Kojika Ban

Kojika Ban, born Kojika Atsushi (小鹿敦) in Asakusa, Kappabashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Initially interested in painting, he became passionate about theater after joining his high school drama club at Omiya High School (大宮高等学校). He later pursued a degree in Theater Studies…

Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Enomoto Misae

Enomoto Misae was a Japanese singer born in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Due to her underprivileged family, she was sent to servitude by the theater owner in Asakusa in 1934. In 1938 she became a geisha in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, and moved to Tokyo in 1940. She later studied singing at the…

Ishikawa Rei

Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…

Noguchi Hisamitsu

Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Suzuki Yasushi

Suzuki Yasushi is a Japanese singer, actor, talent, and voice actor from Ota, Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University College of Economics. He made his first TV appearance in 1957 in "Sebango 16: Kawakami Tetsuharu Monogatari" (NTV). In 1961, he was scouted while performing at a jazz cafe and was…

Chen Xu Zhi

Chen Xu Zhi is a Chinese fashion designer, born in Shaoxing, but grew up in Shenzhen, China. He is the designer behind Xu Zhi, a London-based fashion label stocked in London’s Dover Street Market , Bejing-based Lane Crawford and Beams in Tokyo. Xu Zhi’s textile innovation and construction techniques…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Watanabe Yoshinori

Watanabe Yoshinori, born in Hokkaido, is a Japanese screenwriter. He graduated from the Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University in 1980. Debuted in the 1988 anime "Mister Ajikko". Working in TV TOKYO, he has written many historical dramas and mysteries. It features works with compositional power based…

Nao-chan wa Shogakugonensei

7.5

Nao-chan , Kinbe, and Yamacho are in the fifth grade of elementary school. The three of them were separated from each other in their classes, but the day before summer vacation, they decided to spend time together…

Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru

Miyata Shun, who is not good at interacting with people, moves to Tokyo to change his environment and starts working part-time at a bento shop in a downtown shopping district. While the results from the publishing…

Solo Katsu Danshi: Ishioka Yohei

Ishioka Yohei, who co-stars in "Soloing Woman", took on the challenge of a "soloing life" to not to be outdone by Megumi, the protagonist! (Source: TV Tokyo YouTube)

Wash Away

Although it pays for her glamorous lifestyle, Kana keeps her job washing bodies in a Tokyo soapland quietly and has questions about her future. That job comes in handy when she is asked to care for her long-forgotten…

Kakenai n Janai, Kakanai nda

Izumi Shuri, who became a famous writer overnight when the first novel she wrote in college won the Akutagawa Prize, moved to her husband's family home in the countryside after getting married. She had fallen into…

Noroi wo Ageru

Ten years after graduation, a group of former classmates reunite and reminisce about the past. On a whim, they decide to sneak back into their old high school. However, they are suddenly trapped inside the school,…

Pension: Koi wa Momoiro Season 3

In Season 3, it is all about autumn. The calm daily lives of Shiro, Yoshi, and Haru are about to undergo changes, along with the change of the season. Haru meets a mysterious man named Keita on social media, who comes…

Kioku Sosa Special 3: Shinjuku Higashisho Jiken File

March 2024. Junko Kijimoto and others appear in the room of the legal affairs division of Shinjuku East Police Station and say something surprising about the assault resulting in the death that Onizuka Ichiro and the…

Mankai Movie A3!: Autumn & Winter

8.6

"Director! Please make our talent blossom!" Veludo, a suburb of Tokyo, is a mecca for actors and home to many theatre companies along its famous Veludo Way. The film audience's point of view will overlap with that…

Ai no Komuragaeri

Sato Kaori, who worked as a local government employee, was moved by an independent film she saw at a local film festival and quit her job to move to Tokyo. Kaori, who was working in the film industry, met Kohei, who…