Tonoyama Taiji

Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō…

Atsumi Kiyoshi

Atsumi Kiyoshi (Born Tadokoro Yasuo) was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His vivid performance of a lovable, innocent man in…

Okazaki Yuki

Okazaki Yuki was born in Asakusa, Taito in Tokyo. She is a Japanese actress and singer. She dropped out of Nihon University College of Art. She studied ballet as a child. She began acting as a child, appearing on TV and on stage where she performed in Japanese versions of popular Broadway plays like…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Kayama Yuzo

Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Hamasaki Ayumi

Hamasaki Ayumi is a Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress. Ayumi has been dubbed the "Empress of J-Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. She has sold over 60 million albums, making her the best-selling solo artist and the only solo artist…

Ishizaka Koji

Kōji Ishizaka is a Japanese actor. Ishizaka graduated from Keio University with a B.L. degree. He serves as a special advisor for the Japan Plamodel Industry Association, and on February 23, 2009, he founded Rowguanes, a plastic model enthusiast group for the baby boomers.

Matsudaira Ken

Matsudaira Ken, born in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a Japanese actor. His real name is Sueshichi Suzuki. Active both on television and on stage, he also sings. Matsudaira is most widely known for jidaigeki roles, having made his debut with Shintaro Katsu in an episode of the television series Zatoichi. For…

Mita Yoshiko

Yoshiko Mita is a Japanese actress. Born in the city of Osaka, she graduated from Joshibi High School of Art and Design in Suginami, Tokyo. In 1960, she was hired by Toei and made her acting debut. She remained with Toei until 1967, then became free to appear in films, on television, and on the stage.…

Uta Matsuri Hyakuman Ryo

Uta no Myojo

Uta Matsuri Sandogasa

Uta Matsuri Hyakuman Ryo

Shortened version of the film "Uta Matsuri Hyakuman Ryo" from 1948.

Yurusarenu Uta

Goro, who turned into a composer, comes to Tomoko, who was once a popular enka singer, to collaborate with her. (Source: MyDramaList)

Bon Uta

7.2

2015. Even after 5 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the residents of Futabamachi in Fukushima Prefecture are unable to return home and have been living in temporary housing. What gives the people of Futabamachi…

Shinpei: Uta Koso Subete

Born and raised in Shinshu, Nakayama Shinpei was captivated by the traveling band Jinta he saw as a boy and dreamed of pursuing a career in music. At the age of 18, he got the opportunity to become a student of Waseda…

Sotsu Uta

6.7

March is graduation season. Parting with the one you love, becoming disheartened from a broken dream, bereavement from your loved one… In life, one will always encounter a wall that they must overcome. When you are…

Kouhaku Uta Gassen

7.6

Kouhaku Uta Gassen is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK network and by some overseas…

Ai Uta: My Promise to Nakuhito

7.7

The main character Nomiya who became an adult without having the courage to love depicts what will change as a result of reunion with former Bandman's old friend Sato Takuya and encounter with poetry.