Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Kudo Shizuka

Kudo Shizuka (工藤静香) is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was very popular from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. She was also member #38 of the super idol group Onyanko Club and member of the gravure group Momoko Club. In 1984, Kudo Shizuka auditioned for the Miss Seventeen Contest…

Uehara Ken

Uehara Ken was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He was born to wealthy, well-connected parents. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was first recognized for his musical talents and handsome appearance. Uehara joined Shochiku in 1935, debuting…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Umeda Haruo

Umeda Haruo, born Umeda Akira (梅田晃) in 1920 in Tokyo's Yotsuya district, was a Japanese scholar, playwright, novelist, and essayist specializing in French literature. He graduated from Keio University Graduate School and was involved in writing scripts for stage plays and radio dramas, as well…

Mayuzumi Rintaro

Mayuzumi Rintaro was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1953. He is the eldest son of the popular composer Mayuzumi Toshiro (1929-1997) and his mother was actress Katsuragi Yoko (1930-2007). After graduating from the Gakushuin University's department of literature in 1975, he joined NHK. He debuted as a director…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Yorozu Masayuki

Yorozu Masayuki is a Japanese actor from Chiba. He belongs to Rush Up. After working as a model, in 1999 he made a regular appearance in a TV drama by appearing in the Tokai TV production and Fuji TV series soap opera "Ai no Meteor". In November 2017, he opened a comprehensive entertainment lesson studio…

Yasuda Misako

Yasuda Misako is a Japanese gravure idol, actress, and singer. Misako was discovered in front of the Kyoto train station while she was enrolled at Isetan University. She was chosen as "Miss Young Magazine" for Miss Magazine 2002, and the following year she was awarded the Weekly Playboy Sixth Trading…

Nagano Mei

Mei Nagano is a Japanese actress. She is known for playing Rinko in the film My Love Story! (2015) as well as Yosano Suzume in the film Daytime Shooting Star (2017). In June 2017, she was announced as the lead for NHK's 98th Asadora, Hanbun, Aoi, due air in April 2018. Nagano was scouted in Kichijouji,…

Kawachi Karumen

8.0

Like a runaway girl, Tsuyuko Takeda moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move into Yoko's…

Hong Kong Meikyu Gyo

An office lady goes on a tour of Hong Kong to meet her boyfriend of five years ago, but gets involved in a murder there. (Source: Japanese = tvdrama-db.com || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Hong…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 2: Nishi Kagoshima Satsujin Jiken

A popular suspense in which the famous combination of the detective Totsugawa and Kamei is very active. This time, set in Nishi Kagoshima Station, Natsuki Yoko will be the female detective who longs for Totsugawa,…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 3: Ueno-eki Satsujin Jiken

Totsugawa's familiar reasoning is clear in the indiscriminate serial murder case that occurred at Ueno station! Also, one of the highlights is that Shimada Yoko is challenging the role of Miss Soap for the first time.…

The Tokyo Siblings

4.0

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photoshop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has…

Koji Enjo

One morning, a newspaper reported that the chestnuts of the famous temple Engi-ji in Kyoto were burned, and the burnt corpse of the monzeki priest Yanagi Gonsho was found in remains of the place . Yoko, the woman at…

Illusion Andalusia

Set in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who leads an uneventful life in search of a missing writer. While dining out with her husband at a Spanish restaurant, Yoko hears…

Boys over Flowers: Final

8.0

High school sweethearts Tsukasa and Tsukushi are finally getting married. Tsukasa gives his fiancée a precious family heirloom, only to see a robber disappear with it. Tsukasa and his F4 friends reunite for the globetrotting…

Meteor Garden

7.9

Shan Cai, an 18-year-old girl from a struggling family, is accepted into the country's most prestigious school, where she meets F4, an exclusive group of the wealthiest and most handsome boys—Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze…

Our Little Sister

8.1

Three Koda sisters, 29-year-old Sachi, 22-year-old Yoshino, and 19-year-old Chika, live at their grandmother's home in Kamakura, Japan. When the Koda sisters were young, their parents divorced, and they were abandoned.…