Higo Katsuhiro

Higo Katsuhiro is a Japanese comedian and actor from Naha, Okinawa. He is the leader of the comedy trio Dachou Club (ダチョウ倶楽部) and is affiliated with Ohta Production (太田プロダクション). He graduated from Okinawa Prefectural Naha Technical High School (沖縄県立那覇工業高等学校).…

Chou

Cho (Born as Nagashima Shigeru) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was Nagashima Yuichi. He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater Company…

Kase Taishu

Kase Taishu is a Japanese former actor and model. TBS on Monday said it had pulled the drama “Kippari!” after star Taishu Kase, 38, whose real name is Nobuhiro Kawamoto, was arrested on Saturday for illegal use and possession of amphetamines and cannabis at his apartment in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.

Nishida Hikaru

Nishida Hikaru is a Japanese J-pop singer and actress. She made her singing debut with the release of the single Fifteen on April 6, 1988, named after her age at the time. Hikaru is well known for her ability to speak English. She was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture but her family quickly moved…

Tokunaga Chinami

Tokunaga Chinami, born May 22, 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of Berryz Koubou. Tokunaga Chinami joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. In 2004, she was one of the 8 members…

Imai Masayuki

Imai Masayuki was a Japanese playwright and actor born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force before starting his acting career in the second half of the 1980s. The founder of the stage company Elle Company, he was the author and the main actor of the play…

Tsuburaya Hiroshi

Hiroshi Tsuburaya was a Japanese actor. The grandchild of Eiji Tsuburaya, who was also the first creator of the Ultraman Series, and the third son of Hajime Tsuburaya who became the second creator of the Ultraman Series after Eiji Tsuburaya's death on January 25, 1970. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo.…

Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Shimada Haruka

Shimada Haruka is a Japanese idol singer. She is part of AKB48's Team K. Originally a 9th generation kenkyuusei, she was promoted to the status of full member on December 8, 2010. She was a member of Team 4 until the team shuffle at the 2012 Tokyo Dome concert, where she was transferred to Team K. [generasia]

Camus Thane

Thane Camus is an American-born TV personality and actor in Japan. Camus was born in New York on November 27, 1970. Camus arrived in Japan in 1980 and graduated from a board school in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was the first male graduate of Saint Maur International School (est.1872) once it…

Dragon Head

6.3

Based on the manga of the same name by Mochizuki Minetaro. On the way home from a school trip, a tragic accident traps Aoki Teru's express train in a collapsed tunnel. The only other survivors of the catastrophe are…

Techno Brothers

6.3

In the desolate Kanto plain, the thunderous sound of techno music reverberates. The performers are the mysterious trio known as "Techno Brothers". One day, with the cold-hearted manager, Himuro, they embark on a journey…

Higanjima

6.4

At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his…

Kyoto Story

6.4

Higashide Kyoko is a university librarian who also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Yanase Kota, the son of the local tofu maker, who…

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…

Ultra Miracle Lovestory

6.4

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.…

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…

The Place Where the Sun Sits

6.3

Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reunions since they graduated 10 years ago. The high school itself is…

After the Quake

6.3

In 1995, Komura, who is distraught over his wife's sudden disappearance, visits Kushiro. There, he hears about a mysterious UFO. In 2011, a runaway girl named Junko begins to reflect on herself through exchanges with…

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…