Yoshino Sayaka

Yoshino Sayaka is a Japanese actress, model, and television personality. One of the first popular teen models/idols, she has appeared in numerous TV dramas, commercials, and films. Born in Tokyo and raised in both Tokyo and Chiba, Yoshino as a child wondered how children appeared on TV programs until…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Murakami Fuyuki

Murakami Fuyuki, born Murakami Saishu (村上済州) in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He completed his education at Fukuoka High School and graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo Imperial University. Murakami began his acting career as a research student at the Shinchiku…

Yamashiro Shingo

Yamashiro Shingo was a Japanese television and film actor. Yamashiro, who was originally from Kyoto, Japan, was born Watanabe Yasuji but used Yamashiro Shingo as his stage name. He made his film acting debut in 1957. Yamashiro starred in the television series Hakuba Doji, beginning in 1960. During the…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Lu Li Ping

Lu Li Ping was born in Beijing on April 3, 1960. After graduating from Central Academy of Drama in 1984 she was assigned to Shanghai Film Studio as an actress. Lu Li Ping married Actor Sun Hai Ying in 2002. Her career accolades include one Golden Rooster Award, Flying Apsaras Award, Golden Horse Award…

Amatsu Bin

Amatsu Bin was a Japanese actor born in Miyagi Prefecture Kanan Town, Momou District (now Ishinomaki City). After graduating from Miyagi Normal School, he started teaching. During the war, he served as a child soldier instructor in the Marine Corps. He got married in 1944, adopted his son-in-law, and…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Kamihoriuchi Kazuya

Kazuya Kamihoriuchi is a Japanese television drama director and stage director specializing in tokusatsu. He is from Kagoshima, Japan. After high school, Kamihoriuchi worked as an assistant director for variety programs at a television station in Kagoshima. He later moved to Tokyo to pursue a career…

Yokoyama Unpei

Yokoyama Unpei was a Japanese actor from Hikone Town, Inukami District, Shiga Prefecture. He became the first Japanese film actor to appear in Japan's first feature film. His real name is Yokoyama Yasushi. In 1893, he joined the troupe of Sudo Sadanori, a pioneer of the Shinpa drama, and debuted on…

Strangers

Yukie, a dental nurse in a rural town, doesn’t verbalize her true feelings often but she dreams of living by the sea. This is vague desire becomes something more concrete when the relentless power harassment of her…

Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains

8.4

It is 1965, a time of rapid economic growth for Japan and also a time when the people called Sanka, a nomadic band of outcasts, were fading away. Having arrived at his father’s countryside estate from Tokyo to focus…

Ashita no Watashi e

9.0

Naoko Kishi, the daughter of a lawmaker, is always at the center of the class with a smile on her face. On the other hand, she is worried about her future while working as a high school radio DJ. She's not dissatisfied…

Once Hit the Bottom

10.0

Hiroki Tachibana used to be a popular photographer. He became famous in a TV program that travelled to unexplored regions of the world. The collapse of Japan's bubble economy caused him to lose everything. Hiroki Tachibana…

Yodaremon Kazoku

10.0

The Mano family lives in a certain housing complex and, at first glance, appears to be an ordinary family, but in fact, they are not ordinary. The family is comprise of the father, Keita, who loves ordering things…

Nani ka Okashii

7.8

A listener of a radio program requests for a live broadcast as the amusement park her family used to go is closing down; however, the listener is a mother who submitted the request with the goal of finding the culprit…

AD Oguri no Jikenbo

6.9

Oguri, an assistant director for an idol show, calls herself a "travel pro". She goes to Kusatsu to check out the location for a TV shoot, but the residents start disappearing one after another... While pretending…

Kim Dae Jung Again

Kim Dae Jung competed against Park Chung Hee of the Democratic Republican Party as the presidential candidate of the New Democratic Party, but lost in 1971. He then lead a pro-democracy movement against the Park Chung…

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 Man with the Winged Tiger

Mukai Takeru, born into the family of a kiln owner specializing in the traditional craft of Kosai-yaki in Tochigi Prefecture, a craft with roots dating back to the Edo period, dreams of becoming an adventure novelist.…