Nakagoshi Noriko

Nakagoshi, first debuted as a model for ViVi magazine in 1999. She began acting the same year, making her acting debut as Midori Sato in the show Tengoku no Kiss. Her acting attracted her great attention and from there, she moved onto bigger roles. Her breakthrough role came in the 2003 NHK asadora,…

Sugimoto Tetta

Sugimoto Tetta is a Japanese actor from Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His agency is Tristone Entertainment. He dropped out of Kanagawa Prefectural Fujisawa Technical High School. In 1981, he made his debut with the Yokohama Ginbae family rock band, Grease. In the same year, he made a regular…

Otake Shinobu

Shinobu Otake is a Japanese film and stage actress, known for The Wind Rises (2013), Go (2001), and Like Asura (2003). She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi).…

Sato Kei

Sato Kei was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Oshima Nagisa, and for several films with Shindo Kaneto, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no Akuryōo He also…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Kitagawa Hiromi

Hiromi Kitagawa is an actress, known for Nagareboshi (2010), California Dreamin' (2002) and Toki no kaori: Remember me (2001).

Taguchi Tomorowo

Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer, and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan…

Aoi Yu

Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film "All About Lily Chou-Chou". She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best-supporting actress in 2007 for "Hula Girls"…

Hara Hideko

Hara Hideko is a Japanese actress and talent born in Tokyo. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. She graduated from Kurume Nishi High School in Tokyo and dropped out of Nihon Kogakuin College. She debuted as an actress as a research student of Shiki Theater Company. In 1979 she made her movie debut in "Yuyake…

Honda Ishiro

Honda Ishiro was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for his kaiju and tokusatsu films, including several entries in the Godzilla series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career. His early film career included working…

Zukkoke San Ningumi Kaito X Monogatari

The story of three children who, in search of pirate treasure, appear in a cave on the outskirts of the city. Soon, a mysterious thief, nicknamed "X" by the police, starts prowling the city. It quickly becomes clear…

A Tender Place

7.3

Kasumi gets into an affair with her husband's client. The woman is torn - she doesn't know if she wants to divorce or fight for happiness with her husband and daughter. Everything changes when her daughter Yuka goes…

Tsubame wa Modottekonai

7.2

Riki, who works as a temporary worker, is troubled. A colleague at work invites her to make money by becoming an "egg donor." Riki has an interview with the reproductive medicine agency "Plante". There, she is approached…

Koko wa Greenwood

6.6

Set at the all-boys school Rokuto Academy, the story revolves around Hasukawa Kazuya, a late arrival to the unusual Greenwood Dormitory, a former insane asylum. His first surprise comes when he discovers his roommate…

Yoru ga Aketara, Ichiban ni Kimi ni Ai ni Iku

7.9

Fukagawa Seiji is a high school student with silver color hair. He is free-spirited and fond of painting. He tells people exactly what he thinks, but he also has a mysterious side. His classmate is Niwa Akane. Akane…

OUT

6.6

The novel tells the tales of four women, working the graveyard shift at a Japanese bento factory. All four women live hard lives. Masako, accepted as the leader of the four women, feels completely alienated from her…

I Want to See You Again on That Starry Hill.

Yuri, a high school girl who time-slips back to Japan in 1945, meets a young man named Akira and falls in love for the first time. However, he is a member of a special attack unit. Unable to stop Akira as he takes…

Dakara Koya

7.5

Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s…

Men with Sword

7.4

Thunder crackles, territories split, and warlords rise. After more than three centuries, the Empire of Juntian began to collapse as three of the four major duchies declared their independence, each reigning over their…