Isshiki Nobuyuki

Isshiki Nobuyuki is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Kameari, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Grand Slam. He graduated from Kamakura Gakuen High School but dropped out of the English and American Literature Department of Aoyama Gakuin University. After independently producing…

Higashiyama Akemi

Higashiyama Akemi, born Toshie Tamegai (為ヶ井寿江), is a Japanese singer and actress from Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with Antenne. In 1963, she successfully auditioned on the Nippon TV program "Hoihoi Music School." The following year, at the age of 17, she debuted as a youth song…

Oba Waku

Oba Waku is a Japanese author and science fiction writer born in Kagoshima, Japan. He graduated from Kumamoto Marist High School and Tokyo University of Science Faculty of Science and Technology. Upon graduating from university in 1982, he joined Namco. He was assigned to the development department…

Namishima Susumu

Namishima Susumu, born Ogura Masanori in Kagoshima, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was married to Kawaguchi Setsuko and had a daughter, Ogura Kayo. Namishima began his acting career after passing the New Face auditions at Taiyo Film in 1950 and made his debut in 1951 with "Waga Iko Jidai no Hanzai."…

Ogura Tomoaki

Ogura Tomoaki is a Japanese freelance announcer, talent, moderator, radio personality, and businessman. He is a former Tokyo 12 channel (currently TV Tokyo) announcer. He is a former director of OK Production and previously belongs to Allround. He is the CEO of Biotechnica Co., Ltd. and an outside director…

Enatsu Yuko

Enatsu Yuko, born Suzuki Chiyo (鈴木千代) in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress. After marriage, she changed her name to Meguro Chiyo (目黒千代). She graduated from Tokyo Kasei Gakuin High School (東京家政学院高等学校). In 1966, she joined the Toho Theater Division (東宝演劇部)…

Sakata Megumi

Sakata Megumi is a Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, singer, actress, and television personality from Tokyo, Japan. Her father is Sakata Osamu, the 7th Uta no Oniisan on the popular children's television show "Okaasan to Issho". She made her debut as a child actress in the drama "Mado…

Saotome Michiko

Saotome Michiko was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and translator born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Chiyoda Jogakuen High School. Initially, she worked as an actress. In April 1954, she joined the Bunkaza theater company, and later married Miyazawa Toshikazu. In August 1963, she and Miyazawa…

Cesca Lee

Cesca Lee is a Filipina cinematographer based in Manila. Though she currently resides in the Philippines, she’s accomplished projects abroad in Busan, Taipei, and Kyoto. After graduating as Magna Cum Laude with a degree in AB Communications and Broadcast Journalism, she began learning the ropes of…

Isomi Toshihiro

Isomi Toshihiro is a Japanese film producer and art director from Daito City , Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Ritsumeikan University College of Social Sciences . After working for a fashion manufacturer and editor of the Daily Wood Newspaper, he became independent. He established the group…

Pachigi! Love & Peace

5.3

He uses two story lines to slam home his points. One is the struggle of An Sung's sister Kyung Ja to rise in the 1970s' Japanese movies, which may be full of zainichi talents but forbids them from revealing their backgrounds…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 4: Yami no Karute

Hatomura Shugoro, who was a talented surgeon but was chased by the medical community for some reason, is the only daughter of Kawakami Asuka, a patient who is on the suspicion of murdering her husband. Tsugumi is on…

Shimokita Slow Life

2.0

Two young people, Naoki and Kyoko, start their new life in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One day, Naoki gets informed that he lost the competition for the "Young Cameraman Award". Naoki's frustration towards photo shooting…

Kimi to Arukou

6.1

Romance ensues between a 34 year old female high school teacher and her 17 year old student. The two eventually flee their small rural town to the big city of Tokyo, Japan....

Rakugo Monogatari

7.1

Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple,…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 11

Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has been assigned to Toyama, visits a hot spring inn in Omaki Onsen with the guidance of administrative officer Komiyama Sanae, and meets Satake and Hatanaka,…

Kuro

9.0

Kuro used to dream of becoming a baker, but gets fired from the bakery she works at. Eito, a photographer, breaks up with his girlfriend who he was thinking of marrying. Gou, a theater director, has his production…

Penguin Fufu

6.9

When Matsuda Ayumi worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Fan Xiao Xuan, who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employers went bankrupt, Fan Xiao Xuan…

Starfish Hotel

Yuichi Arisu slaves away in a cold, geometrical office everyday, in a humdrum job, somewhere in the huge, impersonal city of Tokyo. Every night he commutes home to his distant wife, and buries himself in the mystery…

A Summer Family

Kamimura (62 years old), is a Japanese dancer who lives in the Perche region of south Normandy, France. He has been living with two women, in a strange life, for the past few years. In early summer, June, a dance festival…