Tanaka Akio

Tanaka Akio was a Japanese actor and voice actor usually playing hateful villains in movies and historical dramas.

Tsuruta Koji

Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Akutagawa Yasushi

Akutagawa Yasushi was a Japanese composer and conductor. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Music in 1949 and studied composition with Hashimoto Kunihiko, Shimofusa Kanichi and Ifukube Akira at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai (The Three) along with Dan Ikuma and Mayuzumi…

Kaneko Nobuo

Kaneko Nobuo was a Japanese actor, culinary researcher, host, and talent born in Shitaya, Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in a family of dentists and struggled with tuberculosis from a young age, facing a prognosis that he might not live past 20. Despite his health challenges, he graduated from Kyoka Gakuen…

Umezu Sakae

Umezu Sakae, born Umezu Shigeru (梅津榮) in Tomari, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with several agencies, including Dojin Kai (同人会), Miya Pro (ミヤプロ), Hitomedia (ヒトメディア), and Dual Production (デュアルプロダクション)…

Kimura Isao

Isao Kimura was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog as Yusa the criminal. Perhaps his most notable role was in Seven Samurai as the youngest of the samurai, Katsushiro.

Tamaki Yuki

Tamaki Yuki is a Japanese actor who debuted in 2004. His first role was in the television drama "Echo Echo Azara~ Me~" and is well known for his roles in the Yowamushi Pedal stage plays, "Jaibo" in both the Lychee Light Club anime and stage play and Amaimon in the Blue Exorcist stage play, and more…

Kawahara Sabu

Kawahara Sabu is a Japanese actor and talent, born in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. His original stage name was Kawahara Hiromasa (河原裕昌), which he changed to Kawahara Sabu in 1982. He is currently affiliated with Horipro Booking Agency (ホリプロ・ブッキング・エージェンシー). After…

Sugi Hiroyuki

Sugi Hiroyuki is a former Japanese actor born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Myojo Gakuen High School. Coming from an acting family, his father, Sugi Kyoji, and brothers, Sugi Giichi and Sugi Yukihiko, were also actors, as was his nephew, Sugi Kinya. Sugi Hiroyuki began his career with the…

Kumo to Asonda...

Iku Kumo

Yuku Kumo

Hitokui Kumo

Natsuiro no Kumo ga Koi to Arashi wo Makiokosu

Takemiya Natsuki, a high school senior preparing for his university entrance exams, is having the worst summer ever. He gets dumped by his girlfriend right before summer break, his mock exam scores are a disaster,…

Kaito Madara Kumo

Kaze to Kumo to Toride

Kaze to Kumo to Niji to

8.4

The story of Taira no Masakado, a lord of the Kanto district in the mid-10th century, best known for his failed revolt against the Kyoto government in 903AD.

Aoi Sora Shiroi Kumo

8.0

On Christmas Eve 2010, Rie attends a party with friends. On Valentine's Day, her parents' divorce and her mother leave for Los Angeles. Rie then learns she is admitted at a university in America for the fall term.…

Saka no Ue no Kumo

7.8

The 19th Century was a turbulent one for Japan. Enduring the throes of change brought about by the Meiji era, it still struggled to join the world and be considered a “civilized, modern nation.” After 300 years,…