Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Ishimaru Hiroya

Ishimaru Hiroya is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. After working for Himawari Theater Group, Taiyo Theater Group, JK Planning, and Aoni Production, he belongs to Production Baobab. Ishimaru graduated from Tokyo High School and dropped out of the Faculty…

Mori Sannosuke

Mori Sannosuke was a Japanese actor born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the former Yokohama Commercial High School. In 1894, he joined Kawakami Otojiro's "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza", and made his stage debut in Yokohama. In 1902, at the age of 27, he became independent and formed…

Kojima Yoyo

Kojima Yoyo, born Kojima Masaji (小島正次), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and opera singer. He began his career in Asakusa opera and Shinpai before moving into film acting. Born in Okachimachi, Shitaya, Tokyo, he attended Urawa Junior High School in Saitama and later enrolled in the Tokyo Music…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Kimura Takeo

Kimura Takeo was a Japanese art director of more than 200 films, writer and film director. He begun his career in 1945 and was one of Japan's best known art directors, most famously for his collaborations with cult director Suzuki Seijun through the 1960s at the Nikkatsu Company, exemplified by 'Tokyo…

Morita Shingi

Morita Shingi was a Japanese film producer, screenwriter, and director. From 1937 he was consistently registered with Toho during and after World War II. On July 16, 1951, he died at his home in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo at the age of 53, due to a skull fracture.

Choi Ji Hee

Choi Ji Hee was a South Korean actress, costume director and fashion designer, born as Kim Kyung Ja to Korean parents living in Osaka, Japan. After liberation In 1946, she returned to her father's hometown, Hadong-gun of Gyeongsangnam-do and acquired Korean citizenship. She debuted as an actress in…

Nakagawa Yoshie

Nakagawa Yoshie was a Japanese actress from the end of the Meiji era, the Taisho era, and the early Showa era. Her husband is movie director Kako Zanmu, and her younger sister is actress Komatsu Midori. Sge was born in Koishikawa-ku, Tokyo, and was originally a stage actress. In 1911 she appeared in…

Tahara Soichiro

Tahara Soichiro is a Japanese journalist, critic, and newscaster born on April 15, 1934 in Hikone, Shiga, Japan. He is a former director of Tokyo 12 Channels (now TV Tokyo) and a former film director. (Source: Wikipedia)

Level 7

6.5

An elderly person who lives alone is shot to death in his home. Detective Inuyama and other detectives go to the crime scene. There, they learn that the elderly person's 50 million yen that was hidden is now gone.…

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

6.2

"11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate" depicts the last four years of celebrated author Yukio Mishima's life. From the day author Yukio Mishima established a right wing militia to oppose leftists to the final day of…

Wind from Fukushima

A documentary that illustrates the situations facing the villages of Iitate and Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture that were designated as highly contaminated by radiation as a result of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 12

Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has been assigned to Niigata, is on a tour of Sado guided by Shiraishi Suzuko, an administrative official, when he receives news of an incident. Yamashita Masashi,…

Kuro

9.0

Kuro used to dream of becoming a baker, but gets fired from the bakery she works at. Eito, a photographer, breaks up with his girlfriend who he was thinking of marrying. Gou, a theater director, has his production…

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…

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…

Kichijoji no Asahina kun

6.3

The film follows the life of Asahina-Kun, a part-time worker who used to dream of becoming an actor. One day he meets a woman named Maya Yamada and starts a friendship with her. However, she is married and has a cute…

Ariyoshi-kun no Shojiki Sanpo

10.0

Cynical and jaded comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi and Fuji TV broadcaster Yoko Shono stroll around a town without having any definite purpose or plan. Along the way, the pair randomly drops in on various shops in quest of…

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…