Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden

A landscape of terraced rice fields, with small streams, coppice woods, and scattered homes. These places of everyday life, shaped by people over many long years, are called “satoyama.” Including the photography…

Fukushima, Rokkasho and Message to the Future

Photographer Megumi Shimada takes her camera and documents the continued struggle of people living with the aftereffects of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. More specifically, some families in Fukushima and Rokkasho…

The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed

Sota Masuda won the band contest at the age of 17, and his debut with his band was a matter of time. However, the band broke up with their members going to college, and he headed to Tokyo to succeed in music. Eventually,…

The Counterfeiters

Ryohei Ashizawa, the young president of the Sanbun industry newspaper "Economic Weekly," has an odd obsession with counterfeit money. He goes to visit a person who had been arrested on suspicion of counterfeit dollars…

Home, Sweet Home

Documentary film covering 35 years in the life of filmmaker Ise Shinichi's family. Like his previous films "Nao-chan", "Piglet", and "Arigato", this film documents his disabled niece Nao and her family. Eldest daughter…

The Emperor in August

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In July, 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs…

Firing the Lighter Gun

In the not-too-distant future, a nuclear accident occurs in a rural area of Japan. However, life continues as it is in the neighboring towns. Tatsuya, who works for the Yakuza, takes on the job of moving the decontamination…

There Is a Landing on the Stairs

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Yukko, who majors dance in an arts university, continues to live together with her ex-boyfriend, recognizing each other as "good partner". Recently, she is bothered by her possibility to study abroad, as well as presence…

You Decide

After studying architecture at Keio University, Kaede is appointed as a major construction company and started working toward the dream of becoming an architect at an early age. However, Kaede continues to feel uncomfortable…

Nemesis: The Mystery of the Golden Spiral

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Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Kazama Naoki works for Nemesis Detective Agency and is regarded as a brilliant detective. He is able to solve the most difficult of cases, but he has a secret. His secret…

Tamura Masakazu

Tamura Masakazu, born in Setagaya and died in Minato, was a Japanese actor. He was the third actor from the acting trio "The Three Tamura Brothers", alongside his brothers Takahiro and Ryo. His half-brother is actor Mizukami Yasuhiro. In 1961, he signed an exclusive contract and debuted in his first…

Kato Cocoro

Kato Kokoro is a Japanese singer, dancer, former member of CHERRY BULLET (체리블렛) and current member of ME:I (ミーアイ). She attended Aichi Shukutoku High School but dropped out to focus on her career as a singer. She made her debut in 2019 as CHERRY BULLET's lead dancer and vocalist with…

Ojima Naoya

Ojima Naoya is a former Japanese actor and singer, born on June 18, 1985 in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture. He was afilliated with Japan Music Entertainment. He retired from acting in 2009, but continued to work as a singer until 2013. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takehara Pistol

Takehara Pistol is a Japanese musician and actor. He was born in Chiba prefecture. In college, he was the captain of his boxing club and participated in the All-Japan Championship twice. After graduating, he started Nokozen in 1994 and then started his activities as a musician in 2003. He has released…

Suzuki Keiichi

Suzuki Keiichi is a Japanese musician born in Haneda, Tokyo. He began his music career from around 1970, joining various sessions. In 1972, formed rock band Hachimitsu Pie ("honey pie"). An active pioneer of rock music expressed in the Japanese language,Keiichi Suzuki has performed countless live concerts…

Inoue Waka

Waka Inoue is a Japanese idol, tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro, Tokyo as Naoko Aramura. Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga. Waka's main claim to fame in the tarento circles is her bustline. Although she moved away from bikini modeling as her primary work in 2006, she has continued to…

Nishioka Ryuichiro

Ryuichiro Nishioka is a former Japanese actor. Representative director of Harley-Davidson's custom shop "Selected Co., Ltd." Born in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. His paternal uncle is actor Tokuma Nishioka, and his cousin is actress Yuki Nishioka. Debuted in the entertainment world in 1996. In…

Shimizu Saki

Saki Shimizu, born November 22, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan, is a J-pop singer. Her career began in 2002 when she successfully passed the audition for Hello! Project Kids, an all-female teen pop group within Hello! Project. Since then, she has continued to sing in that group and has become a part of two smaller…

Nakao Mie

She is a Japanese actress and singer. With Yukari Ito and Mari Sono, she co-starred in the hit 1963 teen movie "Hai, Hai Sannin Musume (Yes, Yes, The Three Girls)". The three actresses became the latest incarnation of the long-running series of "Three Girls" acts during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, under…

Im Eun Kyung

Lim made a debut as a model (TTL Girl) for SK Telecom in 1999 when she was still in high school. Her mysterious look and clean image attracted many people, and eventually, this popularity led her into the leading role of Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002), the film made by highly acclaimed…