Akimoto Sayaka

Akimoto Sayaka is a Japanese actress. She is a former member of AKB48's Team K, as well as the unit DiVA, until her graduation in 2013. She is a former captain of Team K. She was born to a Japanese father and a Filipina mother. As an actress, Akimoto has appeared in both Japanese and American productions…

Sakamoto Ryuichi

Sakamoto Ryuichi was a Japanese musician, activist, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor formerly based in Tokyo and New York. Beginning his career in 1978 as a member of the electronic music group "Yellow Magic Orchestra", Sakamoto served on keyboards and sometimes vocals.…

E-Tion

Lee Chang Yoon, known professionally as E-Tion, is a South Korean singer, dancer and member of ONF (온앤오프; short for ON N' OFF). He graduated from Woosuk High School and was enrolled in the Japanese program at Hanyang Cyber University but is officially on a leave of absence. Before debuting,…

Matsushima Shota

Matsumura Shota is a Japanese actor from Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan. He is affiliated with Amuse. He attended Ryoshinsha Gakuen Toyonaka Junior High School. Instead of following the standard junior high to high school curriculum, he pursued a three-year independent course aiming for admission to a prestigious…

Nakadai Tatsuya

Nakadai Tatsuya was a Japanese actor. In his over seven-decade career, he appeared in more than 160 movies and received numerous accolades. He was honored with a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1996 and Japan's Order of Culture in 2015. Discovered on the streets of Tokyo by director Kobayashi Masaki, he…

Wentz Eiji

Wentz Eiji is a Japanese singer, entertainer, and actor. He is a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT and belongs to the production company Burning Productions. Born in Mitaka, Tokyo to a German American father and Japanese mother, Wentz became involved in the entertainment industry at a very young…

Utada Hikaru

Utada Hikaru was born in Manhattan. They are the daughter of Utada Junko, a well-known singer of traditional Japanese music, better known by her stage name of Keiko Fuji. Their father is music producer Utada Teruzane (Teruzane Sking). Utada spent much of their childhood between New York and Tokyo, always…

Kato Rosa

Rosa Kato is an Italian-Japanese actress and commercial model. Kato was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father and a Japanese mother. Her family moved to Kagoshima, Japan when she was 5 years old. Kato received a Japanese education. Kato is not fluent in Italian. She is a graduate of Kagoshima West…

Nojima Shinji

When the bubble economy was really making its presence felt, Nojima was going quietly out of his head in Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu. Born in 1965, he dropped out of college before graduating, and the first job he managed to get was at a can manufacturing plant. It was this experience…

Yabu Kota

Yabu Kota is a Japanese singer as well as a member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture and lives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. On September 23, 2001, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. Inoo Kei, a member…

The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed

Sota Masuda won the band contest at the age of 17, and his debut with his band was a matter of time. However, the band broke up with their members going to college, and he headed to Tokyo to succeed in music. Eventually,…

His Master's Voice

8.5

A heartwarming drama devised by rakugo performer Hayashia Taihei. It presents an affectionate depiction of the highs and lows of ordinary people, and weaves a traditional rakugo story into its narrative. Music video…

Magic Night

4.0

Akio is a young man with a complex over his appearance. One day, he receives a ring a magician, Jumonji. The ring transforms Akio into a handsome man. He is so attractive that he is scouted to work at a host club in…

Piano Barn

5.7

Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing…

Ogawacho Serenade

7.6

Manami runs the snack bar “Snack Bar Sayoko.” She raised her daughter Sayoko alone. Her father is known as Angel and works as a drag queen dancer. Sayoko doesn't know that Angel is her father. Manami and Angel…

Shin Keiji Yoshinaga Seiichi

6.7

Yoshinaga Seiichi is a detective of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division. He believes “there is no case that cannot be solved”, and he never gives up on an investigation. His partner…

Tanikawa san Shi o Hitotsu Tsukutte Kudasai

A documentary that uses the poem "Kotoba" (WORDS), written by poet Tanikawa Shuntaro about the Great East Japan Earthquake, as an entry point for exploring precious words spoken by people living in various regions.…

Mama ga Ikita Akashi

7.4

Takehiro lives the busy day-to-day life of a sport reporter in charge of a new program. His wife, Kyoko, is pregnant. Somehow he figures out how to get a break from work and visits his parents and in-laws. Meanwhile,…

Fukushima: A Town of Love and Hope

6.0

In 1945, Hideo, who was a student, was mobilized to work at a mine in Ishikawa, Fukushima Prefecture during World War II. Hideo did not know what he was mining, but it was uranium. In 1966, at Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture,…

Oedo Sosamo - Onmitsu Doshin Aku o Kiru!

7.0

A special New Year edition of the highly popular period drama series “Oedo Sosamo”. This year’s installment is called “Onmitsu Doshin Aku o Kiru!,” which roughly translates as “Secret agents cut down evil!”…