Kazuno Tsuyoshi

Kazuno Tsuyoshi is a Japanese VFX supervisor from Oga, Akita, Japan. He serves as the representative director of Studio Backhorn Co., Ltd. In 1986, he graduated from the Tokyo Designer Gakuin College's Animation Department. He joined the optical synthesis specialized company Den Film Effect and for…

Ryu Keiichiro

Ryu Keiichiro was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Akasaka-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Ikeda Ichiro. He graduated from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. During the war, he departed as a student soldier and fought in mainland China as an army officer.…

Nishimura Shogoro

Born in Japan in 1930, Shogoro Nishimura joined Nikkatsu Studios in 1954, and was first promoted to director in 1963 with the well-received Keirinshô ningyô jôki. He spent the rest of that decade directing Nikkatsu programmers of varying quality. With the 1970s came the studio's shift to making exclusively…

Inano Kazuko

Inano Kazuko was born on January 3, 1937 in Niigata City, Niigata, Japan. She was an actress, known for Curse of the Ghost (1969), Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974) and Onna no uzu to fuchi to nagare (1964). She was married to Yoichiro Fukuda.

Kitaoji Kinya

Kitaoji Kinya, born February 23, 1943 in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He is the son of famous jidaigeki film star Utaemon Ichikawa, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Tokyo. Following his father's footsteps, Kitaoji's career is renowned…

Nakadai Tatsuya

Nakadai Tatsuya was a Japanese actor. In his over seven-decade career, he appeared in more than 160 movies and received numerous accolades. He was honored with a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1996 and Japan's Order of Culture in 2015. Discovered on the streets of Tokyo by director Kobayashi Masaki, he…

Narumi Riko

Narumi Riko, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and fashion model. She was born Tsukamoto Riko. She grew up in Kawasaki. Her special talents include playing the piano and guitar. Her nickname is Rikopin was given to her on a Japanese radio program.

Oshima Yuko

Yuko Oshima was the captain of Japanese idol group AKB48's Team K. She was also a member of the subunit Not yet. She had been a contributing member for all of AKB48's singles since "Aitakatta" in October 2006, except for 2010's "Sakura no Shiori". Oshima participated in four number 1 singles: "River",…

Ayano Go

Go Ayano is a Japanese actor born in Gifu, Japan. Ayano was featured in several minor roles beginning in 2005. In 2009, he appeared in Takashi Miike's "Crows Zero 2". He then appeared in Shun Oguri's directorial debut, "Surely Someday" (2010). In 2013, Ayano starred in two of his highest-profile roles…

Watanabe Tetsu

Watanabe Tetsu, born in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan, is an actor and voice actor. His real name is undisclosed. He is currently affiliated with Owlm Co., Ltd (株式会社アウルム) and was previously with Imai Office (今井事務所) until March 31, 2015. Watanabe graduated from Aichi Prefectural Handa…

Fujiko F. Fujio SF Tanpen Drama Season 3

The stories being dramatized this time include "Kanshin," in which two lovers and a Yakuza boss rapidly switch bodies; "Ore to Ore to Ore," in which a man multiplies after an experience on a mountain; "Miracle Man,"…

Eyecatch Junction

6.2

The Shintai Sobu fitness club is formed by the chief of police to maintain high public opinion of the police force and its first recruit is the ambitious traffic cop Makoto. She enters into a martial arts competition…

Z Island

6.4

Hiroya Munakata (Sho Aikawa) is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. Munakata-gumi is a Japanese yakuza. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi (Shingo…

Detective Story

6.6

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodyguard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and…

Pure Japanese

6.7

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently…

Dead Flowers

Kenji, who lives in the world of the Yakuza syndicate, is ordered to assassinate his boss, the gang leader Kido. The life-ending order makes him ponder upon the meaning of life for the first time. Meanwhile, the struggling…

Out & Out

6.0

Masao was once a high-ranking member of the biggest yakuza group in Japan. He left the yakuza and now runs a private detective office with a young girl named Shiori. She is in the second grade of elementary school.…

Black Angel

6.8

Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the nom-de-guerre of "Black Angel."…