Nomiya Takahiro

Takahiro Nomiya was born on April 27th, 1990 in Aomori, Japan. He is a musician, sound engineer, and composer. Nomiya extensively worked on the Japanese on demand series The Benza, Benza English, as well as the video game spin off The Benza RPG. He is known for singing the ending theme song to The Benza…

Taguchi Kei

Taguchi Kei is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Utsuda, Minamisaku, Nagano, Japan. After graduating from Nozawa Kita High School in Nagano, Japan, he graduated from the Department of English Literature at the University of Tokyo. He was associated with Ishi no Kai, Group Teibura, and Promotion…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Anderson Shizuka

Shizuka Anderson is an actress, presenter, and singer, born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her father is Scottish-Canadian, and her mother is Japanese. She began her entertainment career in Tokyo at 19 as the lead character of a children's TV program. She has since hosted various TV & YouTube programs…

Morley Robertson

Morley Robertson was a Japanese electronic musician, DJ, radio/TV presenter and journalist of American descent. He was born in New York and spent most of his childhood in Hiroshima. His mother was Japanese, and his father was American. In 1981, he entered the University of Tokyo but dropped out after…

Yagyu Hiroshi

Yagyu Hiroshi was a Japanese actor, host, talent, voice actor, and organizational executive, born in Funajima, Ibaraki, Japan. He graduated from Ibaraki Prefectural Tsuchiura First High School and briefly attended Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine before leaving due to poor eyesight and illness.…

Taguchi Kikutei

Born on January 18, 1875 (Meiji 8) in Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-gun , Akita Prefecture (currently Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-shi , Akita Prefecture ) . Graduated from the primary school of Kakunodate,and was apprenticed to a merchant family, 1900 (Meiji 33 years) around, the magazine " new voice Tokyo…

Ichikawa Sumizo VI

Ichikawa Jukai III was an outstanding tachiyaku actor, excelling in nimaime roles. From the end of the Meiji era to the first decade of the Shôwa era, he was an active member of the troupe led by Ichikawa Sadanji II, which was involved in the creations of many Shinkabuki dramas, written by playwrights…

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…

Nagahama Fujio

Nagahama Fujio, born Takemura Tokiyuki (竹村時之) in Sennichimachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He attended Azabu Junior High School (麻布中学校) and graduated from Tokyo Higher School of Landscaping (東京高等造園学校). Nagahama began his career in the theater,…

At the Last Stop Called Ghost Chimney

On the day of her graduation, high school girl who nurses a secret love for a bus driver, rides to the end of the line where the last stop is called Ghost Chimney. Depending on the angle, it can either been seen as…

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…

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…

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…

Angel Home

7.4

The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako, who is mentally…

Tazunebito

7.0

In 1952, Mitsuki waits for the streetcar with her lover Toichiro in Hakodate, Japan. This is the last time Mitsuki sees Toichiro. When Mitsuki boards the streetcar, Toichiro has vanished. 50 years later, Megumi runs…

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…