Matsuzaki Shohei

Shohei Matsuzaki is a Japanese actor, model, and columnist. He was born in Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from Saitama Prefectural Art High School in 2012 and from Tama Art University in 2016. After graduating, he worked part-time for an interior company in 2017 and, in 2018, moved…

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…

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…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

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…

Hanazawa Kana

Hanazawa Kana is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She was signed up with voice acting agency Office Osawa. As of 2021, she is currently signed to Pony Canyon. She made her voice acting debut as Holly in Last Exile. She is best known for her voice performances in anime, which include Nadeko…

Goto Maki

Maki Goto (後藤 真希 Gotō Maki) (born September 23, 1985) is a Japanese singer, lyricist and former actress. Born and raised in Edogawa, Tokyo, Goto began her musical career in 1999 when she joined Morning Musume as the only third generation member. Her first single with…

Suzuki Tatsuhisa

Suzuki Tatsuhisa is a Japanese voice actor, singer and actor. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Lantis. He is the vocalist of the rock band Oldcodex under his stage name Ta_2. He married Japanese singer-songwriter LiSA on January 22, 2020. It was revealed that Tatsuhisa was cheating on his wife…

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…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

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…

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…

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…

Eternal First Love

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Takeshi, an Italian restaurant chef, and Ruri could have been lovers, but Takeshi was too comfortable with their current relationship that he chose to stay best friends with her. Now, Ruri is engaged to another man…

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…

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…

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,…

Shin Hoshi no Kinka

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Abandoned at the age of five by her mother, deaf and mute, Mahiru Morita's life has been filled with sorrow. Living with adoptive parents in Okinawa, she is also routinely treated cruelly at home and at school. But…