Funahashi Seiichi

Seiichi Funabashi was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Mito High School and later from the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. His younger brother, Kazuo Funabashi, was a screenwriter. Seiichi was a member of the Japan Art Academy and was recognized as a Person…

Sugimura Haruko

Sugimura Haruko was a Japanese actress born in Nishijido, Hiroshima, Japan, then a military town. Her mother was a geisha, and her father, reportedly a military man, died when she was young. She was adopted by a building materials merchant and a teahouse owner in the entertainment district. Her adoptive…

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…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Kim So Hee

Kim So Hee is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress and former member of C.I.V.A (씨아이브이에이), I.B.I (아이비아이), GIRLS NEXT DOOR (옆집소녀) and NATURE (네이처) and current member of ATLANTIS KITSUNE (아틀란티스 키츠네). She graduated from Samsung Girls’ High School.…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Serizawa Rin

Serizawa Rin is a Japanese actress.

Arata Hinata

Arata Hinata is a Japanese actor.

Autumn Interlude

7.3

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and…

Cheers, Mr. Awamori!

~~ Adapted from the manga "Awamori-kun" (アワモリ君) by Akiyoshi Kaoru (秋好馨).

Lady Ninja

4.5

In feudal Japan, the evil lord Katou Akinari ruled the Aizu prefecture. He had private troops known as “The 7 Spears” who were trained assassins skilled in Ninjutsu and sorcery. They gathered beautiful girls in…

Sakura

7.0

There is a happy family that consists of parents and their 3 children: Hajime, Kaoru and Miki. Hajime is the first son, and he is handsome and popular. His presence in the family is large. Kaoru is the second son,…

Fake Mommy

8.0

After graduating from the University of Tokyo and joining a major company, Hanamura Kaoru was on the fast track to becoming an elite, but for some reason, she suddenly quit her job and is now struggling to find a new…

Tears for You

7.2

Tears for You is a love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town,…

Garo: Makai no Hana

7.3

Garo: Makai no Hana follows Raiga Saezima, the son of Kouga Saezima and Kaoru Mitsuki, in his quest to seal the Demon Beast Eyrith, a Horror that if she blooms she will cause the Horror Messiah to return. However,…

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.…

Midnight Sun

7.7

While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can't be exposed…

The Liar and His Lover

8.0

Four high school classmates Aki, Shun, Kaoru and Teppei form the band called Crude Play. However, just before their debut, Aki suddenly quits the band and is replaced by Shinya. The band achieves a new-found popularity…