Joe Chou

Joe Chou is a Taiwanese composer, currently serving as the music director of Hwa Ya International Music Co., Ltd. Born in Penghu, Taiwan, Chou taught himself to play the guitar from a young age. In 1981, he moved to Taipei, where he encountered MIDI equipment shortly after its invention at a friend's…

Namihira Akio

Namihira Akio was a Japanese singer known for his wartime songs. His real name was Namihira Yoshihiro (波平惠弘). He was born in Hirara, Okinawa, Japan. He attended the Kanto State Dai-Ren Second Junior High School but transferred to Miyako Junior High School to prepare for entrance exams to a music…

Horiuchi Keizo

Horiuchi Keizo was a Japanese composer, lyricist, translator, and music critic born in Kaji, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. He also used the pen name Yasutani Shizuo (安谷鎮雄). He was the third son of Horiuchi Iataro, the owner of "Asada Ame". However, he abandoned his inheritance rights to Asada Ame at…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Nakayama Keiko

Nakayama Keiko is a singer from Tokyo and a former idol singer. Her agency at the time of her idol period was Sun Music Productions. Her father is Satake Akio, an actor. Her maternal grandfather is film director Fuyushima Taizo. In 1975, she was scouted for Fuji TV's "All-star Kazoku Taiko Utagassen"…

Nagahama Fujio

Nagahama Fujio, born Takemura Tokiyuki (竹村時之) in Sennichimachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He attended Azabu Junior High School (麻布中学校) and graduated from Tokyo Higher School of Landscaping (東京高等造園学校). Nagahama began his career in the theater,…

Ko Hideo

Ko Hideo, born Yoshida Hideo (吉田英男) in Tomari, Sakhalin, Russia, was a Japanese singer and actor. The youngest of eight siblings, he was adopted by his maternal aunt's family shortly after birth. Both his biological and adoptive families were involved in the paper industry and had connections…

Yashiro Seiichi

Yashiro Seiichi was a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, and director born in Ginza, Tokyo. He was a member of the Japan Writers' Association (日本文芸家協会) and the Japan Theatre Association (日本演劇協会). He came from the third generation of the founding family of Ginza Yoshinoya (銀座ヨシノヤ).…

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Lost & Found

It’s said that around 90,000 people go missing in Japan each year, and even overseas this phenomenon is known as “johatsu.” Burdened with worries, some young people deliberately choose to disappear from society,…

Brothers in Arms

The story tells the miraculous success story of the Toyotomi brothers who accomplished greatness in unifying japan through their strong bond. The dreams and hopes are told from the perspective of Toyotomi Hidenaga,…

Cat Street

6.8

A story about a talented child actress who wins back her dream after retiring from acting. Keito was once a popular child actress, but she had shut herself away from society for 10 years after a traumatic acting incident.…

Futatsu no Spica

6.8

A story about five teenagers who train to becoming astronauts. Asumi whose father was a space rocket designer, becomes interested in space and joins astronaut training school after finishing junior high school. Asumi…

Nanase Futatabi

7.0

A suspense story about a girl with the ability to read people's mind. Together with her psychic friends, Nanase, the telepath, tries to save others from danger and fight those who try to abuse her power. (Source: NHK)…

Q.E.D.

7.1

A detective story that evolves around two high school students, Mizuhara Kana, a curious girl who can't help looking after others, and her new classmate, Toma So, who graduated from an elite U.S. college at the age…

Ghost Friends

7.1

A comedy story about a teenage girl who runs into mysterious happenings through her communicating with ghosts. Asuka suddenly develops her supernatural ability after her traffic accident. While trying to help make…

Grace no Rireki

8.2

In her beloved car, "Grace", a wife is on her way to Narita. Following a bus accident that kills her, her husband, Kikuo, gets access to her GPS which contains the history of all the places she travelled to without…

Akinai Seiden: Kin to Gin

8.0

During the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune in Edo. Sachi, who grew up in Tsutomura, loses her father and brother to illness and goes to work for the Isuzuya kimono shop in Tenma, Osaka. At night, the shopkeeper Jihei teaches…

I Want to Die Alone

7.4

Yamaguchi Narumi is thriving in her single life—until the sudden, lonely passing of her admired career-woman aunt shakes her to the core. Panicked, she dives into the world of matchmaking, only to crash and burn.…