Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Matsuzaki Yuki

Yuki Matsuzaki is an Japanese actor who had appeared in movies and on television. Matsuzaki appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima and in The Pink Panther 2 where he portrayed Kenji Mazuto, a technology "wiz-kid". He appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as a character…

Miyagawa Kazuo

Miyagawa Kazuo was a leading film photographer in the Japanese film industry. He is known to the world as a photographer of works directed by Inagaki Hiroshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, etc. After graduating from Kyoto Commercial High School, he joined Nikki Kyoto at the age of 18 as an assistant…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Naruse Mikio

Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 (towards the end of the silent period in Japan) to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki (working-class drama)…

Ozawa Yukiyoshi

Ozawa Yukiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in 1974 in the United States as his father, orchestral conductor Ozawa Seiji, was directing the San Francisco Symphony. He comes from a family involved in the arts; along with his father's work in the world of classical music, his mother is former model and actress…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Tanaka Yuuko

Tanaka Yuuko is a Japanese actress. Her supporting role in the 1981 film Eijanaika won her several awards including Best Supporting Actress at the 1983 Yokohama Film Festival. Tanaka became popular after appearing in the serial drama Oshin (1983–84). She was the Japanese voice of "Lady Eboshi" in…

Tabe Mikako

Tabe Mikako is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Starting acting in her teens with a role in the Sailor Moon musicals, she has developed into a lead actress in film and television, playing the heroine in the Asadora Tsubasa, starring in TV comedy series such Yasuko to Kenji and Deka Wanko, and playing…

Hagiwara Kenichi

Kenichi Hagiwara was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters,…

Record of a Marathon Runner

This was a sponsored documentary film by director Kazuo Kuroki of Japan. This highly artistic film focused entirely on Japanese marathon runner Kenji Kimihara. Kimihara finished eighth in the 1964 Olympic marathon…

Gekito! Kanfuchen

Chen, who was ordered to retrain by Ohito, becomes a student of Tendo again and challenges Dojo Yaburi's Kenpo messenger, Kano Kenji. In the fight, Chen becomes close to Kano's younger sister, Yuki, but Yuki is killed…

Dai Yuukai

8.0

A comedy-touch suspense drama that depicts the story of a mysterious abduction of a millionaire against the backdrop of the Kishu forest. Toshiko, a water-rich millionaire who owns a vast forest in Kishu, was kidnapped…

Jokyoshi Shiroi Hada no Kioku "Kyohaku Sareru Gekai"

~~ Adapted from the manga "Jokyoshi Shiroi Hada no Kioku : Kyohaku Sareru Gekai" (女教師　白い肌の記憶　「脅迫される外科医」) by Yajima Masao (矢島正雄) and Hirokane Kenji (弘兼憲史).

Hotaru Kusa Shinju

A man who is exhausted from society makes a heartfelt promise with a mysterious woman he meets at the Uji River Bridge. (Source: MyDramaList) ~Adapted from work by Kosugi Kenji (小杉健治).

Hi no Kawa

Piece of the red clothes connects few victims of rapes and murders, indicating it's a work of serial killer. A female lawyer pursues the mystery. (Source: Japanese = tvdrama-db.com || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~…

Tales of Terror Series 4

10.0

An anthology series consisting of 20 short episodes released in the following order: >> Story 1: "Futari Botchi" (ふたりぼっち) [Director: Asato Mari] >> Story 2: "Tonari no Onna" (隣の女) [Director: Murakami…

High School Third Graders

It depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Shake to Tomorrow" by Tomishima Kenji and from the song "Shake by Tomorrow" by Funaki Kazuo.

Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God

7.3

Second part of the trilogy about Tsukue Ryunosuke - a ruthless samurai. Directed by the legend of chanbara, Misumi Kenji. ~~ Adapted from the novel "大菩薩峠" by Nakazato Kaizan (中里介山).

Memories Corner

7.6

A young French reporter visits Japan to investigate the phenomenon of ‘Death By Loneliness," which seems to have occurred following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. She interviews various people in Kobe and meets Kenji…