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…

Katono Taiko

Katono Taikou, born October 27, 1992 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actor and model who is affiliated with Evergreen Entertainment. While in high school that aimed in the teachers in 2010, Katono entered the 23rd Junon Super Boy Contest from a document sent from his mother, he would…

Oda Yuji

Oda Yuji is a Japanese actor and singer. He was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He was born to an upper-middle-class family and attended the private academy of Touin Gakuen. Originally he had a promising career in sports, but had to give it up after a knee injury. He decided to enter drama…

Nishida Toshiyuki

Nishida Toshiyuki Nishida was an actor born in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Nishida Toshiyuki won two Best Actor awards at the Academy Awards, one for "The Silk Road" (敦煌) in 1988 (Best Actor) an the other for "Free and Easy 6" (釣りバカ日誌６) in 1993. In 2003, he won the Blue Ribbon Award…

Suzuki Kyoka

Suzuki appeared in Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name and Yōichi Sai's Blood and Bones. She won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Yokohama Film Festival for her role in Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald, at the 42nd Blue Ribbon Awards for Keiho and at the 2011 Tokyo Drama Awards for Second…

Kaji Yuki

Kaji Yuki is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer. His most notable works include "The Seven Deadly Sins" (Meliodas), "Attack on Titan" (Jaeger), and "Magi" (Alibaba) but he has also voiced characters in much other popular anime. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Sakado, Saitama. He passed the…

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…

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…

Becky

Becky was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to her English father Simon Rabone and her Japanese mother Satoshi Yoshiko. She also has a younger sister named Jessica who lived in America to study dance and has other family in England, as seen in an episode of Sekai no Hatemade Itte Q!. She debuted as a regular…

Murakami Erica

Erica is a Japanese model and actress. She was born in Tohoku Fukusima Prefecture. Her father is Canadian and her mother is Japanese. She works as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine ViVi. She has played the piano for 12 years. Erica made her acting debut in the drama Black Cinderella. She is…

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.…

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!”…

Jouryuu Kaikyuu - Fukumaru Hyakkaten Gaishoubu

7.5

At the venerable Fukumaru Department Store in Kobe, Samejima Shizuo, who worked her way up from a part-timer, has been through a lot and built a career at the western confectionery department. She became a full-fledged…

Slight Fever of 100°C - Island Breeze of Love

8.5

Awajishima, the beautiful Seto Inland Sea island with a rich natural environment. One day, Chinami, an island resident, witnesses her boyfriend and hopefully fiancé, cheating on her. On top of that, she loses her…

Gachiban New Generation 1

6.9

Oomoto Tokio is a yankee (troubled kid). He is from Nishi-Kawaguchi in Kawaguchi, Japan. Tokio hates to lose. He decides to make money and also throw away his virginity. He goes to Ikebukuro, Tokyo and begins to work…

The End of the World and the Cat's Disappearance

5.4

Itsuko a budding star on the 2035 equivalent of YouTube. As she sings, dances and muses for the webcam in her bedroom, comments from fans flash all over her futuristic transparent computer screen. All is not well in…

Good Stripes

6.2

Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28 years old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori became pregnant.…

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…

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…

Dance! Dance! Dance!

8.0

DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! is an original concept combining traditional cinema with Live state-of-the-art electronic music. Together they tell the story of a Japanese musician (Furu) who is confronted with ghosts from the…