Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Dukar Tserang

Dukar Tserang is a notorious Tibetan independent director of movies and documentaries. He is also a musician, sound technician and composer. His works are nationally and internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations in many film festivals, such as the Tokyo FILMeX International…

Isobe Hiroshi

Isobre Hiroshi is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and narrator, born in Tokyo.

Takahira Tetsuo

Takahira Tetsuo is a Japanese director, screenwriter, editor, TV writer, and critic from Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.

Minagawa Takayuki

Minagawa Takayuki is a Japanese director and screenwriter from Matsubara, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Unno Katsuo

Unno Katsuo is an actor, voice actor, and entertainer from Tokyo, Japan.

Fujishiro Minako

Fujishiro Minako is a Japanese actress who was active in the 1980s. She was born on November 16, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the faculty of Regional Environmental sciences in Tokyo University of Agriculture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takenoshita Hirotsugu

Takenoshita Hirotsugu is a Japanese television producer and director, born in the Hyogo prefecture. He is the executive producer of the DREAMAX Television. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, in 1966, he joined TBS and was involved in many dramas. One of his most known works is "3 nen B gumi…

Ko Myoung Sung

Ko Myoung Sung is a South Korean director and screenwriter, born in Busan. He studied film directing at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image in Tokyo. His debut feature documentary Good Bye (2010) was shown in the 2nd DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. The 12th Suspect (2019) is a new film…

10 Things I Want to Do before I Turn 40

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Tojo Suzume, who has been single for over 10 years and spends his days just going back and forth between his office and home, realizes that there are only three months left until his 40th birthday. Suzume makes a list…

Hirayasumi

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Hiroto is a carefree spirit with no permanent job or girlfriend, but no worries about the future. Because of his good personality, he becomes friends with a neighbor, an elderly woman named Wada Hanae, and they buy…

Three Star Bar in Nishi Ogikubo

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Amamiya, Nakauchi, and Kobayashi were once high school classmates. The former was class president and an honors student, Nakauchi was quiet and reserved with a penchant for cooking, and Kobayashi was a womanizing charmer.…

Okaeri Mone

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Momone Nagaura lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome.…

Natsuzora

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The story is set during the high economic development time of the Showa period. Natsu lost her parents during the war so she moves to the Tokachi region in Hokkaido with her foster father who is a dairy farmer. While…

Soul Mate

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After inadvertently destroying the life of his best friend, Narutaki Ryu abandons everything and leaves Japan. He nearly dies at a church in a foreign country before he is saved by a Korean boxer named Hwang Jo Han.…

Amachan

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Amano Aki goes with her mother Haruko to her hometown in Kitasanriku during a summer vacation. There, she meets her maternal grandmother, Natsu, for the first time. Natsu is a woman diver aka "ama", and Aki thinks…

Runaway - Aisuru Kimi no Tame ni

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Four innocent young men, including Katsuragi Ataru, wrongly imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit, team up to escape a Kita Kyushu jail. Ataru breaks out to save his daughter, Sasaoka Yuki, who suffers from a…

Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo 5

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Kindaichi Hajime is a high school student and a private detective with an IQ of 180. He solves murder cases that are riddled with difficult clues. Kindaichi Hajime works with his childhood friend Nanase Miyuki and…

Influence

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Yuri confesses to a female novelist that she and two friends committed three murders and asks her to write their story. In high school, Yuri lived in a provincial apartment complex where she knew her classmate Satoko…