Yonemura Shoji

Yonemura Shoji is a Japanese writer who has done work for various anime and tokusatsu television shows and films. He is originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. Mainly, Yonemura works on screenplays for anime. After having graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, he worked as a freelance…

Okawa Ryuho

Born in Kawashima, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. The Founder, CEO, and "god" of controversial new religious movement Happy Science. First presenting himself as a spiritual channeler in contact with Buddha and Jesus Christ, he'd later claim a spiritual awakening in which he discovered he was…

Nokubo Naoki

Nokubo was born in Iwata-shi, which was formerly known as Toyodacho, Iwata-gun, Shizuoka. After graduating from Kinshin High School, Nokubo wanted to be part of the entertainment industry and went to an acting school in Tokyo. He later became a Watanabe Entertainment affiliate, and in August 2004, became…

Kurosawa Toshio

Kurosawa Toshio is a Japanese actor and singer from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Best known for his role as Ashio Ryurei in "Lady Snowblood" (1973), he was a prominent actor in Japanese cinema during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. First starting his career at Toho in 1965, on Kihachi Okamoto's…

Inoki Antonio

Inoki Antonio is a Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promoter, politician and retired professional wrestler and martial artist. Inoki was born in Yokohama, Japan on February 20, 1943. Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010. His ring name is a homage to wrestler Antonino Rocca.…

Endo Kenji

Kenji Endo was born on January 13, 1947 in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan. He was an actor and composer, known for Iden & Tity (2003), Heriuddo (1982) and Hiso hiso boshi (2015). He died on October 25, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.

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…

Kazato Yusuke

Kazato Yusuke, born Matsui Eiichi (松井栄一) in Oita, Japan, is a former Japanese actor. He previously used the stage name Kazato Ken (風戸拳). After graduating from Saiki Kakujo High School (佐伯鶴城高等学校), he moved to Tokyo and worked for a company before being scouted by a modeling…

Izawa Hiroshi

Toshihisa Izawa (伊澤 俊久 Izawa Toshihisa?, born September 4, 1955), better known by his stage name Hiroshi Izawa (伊沢 弘 Izawa Hiroshi?), is a Japanese actor, voice actor and director. Izawa was born in Tokyo, Japan and is the director of the theatrical troupe Big Face, and a member of Theater…

Ohana no Sensei

7.2

Otori Maruko has just been elected into the National Diet of Japan. Originally known as Head of the Otori Flower Arrangement School, which has over 70.000 students nationwide, she gets instructed by the secretary appointed…

Sleeping Forest Michiko

After failing several interviews to land a job, all depressed Tomoki Hamasaki decides to commit suicide. Arriving at a forest site in the mountain he finds forestry people working. Lacking manpower, the group invites…

Kintsugi

6.8

Dante is a Filipino ceramicist who has travelled to Saga Prefecture to learn from Japanese craftspeople at a pottery factory. While he had hoped to learn a new craft to help his own family’s business, he finds himself…

Audrey ni Yoroshiku

One day, Ryo, who works at a theatre as a projectionist, is approached by a strange woman, Rin, on the street. According to her, her true identity is "a princess who escapes from the palace and wanders around town,…

Among Four of Us

10.0

The film shows us the night-time meeting of Koji, Fusae, and Nanae, three former friends who belonged to the same drama club in college. They fell out of contact and drifted along in the 20 years since then but, spiked…

Terebi Engeki Success So Season 3

"Success So" is an apartment building that quietly stands in a corner of the city. Young people who dream of making a name for themselves live there, and there is a legend that one day they will make their dreams come…

East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

I thought about how to live. I thought about how no Japanese would understand us. The memory of the assailant locks us in the last cold snap and presses us against our backs. We, who are living in Japan now, wanted…

Engawa Lovers

A humanitarian comedy depicting the daily life of men who love the stage on the edge of an old Japanese house (the porch). The stage is an old Japanese house with a veranda near the sea. Ryo Sasaki, who is a cram school…

Byplayers Season 3

7.1

Set in "Byplaywood", a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote…