Otake Shinobu

Shinobu Otake is a Japanese film and stage actress, known for The Wind Rises (2013), Go (2001), and Like Asura (2003). She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi).…

Fujioka Takuya

Hosokawa Toshiyuki

Hosokawa Toshiyuki was a Japanese actor associated with the Aktor. Born in Fukuoka and raised in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, he completed his education at Yamaguchi Prefectural Toyora High School and briefly attended Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he was involved…

Ikebe Ryo

Ikebe Ryo was born on February 11, 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kyuketsu-ga (1956), Desertion at Dawn (1950) and Madame White Snake (1956). He died on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as…

Shoji Terue

Shoji Terue is a Japanese actress born in Osaka, Japan. She is known for being part of the comedic musical trio Kashimashi Musume with her sisters, where Terue used to play rhythmic guitar. All 3 still perform in comedic shows sometimes, although they're now more active on TV dramas and commercials.…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Matsukane Yoneko

Yoneko Matsukane was born on October 22, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gôgô sentai Bôkenger (2006), Berusaiyu no bara (1979) and Taan (2001).

Kiuchi Midori

Kinouchi Midori is a former Japanese idol and actress. In early 1978 she scored her biggest hit with "Yokohama Eleven", which reached the Oricon top 30. That same year she announced her retirement because of her marriage to composer and arranger Tsugutoshi Goto. They divorced 4 years later, and she…

Kobayashi Akiji

Kobayashi Akiji, sometimes credited as Kobayashi Shouji or Mori Issei, was a Japanese actor who played Tōbei Tachibana ("Oya-san") in the early years of the Kamen Rider Series, starting in the original Kamen Rider in 1971 to Kamen Rider Stronger in 1976. He is best known in the West for portraying…

Morimoto Leo

Morimoto Leo is a Japanese actor, narrator, talent and voice actor born in Nakagawa, Nagoya, Aichi.

Uchuu De Ichiban Aitai Hito

Aishite Aishite Aishi Chatta no yo

Adapted from a song with the same title by Hiroshi Wada and Mahina Stars & Miyoko Tashiro. It also became the leitmotif of the entire production. They also played as a band, small roles in the movie.

Kaidan Botan Doro: Motto Motto, Aisa Retakatta

~~ Based on the Japanese ghost story "Botan Doro" (牡丹燈籠).

Ambivalent Future: Kurosawa Kiyoshi

In this film, director Fujii Kenjiro provides an intimate portrait of the filming of "Bright Future", directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Fujii takes the "making-of" film to a higher level and creates a unique documentary…

Ambiguous

5.6

A diverse group of people, all with troubles in their daily lives, meet online and decide to commit suicide together. Isolated from society at large, they form a physical bond as the appointed time approaches.

Ambiguous!

Again

7.1

High school student Hatsumi lives with her mother. Her father passed away. She then meets 18-year-old Ryutaro who works at a waste paper collection field. They fall in love. Ryutaro is then unable to contact Hatsumi…

Standby I.O.I

7.7

Feeling Relief Is Easy

4.5

Higashiyama Noriyuki stars as a playboy who is not about to be caught, and relative newcomer, Ryo, is the naive young woman who dreams of eventually ensnaring him even if she must sit back and watch him cavort with…