Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Wada Ayao

Wada Ayao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and stage producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He was the former president of Theater Echo (テアトル・エコー). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In November 1946, he joined the Baraza theater…

Kokontei Shincho III

Kokontei Shincho III was a Japanese rakugo performer born in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Kokontei Shinsei V, younger brother of Kanbaratei Basso X, niece of actress Ikebata Shino, and nephew by marriage of actor Nakao Akira. It should be noted that there are two other individuals…

Suzuki Terue

Suzuki Terue, born as Enoki Terue (榎木輝江), is a Japanese actress from Oshima, Koto, Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, she changed her stage name to Suzuki Terue (木てるえ). (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Kujira

Matsumoto Wakako, better known by the stage name Kujira, is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She is employed by 81 Produce. (Source: Wikipedia)

Miyazaki Shinichi

Shinichi Miyazaki, formerly a producer at Nippon Educational Television in Japan, began his career with Toei Company in 1954 after graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. Initially based at Toei's Kyoto and Tokyo studios, he later moved to Nippon Educational Television (NET)…

Tanimoto Sayoko

Tanimoto Sayoko is a Japanese actress from Hyogo, Japan. In 1950, she joined the Toei Tokyo Studio, making her debut in the film "The Metropolitan Police Department Story: 73 Hours of Pursuit" in 1956. She left Toei in 1979 to become a freelance actress. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation…

Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

Yasukawa Goro

Yasukawa Goro is a Japanese composer from Aichi, Japan, raised in Iida, Nagano, Japan. He dropped out of the Composition Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. During his studies, he began working as a studio musician, and it was around 1989 when he met Ishii Takashi that…

Game Change

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Kusamichi Sota once believed he had landed his dream job at a game company, but he quit after three years. Now, he spends his days as a so-called “NEET,” living at his family’s bakery, a local favorite, while…

Catch a Wave

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Taiyo, a 16-year-old high school boy and his two best friends Taguchi and Kobayashi, decide to spend their summer, completely free from their parents, at Taguchi's vacation house in Shonan, a coastal city couple of…

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai

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Iron Claw is the leader of a global criminal empire known simply as "Crime". With a network of wealthy and influential sympathizers and employing an army of faceless, leather-masked thugs and cyborg assassins, Crime…

Gakeppuchi no Eri

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"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko, who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims to achieve happiness and money by moving…

Four Days of Snow and Blood

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On February 26, 1936 a cadre of radical ultra-nationalist junior officers, with the tacit approval of some generals, launched a wave of assassinations targeting those they felt were too liberal in an attempt to convince…

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,…

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…

Othello

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A small theatre troupe, "ENGINE," has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka. The young members of the troupe, including their lead actress Yamaguchi Mai, are working hard on their rehearsals,…

The Sword of Alexander

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Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics:…

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…