Tani Kei

Tani Kei was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician born in Tokyo, Japan. He learned to play the trombone and, while a student at Chuo University, began playing in jazz bands performing for American soldiers during the Occupation of Japan. He quit university and joined the "City Slickers" in 1953,…

Yasuda Shin

Yasuda Shin was a Japanese sax player, comedian, actor, and composer from Nogata, Toyotama, Tokyo, Japan. Nogata-cho, Toyotama-gun , Tokyo

Ishibashi Etaro

Ishibashi Etaro was a Japanese actor, pianist in the jazz band "Hana Hajime and Crazy Cats", and cooking expert. Born in Shinbashi, Tokyo as the son of musician Rando Fukuda and grandson of painter Shigeru Aoki. When Etaro was three years old, his father, Rando, raped actress Hiroko Kawasaki. Rando…

Yamaguchi Masatoshi

He is from Kobe City , Hyogo Prefecture . After graduating from Toho High School and the University of Tokyo Law School , he studied at Columbia University and acquired an MBA (Master of Business Administration) and then joined Fuji TV . He had a connection with an actor belonging to Stardust Promotion…

Kanda Takashi

Kanda Takashi, born Kanda Sumitaka (神田澄孝) in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Kakashi Pro (かかしプロ), Amachi Proze (アマチプロゼ), and Kitagawa Office (北川事務所). He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Department of French Literature,…

Nanbara Koji

Nanbara Koji was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He died of myocardial infarction in Chofu, Tokyo at age 74. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hosokawa Chikako

Hosokawa Chikako was a Japanese actress born in Uchisaiwai, Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Koran Women's School and joined Osanai Kaoru’s Tsukiji Little Theater in 1925, making her stage debut in "Kakujin Kakusetsu". In 1929, at age 23, she left the theater to help form the Shinjuku Theater…

Yasumoto Ayaka

Yasumoto Ayaka is a Japanese singer, talent, and member of Shiritsu Ebisu Junior High School. She belongs to Stardust Promotion and was born in Tokyo. She is a former member of Mini Cheer ☆ Bears.

Azuma Chiyonosuke

Azuma Chiyonosuke was a Japanese actor and dancer. He appeared in more than forty films from 1954 to 1993. Born in Tokyo, Azuma attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, while studying Japanese dance under Bando Mitsugoro VIII. He joined the Toei studio in 1954 and became a star after his debut film,…

Miura Mitsuko

Mitsuko Miura was a Japanese actress active from 1938 to 1964. After graduating from Otsuma Girls' High School, Tokyo, Mitsuko Miura joined the Nichigeki dancing team before signing to the Shochiku film studio. She gave her film debut in 1938 with Hotaru no hikari and appeared in films of Hiroshi Shimizu,…

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.

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…

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…

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,…

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.