Kobayashi Satoru

Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…

Hosokawa Toshiyuki

Hosokawa Toshiyuki was a Japanese actor associated with the Aktor. Born in Fukuoka and raised in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, he completed his education at Yamaguchi Prefectural Toyora High School and briefly attended Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he was involved…

Yakumaru Hirohide

Yakumaru Hirohide is a Japanese talent and moderator. His wife is former singer Ishikawa Hidemi (who retired from the entertainment industry after marriage), and the eldest son is actor Yakumaru Sho. The second son is Yakumaru Hayato, a soccer player from CE Sabadelvenir B (youth). The third son is…

Chikamatsu Yoshie

Chikamatsu Yoshie, born Uematsu Yoshie (植松芳枝) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She previously performed under the stage names Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松よし枝) and Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松良枝) She joined the Shinpa Theater Company (劇団新派) in 1945 and left in…

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Nogawa Yumiko

Nogawa Yumiko is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966). These films…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

16 and 10 Years Far Away

8.0

A drama about a young man bound by memories of the past and a childhood friend who lost his memory due to an accident, a story of a rebirth over the memories and lies of the two. Yukina was adopted by a local landowner…

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories IV: Shin! Shonen Tantei-dan

5.0

Twenty-Faced Phantom: "No one knows which face is the real one." He is a master of disguise, Twenty-Faced Phantom. He steals a diamond-related to the Romanov royal family with his daring trick. Kobayashi, the leader…

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…