Higashiyama Akemi

Higashiyama Akemi, born Toshie Tamegai (為ヶ井寿江), is a Japanese singer and actress from Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with Antenne. In 1963, she successfully auditioned on the Nippon TV program "Hoihoi Music School." The following year, at the age of 17, she debuted as a youth song…

Tachibana Yasuhito

Tachibana Yasuhito is a Japanese producer. He is the representative of the production company 'Nemeton.' After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked at Cable Broad Networks (now USEN) before joining the production company Dramax Television (now TBS Sparkle) in 2004, affiliated with the…

Donie Ordiales

Donie Ordiales is an independent director-screenwriter born in Las-pinas, Metro-Manila Philippines. He graduated from the Tokyo Film Center School of Arts with a major in film directing. His is active in both Japan and the Philippines, but is currently in Tokyo, Japan. (Source: donx11.com)

Miyake Kazunori

Miyake Kazunori is a Japanese composer, arranger, and keyboardist from Okinawa, Japan. He is affiliated with the Face Music Publishing. A graduate of the Composition Department at Tokyo University of the Arts, Miyake adeptly utilizes a range of instruments, from orchestras to synthesizers, traditional…

Nagai Yoshio

Nagai Yoshio is a Japanese novelist and historical commentator born in Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School. Subsequently, he completed his studies at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, majoring in the Indian and Pakistani languages. After working at Fukuwa…

Henmi Minoru

Henmi Minoru was a Japanese television producer and the founder of Office Henmi. After graduating from Keio University Law School, Henmi joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and was assigned to the Tokyo Public Relations Department. Eventually, he became responsible for dramas and, in the…

Tajima Kazuko

Tajima Kazuko is a former Japanese actress. She was born in Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School. She was a member of the 12th class of the Haiyuza Theatre Company. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Iizawa Tadasu

Iizawa Tadasu, born Iizawa Tadasu (伊澤紀) in Wakayama, Japan, was a Japanese playwright, director, and novelist. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School's affiliated elementary school in 1922 and entered Musashi High School (武蔵高等学校) that same year. However, he struggled with…

Yamada Tomokazu

Yamada Tomokazu is a Japanese photographer, filmmaker, and director from Tokyo. (Source: Wikipedia JP)

Otani Yosuke

Otani Yosuke was born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1970. He made his debut as a screenwriter in 2008 with the drama "Tokyo Ghost Trip." He has since worked on various drama productions, including "Oyakoko Play" (2008) and "Oretachi wa Tenshi da! NO ANGEL NO LUCK" (2009). In 2015, he received the Excellence…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…