Hibi Yuichi

Hibi Yuichi is an accomplished fine art photographer and filmmaker. In 1987, Hibi came to New York to pursue a career in acting. While working as an actor, Hibi was influenced by photographer friends, and soon immersed himself in visual and photographic arts. In 1994, Hibi met and shared his work with…

Pimpaka Towira

Pimpaka Towira is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and film producer born in Lampang, Thailand. She studied film at Thammasat University. After graduating, she worked on one film production, but, in her words, "found it disappointing and dropped out". She went to work as a film critic…

Kako Zanmu

Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…

Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Ichihara Etsuko

Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater…

Fujiki Takashi

Fujiki Takashi was a Japanese actor and singer born in Fujiyama, Shizuoka, Japan. He was affiliated with Horipro. His real name was Endo Yoshihiko (遠藤與士彦). In the 1970s, he was active under the stage name Takashi Fujiki (藤木敬士). In 1959, after graduating from Toho Entertainment School,…

Kosaka Yuka

Kosaka Yuka is a Japanese entrepreneur, child counselor, and former entertainer born in Kanagawa, Japan. She began her career as a gravure idol with A-team (エーチーム), later known as A-PLUS, from 2004 to 2009. On August 29, 2015, she adopted the professional name Kosaka Yuka (小阪有花) for…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Okada Masumi

Okada Masumi was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the…

Dai Zenryoku Shissou

7.8

Seven years after his disappearance, Isoyama Takeshi, who returned home, runs a bakery with his wife Seiko and daughter Nanami, but it has been in the red. The only happy news is that Nanami is engaged to Shirogane…

Echitetsu Monogatari Watashi, Kokyo ni kaettekimashita

6.0

Izumi Yamazaki had a dream of making people laugh and she wanted to become a comedian. To achieve her dream, she went to Tokyo from her hometown of Fukui. She formed a gag comedy duo there, but the duo failed to attract…

Soredemo Koi Suru

7.0

A port town set in a small bay in Mie Prefecture is close to Kumano. Many people come for the Kumano pilgrimage route which is a designated World Heritage site. However, barely anyone comes to such a quiet town. Childhood…

Moving in Between

8.1

This film documents Erika's life journey of gradually building up her ideal body image, including when she completes the sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) and moves to Japan. Through Erika's experience moving between…

Niham no Tabi

Iwai Hanako came back to her hometown of Niihama five years ago, having departed from a restaurant in Tokyo. Acting as a stand-in for her sister, Haruko, who abruptly set off for overseas studies, Hanako now takes…

All About Chiaki Mayumura (Provisional)

As an idol who does everything from songwriting to running her own company, Chiaki Mayumura has been described as both a genius and a maverick by the Japanese music industry. "Is Chiaki Mayumura just a single person?"…

Kintsugi

6.8

Dante is a Filipino ceramicist who has travelled to Saga Prefecture to learn from Japanese craftspeople at a pottery factory. While he had hoped to learn a new craft to help his own family’s business, he finds himself…

Audrey ni Yoroshiku

One day, Ryo, who works at a theatre as a projectionist, is approached by a strange woman, Rin, on the street. According to her, her true identity is "a princess who escapes from the palace and wanders around town,…

Tekkin Hanabi

Samejima Touko, who works at a production company for a picture book, has a dream to perform a picture-story show on the street with an original picture-story show device. But Touko was stuck. Unable to grasp children's…