Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Nakamura Kinji

Nakamura Kinji, born Yoshida Kokichi (吉田幸吉) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. His father was the head clerk to the first generation of Nakamura Kichiemon I (初代中村吉右衛門), which led Nakamura to begin his career as a stage actor at a young age. After World War II, he worked…

Ogawa Shinji

Ogawa Shinji, born Ogawa Hirohiko, was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Setagaya, Tokyo. He was affiliated with the Herringbone Agency. He was best known as the dub-over artist of Michael Douglas and Timothy Dalton and for voicing Hyo in Fist of the North Star. Ogawa died from pneumonia…

Shiozawa Toki

Shiozawa Toki, born Shiozawa Toyoji (塩沢登代路) in Nakasato, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Jissen Women's High School (実践女子高等学校) and was affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能) until her death. In 1947, Shiozawa advanced to the second…

Maki Noriko

Maki Noriko (real name Makino Noriko) is a Japanese actress. Born in Manchuri, she moved to Tokyo after the war. She retired from acting in 1973 and an article in 2009 stated that she had died, but the detailed date of her death is unknown. (Source: wikipedia)

Kitamura Eizo

Kitamura Eizo was a Japanese actor and director born in Shin-Ogawa, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. His wife is actress Seki Etsuko (関えつ子) and his daughter is actress Kitamura Takeko (北村岳子). He graduated from Daishi High School and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature in the Faculty…

Zushi Takao

Zushi Takao was a Japanese actor born in Nishinari Ward, Osaka City. He graduated from Meisei High School and belonged to the Homma office. . ActorZushi Yoshitak is his younger brother. He died at the age of 58, in a hospital in Tokyo on April 1, 2005.

Tsuruoka Osamu

Tsuruoka Osamu is a Japanese actor from Reikijima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. He belongs to Rush Up.

Iwasaki Yoshimi

Iwasaki Yoshimi, also known as Yoshirin, is a Japanese singer and actress born in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. Her older sister is the singer Iwasaki Hiromi. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kato Noriko

Born in Suzuka, Mie, Japan, Kato Noriko graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School. Kato's career began in 1991 as a member of Sakurakko Club, together with Anza Oyama, Miki Nakatani, Miho Kanno, and Hiroko Kurumizawa. On July 25, 1992, she released her first single, a cover of Chisato Moritaka's…

Samurai Swordfish

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“Samurai Swordfish” begins the story in the time of Edo, 1863. Eisuke Kajiki, a young blind swordsman, is entrusted with the son of his best friend, Toramaru Sakakibara, who is about to join the Shogun's Samurai…

Doctor Y - Gekai Kaji Hideki

7.4

Surgeon Kaji Hideki has earned himself the nickname “laparoscope magician”. He is skilled but greedy. Because he chose money over title and power, his career progression has been slower than his peers. Kaji gets…

Hagoku

7.4

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata…

Mom, Is That You?!

7.4

Akio Kizaki who spends his days as head of the Human Resources Department of a large company is nervous about his wife's divorce and concerned about the relationship with his daughter, who is now a university student.…

LINE no Kotae Awase - Otome to Kanchigai

7.4

Yasui Tsukasa, the young CEO of an IT venture company, is one of seven men and women (Onishi Ayaka, Kuroba Mario, Kakei Miwako, Wada Masato, Mashima Hidekazu, Sakai Maki) who meet at a one-day cooking class at the…

Restaurant from the Sky

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Wataru lives with his wife and his daughter Shiori on a cattle ranch in Hokkaido. He inherited the cattle ranch from his father. He learns to make cheese at a cheese workshop. He isn't as skilled in making cheese and…

Teruko to Rui

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"Help me." A housewife, Teruko, receives a phone call from her best friend, the chanson singer Lui. "Help me."... Those words were also Teruko's own voice. Having reached her limit with her abusive husband who continues…

Genkai Shuraku Kabushiki Kaisha

7.4

In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming. When Masato (Takashi…

Jishaku Otoko 2015

7.4

Called the “magnet man”, Oba Sousuke (Mukai Osamu) possesses a superhuman ability to see through people’s lifestyles, personalities, upbringing as well as jobs at a glance, and find perfect matches. Females gather…

Hagetaka

7.5

A business drama set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the bubble economy had collapsed and Japanese businesses with conventional management cultures were exposed to corporate buyouts by foreign investors. Masahiko…