Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Matsukaze Masaya

Masaya Matsukaze (松風雅也 Matsukaze Masaya?, born Masaya Watanabe (渡邉政也 Watanabe Masaya?), September 9, 1976) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He was formerly affiliated with Big Apple, Radix Mobanimation Multicye Division and Varoque Works, and is currently affiliated…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Kodama Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25 continuously for thirty-six years from its start in April 1975 until he was forced to step down due to poor health at the end of March 2011. His signature catchphrase on…

Abe Maria

Abe Maria is a Japanese idol singer. She was part of AKB48's Team K until October 19, 2019. Originally a 10th generation Kenkyuusei, she was promoted to Team 4 on July 23, 2011. She was a member of Team 4 until the team shuffle at the 2012 Tokyo Dome concert, where she was transferred to Team K. Her…

Minamida Yoko

Yoko Minamida was a Japanese actress. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband, actor Hiroyuki Nagato, to care for her. She died in Tokyo.

Suzuki Ami

Suzuki Ami is a Japanese singer, actress and songwriter. Having been discovered at the talent TV show Asayan, she was one of the most popular female teen idols in the late 1990s. In 1998 Sony Music signed her to the label, and producer Tetsuya Komuro sponsored her career producing all of her material,…

Kunugi Arisa

Kunugi Arisa is a Japanese fashion model and actress. She has been an actress for Office O:pa since 2020 and a model under Lexington Co. Ltd. She is active as a model for magazines " Seventeen " and " Popteen ", and as a three-person unit " Ariparu Rock ". As a stage actress, she is a member of Theatrical…

Suzuki Koji

Suzuki Koji was a Japanese writer born in Hamamatsu, Japan. He primarily worked as an essayist and novelist, but also operates a cram school. He prided himself on being a full-time husband and father, with many of his essays focusing on raising children. Active from 1990 until his death, he came to…

Tsuruta Mayu

Tsuruta Mayu, born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese actress. In 1996, she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike Wadatsumi no Koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited…

Teacher and Three Children

6.3

Set at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took…

Judge Season 2

One year has passed since Misawa Kyosuke, who grew up in a large city, was assigned to work as the only judge on a remote island, where he successfully wins the trust of the local people. It tells a story about how…

Over 30

Aiko, the exemplary housewife, learns that her husband is cheating on her. After a moment of shock, the woman decides to change her life and start it from scratch. The first step towards that is to find a job and move…

Tottemo Amai no～C’est Tres Doux～

7.7

One day, office worker Tanaka Mika suddenly finds herself unable to forget her boyfriend Murakami Shinya, who went to Paris to become a designer. Before she knew it, contact had been cut off, and Mika felt that she…

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…

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.…

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…

R246 Story

5.0

The anthology film R246 Story centres around the major Japanese highway Route 246. The film consists of six segments. Arifureta Kisho: The number of UFO sightings around Route 246 is on the rise. Four young men are…

Naito Daisuke Monogatari

6.0

Naito Daisuke grew up in Hokkaido, where he was bullied all through school. Bitter and lonely, he sits around the house after graduation, refusing to look for a job. His mother tires of this attitude and kicks him…

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,…