Somboonsuk Niyomsiri

Somboonsuk Niyomsiri is a film director and the 2015 "National Artist of Thailand" in the field of cinema for helping shape the Thai screen of the 70s. He is known with the artist nick 'Piak Poster'. The National Artist title rightly recognises his contribution in making movies — 29 of them — though…

Kato Youki

Youki Kato was born on December 16, 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is of mixed Taiwanese-Japanese ancestry while her mother is Taiwanese. She is an actress, known for "A ma de meng zhong qing ren" ("Forever Love") (2013), "Mulan on the Run" (2012) and "Love You 10,000 Years" (2010). In Forever Love,…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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…

Can & Sulochan

Sulochan, an Indian scientist living in Tokyo, falls in love with a vending machine. (Source: IMDb)

Kakurega de Yofukashi

Yui came to Tokyo dreaming of a glamorous college life, but she had no hobbies or boyfriend and was living a boring daily life. While wasting time in the park, the idol-like actor Shunta Aizawa passed in front of her,…

Pieces of You

A young woman takes her guy with her to explore Tokyo. The only catch is he doesn't live in Japan and can only see Tokyo through her smart phone. Distracted by falling in Love with him, she lets down her best friend…

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…

Blood & Sweat

Suzumiya Aki is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division. She possesses an exceptional nose and tenacity at crime scenes and has solved numerous challenging cases. However,…

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…

Living in Two Worlds

7.8

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.…

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…