Ikezawa Ayaka

Ikezawa Ayaka is a Japanese talent, engineer, and programmer born in Tokyo. She graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. She belongs to Toho Entertainment. On January 9, 2006, she was selected for the Jury's Special Award at the 6th Toho "Cinderella" audition.…

Yamaguchi Karin

Yamaguchi Karin is a Japanese actress born in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Her parents' home is "Chiyoda Bookstore", a long-established foreign bookstore in Nihonbashi Kabutocho. After graduating from Ochanomizu University Junior and Senior High School and Toho Gakuen College Junior College, she became an actor…

Ishibashi Takaaki

Takaaki Ishibashi (石橋 貴明 Ishibashi Takaaki, born October 22, 1961) is a Japanese owarai artist, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of comedy duo Tunnels with his partner Noritake Kinashi. He married Ishibashi Masayo in 1988 and they divorced in 1998. He married actress Suzuki Honami…

Nakagawa Nobuo

Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to the Kinema Junpō film magazine. He joined Makino Film Productions in 1929 as an assistant director and worked under Masahiro Makino. When that studio went bankrupt in 1932, he switched to Utaemon…

Irie Takako

Takako Irie (入江 たか子 Irie Takako, 7 February 1911 – 12 January 1995) was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was Hideko Higashibōjō (東坊城 英子 Higashibōjō Hideko)), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as…

Kinugasa Teinosuke

Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell). He was among the pioneers of…

Wakayama Setsuko

Wakayama Setsuko was a Japanese actress who made her debut in 1947. She was married to director Taniguchi Senkichi, whom she met on the set of the movie Snow Trail, but they divorced in 1956. Following an illness, she retired from showbiz in 1961. She returned briefly to acting in 1971, but began to…

Mito Mitsuko

Mitsuko Mito was born on March 23, 1919 in Fukushima, Japan as Mitsuko Sekiba. She was an actress, known for Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) and Ôshô (1948). She died on April 5, 1981.She appeared in more than 50 films between 1935 and 1973. (Source: IMDB)

Ryu Daisuke

Daisuke Ryu is a Japanese actor of Korean descent. He won the Japanese "Best New Actor" at the Blue Ribbon Award for his performance in "Kagemusha". On March 21, 2015, Ryu travelled to Taiwan, where he was to perform in the Martin Scorsese film "Silence". Upon arrival at Taoyuan International Airport,…

Akimoto Yuki

Akimoto Yuki is a Japanese fashion model and actress. Her hometown is Kitakyushu city, Fukuoka prefecture. Her career as actress and fashion model began in her high school years. In 1995, she was selected as an idol for Fuji TV Visual Queen from which notable talents such as Uchida Yuki and Inamori…

Dreaming Novelist

9.0

Tatsuo is an aspiring mystery writer with no talent. His new manuscript ends up in a garbage bin. On the same night, a high school girl appears before him claiming she is the protagonist of his novel and that she has…

Our Midnight

6.7

Ji-hoon is an actor who has no money. His long-time lover has just announced her farewell, informing him of her marriage. Eun-yeong becomes the subject of rampant speculation and rumors after she reports her boyfriend,…

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hyaku Monogatari

7.5

An anthology special consisting of ten different short stories. >> Story 1: "Tobira no Muko" (扉の向こう) [Director: Shinozaki Makoto] >> Story 2: "Tera ni Azukerareta Riyu" (寺に預けられた理由) [Director:…

R100

6.4

An ordinary man joins a mysterious club with a one-year membership and one unbreakable rule: no cancellations. Soon, he’s thrust into a wild world of passionate love and dark encounters with women in black leather,…

The End of the World

7.2

An unidentified epidemic with a 100% fatality rate strikes Seoul. There is no guarantee who will be alive tomorrow. The Korea Center for Disease Control (KCDC) begins investigating the unknown so-called “M(Moon)”…

Solo Camping for Two

7.1

A young woman with no camping experience persuades an outdoorsman, against his better judgment, to teach her about surviving in the wild. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Futari Solo Camp" (ふたりソロキャンプ)…

Q10 Cute

7.5

Heita is an ordinary high school boy with a kind heart but no real interest in romance. His class is joined by a transfer student named Q10 (pronounced "kyu-to", the same as "cute"), who looks like a girl but is actually…

Flavour It's Yours

7.6

An accidental kiss sparks an unexpected romance when a wine critic with perfect taste and a girl with no sense of taste find that their senses have switched. Lu Wei Xun is a genius wine critic who is cold and unapproachable.…

Moonshine

7.7

An extended period of prohibition in the Joseon era proved that the restriction of alcohol was no match for human desire. Laws against imbibing, buying or making alcohol created different challenges for these inhabitants:…