Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Nanao Reiko

She was a student at Tokyo Prefectural third higher girls' school (now Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School) in 1942 and joined NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System troupe after graduation. She played an active role as a voice actress in the radio drama "Kimi no Naha" in 1956. After that, she was been active…

Suzuki Seiichi

Suzuki Seiichi was a Japanese composer born in Tokyo. He has been familiar with organs and songs since he was a child. He studied composition with the Italian vocalist Adolfo Sarcoli with a mandolin and began his career as a composer and mandolinist. In 1927, "Sky" won 2nd place in the 1st Mandolin…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Nomura Yoshitaro

Yoshitaro Nomura was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. During his years as an assistant director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot,…

Oda Akane

Oda Akane is a Japanese actress. The affiliation office is Oscar promotion. Born in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. Graduated from Hinode Girls' College High School (now Hinode High School). In 1990, she was in elementary school in the upper Mikawa town adjacent to her hometown. She won the Grand Prix…

Tanonaka Isamu

Tanonaka Isamu was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Taito, Tokyo. He was best known for voicing Madame Oyaji in nearly every adaptation of GeGeGe no Kitaro animation series during his lifetime. Previously, he had been attached to Gekidan Togei and then to Theater Echo. At the of his death,…

Hasebe Yasuharu

Hasebe Yasuharu was a Japanese film director best known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976), Rape! (1976), Rape! 13th Hour (1977) and Raping! (1978). Earlier genre films directed by Hasebe include Black Tight Killers (1966) and the…

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Gun Crazy: A Woman from Nowhere

7.1

A powerful crime lord named Tojo has the town of Tsuson completely under his control with no police intervention standing in his way. Because of his crimes, there is an incredibly big reward for his death or capture,…

Last Game

4.0

Set in 1943, baseball is banned in Japan as "a sport of the enemy country" as Japan is at war with the U.S. The baseball match between Waseda University and Keio University (the So-Kei game), which is hugely popular…

Love Riron

6.0

Mizuno Aiya is a mysterious master in love who has come hired as the manager of a convenice store. If the love doctrine he imparts is put into practice, a female’s heart will be won in no time. A man’s looks, wealth…

Stone Monument

4.0

One film about the Hiroshima bombing that drills into emotional bedrock instead of retailing familiar platitudes is “Ishibumi,” Hirokazu Koreeda’s reworking of a classic 1969 TV program produced by Hiroshima…

Kawaite Soro

A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of Shogun Yoshimune. The Owari have longed for the post of shogun, and are…

Lemmings no Natsu

The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic. Around the same time, fellow junior high school students, Chiba…

Sanga Moyu

7.8

The 22nd NHK Taiga Drama is Sanga Moyu. The three Amaba brothers are second-generation Japanese Americans, whose allegiances are torn by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Determined to show his loyalty to his adopted country,…

Persona

6.5

When a student by the name of Danda adopts a porcelain mask as a direct result of school bullying, he spurs on a large majority of fellow students to do the same thing. With this mask in place Danda has been able to…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2024 Summer Special

7.4

An omnibus special comprised of four segments: >> Story 1: "Tomobikimura" (友引村) Fujisaki Rin is a typical college student in Tokyo. Along with her close friends, Takahashi Soma and Hibino Yamato, her life takes…

Hagoku

7.4

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata…