Ishimatsu Yoshihiro

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…

Ohara Reiko

Ohara Reiko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo in 1946 to a family that sold Japanese confectionery in the Hongo area. Upon graduating from high school, she made her debut as an actress. She appeared in what came to be called “trendy” dramas, including “Rikon Tomodachi” with actor…

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.

Onoe Kikunosuke V

Onoe Kikunosuke V, born August 1, 1977 as Terashima Kazuyasu, is a Kabuki and film actor. Kazuyasu came from an established Kabuki house. He is the second child of Onoe Kikugoro VII and actress Fuji Sumiko, and his older sister is actress Terajima Shinobu. Kazuyasu made his Kabuki debut in February…

Hara Hideko

Hara Hideko is a Japanese actress and talent born in Tokyo. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. She graduated from Kurume Nishi High School in Tokyo and dropped out of Nihon Kogakuin College. She debuted as an actress as a research student of Shiki Theater Company. In 1979 she made her movie debut in "Yuyake…

Sakai Miki

Sakai Miki is an actress and J-pop idol singer from Shizuoka, Japan. As a teenager she made her feature film debut in the 1995 Shunji Iwai film "Love Letter" playing the role of Itsuki Fujii as a young girl. The film was a huge box-office success and Miki picked up a number of awards for her role including…

Masuda Keiko

Masuda Keiko is a Japanese singer, actress and television personality. She made her debut as one of the Japanese duo idol, Pink Lady.

Matsushima Tomoko

Matsushima Tomoko is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and radio hostess.

Wakita Tokizo

Arisawa Hiroko

Theatrics

In the spring of 1945, just before the end of the war, in a village. Three women have married into the Shimada family. The three sisters-in-law, who are not related by blood, continue to protect the house while the…

I Maid Mermaid

Amane works as the number one maid in an maid cafe in Akihabara. One day, she unexpectedly receives a week off from the café manager and decides to return to her seaside hometown for the first time in three years.…

Hiroshige Blue

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Hiroshige's struggles to become a successful ukiyo-e artist are supported by his devoted wife, Kayo. Using a paint called Berlin blue, he pursues his passion for painting, but success comes at a price. (Source: Japanese…

Laugh, Everyone!

Tamon Saito (50), a second-generation rakugo performer, avoids traditional stories to escape comparison with his famous father and master, Kanzo (75). Instead, he performs original material, but it fails to connect…

See You Again

Manga artist Yuki rushes from Tokyo to Kyoto upon receiving news that her father has been critically injured in an accident. After her father is discharged from the hospital, he goes to a nursing home named Hallelujah…

Bold as, You.

Tama, who is not good at socializing with others, has since elementary school made the arthouse cinema her favorite place to watch movies, which are different from those at multiplexes. She also adores Yuichiro, the…

When You Wish upon a Black Hole

The film is set in the year 2036 and tells the story of Iseda Miyuki, a woman with selective mutism who loses her voice when she is nervous. She works at the Artificial Degeneration Laboratory, which conducts research…

The Sower

Mitsuo, recently released from a mental hospital after a breakdown caused by his work during the Tohoku earthquake, returns to his brother Yuta's home. He reconnects with his niece Chie and meets her younger sister,…

Walk Together

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Tetsuya is an elementary school teacher and his girlfriend is Akemi. Akemi suffers from emotional instability due to a difficult childhood. Tetsuya worries about how to deal with Akemi. Takeru is a student at an elementary…