Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

Matsuyama Mary

Matsuyama Mary, born September 2, 1991, in Hyogo prefecture, is a Japanese actress. Possessing natural brown eyes and red hair, Mary is often mistaken as a "hafu" although she is pure Japanese. Matsuyama entered the entertainment industry in 2007 after being scouted on her way home from junior high…

Hanae Natsuki

Hanae entered workforce while in high school. He thought about his career, but aspired to become a voice actor after watching Ouran High School Host Club. Hanae joined Across Entertainment in November 2009.[6] He made his first leading role in Tari Tari, and was credited as a composer for episodes 5…

Sawamoto Natsuki

Natsuki is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. He started dancing at the age of 4, first as a hobby then with the intention of becoming a professional dancer. In order to achieve his dreams he moved to Tokyo to attend LDH's dance school EXPG. His dancing talent led…

Yazaki Hiroshi

Yazaki Hiroshi, born in Yamagata prefecture, is a Japanese theatre actor under Tristone Entertainment Inc. agency. Occasionally, he plays roles in some dramas and films. Hiroshi abandoned his studies and moved to Tokyo at only 16 to pursue a career in acting. He auditioned at Himawari Theatre Group…

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's apprenticeship (Shoreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Shiozaki Airu

Shiozaki Airu is a Japanese actor. He was born in Ireland and came to Japan at the age of 5. He lives in the Osaka prefecture. He is always known as IRE. He belongs to the GIG MANAGEMENT JAPAN. Airu was a model during his highschool life and he went to Tokyo in 2001. Now, he's a real fashion model from…

Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions…

Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog

6.3

Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. He loves his family and is a family man, but because of his work he is sent to sent to an island. His family stays behind in Tokyo. With the…

After the Quake

6.3

In 1995, Komura, who is distraught over his wife's sudden disappearance, visits Kushiro. There, he hears about a mysterious UFO. In 2011, a runaway girl named Junko begins to reflect on herself through exchanges with…

The Place Where the Sun Sits

6.3

Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reunions since they graduated 10 years ago. The high school itself is…

Techno Brothers

6.3

In the desolate Kanto plain, the thunderous sound of techno music reverberates. The performers are the mysterious trio known as "Techno Brothers". One day, with the cold-hearted manager, Himuro, they embark on a journey…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Varan

5.9

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight…

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…