Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Terayama Shuji

Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. His oeuvre includes a number of essays claiming that more can be…

Tokiwa Misako

Tokiwa Misako was a Japanese actress born in Osaka, Japan. Sometimes her name is also spelled as Tokiwa Misako (常磐 操子). She was born as Awazu Yuki (粟津ゆき) and after marrying Ogawa Takashi, her name became Ogawa Yuki (小川 ゆき). In September 1912, at the age of 14, she entered the…

Taguchi Kikutei

Born on January 18, 1875 (Meiji 8) in Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-gun , Akita Prefecture (currently Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-shi , Akita Prefecture ) . Graduated from the primary school of Kakunodate,and was apprenticed to a merchant family, 1900 (Meiji 33 years) around, the magazine " new voice Tokyo…

Kitagawa Machiko

Born as a daughter of a stationery store in Tokyo (Chikada Co., Ltd., a sales and wholesale company for office supplies). She had an older brother, but he died in the war. In 1949, while a student at the higher girls' school decided to try out for new Toho when she went to visit the studio. She was…

Gomi Kunitaro

He moved to Tokyo, and in 1900 (Meiji 33), when he was 25 years old, he joined the "Takada Minoru Ichiza", which was presided over by the new school Minoru Takada, and made many appearances in Hongo, Tokyo. In 1908 (Meiji 41), Yoshizawa Shoten started appearing in the movie studio Yoshizawa Shoten Meguro…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Omori Kazuki

Born in Osaka, Ōmori studied at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and holds a license to practice medicine. While in school, he began making films independently, with Kuraku naru made matenai! (1975), which featured Seijun Suzuki, receiving particularly high praise.[3] His script "Orenji rōdo…

Yamashita Kenjiro

Yamashita Kenjiro is a Japanese dancer and actor, and a member of Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS from EXILE TRIBE (三代目 J SOUL BROTHERS from EXILE TRIBE). He was born in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan. Due to his parents’ job transfer, he spent his early childhood in Nara, attending Yamato-Koriyama City…

Hashiguchi Maiko

Yamamura Misa Suspense: The Kyoto Beautiful Actress Serial Murder Case

~~ Adapted from the novel "Kyoto Kiyomizuzaka Satsujin Jiken" (京都清水坂殺人事件) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).

Master Fencer Sees the World

~~ Adapted from the novel by Obayashi Kiyoshi (大林清).

Tokyo Jima

6.5

On their 20th wedding anniversary Kiyoko and Takashi take a trip around the world. They encounter rainstorms and find themselves adrift in the Pacific Ocean until they wash ashore on a deserted island. One day, 16…

Tanin Miman: Shinainaru Utomashii Anata

6.2

The day her first crush became her "older brother," Kiyoka's faint feelings of love as a child were quietly contained. With a nameless love in her heart, Kiyoka continued to gaze upon her "older brother," Fuuto. However,…

Meet the Monkey

7.2

Mako, Kiyo, and Satsuki are three college students visiting Nikko Toshogu Shrine for winter vacation, a place said to have many power spots and benefits for romance. Kiyo has had a relationship before, but Mako and…

Peperoncino

7.3

10 years since that day. Life is simple and difficult. Onodera Kiyoshi, the chef and owner of an Italian restaurant, lost his restaurant in the tsunami and became addicted to alcohol. He rebuilds the restaurant and…

Sanbiki no Ossan Season 2

7.4

One year later, Kiyo, Shige and Nori are still doing night patrols, keeping the town safe from bag-snatchers, molesters and… a ghost? Meanwhile, Yuuki and Sanae are starting university and still trying to get time…

Kamakura dono no 13 nin

7.7

Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hojo Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's…

Sanctuary

7.8

Pushed to the brink, delinquent Kiyoshi Oze takes on the world of sumo as a wrestler under the name "Enno," captivating fans with his cocky attitude — and upsetting an industry steeped in tradition. While sumo is…