Morikawa Kinya

Morikawa Kinya was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Harbin, Manchukuo. He graduated from the Department of English Literature at Meiji University. He spent his early years in Manchukuo until the end of World War II. After the war, he repatriated to Hiroshima, Japan, and graduated from Kure Mitsuta…

Tsume Masaru

Tsume Masaru is a film director, scriptwriter, and assistant director. After graduating from high school, he got a job in his hometown and worked there for five years, but moved to Tokyo after hearing God's advice to make a movie. In 2015, he enrolled in the ENBU Seminar, where he studied film under…

Kuno Shiro

Kuno Shiro was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Asakusa, Japan. In 1933, he debuted on stage with the Shinpa theatrical group. In 1937, he joined the Todo troupe. In 1945, he became a member of the Enoken troupe. In 1947, he joined the Toho Theater Division. In 1948, he founded the Shortcake…

Takahashi Kentaro

Takahashi Tetsuro is a Japanese local talent, scriptwriter, and politician born in Aichi, Japan. He is a member of the Itoshima City Council in Fukuoka, serving his second term. He is the founder of "Gensou Butai" (predecessor of "Gingira Taiyo'S") and an exclusive scriptwriter for the theater company…

Kamisaka Kyosuke

Kamisaka Kyosuke is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is affiliated with the agency One Music. He spent most of his time playing soccer until the age of 20. However, due to a back injury, he decided to pursue a career in music at the age of 22. In 1993, he enrolled in the Faculty of Science at Rikkyo…

Bando Choemon

Bando Choemon was a Kabuki actor. His real name was Takase Daisuke (高瀬大助), and he was born in Sendai, Japan. He began his career in theater in 1903, performing in a shinpa theater production in Sendai, under the patronage of the impresario Kase Kichibei. Afterward, he traveled and performed…

Shiraishi Naomi

Shiraishi Naomi was a Japanese actress and culinary researcher born in Vancouver, Canada. Her birth name was Nakajima Naomi (中島奈緒美). She was previously the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Koreisha Journal," focusing on issues related to aging society. She graduated from Musashino Women's…

Inami Yukiko

Inami Yukiko is a Japanese actress and former reporter born in Tochigi, Japan. Her real name is Inami Ikuyo (井波いく代). Her former stage names include Akane Yuko (茜夕子) and Inami Yukiko (井波由起子). She graduated from Yokosuka City Daini High School. After attending Tokyo Announce…

Nakamura Matagoro II

Nakamura Matagoro II was a Japanese kabuki actor. His guild name was Hamaya. His family crest was the raised butterfly, and his alternate crest was the facing diamond. He was designated as a Living National Treasure, holding the title of Important Intangible Cultural Property Holder. His real name was…

Kadota Ryusho

Kadota Ryusho is a Japanese non-fiction writer and journalist born in Aki, Kochi, Japan. His real name is Kadowaki Mamoru (門脇護). He graduated from Tosa Junior High School and High School, and later from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Chuo University. In April 1983, he joined Shinchosha…

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…