Ichikawa Kazuko

Ichikawa Kazuko is a former Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1954, she joined Daiei Film Company and made her debut the same year in the Daiei film "Shiroi Fuji no Mine". (Source: MyDramaList)

Kataoka Masayoshi

Kataoka Masayoshi was a Japanese author and television producer of TV Asahi. He graduated from Tokyo Denki University in 1951 and from the Electrical Engineering Department at Gunma University in 1953. After graduating from university, he started big in 1959 with the TV adaptation of the novel called…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Shimizu Saki

Saki Shimizu, born November 22, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan, is a J-pop singer. Her career began in 2002 when she successfully passed the audition for Hello! Project Kids, an all-female teen pop group within Hello! Project. Since then, she has continued to sing in that group and has become a part of two smaller…

Yamamoto Satsuo

Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho.…

Hayashi Komei

Director

Koyabu Kojiro

Koyabu Kojiro is a Japanese writer.

Norman England

An established writer, musician, filmmaker, and character actor. Working in various crew positions in countless Japanese films and writing/reporting for numorous publications including the legendary Fangoria. He was born in the San Francisco area but grew up in a town called Rockland County. He got…

Hatanaka Yoko

Hatanaka Yoko is a Japanese singer and actress.

Jungle

7.5

This special episode is a spin-off of Galileo series with Kusanagi's colleague Yuge Shiro as the main character.

Lovers on Borders

6.0

In eighteenth-century Portugal, Soji and Shiro are brought from Japan for a restoration project. Soji establishes an emotional bond with Mariana, a housemaid working in a mansion, but is shot to death by her employer.…

Detouring Blue

Under the neon night lights of Tokyo, callgirl Shiori is chauffeured from assignation to assignation. Mid-ride, a fellow sex worker prompts her to remember her high school days, her dreams of being a playwright, and…

Tales of Terror: Grotesque

5.9

An omnibus movie composed of four stories: >> Story 1: “O-sayo” (おさよ) Shiori, who is about to make her debut as an idol, is attacked by mud-covered hands at a remote mountain inn where she has gone for a…

This Child Is Evil

7.0

Hana, the daughter of psychotherapy director Kubo Shiro, suffered a traffic accident with her mother and sister, leaving her legs badly hurt, her mother in a vegetative state, and her sister suffering from a severe…

Cold Bloom

7.0

After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Shiori and Kenji, a couple working at a small factory recovering from the tragedy, are looking forward to having a baby. But Kenji dies in an accident caused by his colleague…

The Woman in the Mask

Formerly a world-class runner, Shiro's life became dull and monotonous when he retired from his athletic career. Upon accepting a job as the coach of a corporate athletic team, he meets Hiroko, a young woman with great…

Noriko, Now

This is a semi- documentary film about the half-life of Noriko Tsuji (currently Noriko Shirai ) , a real thalidomide patient , starring Tsuji in her own role.

Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko

7.5

Due to his lack of drive, Shirou has failed the university entrance exams three times and just can't seem to do anything right. When Shirou starts to contemplate why somebody like him is living at all, a mysterious…