Araki Shinobu

Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Fujikawa Jun

Makita Yukimasa

Egi Toshio

Toshio Egi was born on June 4, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and producer, known for High and Low (1963), Yuki no Concerto (1991) and Zatôichi monogatari (1974). Child activity started at the age of three. Since 1959, he has been active mainly in Nikkatsu films, and has performed with numerous…

Tanabe Mitsuru

Tanabe Mitsuru is a Japanese screenwriter.

Ookura Kenichi

Actor and musician. Born in Kanagawa.

Iwamoto Hitoshi

Iwamoto Hitoshi is a Japanese director.

Katayama Shinzo

Born in 1981 in Osaka prefecture, Japan, Katayama Shinzo worked as an assistant director for Nobuhiro Yamashita before becoming an assistant director for Bong Joon Ho on two of his projects: Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009). His debut feature, Siblings of the Cape (2019), won the Best Picture – Feature…

The Taste of Fish

7.2

Shuntaro Akagi works as an elite businessman at a general trading company in central Tokyo. He's been chosen as the personnel department head while still in his mid-thirties, and expects to soon marry his sweetheart,…

Kamisama no Saikoro

6.4

Music streamer Akagi was worried that his channel subscriber numbers weren't growing at all. Just as he was anxious about what to do, he heard about a "doll that grants wishes" from his former teammate Shiraishi, who…

Kazoku Boshu Shimasu

7.8

This work is a home drama featuring Shunpei Akagi, who just became a single father three months ago for some reason. When a childhood friend wrote on SNS that "# I am looking for a family" with a humorous idea, Shunpei…

Gotaisetsu SP

7.1

Abandoned by his mother at a young age, Akagi Kaede is raised in Yamaguchi by his grandmother and the priest at his school, Father Kitano. After leaving his hometown, Kaede returns years later to serve as a priest…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake Special Episode

6.5

Toru Hikawa, who used to be deeply infatuated with Masumi Akagi, has, for various reasons, decided to break up with Masumi Akagi and become a lawyer based on the school director's recommendation. At his new job, he…

Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger

7.7

This unofficial 36.1st installment in the long running Super Sentai franchise tells the story of three people (Akagi Nobuo, a die hard Sentai and Tokusatsu fan, Aoyagi Mitsuki, a martial arts expert with more hidden…

ST Aka to Shiro no Sousa File

8.0

The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Akagi works as an analyst on the ST team. He won't appear in front of others, but his colleagues trust him as a leader. Yurine…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake Season 2

6.2

Hikawa Tooru, who was a math teacher, falls in love with a PE teacher Akagi Masumi in the same high school and experiences a love story between men. Three years later. On the recommendation of the president of the…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake

6.3

Two teachers work together at the same high school. Hikawa Toru is a methodical but naive elite graduate from the University of Tokyo while Akagi Masashi is a physical education teacher who is kind-hearted but a little…

ST Aka to Shiro no Sousa File The Movie

7.7

The film picks up after the events of the popular 2014 NTV drama which followed the exploits of a group of quirky yet talented MPD crime lab researchers who were assigned to a special criminal investigation unit called…