Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

Morita Shingi

Morita Shingi was a Japanese film producer, screenwriter, and director. From 1937 he was consistently registered with Toho during and after World War II. On July 16, 1951, he died at his home in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo at the age of 53, due to a skull fracture.

Choi Ji Hee

Choi Ji Hee was a South Korean actress, costume director and fashion designer, born as Kim Kyung Ja to Korean parents living in Osaka, Japan. After liberation In 1946, she returned to her father's hometown, Hadong-gun of Gyeongsangnam-do and acquired Korean citizenship. She debuted as an actress in…

Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Mori Sannosuke

Mori Sannosuke was a Japanese actor born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the former Yokohama Commercial High School. In 1894, he joined Kawakami Otojiro's "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza", and made his stage debut in Yokohama. In 1902, at the age of 27, he became independent and formed…

Ishimaru Hiroya

Ishimaru Hiroya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. After working for Himawari Theater Group, Taiyo Theater Group, JK Planning, and Aoni Production, he belongs to Production Baobab. Ishimaru graduated from Tokyo High School and dropped out of the Faculty…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Kojima Yoyo

Kojima Yoyo, born Kojima Masaji (小島正次), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and opera singer. He began his career in Asakusa opera and Shinpai before moving into film acting. Born in Okachimachi, Shitaya, Tokyo, he attended Urawa Junior High School in Saitama and later enrolled in the Tokyo Music…

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…