Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Hashimoto Ai

Hashimoto Ai is a Japanese actress and fashion model. Hashimoto made her debut after winning the grand prize in the HUAHUA Audition in 2008. She appeared in "Confessions" and starred in "The Kirishima Thing", for which she won new face awards from the Japan Academy and Kinema Junpo. She also appeared…

Higashide Masahiro

Masahiro Higashide is a Japanese actor and model who won the Rookie of the Year at the 36th Japan Academy Prize in 2013 and the Sponichi Grand Prix Newcomer Award ("The Kirishima Thing") at the 67th Mainichi Film Awards in 2012. Higashide graduated from Saitama Prefectural Asaka High School. He practiced…

Yoshida Daihachi

Yoshida Daihachi is a Japanese film director and writer. He won the award for Best New Director at the 29th Yokohama Film Festival for Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!(2007). He also won many awards for his film The Kirishima Thing (2012) for Best Director at the 67th Mainichi Film Awards and Director…

Emoto Tasuku

Emoto Tasuku is a Japanese actor who is from a family of prolific and well-respected character actors. His father is actor Emoto Akira, his mother is actress Tsunogae Kazue, his younger brother is actor Emoto Tokio, and his wife is actress Ando Sakura. He began acting as a young teenager and has since…

Yamamoto Mizuki

Yamamoto Mizuki is a Japanese actress and model. Yamamoto was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. She started her career as an exclusive model for the women's fashion magazine CanCam in 2009. Two years later, she made her acting debut in the Fuji TV drama Shiawase ni Narōyo. On August 11, 2012, she made her…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Kuroki Kazuo

Kuroki Kazuo was born on November 10, 1930 in Matsuzaka, Mie, Japan. He attended Doshisha University, but left before graduating, instead finding employment at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga). There he directed PR films and documentary films, while also participating in the "Blue Group" (Ao no kai)…

Esumi Makiko

Esumi Makiko, born in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi is most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi in the Japanese television drama series Shomuni. Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy…

Akiramemasen!

Kirishima Ikuko decides to move from her city apartment to the countryside, where her husband Mikio’s family home is, after Mikio retires from his job. After 30 years of marriage, working while raising their two…

The Escape

A Japanese terrorist, Satoshi Kirishima, remained one of Japan's most wanted fugitives for almost 50 years until revealing his identity as he lay dying. (Source: IMDb)

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo

6.3

An omnibus movie containing two short stories. >> Story 1: "Tsukimono" (ツキモノ) Kirishima Ayumi is a college student who has just completed her second interview with a prospective employer. Ayumi then takes a…

Kurihara Goro

Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage

7.7

A request to hire a bodyguard comes into the dojo of Daito Karate school. Natsuki Kirishima needs protection until she can meet her fiancé, she's paying a high price for this which indicates the high level of danger…

Keizoku: Beautiful Dreamer

7.3

"Keizoku," unfolds in the present, beginning in the dimly lit basement office of the Metropolitan Police Office's Criminal Investigations Section One, which is charged with pursuing "pending" (keizoku) investigations…

Kaseifu no Mitazono Season 4

7.8

Mitazono Kaoru is a housekeeper. He is perfect at his job, but he is also full of mystery. He dresses up as a woman. He accompanies housekeeper Murata Hikaru and rookie housekeeper Kirishima Mai. (Source: AsianWiki)

Kamen Rider Ryuki The Movie: Episode Final

7.2

This is an alternate ending of the series. Shiro Kanzaki tells the war between Riders will be end in three days and all riders who is just six remaining which is Ryuki(Shinji kido),Knight(Ren Akiyama),Zolda(Shuichi…

Tokyo Ghoul S

7.4

Kaneki Ken is a university student. He is also half-ghoul and half-human. He agonizes over his situation. Trying to avoid other ghouls, he shelters himself at Anteiku Cafe and spends time with Kirishima Toka. One day,…

Path of the Dragons

7.4

Twin brothers Ryuichi and Ryuji, abandoned as infants, were adopted by the Yoshie family, who ran a small shipping business. Their happy childhood ended when a rival, Genpei Kirishima, drove the Yoshies into debt,…

Mars: Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru

7.3

Kira Aso is a high school student with an introverted personality. When she was a child, her father died in a car accident caused by a motorcycle gang. Now, she sketches the sea every day during her spring break. One…