Ishii Kenichi

Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…

Umezu Sakae

Umezu Sakae, born Umezu Shigeru (梅津榮) in Tomari, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with several agencies, including Dojin Kai (同人会), Miya Pro (ミヤプロ), Hitomedia (ヒトメディア), and Dual Production (デュアルプロダクション)…

Shang Na

Shang Na is a Chinese entrepreneur, producer and screenwriter. Formerly the senior editor of Beijing News, she joined Sohu in 2006 as the editor-in-chief of the entertainment channel. In 2009, she served as the senior director of Sohu Video, and then In 2011, she took up the position of chief editor…

Kako Takashi

Kako Takashi is a Japanese pianist and composer, who works in both jazz and art-music idioms. Kako began playing piano at eight years old and learned to play jazz while in his teens. He has won numerous music awards and is one of Japan's leading composers, and as a pianist, he is also described as a…

Shigetome Manami

Shigetome Manami is a Japanese performer, model and actress. She is a former member of the musicial group E-Girls, as well as the former leader and member of the musical group Flower. Flower, her main group was active in was a unit from 2010 to 2019. She is signed with LDH Entertainment. Manami is a…

Inoue Nozomi

Inoue Nozomi is a Japanese actress born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of CAMINO REAL. During the Hyogo Prefectural Suma Higashi High School, she belonged to the broadcasting department, and was awarded the Excellence Award in the reading section of the 57th NHK Cup National High…

Billy Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul

Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, nicknamed Billy, is a filmmaker and producer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo…

Muranishi Toru

Muranishi Toru is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos (AV). Known in Japan as the "Emperor of Porn", he has been credited as one of the creators of the quasi-documentary style found in Japanese AVs, a genre that has remained popular throughout the history of the adult industry…

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…

JO1 the Movie: Unfinished - Bon Voyage

"This is the middle of our journey." JO1 is a global boy band formed by 11 members selected in 2019's "PRODUCE 101 JAPAN." Since their debut in 2020, they have been steadily moving forward with the motto "Go to the…

Ninosan Special: Ninosan to Asobo 7

The seventh installment of Ninosan special program Ninosan to Asobo has been confirmed! Joining the cast in having loads of fun and excitement this summer are Yoshitaka Yuriko, who is making her first appearance on…

Yagate Umi ni Naru

Etajima City is located in the Seto Inland Sea archipelago in western Hiroshima Prefecture. Born there and never having left the island, Shuji has always felt responsible for his father's sudden death in the family…

Bakkon!

Taniguchi Yumemi is a woman who grew up relying on the Danjiri Festival in Osawa-cho, Kishiwada City, for support, but lost her father in an accident during the festival. Never wanting to be involved in festivals again,…

Wakako Zake Season 9

It follows twenty-six-year-old Murasaki Wakako, who was born with "a drinker's palate," as she wanders in search of places where she feels at home after work and on her days off, savoring the pleasures of drinking…

Jiccha!

Mikami Yuki relocates to Tsugaru City, where her grandfather Taisuke lives, through the Regional Revitalization Cooperation Program. After working for a year in the city hall’s Tourism and Brand Strategy Division,…

Ii Hitori no Hi

Floor director Chiyoda is running a segment in which an ordinary married couple signs divorce papers in front of the cameras. However, among the participants is Yasuko, the wife of the program’s producer, Uchibori,…

Ano Yoru wo Sukui ni

6.5

Asuka, Hayato, and Shota, childhood friends in Osaka, formed a detective agency inspired by their favorite show, "Detective! Night Scoop." When Shota moved away, the agency disbanded, but they made a final appearance…

I Am Kirishima

On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confession to the Kamakura hospital staff treating him: “I am Satoshi Kirishima.” On January 29th, he died. For 49 years,…