, Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, he enrolled in Keio University's Faculty of Literature in 1952 but left in his second year after being scouted by Shinkokugeki…

Kura Tadaoyshi

Kura Tadayoshi was a Japanese actor born in Kameido, Koto, Tokyo. He debuted in 1963, appearing in the television drama "Tentekomai Monogatari" while in the second grade. In 1974, he graduated from Seisoku High School in Shiba Park, Minato. He retired from the entertainment industry in 1985 at age 30.…

Natsume

Natsume is a former Japanese actress, TV personality, and gravure idol from Tokyo, Japan. Previously, she was known by her stage name Sano Natsume (佐野夏芽). On October 18, 2009, she announced at an event and on her blog that she would retire from gravure activities with the release of a DVD in…

Takeguchi Roncha

Roncha Takeguchi is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka, Japan. He is affiliated with Mai Promotion and is a member of the theater troupe Hagewa, focusing primarily on stage productions. In 2000, after relocating to Tokyo, he became a member of Hagewa. (Source: MyDramaList)

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)

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…

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…

Black Sun

6.2

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture…

Theater of Life: Hishakaku

8.0

Story of yakuza's honor, duty and loyalty. Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation to Kokin, he is involved in a gang war and…

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…