EXILE HIRO

Igarashi Hiroyuki, known to most as EXILE HIRO, is the founder, and former dancer and leader of JPOP groups J Soul Brothers and EXILE. In 2003, he founded the management agency LDH (Love Dream Happiness). In 2013, he retired as a dancer and focused on producing music and movies for the artists under…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Ono Erena

Erena Ono is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She was in Team K and her talent agency was Ohtapro. She was also part of subgroups "Honegumi from AKB48", and "ICE from AKB48". Her nickname is Erepyon. Erena was also one of the focal members of Team K, taking part in most group activities.…

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.…

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,…

Mitsu no Tsuki

6.4

Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture is a beautiful town in the mountains where nothing – the mountains, river and the greenery – ever changes. Though beautiful, it also gets boring. Kosaka Mayu is a wife, mother and…

Please Tell Me, Mr. Fujishima!

6.4

Mizuhara Rio, a TL novelist with zero sexual experience, finds herself in a desperate situation after her editor shoots down her work, saying, “Your sex scenes have no realism.” Troubled, Rio meets Fujishima, a…

Burst City

6.5

The plot is not very complex, as much of the action and drama of the film relies on musical interludes, character interactions, and commentary on the class system in the film's fictional universe. What plot there is…

Gappa: The Triphibian Monster

6.5

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives…

Ultra Miracle Lovestory

6.5

Yojin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations. His life revolves around farming his grandmother's vegetable garden.…

Christmas on July 24th Avenue

6.5

Sayuri is an ordinary office worker living in Nagasaki, Japan. She spends her free time reading romantic shojo manga set in Europe. Because of this, she's always dreamed that someday she'll meet a great guy who will…

Nanase Futatabi

6.5

Nanase has the supernatural ability to read other people's minds. She has lived her life as an outcast because of this special ability. Nanase then takes comfort with people who have similar abilities. She lives with…

Dragon Head

6.4

Based on the manga of the same name by Mochizuki Minetaro. On the way home from a school trip, a tragic accident traps Aoki Teru's express train in a collapsed tunnel. The only other survivors of the catastrophe are…

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…

My Name Is Yours

6.5

In a small town on the outskirts of Osaka, a high school student murders his father. A few weeks before that incident, in this town filled with boredom, a group of high school students were struggling with their own…