Keavy Eunice Vicente

Keavy Eunice Vicente is a Filipina screenwriter. She first gained critical acclaim for her feature film "Distance" (2018), which premiered at the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival and earned her a nomination for Best Screenplay. "Distance" went on to receive the Bronze Remi Award at the…

Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Emi Suiin

Emi Suiin was a novelist, translator, and editor born in Ichibancho, Okayama City. Starting with literary works, he left his works in a wide range of fields such as popular novels, detective novels, adventure novels, and expeditionary stories, and was involved in the editing and publishing of magazines…

Hirotsu Ryuro

In 1899, Ryūrō met Ozaki Kōyō, and joined his literary group Ken'yusha. In 1895, he published two novels which enabled him to achieve literary recognition: Hemeden and Kurotogake. These were the first of a new genre in Japanese literature, the "tragic novel", which he created. Heavily influenced…

Kusamura Hokusei

Kusamura Hokusei was a Japanese novelist born in Takase, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. He is a writer of family novels in the Meiji era. His father was a landowner and a member of the Liberal Party. After graduating from Kumamoto English School (熊本英学校), he moved to Tokyo, where he enrolled in Tokyo…

Yuri Kenji

Yuri Kenji was a former Japanese actor. His death date is unknown. Yuri was born in Kogaisu, Jonan-mura, Kuwana-gun, Mie Prefecture as the second son of his father, Yataro, and his mother, Suwa. After graduating from Jonan Elementary School, he moved to a relative's residence in Fukagawa-cho, Uryu-gun,…

Kato Seiichi

Kato Seiichi was a Japanese actor born in Takahashi Town, Jobo District, Okayama Prefecture. He joined the Tsubouchi Shoyo Literary Society and is known as a stage actor from the early days of the new drama. His father was a Han scholar from the Kumamoto domain, but he died shortly after Seiichi's birth,…

Okawa Hiroshi

Okawa Hiroshi was a Japanese businessman and filmmaker born in Haguro, Kanai Village, Nishikambara District, Niigata Prefecture. He is the de facto founder of Toei. He has been a shoya since the Edo period, and was born in a family called Tocho in the Meiji period. He graduated from Iwakura Railway…

Sawai Takako

Sawai Takako is a Japanese actress born in Osaka. Her sister is the actress Sawai Keiko. She worked at the Yajima Satoko office, and belongs to the Takarai Project. In 1964, when she was in the third year of junior high school, she moved to Tokyo with her sister who entered the entertainment world.…

Yamaji Fumiko

Yamaji Fumiko was an actress, businessman, and social entrepreneur from Nagata Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. In 1930, while attending Mori High School, she was elected to Miss Kobe sponsored by the Kobe Shimbun Co., Ltd. She joined the company and made her movie debut with "The Rebellious Child…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 18

Near Chigo-ga-ike in Kyoto, the strangled body of reporter Takada is discovered in a river. It appears he was killed elsewhere and thrown off a bridge. Meanwhile, at the home of Tadataka, head of the Tanmasu-ryu ikebana…

Samurai Chicks

5.2

Located on southernmost islands of Japan, there's a dance school "Orion Dancers Academy". Hiding its public identity as a training school of singers and dancers, it actually operates as a girl-warrior training school,…

Yokohama Eighties

Makabe Junpei is an employee of Telegram Hall, the largest advertising agency in the industry. One day, he's informed of the accidental death of his college best friend, Rikiya Muraki. Everything is also more emotional…

Nebaru Onna

Mizusawa Hazuki (35) left her hometown of Mito 17 years ago and has since built a life in the city, raising her five-year-old son Junichiro with her husband Koki while pursuing a career as a furniture designer. However,…

Translucent Tree

4.0

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer…

Kokoro to Karada

A few years ago, when Tomomi was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko about to be raped by a man. Tomomi hit the man in the head with a stone and saved Keiko. In the present, Keiko, has buried her…

Kids War Special: Kore de Final! Zaken na yo

Imai Akane is a third-year junior high school student with a sense of justice. She lives with her three siblings-in-law, Kenichi, Rika, and Hiroshi, at the boarding school, Taiyo Gakuen, in Tokyo. She had to camp in…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 29: Matsuyama Dogo Jushichi Moji no Satsujin

The haiku that Detective Kamei made as a hobby won a special prize at the Haiku Festival in the city of Matsuyama. Kamei, who visited Matsuyama to receive the award, also receives a mysterious consultation from a city…

Free and Easy 16

Densuke Hamada, aka Hama-chan, is an ordinary businessman working in a construction company, except for one thing. The fishing. It's the first priority in his life. Hama-chan and Suu-san come to Nagasaki for the opening…