Lek Sa-Ard Piempongsan

Sa-ard Piempongsan (nicknamed: Lek) was a renowned actor, television scriptwriter and film director born in Bangkok, Thailand. He graduated from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan in 1955. At the age of 23, Sa-ard became a pioneering producer of television programmes for TV Channel 4 Bang Khun Phrom.…

Naito Eisuke

Naito Eisuke, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982, graduated from the Film School of Tokyo and subsequently began directing independent movies while working as a teacher at a special education school. His short film The Prince of Milk (2008) was invited to Nippon Connection in 2010 and also to many other…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Taguchi Kiyotaka

Taguchi Kiyotaka is a Japanese film and special effects director from Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from Muroran Sakae High School in 1999, he moved to Tokyo and began training at Nikkan Geijutsu Gakuin. He dropped out of the school in 2000. (Source: MyDramlist)

Murakami Shosuke

Born in 1963 , Shosuke Murakami worked on several television dramas as second assistant director before serving as chief director of the TV series “ Tokyo Wa n Kei” in 2004 . This film marks his feature film directorial debut .

Fujita Sokyu

Fujita Sokyu is a Japanese actor born in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, who belongs to the theater group Yen. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of Russian Language. In 1973, after graduating from college, he became a research student at the theater company Un. In 1976,…

Morigaki Yukihiro

Morigaki Yukihiro is a Japanese producer and director born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He started video production while in university, worked in a commercial production company in Fukuoka, and then moved to Tokyo to participate in the video director group "THE DIRECTORS GUILD". Produced music videos,…

Kikuchi Shunsuke

Kikuchi Shunsuke was a Japanese composer and orchestrator from Aomori, Japan. He died while being treated for pneumonia in a hospital in Tokyo on April 24, 2021.

Yamagata Isao

Yamagata Isao was a Japanese actor born in London, England, where his acrobat father toured. He grew up in Ichibei-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo. In 1935, he graduated from the Japan Academy of Actors. After completing his military service, he joined the Toho Theater Company in 1936. In 1942, he formed the theater…

Nakaya Noboru

Nakatani Noboru, a Japanese actor born in Takanawa, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, initially enrolled in Chuo University’s Faculty of Law but left to pursue a career in theater. He began his theatrical journey with Bungakuza Theatre Research Institute in 1950, becoming a full member in 1951. His film debut…

The Dancing Girl of Izu

7.5

Izu no Odoriko is based on the story The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata. It tells the story of the interactions between a young male student from Tokyo, and a small group of travelling performers that he…

Autumn Interlude

7.3

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and…

Sabita Hono

In the early hours of April 13th, someone kidnapped five-year-old hemophiliac Kazuya Maruyama from Tanemura General Hospital in Setagaya, Tokyo. Soon, the desperate parents are contacted by the kidnapper, who blames…

Ichibanboshi

1.0

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. ~ Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Takase in the lead two months into the series when Takase became ill. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Aa Tokyo…

Love in the Mud

7.4

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father…

Naze ka Hatsukoi Minami Kaze

Michiko lived in Paris , but after losing her husband, she returned to Japan for the first time in 18 years and opened a crepe shop "Nanfudou" in Nihonbashi Ningyocho , Tokyo . A comedy -touch drama that depicts various…

Orewa Owarimakun

10.0

Oka Hifumi, the police chief who was appointed as a group leader at a 4-chome police station under the jurisdiction of the Niizuma Police Station in the suburbs of Tokyo as a squad leader, is swayed by the lazy subordinates…

Koukou Kyoushi

2.0

Dr. Koichiro Kitayama, who has worked as an English teacher at Shirayuki Girls' High School in Osugi City, Tokyo, has lost his job due to bankruptcy. Kitayama, who has no teaching experience, and students who are mainly…

Joshi Kokosei Satsujin Jiken

Akiko Nanjo is 24 years old. Burning with the idea of "well-rounded education," she was assigned as a Japanese language teacher at a private High School in a corner of Musashino in Tokyo. As soon as she was assigned,…

Somehow, Crystal

While her boyfriend Junichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the time in Tokyo by shopping for luxury products, visiting affluent neighborhoods, eating expensive food, and seeking new…