Murakami Koichi

Murakami Koichi is a Japanese entrepreneur born in Taiwan and raised in Tokyo, Japan after the war. He served as the president of Fuji Television and the president of Nihon Eiga Housou. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School and the Spanish Language Department of the Faculty of Foreign…

Tsutsui Shunsaku

Tsutsui Shunsaku is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the theater company Caramelbox and Office PAC. After graduating from Shukutoku Suigetsu High School, he joined the Kyoto Music & Media Arts Shobi, but later dropped out. He joined the theater company…

Kitamura Hisao

Kitamura Hisao was a screenwriter and children's literature writer born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of Waseda University. He studied under Oyama Kaoru and became a member of the "Geki to Hyoron" literary magazine. In 1936, he became a chief writer at NHK's literary department. In 1947, he took turns…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Sakai Sumie

Sakai Sumie was a Japanese actress and voice actress who worked for Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. Her real name was Fujino Sumie. She was formerly credited as Sakai Sumie (坂井 すみ江). She died on October 30, 2024, at the age of 79. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kataoka Masayoshi

Kataoka Masayoshi was a Japanese author and television producer of TV Asahi. He graduated from Tokyo Denki University in 1951 and from the Electrical Engineering Department at Gunma University in 1953. After graduating from university, he started big in 1959 with the TV adaptation of the novel called…

Nishikawa Tatsuro

Nishikawa Tatsuro is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, majoring in film directing. "The Other Home" (向こうの家) is his graduation project. In 2021, he made his TV drama debut with the drama "Gekikarado"…

Nukui Riran

Nukui Riran is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan.

Hokimoto Sora

Hokimoto Sora studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Inspired by the work of director Aoyama Shinji, he started making films during his studies. His graduation film, A Song That Never Ends (2014), an homage to his deceased father made by using archival material and abstract…

Person Who Loves The Sun: 1964 The Day's Paralympic

6.4

In 1960, Yutaka Nakamura (Osamu Mukai) works as an orthopedist in Japan. He travels overseas for a few months to research rehabilitation techniques. In Britain, Yutaka Nakamura learns about using organized physical…

Kohaku no Yume

6.0

In the year 1879, a fourth child is born to Narue Gihei, the owner of Narueya, a rice shop in Osaka Senba, and his wife Chiyo. They give their second son the name Manjiro. He grows up to be outstanding in his studies.…

Soredemo Koi Suru

7.0

A port town set in a small bay in Mie Prefecture is close to Kumano. Many people come for the Kumano pilgrimage route which is a designated World Heritage site. However, barely anyone comes to such a quiet town. Childhood…

Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey

Second installment in the Asian Three-Fold Mirror coproduction omnibus project featuring films by three cuttingedge Asian directors on a single concept. - "The Sea" by director Degena Yun from Inner Mongolia probes…

I'm Not Here

Film school instructor Tahara is dismayed that his students are stymied in their creative pursuits because of the school's profit-oriented management. When Tahara unexpectedly becomes the head of the film department,…

Shinjuku Punch

2.0

Hosei (Ren Ozawa) is 22-years-old and he has yet to have sex. Even though he likes women a lot, he has always had bad luck with them. Wishing to experience a big change in his life, Hosei goes to the Kabukicho. The…

Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram

9.0

"If you ride this train, you can go anywhere." A story about the Randen train line in western Kyoto and the people that ride it. Eisei is a nonfiction writer searching for urban mysteries related to the train line…

Beyond the Blue

Music Video director「廣賢一郎」Hiro Kenichiro's debut movie. A feature film set in a world where people receive letters called "Blue Mail" from their future selves. Kagari, a young man, meets a runaway girl,…

Watashi wa Zettai Yurusanai

6.0

At the age of 15, Yoko is raped by a group of guys. Her family neglects her and she becomes the target of bullies at school. She turns to an older man. Yoko later moves out to Tokyo. She receives plastic surgery and…

Dai Zenryoku Shissou

7.8

Seven years after his disappearance, Isoyama Takeshi, who returned home, runs a bakery with his wife Seiko and daughter Nanami, but it has been in the red. The only happy news is that Nanami is engaged to Shirogane…