Maruyama Karina

Karina Maruyama is a Japanese tarento and former football player who represented the Japanese national team. After retiring from professional sports, she transitioned to a career as a television personality, working with the talent agency Horipro. Maruyama holds a degree from the Department of Physical…

Ishikawa Sayuri

Ishikawa Sayuri is a Japanese idol, enka singer, and actress. Her real name is Ishikawa Kinuyo. She was born in Akita Village, Kumamoto (now known as Minami Ward, Kumamoto). She graduated from Horikoshi High School. Her music label is Teichiku Entertainment, and her agency is Sayuri Ongakusha. When…

Miura Shion

Miura Shion is a Japanese writer. She has won the Naoki Prize, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and the Japan Booksellers' Award. Her work has been adapted for film and television, and her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, English, German and Italian. Being a daughter of a well-known…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Matsumoto Hakuo II

The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…

Oshima Nagisa

Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930's Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about Japanese WW2 prisoners of war. Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu…

Tomosaka Rie

Tomosaka Rie is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979, in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo. In 1992, Rie Tomosaka joined the entertainment world with the commercial film…

Shishido Kavka

Shishido Kavka is a Japanese musician. She was born in Mexico to Japanese parents. She lived there until she was two and then went to Japan for elementary school. Between the ages of 13 and 14, Shishido lived in Argentina. She learned Spanish to use in her daily life, though on returning to Japan, she…

Okura Tadayoshi

Okura Tadayoshi is a Japanese idol, singer and actor. He is from Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan. He's a member of popular boys band under Johnny & Associates called Kanjani8. Okura Tadayoshi had been chosen to be a part of V West (a Johnny's Jr. group) before its formation. His interest being in dancing…

Hirosue Ryoko

Hirosue Ryoko is a Japanese actress and singer under the agency FLaMme. She was born in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. In 1994, during her second year of junior high school, she entered the 1st Clearasil "Shiny Face Contest", won the Grand Prix, and debuted in the same commercial in 1995. She…

Tokyo Koshinkyoku

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provide a valuable visual experience set against the…

Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie

7.1

« Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie » is a 2012 Japanese tokusatsu film to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Metal Hero Series' first entry, Space Sheriff Gavan, and is a sequel to the Space Sheriff series.…

Shoot

7.0

The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques…

Sabakan

7.9

Writer Takaaki needs to write his new novel. Canned mackerel brings him back childhood memories of a summer spent with his friend Kenji. A soft and catching movie about the meaning of friendship. (Source: fJaguar at…

Gaiji Keisatsu: Black Dawn

7.3

Japan falls into chaos after the earthquake in eastern Japan. The Japanese government then learns from the American CIA that uranium is being smuggled in Japan. The anti-terrorism investigators led by Kenji Sumimoto…

Tonight

6.3

Two is a person who rarely expresses his feelings, one day he appeared in front of his best friend Kenji's room heartbroken for having ended his relationship with his girlfriend, Mint. Kenji can only try to convince…

Ah, Wilderness 1

7.2

The year is 2021, and years of mismanagement have left Japan a broken society riddled with poverty and underemployment. Kenji is visibly disabled and has an inferiority complex. Shinji is released from prison and has…

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

8.0

Kakei Shiro, a 45-year-old lawyer, lives with his boyfriend, Yabuki Kenji, a hairdresser. After work, Shiro sticks to a simple routine: he shops for groceries on a budget, then cooks a basic dinner of rice, soup, and…

She's Dating the Gangster

8.1

It all started when 17-year-old Athena Dizon unwittingly plays a trick on resident heartthrob and bad boy, Kenji de los Reyes. All of a sudden, she finds herself pretending—unwillingly at that—to be his girlfriend…

Dragon Sakura Season 2

8.1

A few years ago, a group of struggling students at a low-ranked high school made it into Japan’s top college, Tokyo University, thanks to Kenji Sakuragi, a down-on-his-luck lawyer-turned-teacher. But since he left,…