Mizunoya Kiyomi

Mizunoya Kiyomi, born Sada Mizutani (水谷貞) in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She began her career at the age of nine, debuting alongside her aunt, actress Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子). As a child, she was a member of the Geijutsuza (芸術座) and its Children’s Drama Group (芸術座童話劇部).…

Kataoka Chosei

Kataoka Chosei was a former Kabuki actor, former onnagata, and actor born in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo. He appeared in almost all movies starring Matsunosuke, mainly as an onnagata. After appearing in the movie "Senma Kesazukin" directed by Nagao Shiroku, which was released in 1926, he disappeared from the…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…

Mori Sannosuke

Mori Sannosuke was a Japanese actor born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the former Yokohama Commercial High School. In 1894, he joined Kawakami Otojiro's "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza", and made his stage debut in Yokohama. In 1902, at the age of 27, he became independent and formed…

Ishimaru Hiroya

Ishimaru Hiroya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. After working for Himawari Theater Group, Taiyo Theater Group, JK Planning, and Aoni Production, he belongs to Production Baobab. Ishimaru graduated from Tokyo High School and dropped out of the Faculty…

Adachi Kentaro

Adachi Kentaro is a Japanese comedian born in Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He belongs to Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Headquarters (Tokyo Yoshimoto). Adachi is an Osaka NSC 21st gen member. From 1998 to 2003, he worked with Uematsu Teppei as a combination "Sugar Life". He worked as a combination…

Okura Chiyoko

Okura Chiyoko is a Japanese actress born in Niihori-cho, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She is known for "Gubijinzo" (1935) and "Hatsusugata" (1936). After World War II, there were two movie appearance records in 1954. In the round-table discussion "Youth During the War, and Now 30 Years Later" published in "Weekly…

Boya Saburo

Boya Saburo was a Japanese comedian and actor from Yubari, Hokkaido. After going through private Hokkai Junior High School, he went on to the Faculty of Religion at Nihon University, but transferred to the night art department to study vocal music. His name at birth was Ishikawa Hiroshi, but he was…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Santo Akiko

Santo Akiko is a Japanese politician, actress, voice actor, and TV personality born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo . She was most active as an actress from 1962 to 1972. In 1974 she started her political career and became a member of the House of Councilors belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party and the 32nd…

Hyoketsu

Minoru, who had been working as a designer in Tokyo, moves with his wife Yuki and their young son Akira to his family home in a region known for heavy snowfall. They hope for a peaceful everyday life, but Minoru's…

Still Life of Memories

6.1

Rei works as a curator at a photography museum in Yamanashi Prefecture. She visits a photo gallery in Tokyo. There, she is fascinated by the photos taken by Haruma. The next day, Rei contacts Haruma and asks him to…

Looking for an Angel

6.2

Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's…

Mou Ikkai

6.4

After fifteen years abroad, a son returns to his childhood home in Tokyo, where he finds his mother's lifeless body. Lost in a landscape of memories, he is approached by his mother, who he spends the day with one last…

Suna no Utsuwa

6.5

On December 11, 1960, an elderly man was found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective who has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda". Detective Yoshimura…

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

6.6

School teacher Ichikawa, sometimes known as Zebraman, suddenly awakes 15 years later in the year 2025. The megapolis known as Tokyo has now been renamed to Zebra City. The city has become virtually crime free due to…

Dynamite Graffiti

6.6

When he was just seven-years-old, Suei's mother blew herself up with dynamite in a love-pact suicide with the neighbor's son. Suei worked at a factory in the city after graduating from high school and then quit to…

Ii Hitori no Hi

Floor director Chiyoda is running a segment in which an ordinary married couple signs divorce papers in front of the cameras. However, among the participants is Yasuko, the wife of the program’s producer, Uchibori,…

Heat Island

6.2

Based on a novel by Ryosuke Kakine, Heat Island is a comical look into not so usual day in the life of street gangs in Tokyo. There are three group of gangsters, and a pair of thieves who are out to get/retrieve a…