Lyre no Inori

8.0

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from the Jomon period. He meets a woman, Momoko who is timid with love. Momoko often has memories from ancient times and…

Inagakike no Moshu

8.2

Inagaki Chuta is an elementary school student. He gets nervous easily in front of people. At his grandfather's funeral, Chuta witnesses his father become nervous while making a speech as the chief mourner. Afterwards,…

Kajitsu no Nai Mori

6.4

A creative planner for an IT company picks up a man and a woman waiting by the side of the road in the rain one night. The man claims to be the woman's husband, and the woman leaves behind an inscribed locket in the…

Ito no Mori no Ie

7.4

Housewife Kanako leads an unfulfilling, hurried life in Tokyo. One day, Sakiko, who had been a close friend, suddenly calls her and insists that she come to Itoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture for a class reunion. It has…

Honoo no Keieisha

4.0

Yatabe was an engineering professor whose company made phthalic anhydride used in the paint for cars and aeroplanes during the war. With his continuous research, guts and strong faith, he overcame many challenges to…

Myubu: Himitsu no Uta Zono

At an all-girls high school, Shuko Ikematsu and her close friend Yuko Mizobuchi don't have enough members to continue running their musical theater club, in order to save the club they begin to search for potential…

The Movie Watashi no Atama no Naka no Park Doll

Rena is an office worker who adores comics and ARSMAGNA, and one day she meets PARK DOLL, a dreamboat who likes to play the sadist. Rena is at the beck and call of the pushy PARK DOLL, but their relationship gives…

Watashitachi ga Puropozusarenai no ni wa, 101 no Riyuu ga Atte da na

8.0

An anthology drama which analyses and explains the 101 reasons women have trouble getting married or proposals while depicting the alternating joys and sorrows of these “unwed pros”.

Kasouken no Onna Season 18

7.8

Sakaki Mariko attends an annual concert held by the Kyoto Prefecture Police Music Band. At that time, Mariko hears from Domon Kaoru that a woman's dead body is found under a cliff. The victim is Konno Megumi, and she…

Kayama Yoshiko

Actress | Writer. Yoshiko Kayama was born on January 1, 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Arashi wo yobu jûhachinin (1963) and Edogawa Rampo no injû (1977).

Kurotsuchi Mitsuo

Kurotsuchi Mitsuo was a Japanese screenwriter and director born in Kumamoto. Following his graduation from Kumamoto High School and the law department of Rikkyo University, he became an assistant director with Kinoshita Keisuke Productions. After two years of work, he became a freelance writer. He debuted…

Noguchi Hisamitsu

Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…

Ito Minoru

Frequent supporting actor across a number of genres, usually in minor roles. In special effects films he appears most frequently as a reporter. He had slightly more prominent roles in television, appearing in episodes of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven. In 1952 (Showa 27), he signed an exclusive…

Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

Nakamura Shikaku

Nakamura Shikaku II was an important 20th century supporting onnagata actor. "Active in both Tôkyô and Ôsaka, he was well versed in old onnagata customs and wrote books such as "Kabuki Zuihistu" ("Kabuki Jottings") and "Yakusha no Sekai" ("The Actor's World")." (Samuel Leiter in "New Kabuki Encyclopedia")(Source:…

Yanagi Sakuko

Yanagi Sakuko was a Japanese actress born in Nicho-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her real name is Kuroyanagi Chiyoko. In the 1920s, she was the heroine of numerous Shochiku films. She lost her father shortly after birth, and her mother died when she was five years old. Yanagi, who became an orphan, was taken…

Okayasu Yumiko

Yumiko Okayasu is an actress, known for Shuto Konsoku Trial (1988), Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara dounaru (1989) and Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara odoroita!! (1990)

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Koyanagi Yukimi

Koyanagi Yukimi was born on April 9, 1958 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Departures (2008), Bokura no nanoka-kan sensô (1988) and Ringu 0 (2000).