Ono Erena

Erena Ono is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She was in Team K and her talent agency was Ohtapro. She was also part of subgroups "Honegumi from AKB48", and "ICE from AKB48". Her nickname is Erepyon. Erena was also one of the focal members of Team K, taking part in most group activities.…

EXILE HIRO

Igarashi Hiroyuki, known to most as EXILE HIRO, is the founder, and former dancer and leader of JPOP groups J Soul Brothers and EXILE. In 2003, he founded the management agency LDH (Love Dream Happiness). In 2013, he retired as a dancer and focused on producing music and movies for the artists under…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Kubodera Akira

Started modeling while still a student at Nihon University, where he studied agriculture and veterinary medicine. After graduation, he began working in theater. In 2003, he debuted in drama with his role as Kunzite in the live action adaptation of Sailor Moon. He actress Hiroko Ōmori in 2007. On November…

Sakamoto Koichi

Sakamoto Koichi is a Japanese stuntman, film director, producer, and action coordinator with experience in Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. Affiliated with Alpha Stunts, he also works as a freelance producer and director. Sakamoto is from Senju, Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Senshu…

Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Todo Shinji

Todo Shinji, born Mochizuki Kenichi (望月賢一), is a Japanese actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa. He was previously known by the name Kayama Kosuke (香山浩介). A graduate of the Faculty of Literature at Kanto Gakuin University (関東学院大学), he is currently affiliated with A4 Co., Ltd. (株式会社A4).…

IZAM

Actor, singer. Izam is a Japanese musician, tarento, and actor. His real name is Yoshikazu Hine (日根 良和, Hine Yoshikazu). He is best known as the singer of the visual kei rock band Shazna. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Matsugatani High School. He is represented with Sun Music Production.…

Hira Mikijiro

Hira Mikijiro was a Japanese actor and director born in Koami-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. He was affiliated with Kei Factory. At the beginning of sixth grade, Mikijiro evacuated to the home of his maternal great-uncle in Kamigeshi-cho, Konu, eastern Hiroshima, Japan. His mother remained in Hiroshima.…

Fujitani Ayako

At age 12, she won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the sixth girl to lead the Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This began her modeling career. She was featured regularly in magazines and television commercials.…

Kuroi Taiyo

10.0

Atsushi was pursuing his studies to become an architect and dreamed to work with his father who runs a construction company. But everything falls apart when his father was deceived into guaranteeing a substantial amount…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 25 Himejima Satsujin Jiken

2.0

Created by Yasuo Uchida, Asami Mitsuhiko is one of the most popular amateur sleuths in Japan today. Many of the novels featuring Mitsuhiko have been made into TV by several different networks with the different casts.…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 3: Yami no Karute ~ Hidatakayama no Dai Byoin ni Karamu Renzoku Satsujin

Hatomura Shugoro, a well-known doctor who lost his position as a doctor for some reason, is accompanied by Tsugumi, the only daughter of Kawakami Asuka, a patient who is on the suspicion of murdering her husband and…

Island Times

8.4

Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple, and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his…

Missing You

Kanako joins a high school where she is reunited with her childhood friend, Eijun. Following the idea of Seiryo, Kanako's elder brother, they form a band. They aim to perform at the school festival, however, they are…

Pachigi! Love & Peace

5.3

He uses two story lines to slam home his points. One is the struggle of An Sung's sister Kyung Ja to rise in the 1970s' Japanese movies, which may be full of zainichi talents but forbids them from revealing their backgrounds…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 25

Himejima, a remote island floating in the Suo Sea off Oita Prefecture. While visiting the island on assignment, reporter Asami Mitsuhiko becomes close to the family that runs his lodging: Nakaseko Taishi, his mother…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 46: Akita Shinkansen "Komachi" Renzoku Satsujin!

A restaurant owner is found murdered after carrying a large sum of cash tied to a suspicious loan deal, leading Inspector Totsugawa and his team to uncover a possible fraud scheme connected to a Ginza club hostess,…

Basic Tsukamoto

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished…

If Today was the Last Day

A story of reuniting twin sisters, who were separated when young. Maiko, who lives in Hachijo Island, organizes a local festival. Just before the festival starts, she leaves the island to look for her sister Seiko…