Ito Kisaku

Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…

Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

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…

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.

Mizunoya Kiyomi

Mizunoya Kiyomi, born Sada Mizutani (水谷貞) in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She began her career at the age of nine, debuting alongside her aunt, actress Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子). As a child, she was a member of the Geijutsuza (芸術座) and its Children’s Drama Group (芸術座童話劇部).…

Isoda Keiji

Isoda Keiji was a Japanese film producer from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. His wife is film producer Onishi Etsuko. After working at Shochiku Kyoto Studio and Shochiku Ofuna Studio, he became a freelancer and established a private office "Isoda Office Co., Ltd.". He has worked on numerous films and…

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…

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".…

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…

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…

Green Days

A fake documentary-style youth drama, depicting two high school girls traveling by hitchhikin, and filming crew recording their every step. DVD version has 96 minutes of material. 32 is duration of the movie, rest…

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…

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…

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,…

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…