Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Higo Katsuhiro

Higo Katsuhiro is a Japanese comedian and actor from Naha, Okinawa. He is the leader of the comedy trio Dachou Club (ダチョウ倶楽部) and is affiliated with Ohta Production (太田プロダクション). He graduated from Okinawa Prefectural Naha Technical High School (沖縄県立那覇工業高等学校).…

Tsuburaya Hiroshi

Hiroshi Tsuburaya was a Japanese actor. The grandchild of Eiji Tsuburaya, who was also the first creator of the Ultraman Series, and the third son of Hajime Tsuburaya who became the second creator of the Ultraman Series after Eiji Tsuburaya's death on January 25, 1970. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo.…

Kase Taishu

Kase Taishu is a Japanese former actor and model. TBS on Monday said it had pulled the drama “Kippari!” after star Taishu Kase, 38, whose real name is Nobuhiro Kawamoto, was arrested on Saturday for illegal use and possession of amphetamines and cannabis at his apartment in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.

Chou

Cho (Born as Nagashima Shigeru) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was Nagashima Yuichi. He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater Company…

Nishida Hikaru

Nishida Hikaru is a Japanese J-pop singer and actress. She made her singing debut with the release of the single Fifteen on April 6, 1988, named after her age at the time. Hikaru is well known for her ability to speak English. She was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture but her family quickly moved…

Morohoshi Kazumi

Morohoshi Kazumi is a Japanese singer and former member of "Hikaru Genji". He went from Johnny's Office to GOLD RUSH K Co., Ltd. (“Stars Crew Co., Ltd.”). In 1984, in his second year of junior high school, he left home with a friend and moved to Tokyo. At Harajuku's station, Johnny's president,…

Hoshino Yuka

Hoshino Yuka is an actress known for supporting roles in Bayside Shakedown and Onsen Maruchi Daisakusen series. She graduated from Kyoto Sangyo University (specialty: Kyoto dialect; other interests: playing clarinet, piano, ocarina). In 1995, she moved to Tokyo where she made her debut in dramas.

Imai Masayuki

Imai Masayuki was a Japanese playwright and actor born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force before starting his acting career in the second half of the 1980s. The founder of the stage company Elle Company, he was the author and the main actor of the play…

Tokunaga Chinami

Tokunaga Chinami, born May 22, 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of Berryz Koubou. Tokunaga Chinami joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. In 2004, she was one of the 8 members…

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…