Naito Eisuke

Naito Eisuke, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982, graduated from the Film School of Tokyo and subsequently began directing independent movies while working as a teacher at a special education school. His short film The Prince of Milk (2008) was invited to Nippon Connection in 2010 and also to many other…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Yamagata Isao

Yamagata Isao was a Japanese actor born in London, England, where his acrobat father toured. He grew up in Ichibei-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo. In 1935, he graduated from the Japan Academy of Actors. After completing his military service, he joined the Toho Theater Company in 1936. In 1942, he formed the theater…

Akahori Masaaki

Masaaki Akahori is an actor and writer, known for Sono yoru no samurai (2012), Katsuragi jiken (2016) and Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi (2017).

Camus Thane

Thane Camus is an American-born TV personality and actor in Japan. Camus was born in New York on November 27, 1970. Camus arrived in Japan in 1980 and graduated from a board school in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was the first male graduate of Saint Maur International School (est.1872) once it…

Amatsuka Moe

Amatsuka Moe is a Japanese AV actress, singer and a former member of Ebisu★Muscats and SEXY-J. On January 21, 2015, she made her debut as a singer for idol group "SEXY-J". She became a member of Ebisu Muscats on September 24, 2015. Moe appeared in TOKYO IDOL FESTIVAL as a singer under the name AMATSUKA,…

Hasebe Kanae

Hasebe Kanae is an actress, voice actor, and writer from Tokyo, Japan. Her father is the movie director Hasebe Yasuharu and her brother is the novelist and screenwriter Hasebebakushino. She graduated from Tamagawa University. She's been active since 1985. She's best known for her "Abunai Deka" role,…

Kikuchi Shunsuke

Kikuchi Shunsuke was a Japanese composer and orchestrator from Aomori, Japan. He died while being treated for pneumonia in a hospital in Tokyo on April 24, 2021.

Okada Shotaro

In 2010, at the age of 9, he won second prize in the Blue Cross Super Boys Audition. He started full scale entertainment activities in 2011 at the age of 11. That same year, he appeared in TV Tokyo's "Piramekino". In 2013, he appeared on "DREAM Kids Collection". From 2012-2014 he worked as a model for…

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…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 11

Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has been assigned to Toyama, visits a hot spring inn in Omaki Onsen with the guidance of administrative officer Komiyama Sanae, and meets Satake and Hatanaka,…

The Love Leading to Tomorrow

The film is being made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of friendly relations between Japan and China and will be a collaborative effort between the two countries. Set in Aomori, Beijing and Tokyo, a fashion designer…

Keishichou Sousa Ikkachou

6.0

The head of the Metropolitan Police Department's criminal investigation first division, Oiwa Jyunichi, leads the division that investigates all of the violent crimes that occur within the Tokyo Metropolis. This series…

Oyaji ga Kureta Himitsu

7.0

Kousuke is in trouble because his production company hasn't made any hit movies. On the same day, Osamu, the youngest son in the Shimoarai family and works at a life insurance company in Tokyo, goes back to his hometown…

Since Then

6.0

On March 11th 2011, a massive earthquake strikes eastern Japan. Shoko, who works at a shoe store in Tokyo, is unable to contact her boyfriend Masashi who lives in the worst-hit region. As aftershocks continue, she…

Aji Ichimonme: 2013 Special

7.0

One day, Ihashi Satoru, the assistant chef at the venerable Tokyo restaurant Fujimura, receives news of a class reunion. It has been 20 years since he graduated from culinary school. Proud that he has become a chef…

In a Lonely Planet

6.0

Mari lives a comfortable life as a single woman. She has a nice job at a company and resides in an apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo. A couple lives next to door to her. Mari can hear them argue or making happy conversations…

Enkiri-Mura: Dead End Survival

6.0

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine, visit a shrine known for being able to sever connections with evil.…

Saibaku: Madi ni Shamisen Kanaderube

A documentary that records the last two years of Yujiro Takahashi, a Japanese folk song singer and Tsugaru shamisen master who passed away in September 2012. Born in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture in 1934, Yujiro moved…