Azuma Chizuru

Chizuru Azuma was born on June 5, 1960 in Onomichi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Shichinin no onna bengoshi (2006), Seito shokun! ( 2007) and Love's Water Drop (2018).

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Tsuruta Koji

Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…

Hirayama Hiroyuki

Hiroyuki Hirayama is a Japanese actor who has appeared in over 40 films, but is mostly known for his memorable performances in S: Saigo no Keikan - Dakkan: Recovery of Our Future (2015), Joker: Yurusarezaru sôsakan (2010), and Retribution (2006). (Source: WeliWelo@MyDramaList)

Imaoka Shinji

Imaoka Shinji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. He is also known to use the names "Imaoka Shinji" and "Imaoka Shindi" in his works. During his appearances in pink films, he used the name "Ramon Naka." After dropping out of Yokohama City University,…

Nagano Munenori

Munenori Nagano was born on February 17, 1978 in Miyazaki, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Taxi Driver Gion Taro: Subete no kuzuyaro ni sasagu (2014), Panic In (2015) and Ryoufesu!: Saigo no nanafushigi (2012).

Emoto Akira

Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor from Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for the best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san. His wife is the…

Ito Misaki

Ito Misaki is an actor and model born in Iwaki, Fukushima. In 1999, Misaki became the Asahi Beer "image girl" and a model under an exclusive contract to CanCam magazine. She's also the current Vodafone model in Japan following on from Yamada Yu. Misaki and Enomoto Yoshinori, the director of pachinko…

Kagawa Teruyuki

Kagawa Teruyuki is a Japanese screen and stage actor. Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Hama Yuko. His grandmother is the film actress Takasugi Sanae. In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps since…

Ohno Satoshi

Ohno Satoshi, born in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, artist, radio host and member of the popular boy band Arashi. Ohno began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency, Johnny & Associates, in 1994 at the age of 13. Ohno started an acting…

Cat and Salt, or Sugar

8.0

Ichiro, a young man who rejects society and becomes his mother's pet "cat", lives with his modest mother and alcoholic father. One day, his mother meets with her ex-boyfriend. Soon after, the man and his daughter come…

Sweet My Home

7.4

A sports instructor in Nagano is named Kiyosawa Kenji. He is fascinated by a model house called Mahou no Ie, which is able to warm the inside of an entire home with only one air conditioner unit. Kiyosawa Kenji decides…

Tokyo Miracle City: Shinise - Tokyo's Time-Honored Businesses

In this fourth episode, we focus on Tokyo's "shinise" or long-established businesses. Tokyo is home to more than 3,000 shops and businesses with over a century of history. In the 20th century, Tokyo was razed to the…

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

7.0

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his…

Yujo

Legend of a Duel to the Death

7.4

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Galileo XX

7.6

The story takes place before Utsumi is to set off to Oklahoma in the US for training where she arrests a murder suspect who insists that he's innocent. Faced with the prospect of making a wrong arrest, Utsumi works…