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…

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…