Abe Maria

Abe Maria is a Japanese idol singer. She was part of AKB48's Team K until October 19, 2019. Originally a 10th generation Kenkyuusei, she was promoted to Team 4 on July 23, 2011. She was a member of Team 4 until the team shuffle at the 2012 Tokyo Dome concert, where she was transferred to Team K. Her…

Tsuruta Mayu

Tsuruta Mayu, born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese actress. In 1996, she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike Wadatsumi no Koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited…

Minamida Yoko

Yoko Minamida was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her. She died in Tokyo.

Kogawa Yuna

Kogawa Yuna is a Japanese actress, fashion model, and a Youtuber. She belong to Lovers Co., Ltd agency but she has a business alliance with KPOIT and I'ma Co., Ltd. In her childhood she was an EXPG student and worked as a backup dancer for EXILE. In 2014 she started her modelling career after being…

Suzuki Koji

Suzuki Koji was a Japanese writer born in Hamamatsu, Japan. He primarily worked as an essayist and novelist, but also operates a cram school. He prided himself on being a full-time husband and father, with many of his essays focusing on raising children. Active from 1990 until his death, he came to…

Asato Yuya

Asato Yuya is a Japanese stage, film, TV, and voice actor. After graduating from high school, he was enrolled in a preparatory school but decided to quit midway through his summer course to move to Tokyo. In January 2011, he joined Ruby Parade after being introduced to an event company president through…

Kodama Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25 continuously for thirty-six years from its start in April 1975 until he was forced to step down due to poor health at the end of March 2011. His signature catchphrase on…

Matsukaze Masaya

Masaya Matsukaze (松風雅也 Matsukaze Masaya?, born Masaya Watanabe (渡邉政也 Watanabe Masaya?), September 9, 1976) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He was formerly affiliated with Big Apple, Radix Mobanimation Multicye Division and Varoque Works, and is currently affiliated…

Ichikawa Kon

Ichikawa Kon was a Japanese director born in Ujiyamada, Mie. He has worked on a wide range of films, from entertainment films to documentaries to TV historical dramas, and was involved in film production for a long time. His major directorial films include "The Burmese Harp," "Flame," "Ototo," "Key,"…

Yashiro Aki

Yashiro Aki is a Japanese enka singer and painter. Her stage name, "Yashiro", is adopted from her hometown, "Yatsushiro" (八代). Yashiro originally sang jazz standards in hostess clubs, but made her debut as an enka singer in 1971, with the single "Ai wa Shindemo", under the label of Teichiku Records.…

Game Change

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Kusamichi Sota once believed he had landed his dream job at a game company, but he quit after three years. Now, he spends his days as a so-called “NEET,” living at his family’s bakery, a local favorite, while…

Hakobiya

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A man with two faces, a Western restaurant owner and a courier, Shiratori Ken, delivers things, which require minute-by-minute accuracy that is impossible for normal couriers, unusual requests, and even people. That's…

Epitaph

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In 1979, Dr. Park receives an old photo album from his twenties in 1941 when mysterious things befell him and his colleagues at Ansaeng Hospital. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Park was bound by his parents to…

Kurohyou 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura Hen

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Ukyo Tatsuya, who left behind the unprecedented record of ten consecutive wins in the underground fighting circuit called Dragon Heat, headed to Las Vegas by himself to banish his sorrow over the deaths of his older…

Side By Side: Tonari ni Iru Hito

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Miyama is a young man with a mysterious special ability. His special ability allows him to see the thoughts of other people. With his power, he heals people who suffer from their own worries or traumas. Miyama lives…

Furusato ~Musume no Tabidachi~

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"Sada Masashi Drama Special Furusato ~Musume no Tabidachi~ " is a human drama about "family" based on the theme of singer songwriter Sada Masashi's song "Kakashi" (Scarecrow), a song about a family's love towards a…

Bus Stop

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Naoko finds her life at cross-roads, as her career unravels after an unsuccessful project results in her demotion from marketing to data management, and her lover-cum-boss, Yanagiba Toshiro has left her to move to…

Any Crybabies Around?

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Young parent Tasuku has spent his life assiduously avoiding any responsibility in his small town in northern Japan. But when he’s caught drunk and naked on live national TV coverage at the local Namahage festival,…

Four Days of Snow and Blood

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On February 26, 1936 a cadre of radical ultra-nationalist junior officers, with the tacit approval of some generals, launched a wave of assassinations targeting those they felt were too liberal in an attempt to convince…

Women in Taipei

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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…