Anderson Shizuka

Shizuka Anderson is an actress, presenter, and singer, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her father is Scottish-Canadian, and her mother is Japanese. She began her entertainment career in Tokyo at 19 as the lead character of a children's TV program. She has since hosted various TV & YouTube programs…

Yagyu Hiroshi

Yagyu Hiroshi was a Japanese actor, host, talent, voice actor, and organizational executive, born in Funajima, Ibaraki, Japan. He graduated from Ibaraki Prefectural Tsuchiura First High School and briefly attended Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine before leaving due to poor eyesight and illness.…

Morley Robertson

Morley Robertson (b. 1963) is a Japanese electronic musician, DJ, radio/TV presenter and journalist of American descent. He was born in New York and spent most of his childhood in Hiroshima. His mother is Japanese and his father is American. In 1981, Robertson entered the University Of Tokyo but dropped…

Nagahama Fujio

Nagahama Fujio, born Takemura Tokiyuki (竹村時之) in Sennichimachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He attended Azabu Junior High School (麻布中学校) and graduated from Tokyo Higher School of Landscaping (東京高等造園学校). Nagahama began his career in the theater,…

Henry Okawa

Okawa Heihachiro was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films…

Sawa Tamaki

Sawa Tamaki was a Japanese singer, actress, and politician from Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After performing arts activities, she turned into politics and was a member of the House of Councilors. She made her debut as a singer from Teichiku in 1956 while she was a student at Yamawaki Gakuen…

Taguchi Kei

Taguchi Kei is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Utsuda, Minamisaku, Nagano, Japan. After graduating from Nozawa Kita High School in Nagano, Japan, he graduated from the Department of English Literature at the University of Tokyo. He was associated with Ishi no Kai, Group Teibura, and Promotion…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Shimozawa Kan

Shimozawa Kan was a Japanese novelist from Atsuta-mura, Atsuta-gun, Hokkaido. He won the 10th Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1962. At the recommendation of his grandfather, he went on to Hakodate Government Commercial School but dropped out because the school was burned by the Great Fire of Hakodate in 1907,…

Rolling

7.3

Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away…

Aruhi, Ahiru Bus

7.9

40-year-old Asakura Hazuki used to work for a big publishing company and was the editor of the female magazine ‘Us’. However, the magazine is discontinued. Hazuki’s contract with the publishing company is not…

Nihon Zero-Year: Wind from Fukushima II

A docu-drama that portrays the world two years after the Fukushima nuclear accident. On March 11, two years after the breakdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, the wife suddenly disappears with her child. The…

Dear Deer

7.0

When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village. Twenty-five years later, the eldest child, Fujio, still lives…

The Last Snow of Winter

5.5

Miyuki sees a dying puppy in the park. Both of her parents died in an accident, and she believes something that her grandmother told her. Her grandmother said if you make a wish during the last snowfall in winter that…

Doctor

7.9

Chikako Shida was born in 1910 in Ooisawa, Yamagata (now Nishikawa) as the eldest daughter of a prominent family. Her father Soujirou was the principal of a local elementary school and her mother died during a particularly…

Terminal

7.3

55-year-old Kanji Washida has worked as an attorney for the past 25 years in Hokkaido, Japan. He has lived alone all that time. That was his punishment that he gave to himself 25 years ago when he worked as judge.…

Dance! Dance! Dance!

8.0

DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! is an original concept combining traditional cinema with Live state-of-the-art electronic music. Together they tell the story of a Japanese musician (Furu) who is confronted with ghosts from the…

Good Stripes

6.2

Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28 years old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori became pregnant.…

X Years Later 2

Sequel to "X Years Later", which brought together 8 years of coverage about the impact of US nuclear weapons testing. Three years after the first film, this documentary questions the direction of the country regarding…