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…

Nakamura Yui

Nakamura Yui is a Japanese actress from Togane City, Chiba Prefecture. She graduated from Dokkyo University Faculty of Foreign Studies.

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…

Amemiya Nozomi

Mino Monta

Monta Mino was a Japanese television presenter. Mino was recognized by the Guinness World Records as being the TV host with the most hours of live TV appearances in a week (22 hours, 15 seconds), as of April 2008. This broke his earlier 2006 record of 21 hours, 42 minutes. He died on March 1, 2025.…

Ishino Mako

Ishino Mako is a Japanese singer and actress.

Aso Yumi

Okumura Yumi, better known by the stage name Aso Yumi, is a Japanese actress. She is the niece of singer Chiyo Okumura. She married actor Nagasawa Toshiya in March 2004, and they had one child. The couple separated less than two years later, and officially divorced in 2008.

Sada Mayumi

Sada Mayumi is a model and actress from Tokyo. She is three-quarters Japanese. Her maternal grandfather is an American. She is currently represented by LDH Inc. On October 1, 2008, she married Kunichi Nomura. On April 6, 2009, she gave birth to their first child. She later gave birth to another child…

Sanada Hiroyuki

Sanada Hiroyuki is a Japanese actor and stage actor working in Japanese and British plays and theatre. He is also known as a recording artist in Japan. In Asia, he is most famous for his martial arts roles and historical films. Outside of Japan, Sanada was often credited in his younger days as Henry,…

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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…