Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Nogawa Yumiko

Nogawa Yumiko is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966). These films…

Shoji Eiken

Shoji Eiken, born Shoji Nagataka (庄司永建) in Shinjo, Yamagata, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Sophia University (上智大学) and later attended the People's Arts Theater Training Institute (民衆芸術劇場附属養成所). In 1948, he joined the Mingei Theater Company (劇団民藝),…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Kojima Haruna

Kojima Haruna (小嶋 陽菜) is a singer, actress, and a former member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Kojima started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an idol group under Stardust Promotion that disbanded in 2001. Initially, she was under contract with Stardust Promotion when she was still with…

Kanno Miho

In 1992, Kanno made her debut as a member of a group called Sakurakko Kurabu Sakura Gumi (trans. Sakurakko Club Sakura Group) after passing the orientation for the TV variety show Sakurakko Kurabu. As a member of the Sakura Gumi, she started to participate actively from the group's second single DO-shite…

Odagiri Miki

Odagiri Miki was a japanese actress born in the county of Toyotama-gun in Tokyo. Since childhood, she received a gifted education at Buyō (a traditional Japanese performing art) and worked as a child actress at the Shinkyo Theater Company. In 1935 she debuted on the stage with "Before the Dawn". However,…

Naito Shuichiro

Naito Shuichiro is a Japanese actor from Osaka. He became interested in showbiz after winning his high school's beauty contest three years in a row. As such, he moved out to Tokyo in order to pursue acting. In 2015, he debuted as a model for magazine called FLASH TOKYO. In 2018, Naito made his first…

Matsumoto Koshiro X

The 10th generation Matsumoto Koshiro is Fujima Terumasa. Born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Matsumoto Koshiro IX (Ichikawa Somegoro VI at the time), his sisters are Matsumoto Kio and the actress/singer Matsu Takako. His uncle is Nakamura Kichiemon II. He made his Kabuki debut in March 1979, by performing…

Striving to Live

Isahaya Seichiro and Suganuma Tamiko, co-workers at Sone Mining Company's Tokyo Headquarter, are in love with each other. Upon finding out that Tamiko is courted by their boss's son, he decides to break up with her…

Nakki wa Tsumujikaze

Natsuki Hoshino, who has transferred from Nagasaki to the school "Ichitsuki Gakuen" in Tokyo, falls in love with her senior at first sight. However, her senior likes Natsuki's older sister and girl, ends up in an unexpected…

Myong Ja Akiko Sonia

Myeong Ja changes her name to Akiko. As she falls in love with Min Ho, Dong Jin, a left wing intellectual who admired Akiko, is heartbroken and decides to leave for Tokyo. To avoid the forced drafting, Min Ho decides…

Learn from Experience Part I

6.9

Toyomi, a rich young woman is in love with Shintaro, a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. In order…

The Water Magician

7.3

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a traveling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through…

Tora-san 15: Rise and Fall

7.7

Tora-san meets the weird and lonely Hyodo in the Northeast. Hyodo is determined to leave his home in Tokyo and goes back to Hokkaido to find his true love that he has not seen for 30 years. Tora-san accompanies him…

Night Dream

6.9

Night, a senior literature student, was still unable to complete his final novel project because he didn't understand the concept of love. He had the chance to meet Dream, the owner of Tokyo Boy, and his close friend…

Death Song

7.7

A melodrama dealing with the life of Yoon Shim Dok, a modern woman and pioneer of free love in the 1920's, who drowns herself in the waters of the Korea Strait. Yoon Shim Dok is a poor girl studying vocal music at…

Asako I & II

7.0

Asako is a 21-year-old woman living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo, and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like…