Isoda Keiji

Isoda Keiji was a Japanese film producer from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. His wife is film producer Onishi Etsuko. After working at Shochiku Kyoto Studio and Shochiku Ofuna Studio, he became a freelancer and established a private office "Isoda Office Co., Ltd.". He has worked on numerous films and…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Choi Ji Hee

Choi Ji Hee was a South Korean actress, costume director and fashion designer, born as Kim Kyung Ja to Korean parents living in Osaka, Japan. After liberation In 1946, she returned to her father's hometown, Hadong-gun of Gyeongsangnam-do and acquired Korean citizenship. She debuted as an actress in…

Hirotsu Ryuro

In 1899, Ryūrō met Ozaki Kōyō, and joined his literary group Ken'yusha. In 1895, he published two novels which enabled him to achieve literary recognition: Hemeden and Kurotogake. These were the first of a new genre in Japanese literature, the "tragic novel", which he created. Heavily influenced…

Masuda Kiiton

Masuda Kiiton, born Kimura Hajime (木村一) in Aoyanagi, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, was a Japanese actor and comedian, also known by the name Masuda Kiiton (益田キートン). His family, originally samurai from the Aizu domain, relocated to Hakodate after losing a battle in Niigata. They initially…

Nomiya Takahiro

Takahiro Nomiya was born on April 27th, 1990 in Aomori, Japan. He is a musician, sound engineer, and composer. Nomiya extensively worked on the Japanese on demand series The Benza, Benza English, as well as the video game spin off The Benza RPG. He is known for singing the ending theme song to The Benza…

Yamaoka Sohachi

Yamaoka Sohachi was a Japanese novelist and writer born in Koide, Kitauonuma, Niigata. He was active mainly in historical novels. In 1920, he dropped out of high school. He then moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Ministry of Communications' research institute while working as a literary technician…

Takami Jun

Takami Jun is a Japanese novelist born in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun , Fukui Prefecture . Illegitimate child 0f Sakamoto Sannosuke (bureaucrat, politician, and poet). In 1908, he moved to Tokyo with his mother. He grew up in a sword shop near his father's mansion in Azabu Iikura , Tokyo, without ever meeting…

Yagyu Hiroshi

Yagyu Hiroshi was a Japanese actor, host, talent, voice actor, and organizational executive, born in Funajima, Ibaraki, Japan. He graduated from Ibaraki Prefectural Tsuchiura First High School and briefly attended Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine before leaving due to poor eyesight and illness.…

Anderson Shizuka

Shizuka Anderson is an actress, presenter, and singer, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her father is Scottish-Canadian, and her mother is Japanese. She began her entertainment career in Tokyo at 19 as the lead character of a children's TV program. She has since hosted various TV & YouTube programs…

Hoshi Gari Joshi to Wakeari Danshi

Kanda Daichi, once on a steady career path at a mid-sized advertising agency, suddenly loses everything when he is framed for sexual harassment by the intern he was mentoring. Demoted to the company’s shared-housing…

Zetsumeshi Road: Heimaku Hen

An utterly ordinary salaryman you can find anywhere, Suda Tamio (Hamatsu Takayuki), lives by the motto: “Invite no one. Involve no one. Keep the budget within my allowance.” On weekends, he sets out on car-camping…

Bloom of a Capable Wife: It’s Too Late to Beg

Yuka, a full-time housewife, endures constant belittlement from her chauvinistic husband Kazuo and mother-in-law Sachiko. When the president of TK Motors invites her back as Vice President, the truth emerges: she is…

Bon Lin

5.9

Natsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon.She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring…

12 Months of Kai

6.1

What would you do if an "impossible thing" was born between humanoids and humans? Kyoka, who works as a web director in Tokyo, gets a personal care humanoid (PCH), Kai. Kai learns various things about the owner. Kyoka…

Hibi Rock

6.2

Hibinuma Takurou is a senior in high school. He isn't very good at studying or sports, but he loves rock music. After graduation Takurou heads to Tokyo. He begins to perform at a legendary live club. When Takurou gets…

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…

Higanjima

6.4

At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his…

Jiccha!

Mikami Yuki relocates to Tsugaru City, where her grandfather Taisuke lives, through the Regional Revitalization Cooperation Program. After working for a year in the city hall’s Tourism and Brand Strategy Division,…

So Far Away, So Close

Naoto is given one day to reunite with Mio, his deceased lover, through an AI reconstructed from her brain data. Installed on his smartphone, Mio speaks with the same voice, memories, and mannerisms she once had—yet…