Masuda Toshio

Masuda Toshio is a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. In 1944, he entered Kobe Prefectural First Kobe Middle School and then enrolled in Niihama Technical College. However, in July 1945, he was expelled from the school for opposing the military training conducted by the…

Nozawa Hisashi

Nozawa Hisashi was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the Kuniko Mukōda Prize in 1998 for his screenplay Nemureru Mori (A Sleeping Forest) and Kekkon Zen'ya (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1997 for Hasen no marisu (Dotted-line Malice) and the…

Hanaoka Kikuko

Hanaoka Kikuko was a Japanese actress born Takigawa Ikuyo (瀧川幾代) in Teramachi, Shizuoka, Japan. After marriage, she was legally known as Matsuzaki Ikuyo (松崎幾代). She was recognized for her work as a comedic actress at Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s and as a supporting actress…

Eric Bossick

Eric Bossick is an American actor and voice actor. He was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in Singapore and Canada. He often works with Japanese productions and has a taste of Japanese culture. He is currently based in Tokyo.

Utjung

Utjung is a Taiwanese singer, actor and songwriter of indigenous Paiwan descent. In 2017, he won the XXIX Summer Universiade theme song competition and was the opening performer with his hit song "Embrace the World with You." He also broke new ground in Paiwan traditional music, becoming the first Paiwan…

Senda Korenari

Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known mostly for founding the Haiyūza theatre company, and translating and directing the works of Bertolt Brecht in post-World War II Japan. He appeared in over 50 films between 1936 and 1970. His stage name comes…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Shinagawa Ryuji

Shinagawa Ryuji is a Japanese actor, lyricist, and narrator from Nakazumori, Takamura, Minamitsuru, Yamanashi, Japan. When he was in the third year of Tsuru Junior High School, his brother died in a traffic accident, prompting him to run away from home and head to Tokyo. Afterward, with the support…

Sugawara Hiroshi

Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Arts at the Department of Film and Television, studying movie production and production, winning the Cumuldee Award (Excellence Award). After returning home, in 1988 he made his directorial debut…

Kawago Hina

Kawago Hina is a member of Nogizaka46's 1st Generation. She is a "Popteen" exclusive model. On November 23, 2018 she announced her graduation from the group. Her activities in Nogizaka46 will end on December 20, 2018 after the group's concert at Musashino no Mori Sogo Sports Plaza in Tokyo.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…