Inoue Nozomi

Inoue Nozomi is a Japanese actress born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of CAMINO REAL. During the Hyogo Prefectural Suma Higashi High School, she belonged to the broadcasting department, and was awarded the Excellence Award in the reading section of the 57th NHK Cup National High…

Matsumoto Toshio

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫 Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental movies, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.…

Katsu Kanai

Kanai Katsu was born in 1936 the second son to a farming family from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After studying film at the College of Art, Nihon University, he worked briefly in the film industry, joining a major studio company and freelancing as a commercial cinematographer. In 1960, he joined the…

Matsuda Eiko

She is best known for playing Sada Abe in "In the Realm of the Senses," which generated controversy in Japan due to its explicit sexual content. Matsuda received significant backlash from the public after the film was released. Her last acting appearance was in the French film, "Cinq et la peau," released…

Chii Takeo

Takeo Chii was born on May 5, 1942 in Chiba, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kaigun tokubetsu nenshô-hei (1972), Trucker Yaro IX: A 5000 Km Run (1979) and Bee Bop High School (1985). He was married to Saori Maki. He died on June 29, 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Source: IMDb)

Takahashi Yu

Takahashi Yu is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He grew up in Yokote, Akita, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. In February 2002, Takahashi released his debut album, the self-produced Sepia, of which only 200 copies were produced. He moved to Tokyo in January 2008, to further his music career. In 2010 he…

Shigetome Manami

Shigetome Manami is a Japanese performer, model and actress. She is a former member of the musicial group E-Girls, as well as the former leader and member of the musical group Flower. Flower, her main group was active in was a unit from 2010 to 2019. She is signed with LDH Entertainment. Manami is a…

Kako Takashi

Kako Takashi is a Japanese pianist and composer, who works in both jazz and art-music idioms. Kako began playing piano at eight years old and learned to play jazz while in his teens. He has won numerous music awards and is one of Japan's leading composers, and as a pianist, he is also described as a…

Morohoshi Kazumi

Morohoshi Kazumi is a Japanese singer and former member of "Hikaru Genji". He went from Johnny's Office to GOLD RUSH K Co., Ltd. (“Stars Crew Co., Ltd.”). In 1984, in his second year of junior high school, he left home with a friend and moved to Tokyo. At Harajuku's station, Johnny's president,…

Hoshino Yuka

Hoshino Yuka is an actress known for supporting roles in Bayside Shakedown and Onsen Maruchi Daisakusen series. She graduated from Kyoto Sangyo University (specialty: Kyoto dialect; other interests: playing clarinet, piano, ocarina). In 1995, she moved to Tokyo where she made her debut in dramas.

Sento no Musume!?

8.0

After Mizusawa Yume's mother becomes ill and passes away, she finds a picture of a man holding a baby in her mother's keepsake box. On the back of the picture it says "Loving Papa and Yume, at Raku no Yu." Yume has…

Woman's Island

6.6

Takase Yuki, 31, works as editor in a small company that publish free papers. She is in charge of the opening article of a new free paper since she's the one who has given the main idea. With her assistant, Fujishima…

Basic Tsukamoto

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 46: Akita Shinkansen "Komachi" Renzoku Satsujin!

A restaurant owner is found murdered after carrying a large sum of cash tied to a suspicious loan deal, leading Inspector Totsugawa and his team to uncover a possible fraud scheme connected to a Ginza club hostess,…

Kuroi Taiyo

10.0

Atsushi was pursuing his studies to become an architect and dreamed to work with his father who runs a construction company. But everything falls apart when his father was deceived into guaranteeing a substantial amount…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 25 Himejima Satsujin Jiken

2.0

Created by Yasuo Uchida, Asami Mitsuhiko is one of the most popular amateur sleuths in Japan today. Many of the novels featuring Mitsuhiko have been made into TV by several different networks with the different casts.…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 3: Yami no Karute ~ Hidatakayama no Dai Byoin ni Karamu Renzoku Satsujin

Hatomura Shugoro, a well-known doctor who lost his position as a doctor for some reason, is accompanied by Tsugumi, the only daughter of Kawakami Asuka, a patient who is on the suspicion of murdering her husband and…

Green Days

A fake documentary-style youth drama, depicting two high school girls traveling by hitchhikin, and filming crew recording their every step. DVD version has 96 minutes of material. 32 is duration of the movie, rest…

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…

Island Times

8.4

Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple, and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his…