Ono Yuji

Ono Yuji was a Japanese jazz musician. He was known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly "Lupin III", and most famously the 1977 series "Lupin III Part II" and the feature film "The Castle of Cagliostro". On May 13, 2026, his official website announced that he had…

Jacques Shigeno

Jacques Shigeno was a Japanese jazz pianist. His younger brother, Roger Shigeno, was a drummer and a Western-style painter. Their father, Baron Shigeno Seibu, was a musician who served in the French Foreign Legion during World War I and became known as the first ace pilot in Japanese aviation history.…

Matsui Hachiro

Matsui Hachiro was a Japanese composer and jazz pianist.

Yun Seok Cheol

Yun Seok Cheol is a jazz pianist and producer best known in South Korea as a member of the Yun Seok Cheol Trio and member of the indie band Temperature of Saying Hi. In 2020, he released the album Tailor under the producing alias The Blank Shop. He is also active as a solo artist under his own name,…

Sato Masahiko

Sato Masahiko is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer from Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Economics.

Okiyama Hideko

Okiyama Hideko was a Japanese actress and jazz singer.

Yanagisawa Shinichi

Yanagisawa Shinichi was a Japanese jazz singer, actor, voice actor, welfare activist, vaudevillian, and lyricist from Tokyo. He was affiliated with M-Three and served as honorary president of the NPO Japan Abilities Association and honorary director of the Kima Makan in Higashiyamato. During World War…

Yagi Masao

He was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. He was well-known as a composer and arranger and wrote copiously for…

Lee Jin Ah

Lee Jin Ah is a South Korean singer-songwriter and jazz pianist. After finishing in third place on SBS's K-pop Star 4, she signed with Antenna in 2015. Her distinctive musical style combines jazz with pop and R&B, often featuring whimsical lyrics. She married pianist Shin Sung Jin in 2019. She announced…

Lee Joo Hwa

Hobbies: painting. Skills: Jazz dance.

Passport to Darkness

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master…

Thirteenth Letter

A detective visits a jazz bar in a corner of the city, to find out the truth about what happened at the store a year ago. The 14 jazz records displayed in the store, the letters attached to them, and the events in…

Shun ka to wa nandatta no ka?

Sugadairo is a free jazz pianist and he, together with dancers and actors, performed all sorts of improvised pieces expressing ideas and feelings on the family. Starring: Sugadairo, Ryohei Kondo, Hana Sakai, misako…

Song of Tomorrow

A dance hostess and a jazz drummer fall in love. But she later finds out he is a heroin addict, and learns that heroin is a far more lethal adversary than “the other woman” when trying to keep their marriage intact.…

Never Mind Da Shibusashirazu Exodus

A documentary on the popular Japanese jazz orchestra group "Shibusashirazu Orchestra" which has been active for over 30 years. Founder Fuwa Daisuke, as a central figure, the film relives the origin and story of the…

Table for 3

7.0

Couple Paul and Marlon decide to jazz up their long-standing relationship by including the charismatic Jeremy as their third. The complexities of this new dynamic will reveal whether their bond will strengthen or will…

The Singing Bamboo

6.0

The strange music could be heard from a jazz club in a comer of a big city. Trio called Arafa were giving a hot session. Namihiko was a Shyakuhachi (bamboo flute) player. At that time his mother called him to get back…

Undercover Boss Ga-me

7.5

Don-Game is a cafe owner who loves jazz and long epic songs. But that’s actually him in disguise. He’s in fact the chief of a secret organization called The Tokyo Police Confidential Investigation Division and…

Endless Waltz

7.0

Koji Wakamatsu's biopic about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe. (Source: IMDb)

Round About Midnight

7.3

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are…