The Flowers of Evil

6.8

Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his…

Trash and Flower

Due to personal reasons related to his mental well-being, Ozaki Koichi (33) decided to quit his job as a Self-Defense Force aviation pilot and started working as a garbage collector to support his family. He begins…

The Kiln of Massacre

The setting of this work is a pottery workshop deep in the mountains, far from any village. Assassins had been using the workshop to incinerate bodies. Mizuki, whose life is being targeted by an assassin organization,…

The Flower of Shanidar

7.2

A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold…

Romance of Darkness

5.8

Rikka Nikaidou survives an accident, which kills all her classmates. After that everytime she goes near the water, a strange woman appears, who tries to kill her. The woman is also called Rikka and their fates are…

The Flowers of Evil

7.4

The story is set in Hikari City, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, second-year middle school student Kasuga Takao lives each day feeling a deep sense of suffocation and stagnation. What saves his heart is…

Kalanchoe

7.3

This is about a class in high school, where they have a lesson about LGBTQ+. As there is no such lesson in other classes, the students grow suspicious that there is a queer student in the class. (Source: GagaOOLala)

For Whom the Flowers Bloom

Sakuma Tsubaki, a third-year high school student, was approaching a time when she had to think about her future. However, Tsubaki was in a different environment than others. Her father, Hideaki, had caused an incident…

Somebody's Flowers

7.6

A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident. (Source: TIFF)

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

7.8

Reiko Endo is a local newspaper reporter in Amakusa. She then visits the city of Nagaoka for different reasons. One is to find out why Nagaoka accepted displaced victims from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami so quickly.…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Amy Fan

Fan Yik Man, also known as Amy Fan, is a Hong Kong-based actress. At a young age, Fan began her acting career in commercials. In 1991, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and she won the Miss Photogenic award, placing 5th overall. After the pageant, Fan joined TVB and took part in numerous drama…

Asahina Junko

Asahina Junko, born Echigo Akiko (越後亜紀子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress known by her former stage name, Kobayakawa Jun (小早川純). She was affiliated with the Hiiragi Planning (柊企画) agency. Asahina was of mixed heritage, with a Russian grandfather, making her one-quarter…

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

Ichikawa Raizo VIII

The star of Daiei Studio, Ichikawa Raizo got his start as a kabuki actor. Born Kamezaki Akio, he was adopted at six months old by kabuki actor, Ichikawa Kudanji. He was then given the name Takeuchi Yoshio. He debuted as a kabuki actor officially at the age of 17 (1948) in the play "Nakayama Shichiri".…

Kishimoto Kayoko

Kayoko Kishimoto (岸本加世子 Kishimoto Kayoko, born 29 December 1960 in Shizuoka, Japan) is an actress.
She has appeared in several of Takeshi Kitano's films, such as Hana-bi, Kikujiro and Dolls. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 23rd Japan Academy…

Igarashi Izumi

Shimizu Yukiko is a former Japanese actress. She makes her debut in 1987 in a drama, Shoujo Commander Izumi. Even after the drama Shoujo Commando Izumi ends, she appeared mainly in TV dramas, but she did not receive as much attention as when she was a teenager. However, she was selected as the youngest…

Kim Myung Joon

Kim Myung Joon is a South Korean cinematographer, screenwriter, and director. He graduated from Hanyang University in 1999 and was in charge of filming short films "Dongmyeon" (1998), long films "Flower Island" (2001), and "Wany and Jun Ha" (2001). His first film production was for "Hana" (2003), a…

Chiaki Minoru

Chiaki Minoru was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. In real life, he was the last of the seven actors to die. Chiaki was…

Matsumoto Hakuo II

The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…