Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Mori Shizuko

Mori Shizuko was a Japanese actress and former child actor born in Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her birth name is Kimura Shizuko. In 1915, under the guidance of her father, she made her stage debut at the age of six. In 1917, she entered Matsuba Elementary School in Asakusa Ward.。 In 1937, she married actor…

Nakamura Zeko

Nakamura was an actor and author born on December 6th 1990 in the Kishima District, Saga, Saga Prefecture of Japan. He died on December 6th 1989 at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Tokyo, Japan.

Nagoya Akira

Akira Nagoya was born on December 8, 1930 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a Japanese actor, known for High and Low (1963), Three Old Ladies (1974) and Princess Mononoke (1997). He died on June 24, 2003 in Tokyo.

Toba Yonosuke

Toba Yonosuke, born Toba Teruo (鳥羽輝雄) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He initially trained at the Tokyo Free Theatre acting school starting in 1922. He dropped out of Okura Higher Commercial School during his third year and joined Ikawa Hachiro's "Kokusei Theatre" in 1923. By 1926, he…

Yokoo Dekao

Yokoo Dekao was a Japanese film actor active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He featured in over 90 films. Born in Saga Prefecture, Yokoo studied Western painting at the Tokyo Bijitsu Gakko (now the Tokyo University of the Arts). He joined the art department of the Shochiku studio in 1923, eventually becoming…

Takizawa Osamu

Osamu Takizawa was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno.

Naruse Masahiko

Naruse Masahiko was a Japanese actor and director affiliated with Oda Production. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the Arts Department of Nihon University. In the 1940s, he joined the mobile theater troupe "Fuyotai," which was linked to the Actor's Studio. After World War II, Naruse continued with the…

Yakumaru Hirohide

Yakumaru Hirohide is a Japanese talent and moderator. His wife is former singer Ishikawa Hidemi (who retired from the entertainment industry after marriage), and the eldest son is actor Yakumaru Sho. The second son is Yakumaru Hayato, a soccer player from CE Sabadelvenir B (youth). The third son is…

Nakahara Shoko

Shôko Nakahara was born on July 9, 1970 in Kumamoto, Japan. She is an actress and producer, known for Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Tsunagaru (2016) and Bijitâ Q (2001).

Cutie Honey: The Live

7.2

A live-action TV remake of the popular manga by Go Nagai, "Cutie Honey: The Live" premiered on TV Tokyo on October 2, 2007. Starring gravure idol Mikie Hara as Honey, the series focuses on a set of three transforming…

Revolver Lily

7.2

Yuri became a spy at the age of 16. She killed 57 people over a period of 3 years. Now, in 1924, she runs a small bar in Tokyo. Shinta is a boy whose family was murdered. He holds a key to the missing funds left by…

Yowamushi Pedal

7.3

Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku at Sohoku High School. He loves anime and games so much that he rides his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over…

Round About Midnight

7.3

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are…

Ultraman Max

7.3

The world is at peace, and people are enjoying a quiet and serene existence until monsters begin attacking! The UDF (United Defense Force) dispatches Team DASH (Defense Action Squad Heroes) from Base Titan in Tokyo…

Unfair: The Answer

7.3

Picking up after the police hospital case in "Unfair the Movie", detective Yukihira Natsumi is now working at the slow-paced Nishimonbetsu Police Station in far away Hokkaido where she has been transferred. In downtown…

Sway

7.3

Takeru returns to his rural hometown for a Buddhist ceremony honoring his late mother, urged by his older brother Minoru, who stayed behind to run the family gas station while Takeru built a successful photography…

Odayaka-ya

7.2

A short film documenting a couple who, after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami, uproot their urban Tokyo lives and plant themselves in a traditional, natural farming community in rural Sagamiko, Kanagawa Prefecture,…

Follow the Light

7.2

In a fading village in the Japanese countryside, the school is about to be closed, which weighs heavily on the students. Freshly arrived from Tokyo with his father after an acrimonious divorce, the shy Akira escapes…

Lost in your Eyes

7.3

BAZAAR invites the 77th Academy Award for Best Special Effects Award winner Anthony Ramolinara to write and direct the "Lost in your eyes" microfilm. Temporarily remove all the shackles on the streets of Tokyo, and…