Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Onoe Kikunosuke V

Onoe Kikunosuke V, born August 1, 1977 as Terashima Kazuyasu, is a Kabuki and film actor. Kazuyasu came from an established Kabuki house. He is the second child of Onoe Kikugoro VII and actress Fuji Sumiko, and his older sister is actress Terajima Shinobu. Kazuyasu made his Kabuki debut in February…

Ogata Megumi

Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tokai University, but left due to lack of interest. She is best known for voicing Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in the Toei version of Yu-Gi-Oh!,…

Wakamatsu Koji

Koji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as "Ecstasy of the Angels" and "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin". He also produced Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses". He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre,"…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Minato Kanae

Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. In youth, she…

Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Ikebe Ryo

Ikebe Ryo was born on February 11, 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kyuketsu-ga (1956), Desertion at Dawn (1950) and Madame White Snake (1956). He died on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as…

Watanabe Ken

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award…

Natsuki Mari

Mari Natsuki is a Japanese singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and started work as a singer from a very young age, her specialty being jazz and a level of sensuality that was somewhat shocking at the time. She did not marry, which made her quite an icon. But in 2007 she announced…

Tokeikan no Satsujin

7.6

The story is set in 1989 at a mysterious mansion called the “Clock House,” located on the outskirts of Kamakura. After graduating from graduate school, rookie editor Kawaminami Takaaki, otherwise known as Konan,…

Secret: A Hidden Score

7.6

Minato was studying music abroad, but he came back to Japan after experiencing trauma. He is transferred to a prestigious music university. At the music school, he hears a beautiful song played on the piano and becomes…

20-Year-Old Soul

7.7

"Even if my heart is dead, my music will continue to live" A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeling that a miracle that cannot be imagined overflows the…

Sukeban Deka Season 2: Shojo Tekkamen Densetsu

7.8

Following the end of the first series, Godai Yoko is a mysterious girl who grows with an iron mask to protect her life. She takes on the identity of Asamiya Saki after being freed from her mask and becomes the second…

Natsuzora Spin-off: Aki no Dai Shukakusai

7.8

[Toyo-san's Tokyo Story] The first film is the story of Toyo, who comes to Tokyo alone and is asked by Kazuhisa to voice an old woman character. She then visits an anime voice recording studio and is moved by Doma…

The Legend of Rosy Clouds

In the legendary Nine Cities, Fan Yun, a fallen noblewoman, crosses paths with Qi Zheng, the cunning and ambitious city lord. What begins as suspicion soon turns into an alliance as they navigate power struggles, hidden…

Anna-san no Omame

6.0

Anna is everyone's dream; beautiful, intelligent, kind and elegant. But in this drama, she is not the heroine... it is her best friend Lily. Lily is a girl who is overly confident of her own beauty and fantasizes that…

Bayside Shakedown: The Movie

7.5

In the Bayside Precinct, the body of a drowned person bearing the evidence of crude surgery sewn up with embroidery thread is discovered. When a teddy bear is found in the victim's stomach during the postmortem, the…

Jinsei Saiko no Okurimono

7.5

Sasai Ryosuke, a translator who used to be a university lecturer, stays in a small Western-style house that stands at the back of Kishimojindo Temple in Tokyo’s Toshima ward. He has been living alone ever since his…

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!

6.3

19-year-old beautiful Shiratori Reiko is a self-professed ultimate princess. Despite her haughty attitude, she is actually a very late bloomer and knows nothing of the real world. Reiko has had feelings for Akimoto…