Hime Yuriko

Hime Yuriko, born Matsunami Takako (松波喬子), is a Japanese actress known for her work in theater, film, and television dramas. Born in Harbin, then part of Manchukuo, she repatriated to Japan as a child. She completed her education at Atago Junior High School in Minato, Tokyo, and later trained…

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…

Kubo Kantaro

Kubo Kantaro is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator, and radio personality from Ueda, Nagano, Japan. He is affiliated with Fukuda & Co. He began his theater training in 1997 at the Theatre Research Institute of Engeki Shuudan En and later joined the KERA Class of ENBU Seminar in 1999. From 2002…

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…

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…

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,"…

Arashi Keishi

Arashi Keishi, known professionally as Toyoshimaya (豊嶋屋), is a Kabuki actor whose birth name is Terada Katsuyuki (寺田勝之). Born into a family deeply entrenched in entertainment, he comes from a lineage where his father was the fifth-generation Arashi Yoshisaburo, his brother the sixth-generation…

Kano Tenmei

Kano Tenmei is a Japanese photographer from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, affiliated with Ishii Corporation. In addition to his photography career, he works as a talent, actor, and commentator. He has been married twice and has four children. From his first marriage, he has a daughter and twin sons. His second…

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…

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…

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…

Legal Beat: Gyakuten no Hotei

Wanting to help people who cannot speak up for themselves, Taichi Sora becomes a lawyer. Although he passes the bar exam on his first attempt, his job search ends in disappointment because his stutter makes it difficult…

Ghost of Ueno

Satsuki, who works as a social worker in Ueno, finds a diary left by an unidentified homeless man called "Gojo" in a blue tent in a park in Tokyo. Together with Toshi, who lost his wife and also lives in the park,…

12 Months of Kai

5.9

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…

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…

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…