Shiba Seika

Shiba Seika was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Jonai-cho, Saga City, Saga Prefecture. After graduating from the former Saga Prefectural Saga Junior High School, he joined the international livelihood in Tokyo in 1922 and worked in the company's main building. In May 1923, at the age…

Mimura Shintaro

Mimura Shintaro was a Japanese screenwriter born in Okayama, Japan. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University but dropped out. His real name Iwai Shintaro (岩井伸太郎). He joined the screenplay collective "Narutakigumi" in Kyoto during the early days of the talkie era. In 1926, he joined the…

Takashiro Tsuyoshi

Takashiro Tsuyoshi is a Japanese DJ, filmmaker, and writer. Takashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 18, 1964. At university, he received the “Tokyo International Video Biennale" prize. It was the first in his career. After that, he became a filmmaker of CF and music videos. He married actress…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Ose Itaru

Ose Itaru, born Sato Kakuto (佐藤格), was a Japanese actor from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School (東京都立新宿高等学校) and the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University (早稲田大学). In 1955, he joined the Bungakuza (文学座) theater company,…

Kuni Soten

Kuni Soten was a Japanese actor born in Kikugawa, Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Shimada Town Commercial Supplementary School. He was affiliated with Kokuto Eiga, Shochiku, Toho, Shintoho, NAC, and others. His wife was actress Satsuki Fujie (五月藤江). (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia ||…

Yoshiyuki Aguri

Yoshiyuki Aguri was a Japanese pioneering beauty specialist. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Yoshiyuki opened a beauty shop in Tokyo after marrying writer Eisuke Yoshiyuki at age 15. Despite the sudden death of her husband in 1940, she raised three children while working as a beautician. In 1985 Yoshiyuki…

Yakumaru Gaku

Yakumaru Gaku is a Japanese novelist born in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Komazawa University Senior High School in 1988. He made his debut in 2005 and is a current member of the Mystery Writers of Japan. He passed the Tokyo Kid Brothers enrollment test, but musicals didn't feel…

At 25:00, in Akasaka Season 2

7.8

Shirasaki Yuki and Hayama Asami have finally confessed their secret feelings and are now officially a couple. Hayama, who is a popular actor and doing well in his career, and Shirasaki, who has stepped up as a promising…

Oh My Boss! Love Not Included

7.8

Born and raised in a small rural town, Suzuki Nami has lived a very average, ordinary life. With no particular dreams and no real ambition, Nami doesn’t really want much out of life. If she can find moderate amounts…

Detective Chinatown

7.8

Strange crimes disrupt Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective shifts. Lin Mo, student of Chinatown's top detective, and Yetian Hao Er, brother of Yetian Hao, find themselves entangled in separate mysteries…

Oshi no Ko

7.8

Aqua and his twin sister Ruby are reincarnated as Ai's children. The two grow up under Ai's care, supporting her as she resumes her idol activities while hiding the fact that she has given birth. Eventually, Ai's popularity…

Godzilla

7.9

When the ocean's surface begins to boil white-hot and a Japanese freighter Eiko-maru vanishes into the Pacific, the superstitious villagers of Odo Island Fishing mysteriously drop to zero elder fear an ancient legend…

Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo 5

7.9

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…

Hirayasumi

7.9

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…

Hanbun, Aoi

7.8

In 1971, Nireno Suzume is born in Gifu Prefecture to parents who run a small-town eatery. Though she’s active and healthy as a child, she loses hearing in one ear in elementary school. Encouraged by her supportive…

Prophecy

7.8

A man named Gates heads a mysterious group called “Shinbunshi”, who wear newspaper masks and post internet videos informing the public of their crimes of justice against people they deem guilty of things not punishable…

Runaway - Aisuru Kimi no Tame ni

7.9

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…