Nagayama Kozo

After graduating from Gakushuin High School , graduated from Seijo University in literary arts at the Department of European Culture in 1981 [1] before joining Fuji TV. As a TV director, he worked on numerous TV dramas and produced numerous hits centered on Fuji TV Month 9 Drama such as “ Tokyo Love…

Chii Takeo

Takeo Chii was born on May 5, 1942 in Chiba, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kaigun tokubetsu nenshô-hei (1972), Trucker Yaro IX: A 5000 Km Run (1979) and Bee Bop High School (1985). He was married to Saori Maki. He died on June 29, 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Source: IMDb)

Matsuda Eiko

She is best known for playing Sada Abe in "In the Realm of the Senses," which generated controversy in Japan due to its explicit sexual content. Matsuda received significant backlash from the public after the film was released. Her last acting appearance was in the French film, "Cinq et la peau," released…

Takahashi Yu

Takahashi Yu is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He grew up in Yokote, Akita, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. In February 2002, Takahashi released his debut album, the self-produced Sepia, of which only 200 copies were produced. He moved to Tokyo in January 2008, to further his music career. In 2010 he…

Hoshino Yuka

Hoshino Yuka is an actress known for supporting roles in Bayside Shakedown and Onsen Maruchi Daisakusen series. She graduated from Kyoto Sangyo University (specialty: Kyoto dialect; other interests: playing clarinet, piano, ocarina). In 1995, she moved to Tokyo where she made her debut in dramas.

Morohoshi Kazumi

Morohoshi Kazumi is a Japanese singer and former member of "Hikaru Genji". He went from Johnny's Office to GOLD RUSH K Co., Ltd. (“Stars Crew Co., Ltd.”). In 1984, in his second year of junior high school, he left home with a friend and moved to Tokyo. At Harajuku's station, Johnny's president,…

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…

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…

Kazeyo Arashi yo Gekijo Ban

In the midst of the chaos following the Great Kanto Earthquake, a woman is massacred by the military police. The story is about a woman named Ito Noe, a women's liberation activist. Noe grew up in a poor family but…

Ninosan Special: Ninosan to Asobo 3

In the third installment of Ninosan to Asobo, Nino-san family members will come out of from the studio and have fun with their good friends. This trip is where you can have a fun trip with some great friends who decide…

The Last Passenger

This story unfolds in a small coastal town of Tohoku, Northeastern Japan, where a disastrous Tsunami wiped out the entire town and took thousands of people's lives ten years ago. Now, Endo, a taxi driver, waits at…

Afterword

Somei Haruta works part-time at an izakaya while pursuing his dream of becoming an actor, but he only gets extra roles. One day, while performing a street solo act, he meets a person named Aniki and they visit a bar…

Play!

7.5

Shota's interest is piqued by a poster at school recruiting members for an e-sports competition, and he gets in touch with Tatsuro, a genius gamer who is a year ahead of him at school. Tatsuro ropes in classmate Wataru…

Italy Santo Monogatari: Fashionable no Roots wo Saguru

The program is presented by FENDI, a luxury brand from Rome, Italy. The two, Kawaguchi Haruna and Meguro Ren, are FENDI's Japan brand ambassadors. The two focus on history in Rome, craftsmen in Florence, and fashion…

Warriors Within Season 2

7.4

50 years ago, a match between a Chinese and a Japanese karate expert ended in a dead heat. Together, they wrote a martial arts book that has caused storms across the martial arts world ever since. In 2019, Chong Wai…

Warai no Kaibutsu

After high school, Tsuchiya avoids full-time employment, devoting himself to writing jokes he sends to comedy programs. He finally hires on as an apprentice at a comedy theater, but his single-minded devotion to laughter…

New Nemuro Pro Wrestling Story

In 2006, Samson Miyamoto, a toy store owner in Nemuro, Hokkaido, founded “New Nemuro Pro Wrestling” to promote his love of wrestling and revitalize his hometown. His wrestlers were local customers and dairy farmers,…

Tea for Three

Set in the Mimasaka region of Okayama Prefecture, famous for its tea, this is a love story about the drama of a female pianist and her brother who runs a tea shop. Keiya is a ronin student who spends his days listlessly…