Oikawa Izou

Oikawa Izou is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Yamaguchi prefecture.

Nakamura Baijaku

Shinichi Mitsui better known as Nakamura Baijaku II, is a Japanese actor, bassist, and composer. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Ogikubo High School and later graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. Nakamura also has relatives who are kabuki actors. Great-grandfather: Nakamura Kanemon…

Arimori Narimi

Arimori Narimi, born in Yokohama, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She's represented by the talent agency Space Craft Group. (Source: DramaWiki)

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Hatta Naoyuki

Hatta Naoyuki was a Japanese screenwriter born in Otaru, Hokkaido. Actress Hosho Ayako is his wife. In 1927, when he was 21, he joined Katsumi Yotaro Productions. The following March, in 1928, his original story was adapted and made into a movie as a script. In November of the same year, he debuted…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Yamamuro Ko

Yamamuro Ko, born Nishimori Takashige (西森高茂), was a Japanese actor from Kochi, Japan. He graduated from Kochi Castle East Commercial School. In 1927, he joined the Nikkatsu Daishogun Studio under the stage name Murakami Eiji ((村上英二), occasionally working under his real name. In 1933,…

Egawa Ureo

Egawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to a German father and a Japanese mother. His name "Ureo" is a Japanification of his German name "Willy". He joined the Taikatsu film studio in 1920, but not finding stable work, he joined a gang of delinquents. Egawa of this period became the model for Ton Satomi's…

Ohara Joji

Ohara Joji was a Japanese cameraman and cinematographer born in Tokyo. He is the father of bassist and composer Ohara Ray. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin Middle School, he joined Matsutake Kamata Photo Studio in 1924, when he was 19 years old. In 1927, he was promoted to a cameraman and made his…

Matsuo Fumindo

Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…

Adventures of the Super Monkey: Journey to the West

7.0

A young monk Sanzo Hoshi sets out for India, never forgetting to keep a "believing heart" as he travels together with Son Goku (monkey), Sagojo (water monster) and Chohakkai (Pig), those spirits who are always causing…

DQN no Hoshi ni Totsugimashita

DQN is an internet slang term that refers to someone who is thoughtless, rude, and unreasonable. The main character, housewife Azusa, and her family move from Tokyo to her husband's hometown. Then her husband, who…

Aozora Koi Hoshi

7.2

Fuji TV reserves the late-night time period to be used for experimental projects. The cast is made up of young artistes who are either already established in the geinoukai, or are relatively unknowns looking for the…

Hoshi No Bokujo

4.0

Momiichi, a young man working on a plateau ranch, has lost his memory due to the shock and malaria fever he received during the war. However, he couldn't forget about his beloved horse, Tsukisumi, who went missing…

Hoshi o Tsugu Mono

5.0

Kenji Yoshida, who was born in the Showa Era and is now nearing retirement age, was approached by a female reporter on a TV program on his way to the station. Kenji, who was willing to respond to her interview, guided…

Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama

7.9

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read even today. His stories often feature mysterious…

Shimai Hoshi

Katsushika Misako, a stage actress, had a physical relationship with the director Toki because of her ambition to succeed as an actress. When she had a child with him, she secretly gave birth and left the baby to her…

Ichiban Hoshi wa Toku Kagayaku

Ako, who broke up with her boyfriend of three years, has not been able to forget him even after six months, and is unable to throw away the ring he gave her. One day, Ako is called by her friend Yuko to bury her dead…

Hoshi Hitotsu no Yoru

6.9

The story unfolds as Nonoyama, a loner staff of a janitorial services, finds a coat with 470,000 yen in a concert hall. He eventually finds the owner of the coat and they become friends. As they get to know each other,…

Hotaru no Hoshi

7.5

A young teacher has some good ideas about teaching, but he finds himself up against Japan's regimented and conservative school system. As a class project he decides to raise fireflies. Through the project his students…