Ishido Toshiro

Toshiro Ishido was born on July 17, 1932 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for Black Rain (1989), Eight Below (2006) and Return of Ultraman (1971). He died on November 1, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. He went by the pen name Ishido Yoshi Akira. (Source: IMDb)

Naoki Sanjugo

Naoki Sanjugo was a Japanese novelist, screenwriter, and film director, born in what is now Andojimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka Naoki studied at Waseda University's English Department Preparatory Course and then at Waseda University's Higher Normal School English Department, but dropped out due to unpaid monthly…

Nakai Kie

Nakai Kie is a Japanese actress and essayist. She graduated from Rural Chofu Akiba Junior and Senior High School and Waseda University. Her younger brother is the actor Nakai Kiichi. She made her debut as an actress while attending Waseda University School of Letters, transferred from one part to the…

Kanai Dai

Kanai Dai was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. He dropped out of the Chuo University, Department of Law. In 1952, he founded the theater company Izumiza. His eldest son is the actor Kanai Setsu. On June 17, 2001, at the age of 74, he died of pneumonia at a hospital…

Sato Takuma

Sato Takuma is a Japanese director born in Akita, Japan. He graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita Minami High School (秋田県立秋田南高等学校). During his school years, he played soccer, representing the Akita Prefecture select team in elementary and middle school. He also participated in…

Fujiyoshi Kumiko

Fujiyoshi Kumiko is a Japanese actress and narrator born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. She is married to the actor and former singer Yosuke Tagawa. They have a son born in 200, when she was 39 years old. In 2017, she was accused of having an extra-marital affair with a married producer working at Asahi…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Shimizu Kei

Keita Shimizu, born in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, is simply known as Kei Shimizu. He is a Japanese comedian who is represented by the talent agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo. After graduating from Doshisha Kori Junior and Senior High School, he graduated from Doshisha University Faculty of Commerce by going on to internal…

Satoki Saburo

Satoki Saburo was a Japanese actor born in Yamamori, Yamagata, Japan. His real name was Sato Kizaburo (藤喜三郎). He was also known by various stage names, including Satoki Saburo (里木三郎), Satoki Saburo (里木左甫良), Satoki Saburo (里木三朗), Satoki Saburo (里木三甫良), Kuromaki…

Kurara Haruka

Kurara Harukaa, birth name Yamasaki Kumiko (山崎久美子) was a Takarazuka Revue Top Star before starting her TV and film acting career in 1984 with Toho Entertainment. Her stage name was given by the playwright Yashiro Seiichi. 'Haruka' (遥) means 'aimed at far away' while 'Kurara' is romaji for…

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…

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,…

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…

Woman's Island

6.6

Takase Yuki, 31, works as editor in a small company that publish free papers. She is in charge of the opening article of a new free paper since she's the one who has given the main idea. With her assistant, Fujishima…

Sento no Musume!?

8.0

After Mizusawa Yume's mother becomes ill and passes away, she finds a picture of a man holding a baby in her mother's keepsake box. On the back of the picture it says "Loving Papa and Yume, at Raku no Yu." Yume has…

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…