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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Han Jae Un

Han Jae Un is a South Korean singer, dancer and former member of INX (인엑스) and ARGON (아르곤). He made his debut in August 2016 (using the stage name Win) as INX's lead rapper, vocalist and maknae with their first single, "Alright". Unfortunately, the group was not successful and disbanded…

Furuoya Masato

Masato Furuoya was a Japanese actor who was born in Kawasaki city of Kanagawa Prefecture. He made his debut in 1977 and starred in many movies and TV dramas. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th…

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…

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,…

Moving in Between

8.1

This film documents Erika's life journey of gradually building up her ideal body image, including when she completes the sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) and moves to Japan. Through Erika's experience moving between…

Yellow Bricks - The Man Who Tricked Frank Llyod Wright

8.0

The story will center around the Japanese city of Tokoname in Aichi prefecture, which is well known for its ceramics. Over 100 years ago, famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright reached out to Kichinosuke Hisada to procure…

Bansousha

7.0

On a day before the new year’s long-distance relay race, the final roster of the members who have made Hiyori Foods’ track and field team are announced. Awashima Yuichi has been dropped, and his track and field…

Love Stories From Fukuoka 15

6.6

A series of real-life stories submitted by viewers in Fukuoka about their personal experiences with love, loss and longing. All the stories are based in Fukuoka, the capital city of the Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu…

All About Chiaki Mayumura (Provisional)

As an idol who does everything from songwriting to running her own company, Chiaki Mayumura has been described as both a genius and a maverick by the Japanese music industry. "Is Chiaki Mayumura just a single person?"…

Tokuso 9 Season 3

7.3

It has been nine months since the previous head of the Special Investigations Unit left. Asawa Naoki and the members of the unit no longer get requests for backup from the First Investigation Division but keep getting…

Keishichou Sousa Ikkachou Season 4

7.0

Junichi Oiwa, chief of the non-carrier “slap-up” investigator who leads over 400 elite detectives, is the latest in this series that will help solve difficult cases. In this work, familiar members such as Hirotaro…

Tekkin Hanabi

Samejima Touko, who works at a production company for a picture book, has a dream to perform a picture-story show on the street with an original picture-story show device. But Touko was stuck. Unable to grasp children's…

Gekidan Sphere

The show is a collaboration between five playwrights and Sphere and is an anthology series exploring various genres. Each episode has two halves with a different director, and a new episode will debut every two weeks.…

Engawa Lovers 2

The second installment of the humanity comedy "Engawa Lovers," which depicts the everyday life of men who love the veranda, set on the veranda of an old Japanese house. A fledgling movie director, Daisuke Hagiwara…