Hayashi Toru

Hayashi Toru is a Japanese director. Since he was in college, he was in charge of the props of the era play under the image director of Kyoto, Yoshinobu Nishioka. After coming to Tokyo, he worked as a freelance assistant director and debuted as a director of the series drama "101st Proposal" in 1991.…

Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. (source: Wikipedia)

Fukuma Kenji

Kenji FUKUMA is a poet, film maker, film critic and scholar of English literature and cultural studies. Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He started to write as early as the late 1960s. He has studied and wrote about the works of modern poets such as Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden. As a film…

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

Miyake Kuniko

Kuniko Miyake was born on September 17, 1916 in Saitama, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Until the End of the World (1991) and Escapade in Japan (1957). She died on November 4, 1992 in Japan. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991. Miyake joined the Shochiku studio…

Minosuke

Minosuke is a Japanese stage actor, voice actor, and drummer born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Nihon University Tsurugamine High School. He is affiliated with the agency Mashu. During high school, Minosuke joined the light music club where he was invited by his senior to join the band "Uchoten"…

Precious Lara Quigaman

Precious Lara Quigaman is a Filipina actress, multi-product endorser and beauty queen who won the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the fourth Filipino to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. Prior to winning…

Shimojo Atom

Atomu Shimojou was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. He is the son of actor Masami Shimojou and actress Yoshiko Tagami. He was also the first dubbing voice actor of Eddie Murphy. He passed away on January 29, 2025, at the age of 78. The news was officially announced…

Arakawa Yu

Japanese actor who is also in the rock band "BACKDRAFT SMITHS" where he is vocals and guitarist . He is from Tokyo . Appear as an actor such as " WATER BOYS " " Kirarin Kirari ". In 2006, he formed a rock band "HI - GOD VOICE" and is in charge of vocals and guitar. In 2013, HI - GOD VOICE was renamed…

Sekiguchi Tomohiro

Real name is Tomohiro Sekiguchi (reading the same). Blood type is type A. Height 183 cm. He is from Tokyo . He belongs to Sankei (former · Hiroshi Sekiguchi office). His father is a moderator and actor Hiroshi Sekiguchi , my mother is a former singer , Sachiko Nishida , the only son of the Sekiguchi…

Soul Mate

8.1

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

8.2

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…

Influence

8.2

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…

Last Samurai Standing

8.3

The story begins in Kyoto, Japan in 1878, 10 years after the glory days of the samurai. Stripped of their identity and status and no longer permitted even to carry swords, the samurai struggle to survive in this new…

The Emperor's Cook

8.5

Tokuzo Akiyama is a young man from a rural area who is married and has a child along the way. One day, he eats a delicious breaded cutlet, which inspires him to strive to become a chef specializing in Parisian cuisine.…

Pachinko Season 2

8.5

Begins in Osaka in 1945 when World War II broke out, and tells the story of Sun Ja's struggles to protect her family, even making dangerous choices. The stories of Solomon, who must start anew with nothing in 1989…

Silent

8.5

Tsumugi Aoba fell in love with So Sakura, who attended the same high school. They both shared an interest in music. Their relationship got deeper and deeper, but, suddenly, Sakura said goodbye to her without giving…

Natsuzora

8.1

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…

Okaeri Mone

8.0

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.…

Rurouni Kenshin

8.6

Former legendary assassin, Kenshin Himura, has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid and protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time, he comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya. Her…