Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Wada Ayao

Wada Ayao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and stage producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He was the former president of Theater Echo (テアトル・エコー). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In November 1946, he joined the Baraza theater…

Kokontei Shincho III

Kokontei Shincho III was a Japanese rakugo performer born in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Kokontei Shinsei V, younger brother of Kanbaratei Basso X, niece of actress Ikebata Shino, and nephew by marriage of actor Nakao Akira. It should be noted that there are two other individuals…

Suzuki Terue

Suzuki Terue, born as Enoki Terue (榎木輝江), is a Japanese actress from Oshima, Koto, Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, she changed her stage name to Suzuki Terue (木てるえ). (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Kujira

Matsumoto Wakako, better known by the stage name Kujira, is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She is employed by 81 Produce. (Source: Wikipedia)

Miyazaki Shinichi

Shinichi Miyazaki, formerly a producer at Nippon Educational Television in Japan, began his career with Toei Company in 1954 after graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. Initially based at Toei's Kyoto and Tokyo studios, he later moved to Nippon Educational Television (NET)…

Tanimoto Sayoko

Tanimoto Sayoko is a Japanese actress from Hyogo, Japan. In 1950, she joined the Toei Tokyo Studio, making her debut in the film "The Metropolitan Police Department Story: 73 Hours of Pursuit" in 1956. She left Toei in 1979 to become a freelance actress. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation…

Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

Yasukawa Goro

Yasukawa Goro is a Japanese composer from Aichi, Japan, raised in Iida, Nagano, Japan. He dropped out of the Composition Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. During his studies, he began working as a studio musician, and it was around 1989 when he met Ishii Takashi that…

Swords in the Moonlight 3

7.2

In this final episode, Ryunosuke, a psychotic samurai, is in Kofu (west of the Japanese capital of Edo, as Tokyo was then known), where he is employed to test a new sword each evening by killing a passerby. But the…

Passport to Darkness

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master…

Vampire Bride

6.0

Fujiko Shirai, Hideko Shinohara, Kiyoko Takiuchi, Rie Tamaki, Sanae Mitsutake are friends of “New Tokyo Dance School”. Newspaper reporter Ota moved from Eiko to Fujiko and was hated by Eiko. Satoeda, who was led…

Wait for Tomorrow

4.0

Misugi Kohei works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company, which offers him an assignment to “Cover…

Obon's Dipping Contest

Obon, the proprietress of the Oden restaurant "Obon" in Kanda, Tokyo, was originally the female boss of the pickpocket group "Atomic Gumi". Soon, a woman gets into trouble when she takes over photos, which was planned…

3000 En no Sekai Ryoko

2.0

A fantastic musical drama where dreams and reality are intertwined. A gentleman with a mysterious power appears in front of a man and a woman who go out for a date in Tokyo with a budget of 3000 yen, and magically…

I Hate But Love

6.9

In the high-octane, unorthodox romance I Hate But Love, a celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves face-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When…

With Songs in My Heart

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make…

Obra Maestra

5 Segments, 25 Stars. 5 Cities, 5 Directors. First segment "Tokyo", second segment "Macao", third segment "Manila", fourth segment "Hong Kong", fifth segment "Singapore". (Source: IMDb)

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…