284 results found for: Shitamachi Bobsleigh
Kanie Keizo
Kanie Keizo was a Japanese actor. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for "Angel Guts: Red Classroom" and "Jūkyūsai no Chizu" and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for "Ware ni utsu yoi ari" and "Boku to, bokura no natsu". Kanie died on March 30, 2014,…
Kawa no Aru Shitamachi no Hanashi
Japanese Movie - 1955
Adapted from a novel written by Kawabata Yasunari (川端康成).
Downtown Rocket
Japanese Drama - 2015, 10 episodes7.8
Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher with the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory which was left by his father. Although his relationship with his teenage daughter…
Downtown
Japanese Movie - 19574.0
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband. (Source: TMDb)
The Sunshine Girl
Japanese Movie - 19637.1
Machiko lives comfortably with her father, grandmother and two younger brothers while working at a cosmetics factory in Shitamachi. Her boyfriend Michio has dreams of landing a salaried position and settling down in…
Tokyo Bandwagon
Japanese Drama - 2013, 10 episodes7.7
The somewhat peculiar Hotta family runs Tokyo Bandwagon, a secondhand bookstore and cafe in the old part of Tokyo. They are a big four-generation family that is rare these days. The Hottas live by rather unusual family…
Rakugo Monogatari
Japanese Movie - 20117.1
Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple,…
Tanaka Kenta
Tanaka Kenta is a Japanese director and producer. Won the award for the Best Director at the 87th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director for "Shitamachi Rocket".
Yamazaki Ikusaburo
Yamazaki Ikusaburo is a musical actor and singer born in Tokyo. His singing voice is softly powerful and he was called Musical Prince. Acknowledge for role as Marius in Les Miserable (Japan) Musical and gain his popularity for role as Amadeus Mozart which is yearly played at Imperial Theater. He is…
Amano Chihiro
Chihiro Amano is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who has been described as "profusely talented" by movie critic Tom Mes. Amano was born on July 30, 1982. After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 Sayonara Muffler which was shown at…
Ikeido Jun
Ikeido Jun was born in Gifu Prefecture. Following his graduation from Keio University, he began working for Mitsubishi Bank in 1988. Following his retirement from the bank in 1995, he began working as a consultant and wrote a number of business related books and supervised software for accountants.…
Ikeido Jun
Ikeido Jun was born in Gifu Prefecture on June 16,1963. Following his graduation from Keio University, he began working for Mitsubishi Bank in 1988. Following his retirement from the bank in 1995, he began working as a consultant and wrote a number of business related books and supervised software for…
Baisho Chieko
Baisho Chieko is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yamada Yoji since the 1960s. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Hochi Film…
Chiba Yasuki
Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…
Kimura Gakushi
Kimura Gakuji was a Japanese narrative music (rakugo) playwright and playwright. After the war, he also became an exclusive writer for NHK. In his later years, he established the "Religious Record Production Headquarters" and created narrative music based on famous Japanese monks such as Dogen, Shinran,…
Hasebe Takeshi
Hasebe Takeshi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto, Japan. His real name is Itsumi Ryuji (逸見竜治). He dropped out of Meiji Gakuin University. In 1948, he made his first appearance in Daiei's 'Doburoku no Tatsu' under the stage name Nakano Ryuichi (中野竜一). In 1949, after joining Daiei, he…
