Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot

7.3

The drama describes the fateful meeting in Osaka in the 1980s between Sanma and Jimmy when Sanma found the latter tied to the staircase of a theater without any clothes on. At that time, Jimmy was just a newbie comedian…

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan

7.2

18-year-old Ai Nu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients but also draw the lesbian attention of brothel madam, Betty Tei Pei. Betty teaches…

Beijing Watermelon

7.1

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters…

The Sickness unto Love

6.4

This film is a love story centered around the clumsy yet earnest first love of shy high school boy Miyamine and Kei, a popular girl in his class. Several unfortunate events become intertwined with the suspicious death…

Yamashita Tomohisa: Route 66

7.5

Hit the legendary Route 66 with Yamashita Tomohisa! The former NEWS member gets in a pickup truck and drives across America – from Chicago to Los Angeles – for the 12-episode Nippon Television documentary. Along…

Silent Parade

7.3

Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found.…

2126, Looking for the Sea's Star

Iwao, a game enthusiast living in Kushiro, leads an unremarkable daily life. One day, he learns that his hometown, Kushiro, is being considered, alongside Shanghai and Busan, as a potential setting for the next installment…

Mobile Detective: The Movie 3

6.5

Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secret that these girls are detectives. One day, the three high school…

Closest Love to Heaven

8.0

A love story nurtured by a high school girl named Okamura Ninon who fell in love with the handsome boy, Kira Yuiji. Having been bullied in the past, Ninon finds it difficult to engage with other people, therefore she…

A Boy and His Samurai

7.5

Yasube Kijima, a samurai from the Edo Period, travels through time - 180 years - to arrive in present day Japan. He then meets divorcee Hiroko and her son Tomoya. Yasube ends up working for Hiroko as a housemaid in…

Mackenyu

Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows…

Fuchikami Yasushi

Yasushi Fuchikami is an actor, known for Hirugao: Heijitsu gogo 3 ji no koibitotachi (2014), The Outsider (2018) and Bokudake ga inai machi (2016).

Kubozuka Yosuke

Kubozuka Yosuke is a very popular young actor in Japan. Similar to many other actors, he works in both film and TV sitcom. He graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School. He has been a model for many magazines and TV commercials before starting out his acting career. He debuted in a TV…

Koyama Keiichiro

Koyama, born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa as the youngest of two children, is the oldest member of NEWS and is often seen as the mother figure of the group. Before he was in NEWS, he was a member of BAD and J-Support, which was later renamed K.K.Kity, along with fellow NEWS members Hironori Kusano and Shigeaki…

Suzuki Rio

Rio Suzuki is a Japanese child actress and tarento. She is famous for such TV dramas as Yae no Sakura, Ashita, Mama ga Inai and as a television personality.

Higashino Keigo

Higashino Keigo was born in the Ikuno Ward of Osaka City. He incorporates his experience in his hometown into his works, notable examples include "Byakuya" and "Namiwa Shonen Tanteidan". Originally, his last name was read as Tono but his father changed the reading to Higashino. He graduated from the…

Itagaki Rihito

Itagaki Rihito is a Japanese actor who was born in Yamanashi prefecture. He is under Stardust Promotions. Rihito has been a model since he was 2 years old, but it wasn't until he was in 5th grade of elementary school, when he passed an audition at Stardust Promotions Entertainment, that he began his…

Sonim

Sonim, born in Shikoku, Japan, is a Zainichi Korean actress and J-pop singer. She was a former member of the Tsunku-produced duo EE Jump along with Yuki Goto (Maki Goto's younger brother). Yuki was caught underage in a bar, which got him suspended from EE Jump. When the band released its next single,…

Aikawa Juri

Aikawa Juri is a Japanese model and actor born in Ichikawa, Chiba. He graduated from Chiba Prefecture Tachi Kawanami High School and became active as a popular reader model for the magazine Tokyo Street News during his high school years. He also modelled during the Paris Fashion Week, and debuted his…

Tamaki Hiroshi

Tamaki Hiroshi, born in Nagoya, is a Japanese actor represented by Aoi Corporation. His wife is actress Kinami Haruka, his sister-in-law is actress Kinami Sayaka, and his cousin is comedian Capybara. When he was in his third year of junior high, he was influenced by the drama "Wakamono no Subete" to…