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…

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,…

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…

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,…

Yokota Einosuke

When Inabata Katsutaro, the Japanese businessman who introduced cinema to Japan with the Lumière Cinématographe on 15 February 1897 swiftly grew disenchanted with the work, he turned to Yokota Einosuke, the owner of a Kobe export-import business. The very opposite of the meticulous and restrained…

Chiba Kichizo

He belonged to the magic lantern club of Yoshizawa Shoten , he worked as a developing engineer, and became a photography engineer when the company started producing newsreels in 1903 (Meiji36) .. In 1905 (Meiji 38) Togo Taisho Katsudo Shashin was filmed and according to Edamasa, Chiba was the first…

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,…

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.…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Tarumi Goro

Tarumi Goro was a Japanese actor born in Niimi, Okayama. He graduated from Okayama Prefectural Niimi High School and started his career with the Mingei Theater Company. His eldest son, Tarumi Shuichi, is also an actor and model. Tarumi Goro passed away from a subarachnoid hemorrhage in Tokyo on January…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 12

Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has been assigned to Niigata, is on a tour of Sado guided by Shiraishi Suzuko, an administrative official, when he receives news of an incident. Yamashita Masashi,…

Kuro

9.0

Kuro used to dream of becoming a baker, but gets fired from the bakery she works at. Eito, a photographer, breaks up with his girlfriend who he was thinking of marrying. Gou, a theater director, has his production…

Tazunebito

7.0

In 1952, Mitsuki waits for the streetcar with her lover Toichiro in Hakodate, Japan. This is the last time Mitsuki sees Toichiro. When Mitsuki boards the streetcar, Toichiro has vanished. 50 years later, Megumi runs…

Angel Home

7.4

The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako, who is mentally…

At the Last Stop Called Ghost Chimney

On the day of her graduation, high school girl who nurses a secret love for a bus driver, rides to the end of the line where the last stop is called Ghost Chimney. Depending on the angle, it can either been seen as…

Sweetheart Chocolate

6.8

Lin Yue, an art student from Shanghai, met rescue team member Mamoru in Yubari and fell in love. After Mamoru died, Lin carried out his wish to open a chocolate store in Shanghai, and she’s watched over by Mamoru’s…

Skate Kutsu no Yakusoku: Nagoya Joshi Figure Monogatari

Former figure skater Mizumoto Satomi lives happily with her two daughters while running an eel restaurant with her husband, Koichi. Her daughter Yoko is an up-and-coming figure skater who trains under the guidance…

Wind from Fukushima

A documentary that illustrates the situations facing the villages of Iitate and Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture that were designated as highly contaminated by radiation as a result of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant…

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

6.2

"11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate" depicts the last four years of celebrated author Yukio Mishima's life. From the day author Yukio Mishima established a right wing militia to oppose leftists to the final day of…

Ashio kara Kita Onna

5.7

It is 1906, near the end of the Meiji period. The government has tried to let the pollutants produced from the Ashio Copper Mine deposit in the pond of Yanaka Village which is in the lower reaches of the Watarase River…