Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Nire Kotaro

Nire Kotaro was a Japanese actor born in Higashikomagata, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1919, he made his debut in Asakusa's "Mikuniza". In 1922, he served in the military, and after his discharge, he participated in the Arashi Hina Masu no Tabi troupe and toured the countryside. After World War II, he joined…

Nakano Minoru

Nakano Minoru was a novelist and playwright born in Osaka Prefecture. He dropped out of Hosei University's liberal arts department. In 1922, Nakano's play "Basue no Haru" was performed for the first time at the Park Theater in Asakusa. In the same year, he applied for "Chabanshi" in the script recruitment…

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.

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…

Harukawa Masumi

She was born Takigawa Machie in Utsunomiya, Tochigi. From the 1950s, she was a dancer under the stage name Mary Rose at the Asakusa Rock Theater. Shortly thereafter, she moved to the Nikkei Music Hall before being recruited by the film industry. She made her film debut in "Temptation on Glamour Island"…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Oya Ichijiro

Oya Ichijiro was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa Suga, Tokyo. He made his stage debut in 1907 at the age of 13, performing as a child extra in Beggar's Child or Nobleman's Child (乞食の子か大名の子か). He studied under actor Fujii Rokusuke (藤井六輔), adopting the stage name Fujikawa…

Shiawase no Jikan

The drama, unlike the other versions, is told through the eyes of the main character, Tomoko, and not, as in the original story, her male protagonist Tatsuhiko. The title met with much criticism due to its excessive…

Hiraba no Tsuki

50-year-old Kensho Aoto went through a divorce and returned to his hometown. He begins to work for a printing company and lives a quiet life. He has an encounter with Yoko Sudo, whom he last saw 35 years ago in middle…

Boku no Tomei na Dokyonin

Aida Ritsu, a second-year high school student, begins living alone at his grandmother’s house after his parents are transferred overseas for work. However, on his very first morning there, he finds an unfamiliar…

Taiyou no Ko

7.3

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should…

Hana no Arashi

~Based on Shukei Nagasaka work. There was a boy who lost his mother. His name is Kazuya Tendo. At the funeral, Kazuya was told by people in the neighborhood, that his mother had been tossed by Baron Asakura and Tendo…

Blue Fight: Aoki Wakamonotachi no Breaking Down

7.4

Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become fast friends. Inspired by one of Asakura's motivational speeches, they resolve to fight in the Breaking Down combat event, but rivalries plunge their lives into…

Hamano Shizuka wa Jiken ga o Suki 5: Kokyu Kaiga ni Himerareta Satsujin no Nazo

Heizo, the owner of the Odagiri family, who is a customer of Shizuka's "Cat's Hand Shokai", opens a gallery showcasing expensive works of art such as paintings. Shizuka, who went to the gallery with Toranosuke and…

Fermat's Cuisine

8.1

Kitada Gaku is gifted in mathematics. He dreamed of becoming a mathematician, but he gave up on his dream. He now spends his days without purpose. One day, he happens to meet a genius chef named Asakura Kai. Asakura…

Mom's Honeymoon

Ryuzo Asakura, a doctor of agriculture who works at the Agricultural Experiment Station, has devoted himself to sober research with the belief that he will live in truth. His wife, Kinko, has raised four children for…

Leave It to the Nurses The Movie

7.5

Flighty young nurse Asakura Izumi longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to take time off from developing his career. To Izumi's dismay, Wakabakai…