Uchida Asao

Uchida Asao, born Uchida Tomoo in Pyongyang, Korea, during Japanese rule, was a Japanese actor. He was affiliated with Kohinata Project after working with Enkei Theater and the Gekkoai theater troupe. After graduating from Pyongyang First Middle School, Uchida worked for Higashiman Waryu Coal Mine,…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Kobayashi Satoru

Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…

Yakumaru Hirohide

Yakumaru Hirohide is a Japanese talent and moderator. His wife is former singer Ishikawa Hidemi (who retired from the entertainment industry after marriage), and the eldest son is actor Yakumaru Sho. The second son is Yakumaru Hayato, a soccer player from CE Sabadelvenir B (youth). The third son is…

Takada Minoru

Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…

Chiba Sachiko

Chiba Sachiko was a Japanese actress. She was born to an upper-class family as Chiba Tsuruko. She married director Naruse Mikio, but divorced him due to differences in class and a clash between her mother and Naruse. She quit acting as per her mother's wishes and instead managed a high-end restaurant,…

Chikamatsu Yoshie

Chikamatsu Yoshie, born Uematsu Yoshie (植松芳枝) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She previously performed under the stage names Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松よし枝) and Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松良枝) She joined the Shinpa Theater Company (劇団新派) in 1945 and left in…

Hosokawa Toshiyuki

Hosokawa Toshiyuki was a Japanese actor associated with the Aktor. Born in Fukuoka and raised in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, he completed his education at Yamaguchi Prefectural Toyora High School and briefly attended Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he was involved…

Kimi e

8.2

Koji carries an emotional wound from a missing childhood friend Sayoko, who disappeared when they were junior high school students. He left his hometown to forget about her and now, five years later, he goes to a grad…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 45: Shiga Kogen Satsujin Jiken ~Kurohime Densetsu no Nazo~

A beautiful woman whom Detective Kamei met in Shiga Kogen is shot in front of him and dies. Just before the woman took her breath, she entrusted Kamei with a talisman derived from the "Kurohime Densetsu" that was handed…

Endroll ~ Densetsu no Chichi ~

Hashimoto Yuji, a struggling movie director, receives a letter from Ozaki Akio, an old friend from high school, and returns home for the first time in 20 years. Hashimoto had gone up to Tokyo after graduating from…

Aoi Sora Shiroi Kumo

8.0

On Christmas Eve 2010, Rie attends a party with friends. On Valentine's Day, her parents' divorce and her mother leave for Los Angeles. Rie then learns she is admitted at a university in America for the fall term.…

Spiders Nau

9.0

An Amateur band of four , Nina (Noma) on female vocals, Masaru (Shunji Igarashi) on guitar vocals, Nada (Osamu Adachi) on keyboards, and Tatsuani (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) on drums, playing in front of a crowded audience.・…

Ariyoshi-kun no Shojiki Sanpo

10.0

Cynical and jaded comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi and Fuji TV broadcaster Yoko Shono stroll around a town without having any definite purpose or plan. Along the way, the pair randomly drops in on various shops in quest of…

Kichijoji no Asahina kun

6.3

The film follows the life of Asahina-Kun, a part-time worker who used to dream of becoming an actor. One day he meets a woman named Maya Yamada and starts a friendship with her. However, she is married and has a cute…

Mieru Onna Tsukiko

2.0

Asaoka Tsukiko was born with the ability to see ghosts. After graduation from university this year, Tsukiko has been spending her days looking for a job. However, she meets with a series of setbacks. At an interview…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 8

The screams of the villagers echoed in the village of Nanagase. Villagers who eat the famous butterbur juice that was served at the village festival fall down one after another. "He did it!" The villager who ran his…

Level 7

6.5

An elderly person who lives alone is shot to death in his home. Detective Inuyama and other detectives go to the crime scene. There, they learn that the elderly person's 50 million yen that was hidden is now gone.…