Storm Over the Pacific

The story is an account of a young Japanese bombardier, Lt. Koji Kitami stationed aboard the Hiryu and his participation in two battles in the Pacific during World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle…

A City of Love and Hope

7.0

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed,…

Shinsengumi: Last Days of the Shogunate

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by Shirai Kyoji. Starring the great Kataoka Chiezo as Kondo Isami, along…

Genome Hazard

7.4

A man struggles to reconcile what appears to be his own false identity. After finding his wife’s corpse in his home and then receiving a phone call from her, he discovers he can’t trust his own memories of who…

Hope - Misaeng: Incomplete Life

7.5

Ayumu Ichinose dreams of becoming a professional shogi player, but after his father's death, he supports his family through part-time work while pursuing his goal. At 22, he faces his last chance to pass the professional…

700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police

7.5

Set against the backdrop of 1979, a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari decide to prank Chuzai-san, the local police officer who caught Mamachari's friend, Saijo, for speeding on his scooter. Chuzai-san…

Million Yen Women

7.9

Michima Shin is a 30-years-old lonely and unpopular novelist who lives alone in a big house. Shin's father is a convicted murderer, awaiting capital punishment, who killed 3 people, including his wife, Shin's mother.…

Don't Call Me Ma'am

7.6

A story of three female friends who are 41 years old. Cho Na Jeong used to be a TV home shopping host and earned hundreds of millions of won for her work. Now, she is a full-time housewife and mother to two sons. She…

Shadow Love

8.4

Li Shuang, a female general of Taijin, takes in an amnesiac man she finds by chance, and names him Jin An. Jin An accompanies Li Shuang wholeheartedly, and the two secretly fall in love. However, when Jin An remembers…

Escape

8.0

Yagami Yui, the only daughter of a large company, is kidnapped on the day of her 20th birthday party. However, the plan fails miserably, and one of the perpetrators, Hayashida Daisuke, stands there stunned. However,…

Tsuchiya Tsuneji

One of the first cameramen in Japanese cinema history. A former carpenter, Tsuchiya travelled to North America to help in the construction of a Japanese garden and tea house at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. After learning film techniques on how to operate a camera and develop film in December 1898…

Iijima Ai

Iijima Ai was a former Japanese AV actress and talent from Koto-ku, Tokyo. She dropped out of Takinogawa Girls' Academy High School. Before and after graduating from junior high school, she was repeatedly running away from home, and after a short time of cohabitating with her boyfriend, she was scouted…

Hirose Nanako

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1987 and studied at Musashino Art University Hirose Nanako has been working for Koreeda Hirokazu’s production company Bunbuku since 2011, starting out as an assistant on his films, as well as an assistant director to Nishikawa Miwa. In 2019, she gave her debut as a director…

Komatsu Takuya

Komatsu Takuya is a Japanese actor, singer and songwriter born on December 30, 1977 in Kanagawa, Japan. He has an older brother and a younger sister and he speaks Japanese and Mandarin and even released an album in Taiwan. His mother passed away when was 14 in a car accident (Source: DramaWiki).

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Mitz Mangrove

Mitz Mangrove was born in the Midori Ward of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture on April 10, 1975. He works mainly as a crossdressing talent but is also an actor, narrator, and drag queen. His father is Tokumitsu Jiro, who served as Isetan's UK president and the deputy manager of their Shinjuku location.…

Kataoka Asuka

Asuka Kataoka was born in Souja, Okayama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ghostwriter Go, Samurai purinsesu: Gedou-hime (2009) and Shiawase Nara te o Tatakou (2005).

Uchiyama Zeeko

Uchiyama Zeeko was born in Taito, Tokyo in 1963. He has been an actor since 1989 and a director from before 2002.

Takakura Miyuki

Miyuki Takakura was born in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Mekura Okami (1963), Meiji Keppurouku: Taka to Oukami (1968) and Yakuza Bangaichi: Massatsu (1969).

Konoe Toshiaki

Konoe Toshiaki was a Japanese actor from Iwamizawa, Hokkaido. His real name is Kakizaki Toshikazu, and his old stage name is Omi Toshiaki. He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Economics. In 1934, he entered the Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio and starred in "Kaishain Kakka" the same year. After…