Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Todayama Masashi

Todayama Masashi is a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Azabu Junior and Senior High School (麻布中学校・高等学校) and the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University (早稲田大学). While at Waseda, he became involved with the theater troupe Daisan Butai (第三舞台)…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Ishihara Shintaro

Ishihara Shintaro was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, Ishihara is one of the most prominent conservative right-wing politicians in modern Japanese politics. His arts career included a prize-winning…

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

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,…

Sada Masashi

Masashi Sada, born 10 April 1952, is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and a film producer. Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and they made their debut as recording artists a year afterward. The pair rose to fame owing to the hit song "Shourou Nagashi"…

Iida Joji

Iida Joji is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, television drama director, and novelist born in Suwa, Nagano, Japan. He attended Suwa Seiryo High School (諏訪清陵高等学校) and later dropped out of Meiji University (明治大学). Iida began his career as an independent filmmaker and has…

Shino Hiroko

Shino Hiroko, born on March 8, 1948 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is known for Midare Karakuri (1979), Kinyobi no Tsumatachi e (1983) and Daitokai - Tatakai no Hibi (1976). She is married to Shizuka Ijuin. She retired from entertainment business in 1997.

Epitaph Of My Love

6.0

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. ~~ Adapted from the novel Waga Koi No Bohyou by Sono Ayako.

Twin Detectives

8.0

Yumemizu Kiyoshiro, who call himself a "super detective" and twin sisters Ai and Mai cooperate to tackle with problems. Each mystery they brilliantly solve in the end reflects issues that ordinary junior high school…

Yellow Crow

Yoshida Kiyoshi feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. (Source: Film Affinity)

The Girl at the End of the Line

Tachibana Kiyoko, a student at an all-girls high school in Tokyo met Okusawa Akari, who was wearing a bright blue dress, at the start of the new school year, in her first year of high school. In contrast to the other…

Hitozuma Sagishi

Miyako and Kiyomasa are two petty cheats. One day, they come across the perfect victim - Sakuma, nicknamed the tax evasion king. The couple decides to trick him, force him to invest in a non-existent restaurant, and…

Tensai wo Sodateta Nyoubou: Sekai ga Mitometa Suugakusha to Tsuma no Ai

7.8

Mathematics genius Oka Kiyoshi spent about 15 years researching the Hartogs Inverse Problem which went largely unnoticed because it was too difficult to understand by the Japanese academic world. However, when he started…

Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku

Chidori Public High and Kikyo Private Academy sit side by side, yet they might as well be worlds apart. Kikyo is known for its elite students and polished reputation, while Chidori has a rough-and-tumble image, its…

Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current

6.8

Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where…

Lightning

7.5

A bus conductress Komori Kiyoko, the youngest daughter in a family of squabbling half-siblings. All the children are products of different fathers, though they share the same mother: a tragically weak-willed woman…

Tensai Tantei Mitarai: Nankai Jiken File - Kasa wo Oru Onna

7.3

The genius Mitarai Kiyoshi is a neuroscientist and famous sleuth. The author, Ishioka Kazuki, is his good friend. One day, Ishioka starts to tell him about a mystery which he had heard on the radio. It is something…