Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Yamaguchi Tatsuya

Under Johnny's and Associates. And a part of the band TOKIO which debuted 1994, joined TOKIO 1989 and is the band's bassist. He married a former model Yuko Yamaguchi in March 2008. On 5 August 2016, he announced that they had divorced. On 25 April 2018, news broke that Yamaguchi had been referred to…

Izumi Pinko

Takemoto Sayo (Maiden name: Eguchi, previous stage name: Mikado Mariko), known by the stage name Izumi Pinko, is a Japanese actress, comedian, comic storyteller, and singer born in Tokyo. In 1966, after dropping out of Nippon Music High School, she studied under Maki Shinji and made her debut as a singing…

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Honda Tsubasa

Honda Tsubasa is a Japanese actress and model under Stardust Promotion, a Japanese talent agency. In mid-2006, Honda was scouted by seven different people on the same day, which became the reason behind her entering the entertainment industry. She then made her debut as an exclusive model to the magazine…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Tora-san 24: Dream of Spring

7.3

Tora-san returns to his family's home in Shibamata, Tokyo, to find a large American peddler living in his room, leading to various conflicts. As Tora-san struggles through his love with the local Madonna, the American…

The Bad Losers Season 2

A year has passed since then, and in Tokyo, where the Olympics are being held and the coronavirus outbreak is raging, subtle changes have come to the members of the handyman group Mrs. Rock. Aside from Ren-san, who…

Tanshin Hanabi

6.6

A salaryman who lives a happy life with his wife and daughter in Tokyo is suddenly transferred to Kagoshima, a place full of memories where he spent his junior high school years. However, soon after arriving at his…

Denei Shojo: Video Girl Mai 2019

7.1

Kanano Kento is a typical student at a private high school in Tokyo. He rents a room near his school and lives alone. One day, Kento discovers a videotape in the school's broadcast room. When he plays it back, a girl…

Tora-san 21: Stage-Struck Tora-san

7.3

Tora-san returns from his travels throughout Japan to his family's home in Tokyo to find his uncle recovering from an illness. After a family fight erupts, he returns to the road and becomes friends with Tomekichi.…

Second Blue

7.3

Tateishi Daichi, a book designer working at a design company in Tokyo, is so absorbed in his love of reading that he has little interest in real-life romance. One day, his contact at Marufuji Publishing is replaced,…

"Children of the Hakkyo School Project”, Work-in-Progress 2017

10.0

Documentary about kids growing up as they attend the Korean school in Edakawa in Tokyo's Koto district. Footage covering first-graders in 2010 through graduation was edited as a work-in-progress and given a special…

Utenai Keikan

6.7

One day, Inspector Shibasaki Reiji of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s General Affairs Department is made to take responsibility for the inexplicable suicide of a direct subordinate and demoted to a police…

252: Signal of Life

7.3

A few weeks after a gigantic earthquake struck Tokyo. Metropolitan Tokyo is slowly beginning to function again. But the temperature of the Pacific Ocean suddenly increases after the earthquake, causing a tremendous…