Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Ozawa Shoichi

Ozawa Shoichi, born in Tokyo, was a Japanese actor, radio host, haiku poet, singer and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company. Ozawa, who graduated from Waseda University, began acting after college, beginning with his debut stage role…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Sugimoto Tetta

Sugimoto Tetta is a Japanese actor from Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His agency is Tristone Entertainment. He dropped out of Kanagawa Prefectural Fujisawa Technical High School. In 1981, he made his debut with the Yokohama Ginbae family rock band, Grease. In the same year, he made a regular…

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Ryu Chishu

Ryu Chishu was a Japanese actor born in Tamamizu, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. His family resided in Ryojoji Temple, which belonged to the Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha sect, where his father served as a priest. He graduated from Tamamizu Elementary School and then from Tamana Junior High School. Following this,…

Yamamoto Kajiro

Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…

Hisatomi Koreharu

Hisatomi Koreharu was a Japanese actor.

Hamada Manabu

Hamada Manabu is a Japanese actor.

Miura Masaki

Miura Masaki is a Japanese actor from Wakayama, Japan.

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan. (Source: IMDb)

Willful Murder

7.2

A Japanese reporter tirelessly tries to solve the mystery surrounding the death of his country's railways president.

Darkness in the Light

8.0

Kanbe Toshio, a middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest…

Japan’s Longest Summer

3.3

The year is 1963. Twenty-eight former military and government officials meet at a restaurant in Ginza to lament over Japan’s decision to surrender in World War II.

Tragedy of Japan

9.0

The film tells the story of a mother, played by Yûko Mochizuki, who had to raise two children during and after World War II but whose children reject her. (Source: Wikipedia)

Japan's Tragedy

5.9

A retired widower, Murai Fujio, who after being diagnosed with lung cancer, refuses treatment and shuts himself in his room with his wife’s altar. Meanwhile, his unemployed son is suffering with depression after…

Dark Tales of Japan

It comprises five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in a kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long, isolated mountain road. >>…

The Emperor in August

7.1

In July, 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs…

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

6.3

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish,…