Kono Shotaro

Kono Shotaro is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka. He is a member of the theater company Prestige.

Spinning around My Whirl

7.2

Yono Miyako is a single 30-year-old contract worker. It's been a year since she left her dream city of Tokyo and returned to her hometown of Ibaraki. No matter how hard she works, she doesn't get rewarded, and she…

Ah, Wilderness 2

7.5

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out of a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends…

March Goes Out Like a Lamb

7.7

Kiryama Rei is a 17-years-old shogi player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in a traffic accident when…

We Were There: True Love

7.8

During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job,…

Tyrole no Banka

In the past, it was bustling with coal mines, but due to the closure of the mine one after another, the city of Nupuka no Shiki in Hokkaido is currently suffering from depopulation. The mayor, Yamagata, is trying to…

Miyako Chocho

Miyako Chouchou was a Japanese actress and comic artist from Kodenmacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

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…

Sakamoto Korudo

Sakamoto Korudo is a Japanese actor, model, and fortune teller born in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Japan. During his student years, Sakamoto and his friends engaged in amateur filmmaking, involving themselves in shooting, editing, and DVD production. Sakamoto not only…

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Ubukata Soji

Ubukata Soji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo City, Tokyo. His death date is unknown. After dropping out of the old junior high school, he entered the Japanese Film Actor School in Hongo Ward. He joined Kawai Productions, which was founded in February 1928. In 1931, he transferred to Teikoku Kinema,…

Shiba Seika

Shiba Seika was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Jonai-cho, Saga City, Saga Prefecture. After graduating from the former Saga Prefectural Saga Junior High School, he joined the international livelihood in Tokyo in 1922 and worked in the company's main building. In May 1923, at the age…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Sawano Hiroyuki

Sawano was born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano in elementary school. From the age of 17, he studied composition, arrangement, orchestration, and piano under Nobuchika Tsuboi. He has been active as a composer since 2004. In 2014, he launched a new vocal song project under the name "SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]",…

Lonesome Vacation

Set in Koenji, Tokyo. Eichi Furuya is a private detective who is known for his regent hair. One day, Eichi receives a request from his ex-girlfriend, Kyoko. She had been searching through her late father’s belongings…

Bad Film

6.4

Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs wild. Its premise sees Koenji being taken over by Chinese,…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 25th Anniversary Special - Masterpiece Revival

6.7

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Kino Koen" (昨日公園) Nakajima Miwa, now attending a Tokyo university, reunites with her childhood friend Machida Takako in their hometown, only to learn…

Underwear

7.5

Tokita Mayuko is a fabric otaku who was also majored in textile technology in college. She and her friend Kouno Yuri moved to Tokyo and each of them finally found a job in Ginza. Mayuko's dream is to develop new kinds…

Chichibu Suikoden: Hissatsu Ken

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese…