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…

Kido Shiro

Japanese film producer . Former Chairman of Shochiku . The current president of Shochiku, Junichi Sakomoto, is his grandson. Born in Tokyo Chuo-ku Tsukiji . He was also book author and director of 1931 movie "Lumpen and his Daughter" (ルンペンとその娘).

Hanashima Kiyoko

Hanashima Kiyoko was a Japanese actress and singer born in Takanawa, Shiba-ku, Tokyo. She married Enomoto Kenichi and they had a baby together, but the baby died of tuberculosis. The two divorced, but re-married later. Her subsequent whereabouts are unknown, and she has an unknown year of death.

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,…

Kishi Matsuo

Kishi Matsuo was a Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. He is known as the critic who discovered the filmmaker Yamanaka Sadao. He graduated from Keio University. In 1937, at the strong recommendation of film director Shimizu Hiroshi, he retired…

Iizuka Mayumi

Japananese voice actress , actress , singer and DJ. Born in Tokyo. She's most known from her anime and video games voice roles, such as characters in "Pokemon", Super Smash Bros. Series or " Sorcerous Stabber Orphen ". She also works in many internet radio stations, CM's and appears on stage. She also…

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…

Mikihiko Nagata

Also known by his pen name Misao Misawa (三沢操). Born in Iida-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo. He was a lyricist and novelist. He was also helping with creating scripts for some radio dramas and training voice actors.

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,…

Persona no Mikkoku: 3 Ttsu no Kao wo Motsu Yogisha

7.9

Shishimai Wataru, a full-time househusband, was an excellent detective but retired after the murder of his wife, and lives a peaceful life while raising his only daughter in high school. One day, he is suddenly summoned…

Bakudan

7.8

A drunk middle-aged man is taken to the police station after assaulting a vending machine at a liquor store and the store's clerk. He states that his name is Suzuki Tagosaku and he also reveals that he has psychic…

Bansan Blues

7.9

Takubo Yuta works as a drama director at a TV station and has achieved his dream, but he is very busy with work. His former passion has disappeared, and he is living an unstable life, getting irritated all the time.…

Yell

8.0

In 1909, a long-awaited baby boy was born to a family which has run a dry goods store for generations in Fukushima Prefecture. He would later become the talented composer Koyama Yuichi who wrote many famous songs.…

Taxi Hanten

8.0

Taxi carry customers every day. At that moment, the life of a driver who lives in a taxi intersects with a customer who has each situation. A conversation of just a few minutes to a few tens of minutes can create a…

A Table!: Nostalgic na Kyujitsu

8.0

This is a story that will soothe you and satisfy your intellectual curiosity as it depicts the peaceful daily life of Jun and Yoshio, a married couple who have spent a long time together, their seasonal cooking that…

Ranman

8.0

Mantaro comes from a rich family in Kochi who owns a brewery but because of him being sickly, he becomes the target of bullying. As a child, he has been fascinated with plants and decides to quit school so as to head…

The Light We Cast

7.8

When Hoshino Matsuri, who works as her father’s secretary, receives an anonymous tip-off letter, she launches a secret investigation into her father’s past and uncovers a shocking truth. However, when her father…

Tora-san 28: Promise

7.8

In Kyushu, Tora-san meets a runaway girl, Aiko who wants to become a partner in Tora-san's peddling business because she admires the free-spirited lifestyle of Tora-san. Later, Tora-san meets the wife of an old friend,…

The Silent Service: The Battle of Arctic Ocean

8.1

In the depths of an icy sea, can one cross the line between life and death? The nuclear submarine Yamato dives into the cold, deep northern ocean to the sound of Mozart. Named after the phrase “Great Peace,” Yamato…