Hanazawa Kana

Hanazawa Kana is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She was signed up with voice acting agency Office Osawa. As of 2021, she is currently signed to Pony Canyon. She made her voice acting debut as Holly in Last Exile. She is best known for her voice performances in anime, which include Nadeko…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Matsuzaki Shohei

Shohei Matsuzaki is a Japanese actor, model, and columnist. He was born in Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from Saitama Prefectural Art High School in 2012 and from Tama Art University in 2016. After graduating, he worked part-time for an interior company in 2017 and, in 2018, moved…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's apprenticeship (Shoreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Ella

Ella McKenzie Gross is a South Korean-American singer, dancer, model, and member of MEOVV (미야오). She was born in Los Angeles and holds dual citizenship. She was scouted at the age of 2 while her family was visiting South Korea and began her modeling career. Her mother had some modeling experience…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

Matsuyama Mary

Matsuyama Mary, born September 2, 1991, in Hyogo prefecture, is a Japanese actress. Possessing natural brown eyes and red hair, Mary is often mistaken as a "hafu" although she is pure Japanese. Matsuyama entered the entertainment industry in 2007 after being scouted on her way home from junior high…

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…