Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

Matsuyama Mary

Matsuyama Mary, born September 2, 1991, in Hyogo prefecture, is a Japanese actress. Possessing natural brown eyes and red hair, Mary is often mistaken as a "hafu" although she is pure Japanese. Matsuyama entered the entertainment industry in 2007 after being scouted on her way home from junior high…

Hanae Natsuki

Hanae entered workforce while in high school. He thought about his career, but aspired to become a voice actor after watching Ouran High School Host Club. Hanae joined Across Entertainment in November 2009.[6] He made his first leading role in Tari Tari, and was credited as a composer for episodes 5…

Sawamoto Natsuki

Natsuki is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. He started dancing at the age of 4, first as a hobby then with the intention of becoming a professional dancer. In order to achieve his dreams he moved to Tokyo to attend LDH's dance school EXPG. His dancing talent led…

Yazaki Hiroshi

Yazaki Hiroshi, born in Yamagata prefecture, is a Japanese theatre actor under Tristone Entertainment Inc. agency. Occasionally, he plays roles in some dramas and films. Hiroshi abandoned his studies and moved to Tokyo at only 16 to pursue a career in acting. He auditioned at Himawari Theatre Group…

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's apprenticeship (Shoreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Shiozaki Airu

Shiozaki Airu is a Japanese actor. He was born in Ireland and came to Japan at the age of 5. He lives in the Osaka prefecture. He is always known as IRE. He belongs to the GIG MANAGEMENT JAPAN. Airu was a model during his highschool life and he went to Tokyo in 2001. Now, he's a real fashion model from…

Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden, to Gunhild (Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions…

Unprecedented

It is impossible to comprehensively map the ultimate extent of the damage wrought by the waves of the corona pandemic in all the layers of the society. It does not, however, require a lot of guesswork to see the links…

One and Four

7.4

On a snowy stormy night, in the cabin of forest ranger Sang Jie, a man claiming to be from the Forest Police, armed with a gun, suddenly bursts in. They set up an ambush and capture a villager named Gen Bao , who is…

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:…

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…

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…

Need for Womance

7.6

Four aspiring women live under one roof. Actress Oh Yun Soo and Yoon Yu Sun, who have been known each other for 30 years, Makeup artist Lee Gyeong Min, and actress Cha Ye Ryun show their chemistry and share what kind…

Robot Repair Boy

A boy with a genius in robot repair, facing the past over the requested AIBO robot, and fostering new bonds, modeled on a real robot repairer, Nobuyuki Norimatsu. 16-year-old Rintaro, who works in a workshop that undertakes…

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…