Sugi Giichi

Sugi Giichi, born Sugi Yoshikazu (杉義一) in Uzumasa, Ukyo, Kyoto, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of actor Sugi Kyoji (杉狂児). In 1941, while attending Meisei Gakuen (明星学園), he joined the children’s theater troupe Kamoshikaza (かもしか座) and made his stage…

Ono Katsuo

Ono Katsuo is a Japanese composer, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer from Horikawa, Shimogyu, Kyoto, Japan. He began his music career as a member of The Spiders from 1962 to 1970. Following this, he joined PYG from 1971 to 1972 and the Inoue Takayuki Band from 1971 to 1980. In 1980, he formed…

Kobayashi Kanae

Kobayashi Kanae was a Japanese actress born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. In 1916, she moved to Kyoto to reside with her uncle, the film director Kobayashi Yaroku, and made her debut as a child actor in movies. As she grew up, she worked at the Daimaru department store. In November 1924, she ventured…

Miyazaki Shinichi

Shinichi Miyazaki, formerly a producer at Nippon Educational Television in Japan, began his career with Toei Company in 1954 after graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. Initially based at Toei's Kyoto and Tokyo studios, he later moved to Nippon Educational Television (NET)…

Oshima Nagisa

Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930's Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about Japanese WW2 prisoners of war. Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu…

Kataoka Ainosuke VI

The 6th generation Kataoka Ainosuke is Yamamoto Hiroyuki. Yamamoto Hiroyuki was born on March 4, 1972, in Jinnanbe-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka. His parents ran a manufacturing business in Sakai, Osaka and did not have any association with the world of Kabuki. At the age of 5, Hiroyuki passed the…

Lin Mei Hsiu

Lin Mei Xiu, born in Luodong of Yilan County, is a Taiwanese actress and presenter. She started out with stage plays in her early days. Her breakthrough came after becoming popular from playing Meng Jiangnu in the commercial "Kyoto Ninjian Chuanbei Loquat" series. She is the first person to win the…

Imoto Ayaka

Imoto Ayaka is a Japanese actress and model. She belongs to Oscar Promotion. Imoto made her debut as an actress in episode 9 of the 5th series of "Doctor X〜Gekai Daimon Michiko〜" (TV Asahi). In October 2018, she became a public relations ambassador for Hie Shrine in Tokyo. She graduated from Kyoto…

Furukawa Kotone

Furukawa Kotone is a Japanese actress born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She began learning ballet when she was a child and loved being in front of people. As an extension of ballet, she decided to start acting and joined the drama club in both middle school and high school. She went to Rikkyo University…

Honjo Manami

Honjo Manami is a Japanese talent, actress, voice actress, narrator, and essayist born in Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name is Sawada Manami (沢田まなみ). She is represented by Acura Inc., a talent agency. She spent her early years in Tokyo before moving to Osaka and Hyogo at the age of 4, where she…

Impossible to Imagine

6.7

It is the story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the biracial entrepreneur who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way, they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with…

Saikyou no Futari

7.3

Shinonome Jinpachi has returned to the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division as a specially commissioned detective. Meanwhile, Natsuki Asako, a team leader, has just been assigned to the division.…

Joshu Seven

7.2

Kamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her fellow geisha is killed. Kotone Kamiwatari is falsely accused of her murder and is sent to prison. There, she is bullied…

Keiji Zero Special

7.5

Members of the 13th Section of the Kyoto Police Investigation Division 1 such as Kiyoko Tokiya (Kazuki Sawamura) and Tomoka Saai (Miori Enomoto) depart for an annual comfort trip. This year, it was a mystery tour,…

Keiji Zero

7.6

Rekihiko Tokiya is an excellent detective in Kyoto. While chasing a suspect, Rekihiko Tokiya falls into a water storage pool at an abandoned factory. He wakes up in a hospital room, stunned that he cannot remember…

A Samurai in Time

7.7

During the Edo period in Kyoto, a samurai prepares to fight a ronin when a flash of lightning hits him. Waking up, he learns he’s been transported through time to the present day, and the duel location is now a film…

See You Again

Manga artist Yuki rushes from Tokyo to Kyoto upon receiving news that her father has been critically injured in an accident. After her father is discharged from the hospital, he goes to a nursing home named Hallelujah…

Nihon Toitsu 65

A Kyowakai member was shot in Kyoto without warning. This shooting incident, which occurred in the Kansai region where the Kyowakai was supposed to have unified, had a great impact on Himuro Renji and his friends.…

Kyoufu Shinbun

7.1

Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long-cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank, but the stories…