I Flunked, But...

8.1

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don’t work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 18

Near Chigo-ga-ike in Kyoto, the strangled body of reporter Takada is discovered in a river. It appears he was killed elsewhere and thrown off a bridge. Meanwhile, at the home of Tadataka, head of the Tanmasu-ryu ikebana…

The Mad Woman's 18 Years

In the past, there were no psychiatric hospitals and mentally disabled people were often locked up by their families, giving them food on a regular basis. In Taiwan, there is a true story about a woman who was insane…

Dragon's Claws

An exiled member of the Dragon Boxing sect, Ling Ko Fung, arrives in town to claim leadership of the sect by challenging Lung Chen Tien in a duel. The winner of the duel will receive the sacred golden tablet and become…

The 18 Bronzemen

7.3

During the Manchurian invasion of China, the son of the Ming Dynasty General takes refuge in the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, so that he may seek revenge for his dead father. But he must first endure the rigorous…

Bloody Territories

6.8

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets.

A Man Who Made Big Breasts a Business

A movie adaptation of Eiji Oshita's original work serialized on Kodansha's Web magazine site MouRa.

Furimun in Okinawa

Eisho, who works at a pig farm in Okinawa, is always hanging around with Masaru, who is much older than Eisho, and Hitoshi, spending his time foolishly. One day he falls in love with a new American dancer named "Orange"…

Deme Masanobu

Masanobu Deme was a Japanese film director. Born in Shiga Prefecture, Deme graduated from Waseda University before joining the Tōhō studio in 1957. After serving as an assistant director under such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shūe Matsubayashi, Hiromichi Horikawa and Kengo Furusawa, he made his…

Shimamura Maika

Shimamura Maika is a Japanese actress born in Shiga, Japan.

Miki Toshihiko

Miki Toshihiko is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Shiga prefecture.

Kurachi Narimitsu

Japanese actor, well known for his role of Shida Kyōsuke (Battle France) in Battle Fever J.

Oniroku Dan

Oniroku Dan was born in Hikone, Shiga, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for “Hijirimen bakuto” (1972), “Kurenai shimai: Zenpen” (2002) and “Flower and Snake” (1974). He died on May 6, 2011.

Hayashi Kento

Hayashi Kento is a Japanese actor born in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. His agency is Stardust Promotion Production Department 3. In 2005, when he was in his third year of junior high school, he was scouted during a school trip at the platform of Shibuya station and entered the entertainment world. In…

Suzuki Katsuhiro

Suzuki Katsuhiro is a young actor from the Kanagawa Prefecture who has played the energetic sleeping-partner Hayashida Rindou from Shima Shima, but also the main role Hiromu Sakurada in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

Liu Xin

Xin Liu is a director and actor, known for San shi ba du (2003), Xin zhong lie tu (2006) and Fei Dao (2006). (Source: IMDb)

Nakamura Karen

Nakamura Karen is a member of 26ji no Masquerade. She was born in Shiga prefecture and has type 0 blood. Her first role was Omiya Yuka in "Kimi no Namae wo Sukite Kaite".

Karasuma Setsuko

Setsuko Karasuma is a Japanese actress and model born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She attended Chukyo University, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. She made her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1980, moving quickly into the gravure idol scene.