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…

Hirotsu Ryuro

In 1899, Ryūrō met Ozaki Kōyō, and joined his literary group Ken'yusha. In 1895, he published two novels which enabled him to achieve literary recognition: Hemeden and Kurotogake. These were the first of a new genre in Japanese literature, the "tragic novel", which he created. Heavily influenced…

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.…

Kusamura Hokusei

Kusamura Hokusei was a Japanese novelist born in Takase, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. He is a writer of family novels in the Meiji era. His father was a landowner and a member of the Liberal Party. After graduating from Kumamoto English School (熊本英学校), he moved to Tokyo, where he enrolled in Tokyo…

Yuri Kenji

Yuri Kenji was a former Japanese actor. His death date is unknown. Yuri was born in Kogaisu, Jonan-mura, Kuwana-gun, Mie Prefecture as the second son of his father, Yataro, and his mother, Suwa. After graduating from Jonan Elementary School, he moved to a relative's residence in Fukagawa-cho, Uryu-gun,…

Yamaji Fumiko

Yamaji Fumiko was an actress, businessman, and social entrepreneur from Nagata Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. In 1930, while attending Mori High School, she was elected to Miss Kobe sponsored by the Kobe Shimbun Co., Ltd. She joined the company and made her movie debut with "The Rebellious Child…

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,…

Yorozu Masayuki

Yorozu Masayuki is a Japanese actor from Chiba. He belongs to Rush Up. After working as a model, in 1999 he made a regular appearance in a TV drama by appearing in the Tokai TV production and Fuji TV series soap opera "Ai no Meteor". In November 2017, he opened a comprehensive entertainment lesson studio…

Sawai Takako

Sawai Takako is a Japanese actress born in Osaka. Her sister is the actress Sawai Keiko. She worked at the Yajima Satoko office, and belongs to the Takarai Project. In 1964, when she was in the third year of junior high school, she moved to Tokyo with her sister who entered the entertainment world.…

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,…