Kawai Nobuo

Kawai Nobuo is a Japanese actor.

Onoe Matsunosuke

Onoe Matsunosuke was a Japanese actor. He was initially an actor with an itinerant kabuki troupe. In his autobiography, he claimed that he had made his stage debut as early as 1880, in a performance given by the Tamizo Onoe company. Fascinated by the stage, he left his home by the age of 14 to travel…

Yano Sen

Yano Sen was a Japanese actor.

Chiba Toshio

Kishida Shin

Kishida Shin was a Japanese actor, best known for his memorable supporting roles in films and television series. Kishida Shin was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actress Kyoko Kishida and children's author Eriko Kishida were…

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Ichikawa Suminojo

Ichikawa Suminosuke was a Japanese Kabuki actor and actor born in the Miyazu clan of Tango Province. He is sometimes referred to as Ichikawa Tomiyuki, and his real name is Okumura Sukichi. His old stage names are Nakamura Umetaro and Nakamura Rokusho. His death date is unknown. In 1867, when he was…

Wada Masato

Wada Masato is a Japanese actor and singer. He is known for his role as Sengoku Kiyosumi in The Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu (and making a cameo in the Prince of Tennis live-action film adaptation). He is also part of a young men's stage-acting troupe, D-BOYS, which performs in various skit-like…

Arashi Rihaku

Arashi Rihaku is a Japanese actor.

Nishina Takashi

Nishina Takashi is a Japanese actor.

Dream of Illumination

6.0

Noboru runs a real estate agency in a provincial city. He is cold-blooded when it comes to making a sale. His daughter is high school senior Nana. Nana has continuously changed schools due to her father's work. She…

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

1.0

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata. (Source: Letterboxd)

Where Have My Skirts Gone?

8.2

One day, Harada Nobuo starts work as a Japanese language teacher at a high school. He is gay and dresses like a woman. He sympathizes with the lives and worries of his students. (Source: AsianWiki)

Then Summer Came

7.0

Then Summer Came is a Japanese movie written and directed by Ryo Iwamatsu. It premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival on June 19, 2008 and was released by stylejam in Japan a month later. Tamio and his father…

Longing for Color

Yui, a 14-year-old girl, lives in a single-parent family household with her father Nobuo and her grandmother. Painting pictures with various colors is the only way for Yui to be herself. One day, she meets Miki, a…

Blazing Transfer Students

7.3

Seven transfer students appear at the mysterious elite school, Tanebi Gakuen, established by Takizawa Noboru, who was once called the “Blazing Transfer Student.” Coincidentally, all seven students have the first…

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

7.2

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues.…

Cream Lemon: The End of a Journey

8.0

The high school students have come to Tokyo from Nagano for a school trip. During a free period, Aya goes out on her own, leaving her classmates who'd enjoyed sightseeing and her boyfriend, Nobu, who wanted to go to…

The Gun Like Lightning

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart,…

Ryokei

Judge Masayoshi Kamiya was considered harsh in sentencing. He was approached by a woman named Misaki Kamimura who ran over a mother and daughter with a car and killed them. As for the death penalty or life imprisonment,…