Miyake Kuniko

Kuniko Miyake was born on September 17, 1916 in Saitama, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Until the End of the World (1991) and Escapade in Japan (1957). She died on November 4, 1992 in Japan. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991. Miyake joined the Shochiku studio…

Kanai Yuta

Kanai Yuta is a Japanese actor born in Fussa, Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Theater de Posh. He made his debut as a lead actor after passing a public audition for the movie "The Mischievous Trio: Thief X's Story" in 1998. He announced his marriage at the end of 2012 on his blog and welcomed a…

Matsu Takako

Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is Matsumoto Koka (Matsumoto Koka the First). Her father is Matsumoto Koshiro IX, Kabuki actor and head of the Buyo house;…

Nakagawa Taishi

Nakagawa Taishi is a Japanese actor, host, and model. He is best known for his leading role as Yuiji Kira in the live action “Closest Love to Heaven”, and as Tenma Hase in the second season of “Hana Yori Dango”. Nakagawa originally started as a child actor but because of his sudden growth spurt…

Ohara Reiko

Ohara Reiko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo in 1946 to a family that sold Japanese confectionery in the Hongo area. Upon graduating from high school, she made her debut as an actress. She appeared in what came to be called “trendy” dramas, including “Rikon Tomodachi” with actor…

Ohara Koyu

Ohara Koyu is a Japanese film director known for his popular Roman Porno films, Fairy in a Cage (1977) and the Pink Tush Girl series (1978–1980). One of Nikkatsu's most versatile and prolific directors, filming eight movies in 1979 alone, his stylistic preoccupations led him to be known as "King of…

Hara Setsuko

Hara Setsuko became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these…

Tsukamoto Shinya

In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…

Atsuta Yuharu

Atsuta Yuharu was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and grew up in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in 1922, he joined the Shochiku Corporation, and due to his love for painting, he entered the photography department of the Shochiku Kamata Studios. After 15 years as an…

Matsushita Kouhei

Matsushita Kouhei is a Japanese actor. Matsushita started oil painting from an early age with his mother, who is a painter. As he entered junior high school, he became more interesting in dancing, and he attended dancing courses. The movie "Tenshi ni Love Song 2" influenced him to "become a singer!".…

Free and Easy 3

8.0

Hama-chan still works at Suzuki Construction in Tokyo, while continuing his friendship with company president Ichinosuke Suzuki. Hama-chan wishes he could have child - the only thing missing in his happy life. Su-san…

Closing Time

A writer grieving the loss of his wife and child wanders the night in Tokyo, encountering other lost souls also seeking love. (Source: IMDb)

Totsugawa Keibu Series 25: Nanki Shirahama Satsujin Route

The owner of a small factory in downtown Tokyo was killed. The owner is also the victim of a large-scale fraud case, and while investigating the case independently, it seems that he was killed because he was too close…

Kegaretashita

6.0

Iijima Naoko plays an unmarried woman who opens a florist in Tokyo. Her character lives with her mother, and is also seeing a man hated by her mother. She blames him for driving her husband to suicide. Kato plays the…

Totsugawa Keibu Series 42: Kyushu Hina no Kuni Satsujin Route

A call girl named Eve was killed in Tokyo. To find out the truth of the incident, Totsugawa and Kamei went to Hita, Oita Prefecture, which is thought to be Eve's hometown. The one Hina doll that remained in Eve's room…

Totsuki Tooka no Shinkaron

7.5

Kobayashi Suzu, who lives alone in Tokyo, has a doctorate in insect taxonomy. Insects are the great love of her life. One day, she is suddenly laid off by the university she has been working for because of her narrow…

Joyu Jidai

8.0

Nobuko Kamochi grew up surrounded by the love of her adoptive father, Chijiro, mother, Tamae, and her grandmother, Ume, who run a bun shop in Osaka. When she was in my second year of girls' school, she passed the Takarazuka…

Engawa Lovers

A humanitarian comedy depicting the daily life of men who love the stage on the edge of an old Japanese house (the porch). The stage is an old Japanese house with a veranda near the sea. Ryo Sasaki, who is a cram school…

Detroit Metal City

7.5

Negishi Soichiro is a music obsessed teenager who makes the jump from his rural hometown to the big city of Tokyo. His goal is to become a successful musician, but not the typical J-pop star: Negishi has a love for…

Daytime Shooting Star

7.9

Yosano Suzume is a naïve country girl who transfers to a high school in Tokyo. When she gets lost on her first day in the big city, a man named Shishio comes to her rescue. He turns out to be her homeroom teacher.…