Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Hagiwara Kenichi

Kenichi Hagiwara was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters,…

Shindo Kaneto

Shindo Kaneto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Naruse Mikio

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 (towards the end of the silent period in Japan) to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki (working-class drama)…

Ozawa Yukiyoshi

Ozawa Yukiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in 1974 in the United States as his father, orchestral conductor Ozawa Seiji, was directing the San Francisco Symphony. He comes from a family involved in the arts; along with his father's work in the world of classical music, his mother is former model and actress…

Mimasu Yutaka

Mimasu Yutaka was a Japanese actor from Naka-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. His death date is unknown. He graduated from private Meisei Commercial School. Takada made his stage debut at Misakiza in 1907. In 1921, he joined Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio and made his debut in the movie world with "Hika".…

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.…

Tanaka Yuuko

Tanaka Yuuko is a Japanese actress. Her supporting role in the 1981 film Eijanaika won her several awards including Best Supporting Actress at the 1983 Yokohama Film Festival. Tanaka became popular after appearing in the serial drama Oshin (1983–84). She was the Japanese voice of "Lady Eboshi" in…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Violent Love

10.0

When Maki was 12 years old, her mother Toshie had a relationship with a man, Kenji Hashimoto. But Hashimoto's twisted desire made him extend his magic claws to his daughter Maki. Although Junjiang vowed to protect…

Water, Winds, and Living Creatures Keiko Nakamura – Weaving Biohistory

A documentary that closely follows Nakamura Keiko who serves as Director General of the JT Biohistory Research Hall in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture. After re-reading the works of author Miyazawa Kenji following…

December 17

8.0

In the not too distant future, in Tokyo. Six year old Yuta is confined by his parents at home and has been taught to do all his activities inside, including exercise and study, while his brother Kenji goes outside…

Moonlight Over Baler

In the summer of 1986, Fidela, a freshly retired schoolteacher in Baler, meets Kenji, a young Japanese photojournalist. Kenji looks so much like her fiancé, a soldier in World War II who never returned. (Source: IMDb)

Alice's Resident

Tsugumi was sexually abused by her father as a child and is gripped by regret and trauma for not telling her mother. One day, she meets Kenji in whom she confides and begins to see a future for herself. The hurt and…

Kino Yori Akaku Ashita Yori Aoku -Cinema Fighters Project-

8.6

The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by the members of Generations from Exile Tribe. > "Blue Bird" (Director:…

The Next Generation: Patlabor Dai 3 Sho

6.7

This is the third in a seven-part series of films that act as a continuation of the Patlabor series with a brand new set of characters. Kenji Kawai is returning to the franchise to compose the music. There’s a lot…

Memories Corner

7.6

A young French reporter visits Japan to investigate the phenomenon of ‘Death By Loneliness," which seems to have occurred following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. She interviews various people in Kobe and meets Kenji…

Bagmati River

Natsuki, a young woman working for a publishing company, receives an anonymous postcard with a picture of Mt. Everest printed on the back. It reminds her of her brother Kenji, a well-known mountain climber who went…