Kobayashi Kiyoshi

Kobayashi Kiyoshi was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. He was attached to the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He was a graduate of the arts department of Nihon University. He was best known for his roles of Jigen Daisuke in the Lupin The Third series, voicing the…

Ichikawa Hisao

Ichikawa Hisao was a Japanese producer born in Honjo, Tokyo, Japn. He graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. After working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Communications, he joined Shinko Kinema in 1939. He initially worked in the publicity department. He was called up for military…

Aizawa Haruo

Aizawa Haruo was a Japanese actor born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Drawing Course at Showa Industrial Technical School, he was detained in Siberia before joining the Theater Arts Academy. In 1959, he co-founded the Tokyo Theater Seminar. He passed away on March 10, 1995, at…

Onoda Isamu

Onoda Isamu was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Chuo University in 1941. He was a member of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Drama Group. He also had achievements as an actor. His son, Onoda Masashi, is also a screenwriter and director, and his grandson,…

Fujitani Miwako

Fujitani Miwako, a Japanese actress and singer from Kita, Tokyo, debuted in 1977 with a commercial for Calbee (カルビー) potato chips. In 1978, she appeared in the TV drama "Yuhi ga Oka no Sori Daijin" (夕日が丘の総理大臣). She began her music career in 1994 with the duet "Ai ga Umareta…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Nagato Daiko

Nagato Daiko is a Japanese musical producer, musical arranger, writer, and composer. He's more known as a founder of music company Being Inc., which provided million-seller hits during the 1990s and with his music company provided more than 80 theme songs for the anime television series Detective Conan.…

Iijima Ai

Iijima Ai was a former Japanese AV actress and talent from Koto-ku, Tokyo. She dropped out of Takinogawa Girls' Academy High School. Before and after graduating from junior high school, she was repeatedly running away from home, and after a short time of cohabitating with her boyfriend, she was scouted…

Yamamoto Kiyoshi

Yamamoto Kiyoshi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After growing up in Malaysia, Yamamoto attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School and then graduated from Meiji Gakuin University's Department of Psychology. After his directorial debut in 2003, he has been involved in the production…

Shiomi Yo

Shiomi Yo, born Katasayama Kisaburo (片山喜三郎) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Previously known as Shiomi Shigeru (汐見蓊), he pursued a career in theater after leaving Keio University’s Faculty of Economics in 1917. In 1920, Shiomi co-founded the New Theater Group Kenkyiza with Ishikawa…

Kakedashi Jidai

The news reporter from the Social Affairs Department, Asahina Goro, was assigned a job of exploring the great Tokyo night. While wandering the city at night, he got caught by a woman. He even got thrown into a detention…

It's Time

In the periodic drama, which occurs at a family-run public bath in Tokyo the question of transitioning the business to the children comes up. The couple's son works at a white collar job and does not wish to take the…

Angel Home

7.4

The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako, who is mentally…

Kimi no Na wa

6.0

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945. ~~ Adapted from the radio drama "Kimi no Na wa" [1952]. ~~ The 46th NHK asadora renzoku drama.

ROMES

7.0

Recently built on an artificial island, the (fictional) Tokyo Bay International Airport is equipped with the most advanced security system in the world, known as ROMES. To celebrate the airport's first anniversary,…

Free and Easy

5.6

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke…

Kasane

6.8

In the Warring States period, when Uesugi Kenshin learned that his enemy, Takeda Shingen, was suffering from a shortage of salt in his territory, he had salt sent to him. However, there is a secret to this legend.…

Tsuribaka Nisshi

7.8

Hamasaki Densuke is a newly-hired employee who has just joined the big construction company Suzuki Construction. The construction industry is enjoying a boom as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Hama-chan…

Nagi Diary

Yoriko spends her days carving sculptures by herself using wood cut from the nearby mountains. One day, Yuri, who has been active as an architect in both Tokyo and Taiwan, takes a few days off and visits Yoriko, the…

Lala Pipo: A Lot of People

6.3

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. (Source: AsianCinematic)