Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Hanazawa Kana

Hanazawa Kana is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She was signed up with voice acting agency Office Osawa. As of 2021, she is currently signed to Pony Canyon. She made her voice acting debut as Holly in Last Exile. She is best known for her voice performances in anime, which include Nadeko…

Matsuyama Mary

Matsuyama Mary, born September 2, 1991, in Hyogo prefecture, is a Japanese actress. Possessing natural brown eyes and red hair, Mary is often mistaken as a "hafu" although she is pure Japanese. Matsuyama entered the entertainment industry in 2007 after being scouted on her way home from junior high…

Hanae Natsuki

Hanae entered workforce while in high school. He thought about his career, but aspired to become a voice actor after watching Ouran High School Host Club. Hanae joined Across Entertainment in November 2009.[6] He made his first leading role in Tari Tari, and was credited as a composer for episodes 5…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's apprenticeship (Shoreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Matsuzaki Shohei

Shohei Matsuzaki is a Japanese actor, model, and columnist. He was born in Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from Saitama Prefectural Art High School in 2012 and from Tama Art University in 2016. After graduating, he worked part-time for an interior company in 2017 and, in 2018, moved…

Ella

Ella McKenzie Gross is a South Korean-American singer, dancer, model, and member of MEOVV (미야오). She was born in Los Angeles and holds dual citizenship. She was scouted at the age of 2 while her family was visiting South Korea and began her modeling career. Her mother had some modeling experience…

Yazaki Hiroshi

Yazaki Hiroshi, born in Yamagata prefecture, is a Japanese theatre actor under Tristone Entertainment Inc. agency. Occasionally, he plays roles in some dramas and films. Hiroshi abandoned his studies and moved to Tokyo at only 16 to pursue a career in acting. He auditioned at Himawari Theatre Group…

Get to the Punchline

7.3

Rumi Hayachine is a 2nd-year high school student living in Tono who loves to daydream about and draw supernatural spirits. One day, her beloved grandmother decides to move out saying, “I want to do what I want with…

Deka Wanko New Year Special

7.3

Hanamori Ichiko uses her leave to come to Paris. She encounters the members of the Thirteenth Section who are enjoying sightseeing in Paris after cooperating in an investigation with Interpol. Ichiko is thrilled by…

Girls Drive

7.3

A road movie depicts the youth of a high school girl spending her last summer vacation in high school. The main character of the story is Koharu Minami, a third-year high school student who devotes her youth to track…

Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: Battle in Hyperspace

7.3

A young boy (and Ultraman addict) named Tsutomu finds a mysterious glowing ball that tells him it can make wishes come true. The one thing Tsutomu wants more than anything else is to meet Gamu, Ultraman's human counterpart,…

Professional: Insurance Investigator Ren Amane

7.3

Amane Ren, who works for the insurance investigation firm Miyama Research, is a fearless and highly skilled insurance investigator who ignores common sense and compliance entirely, using any means necessary to uncover…

Fuji Family

7.3

At the foot of Mt Fuji, there is a small old-fashioned shop ‘Fuji Family’ that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by three sisters who are known in the neighbourhood as beauties. Oguni Takako is the…

Boku to Boku ga Sukina Kare to, Kimi to.

7.3

In their late 20s, they are neither students nor adults, and they feel a bit confused. Three people who live like this meet one summer and decide to share a room. How will their relationships, feelings, and their own…

Kioku Sosa Season 2: Shinjuku Higashisho Jiken File

7.3

Onizuka Ichiro has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he was stabbed by a criminal and lost the function of his two legs. After retirement, he was reappointed by Shinjuku Higashi Police Precinct’s Criminal…

Ginza Kuroneko Monogatari

7.2

An almanac of stories, each of which begins with a black cat leading a troubled/lost person to one of Ginza's well-known stores that suits him/her, brightening up the person’s life a little in the process. Through…

Spectreman

7.3

Banished from the peaceful simian Planet E, the mad scientist Dr. Gori and his brutish assistant Karras [Lla in the Japanese version] search for a new planet to rule after Gori's plot to conquer Planet E had been foiled…