Watanabe Chumei

Watanabe Chumei is a Japanese film and television score composer and orchestrator, who has also worked on tokusatsu shows and mecha anime. His son, Watanabe Toshiyuki, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series. For his work on anime, Watanabe Chumei received an Award of…

Hayashi Yumika

Hayashi Yumika was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress; she was the subject of a 1997 documentary…

Oshima Michiru

Michiru Oshima is a Japanese composer. She works on music in wide range of areas, such as anime, films, television series, video games and concerts. She has written scores for over 100 movies, over 200 television titles, video games, various types of events, concerts, theaters, among others. Oshima…

Yoshimata Ryo

Yoshimata Ryo is a Japanese composer, arranger, and music producer from Katokucho, Kagoshima, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration at Yokohama City University. From elementary school, he began learning the piano and acquired a level of music theory equivalent to that of a…

Matsuoka Joji

Matsuoka Jōji is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards…

Okada Shotaro

In 2010, at the age of 9, he won second prize in the Blue Cross Super Boys Audition. He started full scale entertainment activities in 2011 at the age of 11. That same year, he appeared in TV Tokyo's "Piramekino". In 2013, he appeared on "DREAM Kids Collection". From 2012-2014 he worked as a model for…

Amatsuka Moe

Amatsuka Moe is a Japanese AV actress, singer and a former member of Ebisu★Muscats and SEXY-J. On January 21, 2015, she made her debut as a singer for idol group "SEXY-J". She became a member of Ebisu Muscats on September 24, 2015. Moe appeared in TOKYO IDOL FESTIVAL as a singer under the name AMATSUKA,…

Park Gun Woo

Park Gun Woo is a South Korean singer, dancer, musical actor and former member of LC9 (엘씨 나인) and RAINBOW MUZIGAE (무지개). He made his debut in May 2013 as LC9's lead vocalist and rapper (under the stage name J-Hyo) with the mini-album "Skirmish". However, the group was not able to promote…

Kurosawa Hisako

Kurosawa Hisako was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist, but was drawn to screenwriting, where she found early success with Tokyo Noir (2004), Finger (2006) and Show Me A Beautiful Night (2007).…

Kawashima Akira

Kawashima Akira is a Japanese comedian, tarento and actor who has featured in films, television, and radio. He performs boke and writes all the material in his comedy duo Kirin. His partner is Hiroshi Tamura. Kawashima is represented by Yoshimoto Kogyo and is mainly active in Tokyo and Osaka. (Source:…

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…

Whether or Not

6.7

Mono Sui, the protagonist who tends to put others before herself, discovers during a premarital health check that she is infertile. The revelation leads her boyfriend of seven years to break up with her, and soon the…

Hakobiya

6.7

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…

Epitaph

6.8

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

6.8

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

6.8

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…

Furusato ~Musume no Tabidachi~

6.8

"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…

Any Crybabies Around?

6.7

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,…

Four Days of Snow and Blood

6.7

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…

Women in Taipei

6.8

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…