Kozu Yoshiyuki

Kozu Yoshiyuki is a Japanese composer. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music and then studied composition under Nobutoki Kiyoshi and trumpet under Fujio Nakayama Fujio. He has composed music for movies, popular songs and brass bands. He's been the director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and…

Matsushita Sachiko

Matsushita Sachiko was a Japanese actress. Her husband is actor Kawabe Kyuzo. She graduated from Meguro High School. In 1953, she became a member of the Bungakuza Institute, and in 1955 he performed for the first time as a nun in "Cyrano de Bergerac". Matsushita died at the age of 74 at a hospital in…

Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

Okawa Hiroshi

Okawa Hiroshi was a Japanese businessman and filmmaker born in Haguro, Kanai Village, Nishikambara District, Niigata Prefecture. He is the de facto founder of Toei. He has been a shoya since the Edo period, and was born in a family called Tocho in the Meiji period. He graduated from Iwakura Railway…

Kato Seiichi

Kato Seiichi was a Japanese actor born in Takahashi Town, Jobo District, Okayama Prefecture. He joined the Tsubouchi Shoyo Literary Society and is known as a stage actor from the early days of the new drama. His father was a Han scholar from the Kumamoto domain, but he died shortly after Seiichi's birth,…

Keavy Eunice Vicente

Keavy Eunice Vicente is a Filipina screenwriter. She first gained critical acclaim for her feature film "Distance" (2018), which premiered at the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival and earned her a nomination for Best Screenplay. "Distance" went on to receive the Bronze Remi Award at the…

Mizutani Shun

Mizutani Shun is a Japanese singer, actor and talent born on October 30, 1990 in Kuwana city, Mie prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the faculty of education in the University of Tokyo. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Emi Suiin

Emi Suiin was a novelist, translator, and editor born in Ichibancho, Okayama City. Starting with literary works, he left his works in a wide range of fields such as popular novels, detective novels, adventure novels, and expeditionary stories, and was involved in the editing and publishing of magazines…

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…

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…

Ryusei

7.1

"Ryusei" follows the growth and conflicts of three young men who are childhood friends. When Kyo, Ryuta and Haruhiko were middle school students in the city of Nagano they saw a meteor. Twelve years later, the three…

Misty

The newborn child of detective Matsunaga, who has been investigating a series of disappearances, gets kidnapped. His wife Eri becomes emotionally unstable and a rift develops between them. Matsunaga frantically searches…

A Light in the Distance

One morning, high school student Mado wakes up to find that the people in her life have vanished. Mado walks through the streets with her sole remaining classmate Fujii, and they arrive at the abandoned factory where…

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…

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…

Reveries

Computer programmer Naruse Kazuya meets Rumi through an online chat site, and they hook up. Kazuya starts staying in the same room with Rumi and her emotionally ailing husband, and soon, he becomes distressed by feelings…