Shimozawa Kan

Shimozawa Kan was a Japanese novelist from Atsuta-mura, Atsuta-gun, Hokkaido. He won the 10th Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1962. At the recommendation of his grandfather, he went on to Hakodate Government Commercial School but dropped out because the school was burned by the Great Fire of Hakodate in 1907,…

Yokota Einosuke

When Inabata Katsutaro, the Japanese businessman who introduced cinema to Japan with the Lumière Cinématographe on 15 February 1897 swiftly grew disenchanted with the work, he turned to Yokota Einosuke, the owner of a Kobe export-import business. The very opposite of the meticulous and restrained…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Chiba Kichizo

He belonged to the magic lantern club of Yoshizawa Shoten , he worked as a developing engineer, and became a photography engineer when the company started producing newsreels in 1903 (Meiji36) .. In 1905 (Meiji 38) Togo Taisho Katsudo Shashin was filmed and according to Edamasa, Chiba was the first…

Tarumi Goro

Tarumi Goro was a Japanese actor born in Niimi, Okayama. He graduated from Okayama Prefectural Niimi High School and started his career with the Mingei Theater Company. His eldest son, Tarumi Shuichi, is also an actor and model. Tarumi Goro passed away from a subarachnoid hemorrhage in Tokyo on January…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Sawa Tamaki

Sawa Tamaki was a Japanese singer, actress, and politician from Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After performing arts activities, she turned into politics and was a member of the House of Councilors. She made her debut as a singer from Teichiku in 1956 while she was a student at Yamawaki Gakuen…

Henry Okawa

Okawa Heihachiro was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films…

Tamiya Jiro

Tamiya Jiro was born on August 25, 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan as Shibata Goro. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Showdown at Night's End (1964). He was married to Fuji Yukiko. He died on December 29, 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.

Ryuzaki Katsu

Ryuzaki Katsu, born Takashima Fumiaki (高島史旭) in Kochi, Japan, was a Japanese actor and gourmet reporter. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Hosei University (法政大学). During his fourth year, he passed the 5th Generation Nikkatsu New Face (日活ニューフェイス) audition.…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 27

Thirty-four years ago, a man named Nomoto Sueharu was found dead in Okoshino no Mori, crushed beneath a fallen torii gate. Beside his body lay a bronze hitokatashiro—a ritual effigy traditionally used as a human…

It's On Me

6.0

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Yamabuki Maya moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by the amount of money she gives them. After settling in her hometown,…

Dear Heart

Miwako, who visited a villa on the plateau with her husband, Shinji, who is a mystery writer, is confused that Shinji, who has just undergone heart transplant surgery, has begun to behave strangely. She leaves Shinji…

Gachiban 5

8.7

The fifth of popular Yankee action starring Kazuma Sano. Mori Monji who overcame Kanagawa with the Black Skull Team. In front of Monk and others who aim to conquer the whole nation, the Kansai Yankee and Manta Corps,…

A Summer Family

Kamimura (62 years old), is a Japanese dancer who lives in the Perche region of south Normandy, France. He has been living with two women, in a strange life, for the past few years. In early summer, June, a dance festival…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 7: Chinura Reta Chosen-jo

The genius surgeon Hatomura Shugoro abandoned his future and position as a doctor and protected Kawakami Asuka and Tsugumi, from the plot of great evil. However, a new devil's hand attacks Shugoro, and it is suspected…

Tooku no Sora

6.0

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time, the man and woman fall in love, but…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 6: Chinura Reta Chosen-jo

The suspicion that his wife, who had thought he died of illness, had been killed by someone raised, and Shugoro headed alone to Sendai, the city of trees, to find out the truth. He was looking for clues with one hand.…

Toshi Densetsu Sepia

7.3

Owlman Saiki Takehiko is a guy who is no good at anything no matter what he does. One day, he creates an urban legend of the Owlman and starts posting these rumours on internet bulletin boards. A man dressed in a brown…

Kamifusen

4.8

Kamifusen (紙風船) is a Japanese omnibus movie with segments directed by Shoichi Akino, Satoru Hirohara, Kohei Sanada, Ryo Yoshikawa which are based on the work of the famous dramatist Kunio Kishida.…