Ishii Kenichi

Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…

Umezu Sakae

Umezu Sakae, born Umezu Shigeru (梅津榮) in Tomari, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with several agencies, including Dojin Kai (同人会), Miya Pro (ミヤプロ), Hitomedia (ヒトメディア), and Dual Production (デュアルプロダクション)…

Shang Na

Shang Na is a Chinese entrepreneur, producer and screenwriter. Formerly the senior editor of Beijing News, she joined Sohu in 2006 as the editor-in-chief of the entertainment channel. In 2009, she served as the senior director of Sohu Video, and then In 2011, she took up the position of chief editor…

Kako Takashi

Kako Takashi is a Japanese pianist and composer, who works in both jazz and art-music idioms. Kako began playing piano at eight years old and learned to play jazz while in his teens. He has won numerous music awards and is one of Japan's leading composers, and as a pianist, he is also described as a…

Shigetome Manami

Shigetome Manami is a Japanese performer, model and actress. She is a former member of the musicial group E-Girls, as well as the former leader and member of the musical group Flower. Flower, her main group was active in was a unit from 2010 to 2019. She is signed with LDH Entertainment. Manami is a…

Inoue Nozomi

Inoue Nozomi is a Japanese actress born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of CAMINO REAL. During the Hyogo Prefectural Suma Higashi High School, she belonged to the broadcasting department, and was awarded the Excellence Award in the reading section of the 57th NHK Cup National High…

Billy Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul

Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, nicknamed Billy, is a filmmaker and producer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo…

Muranishi Toru

Muranishi Toru is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos (AV). Known in Japan as the "Emperor of Porn", he has been credited as one of the creators of the quasi-documentary style found in Japanese AVs, a genre that has remained popular throughout the history of the adult industry…

Matsumoto Toshio

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫 Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental movies, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.…

Katsu Kanai

Kanai Katsu was born in 1936 the second son to a farming family from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After studying film at the College of Art, Nihon University, he worked briefly in the film industry, joining a major studio company and freelancing as a commercial cinematographer. In 1960, he joined the…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

Please Tell Me, Mr. Fujishima!

6.5

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…

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…

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…

Run for Money the Movie

6.4

In high school, Yamato, Eijiro, Ken, Riku, Yugo and Joji were all members of the track and field team. They were close friends who wore matching bracelets. After high school, though, they went their separate ways.…

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…

Drugstore Girl

6.5

Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's…