Settsu Mowa

Mowa Settsu was a Japanese novelist, golf critic, and golf historian. After gaining prominence as a humorist novelist in magazines like 'Shinseinen,' he authored numerous golf-related books as a golf historian, contributing to the construction of golf facilities and golf courses. He entered the Keio…

Choi Ki Hwan

Choi Ki Hwan is a South Korean freelance announcer. He was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea due to his parents' work but returned to South Korea when he was 2 years old. He graduated from Hyundai High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Chinese Studies from Inha University. He made…

Sone Hayato

Sone Hayato is a Japanese director born in Hyogo, Japan. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Film and New Media, Faculty of Arts. His promotional video for MUJI in Paris, "TOKYO PEN PIXEL," won many awards including "ONE SHOW," one of the world's top three advertising awards, "ADFEST,"…

Okawa Shuichi

Real name : Hugh Walker, half British and half Japanese. After graduating from Saint Joseph College (Yokohama), he worked for Shinshin Kinema and Nikkatsu. During World War II, he was enlisted in Japanese army, until the end of the war because he was a British citizen. After the war, he worked for the…

Lai Cheng Ying

Lai Cheng Ying is a Taiwanese director, cinematographer and camera operator. He graduated from Provincial Taichung First Senior High School. and is a senior cinematographer. He started his career in 1952 as a camera assistant for many films. In 1955, he served as the cinematographer for the first time…

Nishida Erina

Nishida Erina is a Japanese female singer , actress. She was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Takarazuka City , grew up in Osaka , Osaka City . In 2001, she made her debut in Tokyo, Japan with the women's team Flash Point .

Bando Choemon

Bando Choemon was a Kabuki actor. His real name was Takase Daisuke (高瀬大助), and he was born in Sendai, Japan. He began his career in theater in 1903, performing in a shinpa theater production in Sendai, under the patronage of the impresario Kase Kichibei. Afterward, he traveled and performed…

Tsume Masaru

Tsume Masaru is a film director, scriptwriter, and assistant director. After graduating from high school, he got a job in his hometown and worked there for five years, but moved to Tokyo after hearing God's advice to make a movie. In 2015, he enrolled in the ENBU Seminar, where he studied film under…

Boat Sompot Chidgasornpongse

Sompot Chidgasornpongse, nicknamed Boat, is a Thai filmmaker born in Bangkok. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Chulalongkorn university, and an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He's been working closely with Apichatpong Weerasethakul as assistant…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Kaiju Girl

Several days have passed since kaiju, or a giant monster, appeared in Tokyo. When Himika, an eighth grader, and Mizuki, a misfit in her class, share the same dream of the monster attacking their town, their friendship…

Where Love Goes

Junior high schoolers Sudo Ai and Sosuke Ito live together as a patchwork family in a small town in Hokkaido, all thanks to Ai’s mother, Yumi, creating an environment of love. Bullying and the harsh environment cannot…

Icchorai

Tetsuya reluctantly takes over his family's Chinese restaurant after his father falls ill, giving up his dream of opening his own restaurant in Tokyo. As Tetsuya's life becomes stagnant, those around him find happiness…

Songs of Kamui

More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido…

A Weather Report

One summer, Hikaru Nishizawa, who was born and raised in Niigata and just graduated from high school, comes to Tokyo alone to meet her father, whom she has never met, without telling her mother Mayumi. A road movie…

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Okita Kaito and Takami Ryo are fourth-year university students who have finished their job hunting and are about to graduate. Although they have completely opposite personalities, the two best friends decide to go…

Kaze no Fukushima

An omnibus drama with one-episode stories inspired by 12 real-life migrants set in 12 cities, towns, and villages of Fukushima. Each episode is full of humour and hope and tells the story of how the migrants overcome…

Midsummer Fruit

Ayumi and her husband, Ryoma, who met by chance and run a grape farm together. Every winter, Ryoma leaves his house and fields to his wife and goes to Tokyo to work. In the meantime, Ayumi lives with her mother-in-law,…

Shimane ga Drama ni Naru Nante! Returns

Hamada Tsumugi and Yasugi Yu are second-year high school students who are a comedy duo called Giant Salamanders. While Tsumugi is determined to go to Osaka after graduation and become a comedian, the realistic Yu is…

Last Shadow at First Light

Haunted by recurring apparitions, sixteen-year-old Ami embarks on a mystical journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her mother who went missing during a cataclysmic tsunami. Upon her arrival in Tokyo, she meets…