Koisuru Hae Onna

5.1

Komori Emi (Mimura), an elementary school teacher in Nagoya, is a dowdy woman in her 30s. She cannot say what she wants and is making no headway in her job, romance and life – looked down by her students and dumped…

Moto Kasoken no Onna

7.4

It depicts Yoshioka Shiori, a full-time housewife once known as the “ace of the Forensic Science Laboratory,” as she takes on cases through scientific reasoning while facing her daily routines of housework and…

Mikaiketsu no Onna Special

7.7

Detective Tomo Yashiro travels with Detective Risa Narumi and Detective Shinji Kusaka to the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters. 3 days earlier, Yusuke Takemura, who ran a cafe, was found dead in Kyoto. 3 of the…

Red Cross: Onna Tachi no Akagami

7.6

In Japan 70 years ago, there were women who set off for the battlefield of their own will. In 1931, Amano Kiyo, a student from Saga, has been inspired by a nurse who provided care for her mother, Kinue, who was once…

Mikaiketsu no Onna: Keishichou Bunsho Sousakan Season 2

7.6

Kentaro Arita is a popular lawyer who often appears on TV. He becomes involved in an adultery incident and becomes the subject of criticism and curiosity. He is then found dead. The police investigate Kentaro Arita’s…

Kuroi 10-nin no Onna

7.5

Kaze Matsukichi is a TV producer with a beautiful wife, Futaba. However, he also has nine mistresses. His wife and mistresses have an inkling about each other’s existence, but they just cannot leave him even though…

Hagane no Onna Season 2

7.5

Haga Ineko passed her teacher's exam with the encouragement of the kids in her 4-3 class. Haga is 36 years old and wants to say that she is still single, but her boyfriend and ex-assistant homeroom teacher Wataru Shioda…

Nasake no Onna

7.4

Matsudaira Matsuko is a tax investigator from the countryside who is suddenly called to work at the Tokyo Tax Investigation Bureau. Her rather unorthodox methods of investigating tax evaders shocks the rest of the…

Kasouken no Onna

7.9

As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where the forensics labs come…

Kasouken no Onna Season 2

8.2

As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where the forensics labs come…

Matsudaira Junko

Matsudaira Junko, a former Japanese actress and singer, was born in Shioya, Tochigi, Japan. She graduated from Yaita Chuo High School and attended Nagata Gakusha, a theater school in Kyoto. During her training, she was scouted by Toei producer Shundo Koji and joined Toei in 1972. In 1974, she debuted…

Muramatsu Eiko

Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…

Maeda Atsuko

Maeda Atsuko is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She was in Team A and was one of the most prominent members in the group, being voted number one in the 2009 and 2011 Senbatsu Elections. However, in the 2010 Senbatsu Election, she lost to fellow member Yuko Oshima, who was the lead…

Itami Juzo

Juzo Itami, born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself. The son of Mansaku Itami, prewar director of satiric jidai-geki, Jūzō worked initially as an actor, appearing regularly in Japan and occasionally in English-language…

Takamine Hideko

Takamine Hideko was a Japanese actress, singer, and essayist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Her real name was Matsuyama Hideko (松山秀子), and her maiden name was Hirayama Hideko (平山秀子). Her family lived in a household run by her grandfather, Rokusho, who managed a soba restaurant called…

Kishida Shin

Kishida Shin was a Japanese actor, best known for his memorable supporting roles in films and television series. Kishida Shin was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actress Kyoko Kishida and children's author Eriko Kishida were…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Isaka Satoshi

Isaka’s reputation rests mainly on his extraordinary debut, Focus (1996), an economical and disturbing thriller following the grim chain of events initiated when a television crew sets up an interview with an otaku (nerd) whose hobby is eavesdropping on two-way radio conversations. A subtle critique…

Kaji Meiko

Kaji Meiko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. She has appeared in about 100 films, with her most famous roles being outlaw characters in early 1970s films, such as the rebels of the "Stray Cat Rock" series, the assassin Lady Snowblood, or the murderous Sasori from the "Female…