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…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

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…

Sawamoto Natsuki

Natsuki is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. He started dancing at the age of 4, first as a hobby then with the intention of becoming a professional dancer. In order to achieve his dreams he moved to Tokyo to attend LDH's dance school EXPG. His dancing talent led…

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…

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…

Shiozaki Airu

Shiozaki Airu is a Japanese actor. He was born in Ireland and came to Japan at the age of 5. He lives in the Osaka prefecture. He is always known as IRE. He belongs to the GIG MANAGEMENT JAPAN. Airu was a model during his highschool life and he went to Tokyo in 2001. Now, he's a real fashion model from…

Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions…

Kyoto Story

6.4

Higashide Kyoko is a university librarian who also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Yanase Kota, the son of the local tofu maker, who…

Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi

6.8

On November 24, 2003, soon after police had closed down the Rainbow Bridge to apprehend the perpetrators of the “Daiba serial murder case,” police “negotiator” Mashita found himself surrounded by reporters…

Shin Hoshi no Kinka

6.8

Abandoned at the age of five by her mother, deaf and mute, Mahiru Morita's life has been filled with sorrow. Living with adoptive parents in Okinawa, she is also routinely treated cruelly at home and at school. But…

Maruho no Onna - Houken Hanzai Chousain

6.8

Kashiwagi Natsuko, who has stayed in the US for a long time, is a new investigator of Adjust Research, an insurance investigation firm. She possesses scientific genius and vast personal wealth, but has a tendency to…

Seth et Holth

6.9

Seth et Holth is a Japanese film released on September 29, 1993, best noted for starring musicians hide and Tusk. The film is based on an original short story by hide and features the tragic plot of two beings from…

Nanji no Na

6.9

Aso Toko is a young president, who has both good looks and talent. On the other hand, her younger sister, Aso Hisae, has the opposite personality to her. She withdrew to her pottery's house in order to heal her broken…

Our Blue Moment

6.9

Fumi Ichii, who works at the bakery, has her own personal view of marriage that "I'm not confident that he will love me for the rest of my life and I'm not confident that I can love him. forever". Then the story begins…

Eternal First Love

6.8

Takeshi, an Italian restaurant chef, and Ruri could have been lovers, but Takeshi was too comfortable with their current relationship that he chose to stay best friends with her. Now, Ruri is engaged to another man…

Women in Taipei

6.8

Yi Shan, a girl from Tainan, longs to go to Taipei. With a stroke of luck, she manages to find room to stay at her aunt's apartment in Taipei, and begins to work hard. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the column "Tokyo…

Empire of Passion

6.9

Set in Edo-period Japan, the plot revolves around a young man, Toyoji, who has an affair with an older woman, Seki. Toyoji is very jealous of Seki's husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the…