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.…

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…

Kashiwagi Hinata

Kashiwagi Hinata is a Japanese actress. She's a member of girl group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku in November of 2010. She is known for her outstanding singing skills and has participated in TV Tokyo's 'THE Karaoke★Battle.' In 2021 she took a 3-month break for her health In March, 2022 she held a solo tour…

Hasebe Kanae

Hasebe Kanae is an actress, voice actor, and writer from Tokyo, Japan. Her father is the movie director Hasebe Yasuharu and her brother is the novelist and screenwriter Hasebebakushino. She graduated from Tamagawa University. She's been active since 1985. She's best known for her "Abunai Deka" role,…

Kanada Ai

Kanada Ai is a Japanese actress and AV idol. Her office is BOOTLEG. Her old stage name is Kaoru Sakurako. She is from Tokyo. Her hobby is listening to music. She is 157 cm tall. Since 2005, she has appeared in general movies, V-cinema and adult movies. (Source: Wikipedia)

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…

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…

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 .

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…

Oiwa Inari

The first known film relating to the classic ghost story Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan ("Ghost Story of Yotsuya on the Tokaido", 1825), a kabuki play written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and first performed at Tokyo's Nakamura theatre,…

Only Sun Knows

Weng Nao (29), a Taiwanese youth who claims to be the next master in the Japanese literary world, arrives in the blooming modern city Tokyo in 1934. However, as a result of the rogue and decadent life, his manuscript…

Dreams of Youth

Okada and Kato, students at 'W' [i.e. Waseda] University, in Tokyo, live in the same lodgings. One morning, Kato receives a tailor's bill. Okada has seen the letter arrive, so Kato tells him it's from his girlfriend.…

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…

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…

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…

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…