Togawa Yukio

Togawa Yukio was a Japanese novelist and children's writer born in Saga City. He established animal literature based on correct observations and knowledge about animals and is a leading figure in Japan alongside Muku Hatoju. He has also worked on reportage, war stories, and manga. From an early age,…

Mabuchi Kaoru

He studied under Toshio Yasumi in 1951 and became a screenwriter .Tomoyuki Tanaka, the producer who supported the Toho special effects route, and Takashi Shimura , a regular performer , are theater friends from Kansai University, but even after entering the movie world in Tokyo, they have a connection…

Watanabe Yoshinori

Watanabe Yoshinori, born in Hokkaido, is a Japanese screenwriter. He graduated from the Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University in 1980. Debuted in the 1988 anime "Mister Ajikko". Working in TV TOKYO, he has written many historical dramas and mysteries. It features works with compositional power based…

Boya Saburo

Boya Saburo was a Japanese comedian and actor from Yubari, Hokkaido. After going through private Hokkai Junior High School, he went on to the Faculty of Religion at Nihon University, but transferred to the night art department to study vocal music. His name at birth was Ishikawa Hiroshi, but he was…

Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi

Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi is a Japanese director and VFX professional born in Kanazawa. While still a student in the Image Department at Musashino Art University, he began his career as a filmmaker concentrating on VTR work. He soon voluntarily dropped out of school to become self-employed. As an openly…

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…

Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Enomoto Misae

Enomoto Misae was a Japanese singer born in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Due to her underprivileged family, she was sent to servitude by the theater owner in Asakusa in 1934. In 1938 she became a geisha in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, and moved to Tokyo in 1940. She later studied singing at the…

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…

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).…

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…