Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Matsukawa Tsutomu

Matsukawa Tsutomu is a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Keio University (慶應義塾大学). During high school, he worked part-time as a model. In 1962, he was scouted by a Shochiku (松竹) employee and made his acting debut in the 1963 film Utae…

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…

Ninagawa Yukio

Yukio Ninagawa (蜷川 幸雄, Ninagawa Yukio, October 15, 1935 – May 12, 2016) was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of Hamlet. Ninagawa was…

Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…

Five Filosophical Fables

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’ values. As an allegory of an ‘all-consuming’ Tokyo family cannibalizing each…

Black Lizard

7.4

Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular culture. ~~ The film is based on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo,…

Misstepping of Virtue

6.0

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage. (Source: TMDB) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Misstepping of Virtue" (美徳のよろめき) by Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫).

The Sound of the Waves

7.2

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father…

Temple of the Golden Pavilion

6.7

In the time of World War II, Mizoguchi, the son of a Buddhist priest is sent to Kyoto to become an acolyte at the famed Golden Temple. However, tortured by his personal shortcomings in contrast with the eternal beauty…

Tokyo: The City of Glass

2.0

Toru, a graduate student who runs a bar in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo's gay district, meets Yong, a Korean man, and he falls in love. This seemingly ordinary event is somehow linked to a 20-year-old homicide case, and…

Kofukugo Shuppan

Mitsuko Yamaji lived with her mother, Masayo, a former opera singer, her half-brother Toshio and her maiden aunt Yumeko. Like her mother, Mitsuko aspired to be an opera singer and had a boyfriend named Tomita, a customs…

Mishima Yukiko

Mishima Yukiko was born in Osaka in 1969. After graduating from Kobe College, she worked at the TV broadcasting station NHK before completing her first cinema feature, Shisei: Like A Smelling Moom, in 2009. Since then, she has worked as a director and script writer for cinema as well as TV productions.…

Broken Hearts for Sale

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band". ~ "Oyaji Fight" directed by Yukiko Mishima, "Father and Son" directed by Hideo Sakaki, "This Gentle World" directed…

Alone Together

COVID-19 shook the whole world. In Japan, a state of emergency was declared for the first time on April 7, 2020, and our lives changed forever. On her birthday, April 22nd, Director Yukiko Mishima came up with the…

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

The Farmers Bride: I Want to See You

5.2

Yukie works at a girl's bar. She has failed in finding a good man, until she meets Tsunetaro. Tsunetaro is the eldest son from a farming family. They eventually marry and Yukie begins agriculture work as a farmer's…

Hodaka Minoru

Hodaka Minoru was a Japanese actor born in Hiroshima prefecture. He graduated from the former Military Technical Institute. He died at the age of 94 of heart failure. (Source: MyDramaList)

Hosokawa Toshio

Hidari Sachiko

Hidari Sachiko was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1952 and 1995. At the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her roles in "Kanojo to Kare" and "The Insect Woman". In 1977, she directed and starred in the film "The Far Road",…