Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Mimasu Yutaka

Mimasu Yutaka was a Japanese actor from Naka-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. His death date is unknown. He graduated from private Meisei Commercial School. Takada made his stage debut at Misakiza in 1907. In 1921, he joined Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio and made his debut in the movie world with "Hika".…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Koyama Shigeru

Koyama Shigeru was a Japanese actor born in [Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from the Naval Accounting School. His ex-wife is actress Fumino Tomoko. In his later years, he lived in Kyoto Prefecture.

Ryu Chishu

Ryu Chishu was a Japanese actor born in Tamamizu, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. His family resided in Ryojoji Temple, which belonged to the Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha sect, where his father served as a priest. He graduated from Tamamizu Elementary School and then from Tamana Junior High School. Following this,…

Matsumoto Toshio

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫 Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental movies, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.…

Inoue Nozomi

Inoue Nozomi is a Japanese actress born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of CAMINO REAL. During the Hyogo Prefectural Suma Higashi High School, she belonged to the broadcasting department, and was awarded the Excellence Award in the reading section of the 57th NHK Cup National High…

Zeze Takahisa

Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink." Takahisa Zeze was born in 1960 and graduated…

Oda Oideyasu

Oda Oideyasu is a Japanese comedian. His real name is Yoshihiro Oda. He is a member of the Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Head Office. He is the tsukkomi (term used in Japanese comedy) of the comedy duo "Oideyasukoga". His partner in the duo is Koga Ken. He has been choosen as a cultural tourism ambassador for…

Iwamoto Yuji

Yuji Iwamoto is a composer born in Japan in 1986. He started playing jazz guitar at the age of 12 and has been playing in a large jazz ensemble band for more than 10 years. At the age of 18, He went on to work as a guitarist playing in several jazz clubs in Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto area. From 2011, He…

Yoru no Cho

6.0

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. (Source: IMDB)

Seishun Hokago

“Youth After School” takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter’s marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 18

Near Chigo-ga-ike in Kyoto, the strangled body of reporter Takada is discovered in a river. It appears he was killed elsewhere and thrown off a bridge. Meanwhile, at the home of Tadataka, head of the Tanmasu-ryu ikebana…

Casablanca no Tantei

A young foreign man arrives in Kyoto in search of his Japanese ex-girlfriend. He enlists the help of guesthouse worker Asako and begins looking for his lost love, but meets a similar-looking girl named Rie and becomes…

Yamamura Misa Suspense: Mystery Writer Ike Kayoko 2 - Murder Literary Prize

~~ Adapted from the novel "Kyoto Kobe Satsujin Jiken" (京都・神戸殺人事件) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).

Sheng Shi Zhi Xia

~~ Adapted from the web novel "Kyoto Royal Cat" (京都御猫侠) by Dan Qing Ying Yue (丹青映月).

Tetsudo Sosakan 19: Chichibu SL Paleo Express, Enmusubi Satsujin Tour! Maboroshi no Onsen ga Abaku S

~~ Adapted from the novel "Rinji Tokkyu 'Kyoto-go' Satsujin Jiken" (臨時特急「京都号」殺人事件) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Keiji 110 Kilo Season 2

7.5

Hanazawa Taro is now a detective of a special unit of Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division. Unconcerned about being a novice in investigations, he uses his physique and smile to get close to people…

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

8.1

Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at a university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date…