Ishii Kenichi

Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…

Umezu Sakae

Umezu Sakae, born Umezu Shigeru (梅津榮) in Tomari, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with several agencies, including Dojin Kai (同人会), Miya Pro (ミヤプロ), Hitomedia (ヒトメディア), and Dual Production (デュアルプロダクション)…

Shang Na

Shang Na is a Chinese entrepreneur, producer and screenwriter. Formerly the senior editor of Beijing News, she joined Sohu in 2006 as the editor-in-chief of the entertainment channel. In 2009, she served as the senior director of Sohu Video, and then In 2011, she took up the position of chief editor…

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…

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…

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…

Billy Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul

Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, nicknamed Billy, is a filmmaker and producer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo…

Muranishi Toru

Muranishi Toru is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos (AV). Known in Japan as the "Emperor of Porn", he has been credited as one of the creators of the quasi-documentary style found in Japanese AVs, a genre that has remained popular throughout the history of the adult industry…

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…

Audrey

8.1

Mizuki is a would-be actress who has yet to attain her goal, struggles to keep the dream in her heart alive while dealing with the reality of her normal life, far away from lights, cameras, and action she longs for.…

Watashi no Aozora Saishuuhen

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, Murai Kento had aspirations to be a professional boxer but due to…

Rocket Boy

8.0

Kobayashi works at a travel agency and has the preconceived notion that in 2001 he will be able to go on a trip to outer space. Now 30, his girlfriend has left him, and a year has passed since he promised to take over…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 15

Visiting the Shima Peninsula to report on ama divers, Asami Mitsuhiko meets the simple and beautiful ama diver Natsumi and a kind man deeply devoted to his family, Motohashi. One day, former yakuza member and popular…

Ningen no Kuzu

2.0

At one point, the punk band vocalist Kiyujuro, who was also popular among critics, has abandoned his colleagues from the acid incident caused by the members and is now in a hot spring inn, run by his grandmother. However,…

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,…

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…

Senrigan

The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ’Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed…

Ai Kotoba wa Yuuki

8.0

Tomashi village is a small village, well known for its abundance of nature and beautiful surroundings. When a development company called Funamushi plans to build an industrial waste treatment facility in the area,…

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.…