Wada Ayao

Wada Ayao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and stage producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He was the former president of Theater Echo (テアトル・エコー). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In November 1946, he joined the Baraza theater…

Kokontei Shincho III

Kokontei Shincho III was a Japanese rakugo performer born in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Kokontei Shinsei V, younger brother of Kanbaratei Basso X, niece of actress Ikebata Shino, and nephew by marriage of actor Nakao Akira. It should be noted that there are two other individuals…

Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Suzuki Terue

Suzuki Terue, born as Enoki Terue (榎木輝江), is a Japanese actress from Oshima, Koto, Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, she changed her stage name to Suzuki Terue (木てるえ). (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Kujira

Matsumoto Wakako, better known by the stage name Kujira, is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She is employed by 81 Produce. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yasukawa Goro

Yasukawa Goro is a Japanese composer from Aichi, Japan, raised in Iida, Nagano, Japan. He dropped out of the Composition Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. During his studies, he began working as a studio musician, and it was around 1989 when he met Ishii Takashi that…

Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Miyazaki Shinichi

Shinichi Miyazaki, formerly a producer at Nippon Educational Television in Japan, began his career with Toei Company in 1954 after graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. Initially based at Toei's Kyoto and Tokyo studios, he later moved to Nippon Educational Television (NET)…

Tsuji Yoshihito

Tsuji Yoshihito is a Japanese actor born in Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Osaka City Technical High School's Photography Department before joining the theater company "Tokyo Kid Brothers" as a trainee. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

The Little House

7.4

Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo,…

Koinaka: Best Friends in Love

7.4

Aoi Miura was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small…

366 Days

7.4

In 2003, Makiya Minato attends high school in Okinawa as a senior. He meets junior student Tamashiro Miu from the same high school. They share the same love for music and are attracted to each other. On Minato’s…

Dakara Korosenakatta

7.4

“Try stopping my murders with words.” This is one of the lines in the first letter delivered to Ippongi Toru, a roving journalist for Taiyo Shinbun’s local news desk. The serial killer designates Ippongi and…

American Girl

7.5

During the SARS outbreak of 2003, 13-year-old Fen returns to Taiwan. Depicts the director's experiences: her mother's illness, a feud with classmates. (Source: TIFF) ~~ Release dates: Oct 31, 2021 (Tokyo International…

Liar x Liar

7.5

University student, Takatsuki Minato, likes things to be clean and in order while her stepbrother, Takatsuki Toru, is a bit of a player. One day, while cosplaying as a high-school student in a fashionable district…

Kei×Yaku: Abunai Aibou

7.5

Three years ago, a disappearance known as the Joker Case went unsolved, and the file closed. Renewed interest in the case demands a second examination of the evidence. Investigator Kinoshita Ichiro from the Public…

Itoshi Kimi e

7.4

What if the one you love were destined to lose his eyesight in three months? What would you like him to see last? If you were him, what would you want to see last? Shiki Tomokawa is a new pediatrician who is enjoying…

Hanamizuki

7.4

Sae is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young, and so she lives with her mother, Ryoko, in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi once…

Soshite, Ikiru

7.5

Ikuta Toko has been raised by her uncle in the city of Morioka. She's been active as a local idol with the hopes of eventually becoming an actress someday. When she's 19 years old, she's anxiously looking forward to…