Namkung Jin

Namkung Mung Jeong, known professionally as Nam Kung Jin, is a South Korean trot singer. He graduated from Nonsan Daegun High School and later obtained a degree from Tokyo School of Music Shibuya. He made his debut in November 2017 under his birth name but remained an obscure singer for several years.…

Tatekabe Kazuya

Tatekabe Kazuya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and manager. He was born in Kimobetsu, Hokkaido. He was represented by Horiuchi Kenyu's Kenyu Office until the time of his death. He was most known for the roles of Goda Takeshi known as "Gian" (Doraemon), Walsa (Time Bokan) and Tonzura (Yatterman).…

Kajima Shunichi

Kajima Shunichi is a Japanese film and television director. After a brief stint at a publishing company, he joined Toei Tokyo Studio in 1970 as an assistant director, apprenticing under prominent filmmakers such as Toshiya Ito, Kinji Fukasaku, and Junya Sato while also engaging in labor union activities.…

Bun-O Fujisawa

Bun-O Fujisawa is a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, theatre director and lyricist born in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He has written, scripted, and directed musicals, straight plays, Japanese anime, video games, and readers’ theatre. On December 4, 2005, he made his debut as a playwright…

Kobayashi Kyoji

Kobayashi Kyoji was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He was known for his roles as the narrator and the protagonist One-Seven in the tokusatsu series Daitetsujin 17. He was also married to Kobayashi Harumi at the time of his death. After one year of fighting illness due to cerebral infarction,…

Nakamura Shusei

Nakamura Shusei, born Nakamura Hideo, was a Japanese actor and voice actor. Throughout his career he was represented by 81 Produce and later Production Baobab. He has referred to both Tokyo and Nagano Prefecture as his hometown. He was most known for the roles of Rikiishi Toru (Ashita no Joe) and Shima…

Stephanie

American singer and actress of Armenian and Japanese descent who is signed with SME Records Japan (part of Sony Music). She released two albums, self-titled Stephanie in 2008 and Colors of my Voice in 2009 and has won the Japanese Music Awards in 2007. A number of her songs have been featured in Japanese…

Choi Soo Young

Choi Soo Young is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress, former member of ROUTE 0 (ルート・ヨン; stylized as ROUTE φ), and current member of GIRLS' GENERATION (소녀시대; also known as SNSD). She graduated from Jinshin Women's High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Theater…

Imada Mio

Imada Mio is a model, talent, actress, singer, and ex-gravure model. She was born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. She currently belongs to the agency Content 3. When she was 16, she was scouted in Shintencho. For a time, she was a part of the model agency CGE. She became a part of the 3 person…

Ayase Haruka

Ayase Haruka is a popular Japanese actress, model and singer. Her immediate family consists of her father, mother and one brother. As a youth, Haruka was active in sports, playing basketball in middle school and competing in the Chugoku region Ekiden tournament (long-distance relay race) during junior…

A Blueprint for Love (Cancelled)

In 2002, 18-year-old Ibuki attends a university in Tokyo and aspires to become an architect. He happens to meet a beautiful woman named Yuna. They spend time together talking about architecture and spend unforgettable…

Dreams of Youth

Okada and Kato, students at 'W' [i.e. Waseda] University, in Tokyo, live in the same lodgings. One morning, Kato receives a tailor's bill. Okada has seen the letter arrive, so Kato tells him it's from his girlfriend.…

Autumn Interlude

Setsuko became friends with Hiroshi in Karuizawa, but she was sick and decided to return to Tokyo with her father, Sotaro, who came to pick her up. Sotaro met Yasuko, who he once loved, but back at the time, they couldn't…

Striving to Live

Isahaya Seichiro and Suganuma Tamiko, co-workers at Sone Mining Company's Tokyo Headquarter, are in love with each other. Upon finding out that Tamiko is courted by their boss's son, he decides to break up with her…

Passport to Darkness

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master…

Wait for Tomorrow

4.0

Misugi Kohei works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company, which offers him an assignment to “Cover…

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

6.0

After graduating from college, Mariko, who worked for a nursery school, left Tokyo to attend the International Society for Childcare in Munich. Her feelings, when she received the engagement ring from Natsukawa at…

Keisatsukan

6.0

During a random road-check, rookie police officer Itami is reacquainted with his old high school buddy Tomioka Tetsuo, who is travelling back to Tokyo from a day at the golf range. Over the years, the two have taken…

Hold My Hand at Twilight

8.2

Asagi Soramame, a 23-year-old energetic woman from rural Kyushu, follows her childhood friend and fiancé to Tokyo. Fate keeps pulling her closer to a stranger—Umino Oto, also 23, a struggling musician who works…

Alice in Borderland

8.9

Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.…