Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Kawano Naoki

Naoki Kawano (川野 直輝 Kawano Naoki, February 22, 1982—) is a Japanese actor and musician from Mobara, Chiba Prefecture. He is a former Johnny's Jr. member, and is no longer represented by Johnny & Associates. While a Johnny's Jr., he was part of Kaidan Trio, TOKYO, and Kawano Band. He was also…

Fujitani Ayako

At age 12, she won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the sixth girl to lead the Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This began her modeling career. She was featured regularly in magazines and television commercials.…

Kinoshita Houka

In 1980, Kinoshita auditioned for the film, Gaki Teikoku, which he passed and made his acting debut. After graduating from Osaka University of Arts, he entered Yoshimoto Kogyo and joined Yoshimoto Shinkigeki troupe, but he did little to stand out on the comedy stage, and quit after three years. In 1989,…

Hira Mikijiro

Hira Mikijiro was a Japanese actor and director born in Koami-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. He was affiliated with Kei Factory. At the beginning of sixth grade, Mikijiro evacuated to the home of his maternal great-uncle in Kamigeshi-cho, Konu, eastern Hiroshima, Japan. His mother remained in Hiroshima.…

Kondo Yoshimasa

Yoshimasa Kondo, born on August 13, 1961, in Nagoya, Japan, is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He debuted as an extra in the series Chu-gaku-sei Nikki and was later written into the script. He later gained notability while working with the theatrical troupe Tokyo Sunshine Boys, though he is not a…

Sakamoto Koichi

Sakamoto Koichi is a Japanese stuntman, film director, producer, and action coordinator with experience in Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. Affiliated with Alpha Stunts, he also works as a freelance producer and director. Sakamoto is from Senju, Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Senshu…

Kubodera Akira

Started modeling while still a student at Nihon University, where he studied agriculture and veterinary medicine. After graduation, he began working in theater. In 2003, he debuted in drama with his role as Kunzite in the live action adaptation of Sailor Moon. He actress Hiroko Ōmori in 2007. On November…

Saori

Saori is a Japanese actress and former member of the idol group Snappeas under the agency Stardust Promotion. Saori got her start in 2003 when joined the short-lived idol group Snappeas under her birth name "Koide Saori". Soon after, she starred in her first dorama, Tokyo Shoujo. In 2010, she changed…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

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…