Kono Akitake

Kono Akitake was a Japanese actor, born in Shinko, Annaka, Nagasaki, Japan. He was originally performing under the stage name Yamazaki Shinzo (山崎進蔵). He attended Shimabara Prefectural Middle School and later Tokyo Physics School, though he left in November 1930. In November 1931, Kono joined…

Chiba Sachiko

Chiba Sachiko was a Japanese actress. She was born to an upper-class family as Chiba Tsuruko. She married director Naruse Mikio, but divorced him due to differences in class and a clash between her mother and Naruse. She quit acting as per her mother's wishes and instead managed a high-end restaurant,…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Takada Minoru

Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…

Uchida Asao

Uchida Asao, born Uchida Tomoo in Pyongyang, Korea, during Japanese rule, was a Japanese actor. He was affiliated with Kohinata Project after working with Enkei Theater and the Gekkoai theater troupe. After graduating from Pyongyang First Middle School, Uchida worked for Higashiman Waryu Coal Mine,…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Mochizuki Yuko

Mochizuki Yuko was a Japanese actress, film director, and politician, serving as a member of the House of Councillors for the Japan Socialist Party. She was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and in 1930, she left Tokyo Municipal Shinobugaoka High School without graduating. Under the stage name…

Kanze Hideo

Kanze Hideo was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojo VII, a descendant of Kanami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather, Kanze made…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

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…

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…

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.…

Top League

6.5

Matsuoka Naoki is a reporter at the business desk for the Yamato Newspaper. One day he is transferred to the political desk. During a regular press conference held by Chief Cabinet Secretary Kondo, Matsuoka asks Kondo…

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…