Asao Kuzaemon IV

Asao Kuzaemon IV was a versatile koshibai actor. He was for example able to play most of the major male or female roles of the famous drama "Terakoya", not only Matsuômaru, Takebe Genzô, Chiyo or Tonami, but although the evil Shundô Genba! He was a mainstay at the Miyatoza, Sakaeza or the Misakiza…

Ishibashi Kiyomi

Born in Hiroshima City, Ms. Ishibashi at the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam officially presented a long-length cell phone film called SPYDER, which she directed and produced herself. She obtained a master's degree at the University of Tokyo, and completed a doctorate course at the University…

Takami Jun

Takami Jun is a Japanese novelist born in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun , Fukui Prefecture . Illegitimate child 0f Sakamoto Sannosuke (bureaucrat, politician, and poet). In 1908, he moved to Tokyo with his mother. He grew up in a sword shop near his father's mansion in Azabu Iikura , Tokyo, without ever meeting…

Rock Murakami

Murakami Rock born in Obihiro , Hokkaido, is a Japanese ghost(Kaidan) storyteller and actor. He mainly works as a ghost storyteller at the ghost story live bar in Kabukicho , Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. As an actor, he mainly appears in works directed by Koji Shiraishi . (Source: Wikipedia)

Kataoka Kimio

Kataoka Kimio is a Japanese producer from Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. He began his career as a part-time job at Mifune Productions. From 2007 to 2011, he was a part-time lecturer in the Film Department, Graduate School of Film and Design, Tokyo University of the Arts. (Source: Wikipedia)

Chen Xu Zhi

Chen Xu Zhi is a Chinese fashion designer, born in Shaoxing, but grew up in Shenzhen, China. He is the designer behind Xu Zhi, a London-based fashion label stocked in London’s Dover Street Market , Bejing-based Lane Crawford and Beams in Tokyo. Xu Zhi’s textile innovation and construction techniques…

Onoe Taganojo III

Onoe Taganojo III was a Kabuki actor who was popular around the World War II. His real name was Higuchi Kisaburo. His Haimyo (kabuki actor's offstage name) was Baika. His trade name was Otowaya. His uncle was the kabuki actor Asao Kuzaemon. He made a debut in "Suzuki Mondo Uwasa Sinjuku" (Suzuki Mondo)…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Hatta Naoyuki

Hatta Naoyuki was a Japanese screenwriter born in Otaru, Hokkaido. Actress Hosho Ayako is his wife. In 1927, when he was 21, he joined Katsumi Yotaro Productions. The following March, in 1928, his original story was adapted and made into a movie as a script. In November of the same year, he debuted…

Yamaoka Sohachi

Yamaoka Sohachi was a Japanese novelist and writer born in Koide, Kitauonuma, Niigata. He was active mainly in historical novels. In 1920, he dropped out of high school. He then moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Ministry of Communications' research institute while working as a literary technician…

Misuzu

4.0

Tells the life story of Kaneko Teru, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a bookshop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage.…

Kimi wo Miagete

7.0

It's an interesting little love story about a vertically challenged man, Takano (163 cm), who i a professional lock opener, and a very tall woman (182 cm). During his business trip to Bangkok, Thailand, Takano meets…

Watashi no Aozora 2002

6.0

Hey, hands off my... well, he's not my husband, but he's mine! Back by popular demand, the My Blue Sky saga continues! Whatever happened to the spunky Nazuna, her hale baby, Taiyo, and Kento, the man who left them…

Tantei Samonji Susumu 5: San'nin-me no Onna

This time, Ikegami Kimiko and Hinagata Akiko will appear as guests, and Samonji will confront the case where the mystery calls a mystery. And Mizutani's customary disguise is a woman's disguise that was well received…

Hiyatoi Deka

Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally, even the police had to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his main job is a steeplejack, one man is also employed as a day-laborer…

Mama no Idenshi

10.0

Yakushimaru Hiroko plays Nanami, a 35-year-old wife and mother, trying to come to grips with her wants and needs--a job, a better relationship with her mother-in-law; good schools for her children. She and her husband…

The Graduation

6.4

Asami is about to graduate from college. One rainy day, she offers her umbrella to Mayama, a Psychology instructor who was her mother's lover, and Asami's real father, though he doesn't know it. As they keep meeting…

Red

Katase Masami has been teased since childhood because of her unnaturally red hair. To add to her sorrow, she has never really received much love from her parents. Masami, who because of all this has a complex about…

Ashita ga Arusa

7.1

A decade of the economic slump has certainly taken its toll on corporate Japan, and no one group more so than the white-collar workers that laden Japan Inc. For Toaru Corporation, a large Osaka-based trading company,…

The Boat to Heaven

9.0

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean every day. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin and…