Take Masaharu

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1967, Take Masaharu graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo. In 1986, during the course of his studies, he began making independent films. He then moved on to work as an assistant director for directors like Ishii Takashi or Sai Yoichi and made his feature film debut with…

Imai Tadashi

He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…

Kosai Sekine

Kosai Sekine is a Japanese short film director. His sophisticated and witty sensibility is evident throughout all his work. His outsized creativity and storytelling stands poised at the crest of a new wave of branded and interactive content in Japan’s creative community. Sekine made his debut in 2005…

Ninagawa Yuki

Ninagawa Yuki, born in Yokohama, is a Japanese actress, filmmaker and painter. She is a daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi and elder sister of the actress/singer Ninagawa Miho. Ninagawa's acting debut was a role in the 1978 rock opera "Salome". In films, she appeared in "Kurutta Kajitsu" in 1981,…

Shinoda Noboru

Shinoda Noboru was a cinematographer born in Saitama, Japan. He studied at Nihon University and is best known for Love Letter (1995), Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004) and Love Hotel (1985). He died in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: IMDb)

Hamada Gaku

Gaku Hamada, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese film and television actor. He was a regular cast member of Fuji TV's Operation Love, appearing in all 11 episodes aired (2007), and 2008 special, and garnering an award for his role. He has also made numerous other TV appearances.

Mineo Sho

Mineo Sho is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He's currently represented by Vivienne Office. At the age of 21, he transitioned from a beautician to an actor. After three years in a theater company, he appeared in numerous visual works, including movies, dramas, music videos, and commercials. He…

Kim Soo Yong

Kim Soo Yong made his debut in 1958 with A Henpecked Husband and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with Scent of Love (2000). He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (a.k.a. Sorrow Even Up in Heaven) (1965) as well as some 50 literary…

Yamamoto Maika

Yamamoto Maika is a Japanese actress, TV personality, and fashion model. She is known for her roles as Kaede Kayano in Assassination Classroom, Chiyomi Horikiri in the 2015 television drama Minami-kun no Koibito, and Mizuki Kurata in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga series After the Rain, among…

Kimura Daisaku

Daisaku Kimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a cinematographer (over 50 credits) and a director, known mainly for: "Samurai's Promise" (2018), "Memory" (2017), "The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity" (2009). He worked as the Assistant Cameraman on many of Kurosawa Akira’s movies from "The…

Ano Hi no Boku wo Sagashite

6.3

Morio Koga's trading company in Tokyo was selected for the "Azumino scuola project" which is planned to be built in Hotaka Town, Nagano Prefecture. He returned to Minami Azumino, Hodaka Town, which is his hometown,…

Ame no Naka ni Kiete

6.0

It tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women. Ayako, a rampant college student; OL Takako who works for a magazine company and Kimie, who attends the dressmaking school…

Okaasan to Issho

9.0

This series is set in downtown Tokyo. Tamayo, the wife in the Aramaki family, who wants to go her own way in life, is living together with her mother-in-law Yoshie, a strong-willed woman, in an environment that's like…

Starting Over

6.7

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give…

All About Kindness

Maasa and Kai are lovers who live in Tokyo. Although they constantly fight, they spend their days happily and freely. The two enjoy reuniting with their local friend Aki and think about their future. However, Maasa…

Rambling Hearts

7.2

Midori is a realistic person that doesn't believe in true love. Love is something that should be looked upon as a balance between two people. For her, her boyfriend is the perfect partner. Average enough in the right…

Non-Mama White Paper

7.2

Reiko Doi works at a advertising agency in Tokyo, Japan. She is a 49-years-old divorcee without children. She got through her 20's and 30's by working hard and in those days working women could have children. Now,…

Living in Two Worlds

7.7

Dai was born to deaf parents and was raised with deep love in rural Japan. However, as he grows older, he becomes troubled by his differences from others and begins to blame his deaf mother for his daily frustrations.…

Air Doll

7.2

A life-size sex doll lives in a modest apartment in Tokyo, she can't speak nor move and she's the only companion of her master, a middle-aged man. He speaks to her, bathes and then make love every day when he returns…

Cinderella Closet

8.1

Haruka is a “plain jane” who left the countryside to start her college life at Tokyo. She’s secretly in love with Kurotaki, a coworker at her part-time job, but she lacks the self-confidence to confess her feelings…