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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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…

Yoshida Ryo

In 2000, after graduating from Toho Gakuen College Junior College Department of Drama, he moved to England and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Spring Course. In the same year, he joined the London theater company. From 2009 to June 2012, he was active as a member of the theater company "Hibai".…

Matsuo Fumindo

Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Right Here Right Now

College dropout Kudo was approached with a job opportunity overseas by chance. He accepts the opportunity to get out of his days in a rut, but becomes involved in a crime caused by an old friend, Yano, whom Kudo reunites…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…