Kin-chan

Kinno Hirokazu, also known with his stage name Kinchan, is a Japanese comedian from Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, and part of the comedy duo Onigoe Tomahawk (鬼越トマホーク). He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Takashima High School and worked as a store manager at the yakiniku chain Gyukaku for three…

Omiya Teiji

Omiya Teiji was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and a member of the Tokyo Actors Consumer Cooperative Society when he died. He attended Nihon University, but withdrew before completing his degree. He was known for playing the roles of kind old men in many 1970s anime series. During his life, he achieved…

Kawaguchi Setsuko

Kawaguchi Setsuko is a former Japanese actress who was active in the early 1950s. She was born in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan. Her husband is the former actor Namishima Susumu (波島進), and their eldest daughter is also a former actress, Ogura Kayo (小倉加代). She graduated from Gunma Prefectural Kiryu…

Funahashi Seiichi

Seiichi Funabashi was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Mito High School and later from the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. His younger brother, Kazuo Funabashi, was a screenwriter. Seiichi was a member of the Japan Art Academy and was recognized as a Person…

Yuki Saori

Saori Yuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born Akiko Yasuda in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. In 1969, Saori Yuki had a hit with "Yoake no Scat (Scat at dawn)", which sold 2 million units in two months,…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

Motomiya Yasukaze

Yasukaze Motomiya is a Japanese actor. His real name is Yasuyuki Hirai. He is represented with Triple A. Motomiya's elder brother is Ryuji Harada, also an actor. His wife is tarento Akiko Matsumoto. Motomiya was scouted after his older brother entered the entertainment industry and debuted in 1994 Spur…

Yoshitaka Yuriko

Yoshitaka Yuriko is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel "Snakes and Earrings" in 2007. While she was preparing…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Let's Sing to that Cloud

Music industry of Prince Teruhiko Saigo and heroine Chiyoko Honma is, again co-starring Following the previous work "in this chest of seventeen-year-old". Along with a number of hit songs, depicting the youth and dreams…

Arakure

1.0

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro’s disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob…

Zenigata Heiji

4.0

Heiji is a non-fictional Edo period superhero. Working as a full-time policeman, he basically catches criminals by literally throwing coins (zeni, hence his nickname "zenigata"), or using a jutte (similar to a nightstick.)…

Honmamon

6.0

Yamanaka Konoha is an 18-year-old girl born in the Kumano area of Wakayama prefecture deep in the country. The family makes its living in forestry but barely gets by. Konoha's mother, Senri, is an instructor of Kumano…

Kids War Special: Zaken na yo

The Imai family stayed in a nature experience village in Nagano for hands-on learning at school. At that time, Akane witnesses a bad group bullying Sakuma Mina and gets into a fight. However, when she kicked her son,…

Kids War Special: Aikoso Subete da! Zaken na yo

Imai Akane is swaying between the two boys. One day, her mother, Haruko, learns that her ex-husband, Nakanishi Shinji, was attacked. Nakanishi testified that Konno Tsubasa was among the criminals. Akane, who searches…

Kids War: Zaken na yo Season 5

The fifth instalment of the "Kids War" series is set in the boarding school "Taiyo Gakuen", where Tomoe and her grandchildren moved in after an accident which killed Akane's mother, her step-father, and her half-sister.…

Women's Victory

8.7

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following…

Kids War Special: Kore de Final! Zaken na yo

Imai Akane is a third-year junior high school student with a sense of justice. She lives with her three siblings-in-law, Kenichi, Rika, and Hiroshi, at the boarding school, Taiyo Gakuen, in Tokyo. She had to camp in…

War of Money

7.6

Shiraishi Tomio graduated from a prestigious university and now works for foreign securities company. He has a beautiful fiancée, Aoike Kozue, and no complaints with his life. One day, his father kills himself, leaving…