Nabe Osami

Nabe Osami is a Japanese actor, comedian, talent, radio personality, voice actor, and screenwriter from Omori, Tokyo, Japan.

Koike Asao

Koike Asao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Tokyo. He graduated from Aoyama High School and joined the Bungakuza Acting Research Institute in 1950, making his stage debut in "The People of Mount Kunlun." In 1963, following a split in Bungakuza, he helped found the modern theater…

Yang Yong Hi

Yang Yong Hi is a Japanese-born Korean (or Zainichi) film director. Born in Osaka in 1964 as a second-generation Korean. She studied Korean literature at Korea University in Tokyo and media studies in New York. She has worked as a teacher, actress, radio host and foreign correspondent for TV. Having…

Watanabe Fumio

Fumio Watanabe was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.

Jeffrey Rowe

Canadian actor, voice actor and producer. Originally from Prince Edward Island though living on and off in Tokyo and Vancouver since 2003. Speak English, French and Japanese. Involved in drama and theatre since his teens (Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice). Many lead and featured roles in TV and film…

Numata Yoichi

Numata Yoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yubara Village, Maniwa District, Okayama Prefecture. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Sixth Junior High School and dropped out of Nihon University's Film Department. After working as a trainee at the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Theater Company, he joined Toyoko…

Nishikiori Kazukiyo

Japanese actor , voice actor , director , dancer , leader of the male idol group " Shonentai". Nicknamed " Nikki " by fans , " Nishiki " among members . Born in Tokyo. He auditioned in his fifth year of elementary school and entered the office in July 1977, 6th year of Hirai Minami Elementary School…

Sato Natsuki

Sato joined AKB48 as a second-generation member in 2003. After graduating in 2012, she has been running a nail salon in Tokyo. In February of 2017, she announced her marriage. She had her first son in March 2018 and her second son in October 2020. In February 2022 she announced on her Instagram account…

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman. Born in Shinagawa- cho , Tokyo (now Shinagawa-ku , Tokyo ). In the 1930s Nikkatsu Kyoto studio joined in, Sadao Yamanaka studied with, Marne SanTaro , Kinugasa fourteen San , Hiroshi Inagaki…

Sato Shimako

Sato Shimako is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Her husband is the film director Takashi Yamazaki . In 1992, she made his directorial debut in the movie “Tale of a Vampire” and won the Aboriaz Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Natsuzora

8.1

The story is set during the high economic development time of the Showa period. Natsu lost her parents during the war so she moves to the Tokachi region in Hokkaido with her foster father who is a dairy farmer. While…

Amachan

8.1

Amano Aki goes with her mother Haruko to her hometown in Kitasanriku during a summer vacation. There, she meets her maternal grandmother, Natsu, for the first time. Natsu is a woman diver aka "ama", and Aki thinks…

Influence

8.2

Yuri confesses to a female novelist that she and two friends committed three murders and asks her to write their story. In high school, Yuri lived in a provincial apartment complex where she knew her classmate Satoko…

Last Samurai Standing

8.3

The story begins in Kyoto, Japan in 1878, 10 years after the glory days of the samurai. Stripped of their identity and status and no longer permitted even to carry swords, the samurai struggle to survive in this new…

The Emperor's Cook

8.5

Tokuzo Akiyama is a young man from a rural area who is married and has a child along the way. One day, he eats a delicious breaded cutlet, which inspires him to strive to become a chef specializing in Parisian cuisine.…

Pachinko Season 2

8.5

Begins in Osaka in 1945 when World War II broke out, and tells the story of Sun Ja's struggles to protect her family, even making dangerous choices. The stories of Solomon, who must start anew with nothing in 1989…

Silent

8.5

Tsumugi Aoba fell in love with So Sakura, who attended the same high school. They both shared an interest in music. Their relationship got deeper and deeper, but, suddenly, Sakura said goodbye to her without giving…

Soul Mate

8.1

After inadvertently destroying the life of his best friend, Narutaki Ryu abandons everything and leaves Japan. He nearly dies at a church in a foreign country before he is saved by a Korean boxer named Hwang Jo Han.…

Okaeri Mone

8.0

Momone Nagaura lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome.…

Rurouni Kenshin

8.6

Former legendary assassin, Kenshin Himura, has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid and protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time, he comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya. Her…