Setouchi Jakucho

Setouchi Jakucho was a Japanese novelist and a nun of the Tendai sect. She graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University with a bachelor's degree in literature. She was the chief priest of Zenkobo at Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei. She had won the Women's Literature Prize, the Junichiro Tanizaki Prize,…

Yoshida Reiko

Reiko Yoshida is a Japanese screenwriter. She has written and supervised numerous screenplays for anime series, live-action dramas and films. Her major works include Kaleido Star, Aria, Maria-sama ga Miteru, D.Gray-man, K-On!, Bakuman and Girls und Panzer. In more recent works, she has supervised the…

Choi Moon Gi

Choi Moon Gi is a theater stage actor, drama and film actor. Born in Daegu, South Korea, and lived in Japan until elementary school. He has a native-speaking Kansai dialect because he was in the Kansai region on the Osaka and Kyoto side. After that, he immigrated to Australia from high school, majored…

Hosaka Daisuke

Hosaka Daisuke is a Japanese screenwriter and film director born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Literature, Christian Studies at Rikkyo University. During his time at Rikkyo University, he began making independent films in the university's film study group. His 8mm film "Dynamite…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Japanese film director from the 1950s to 1970s. He directed at least six films about Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman. Born in Shinagawa- cho , Tokyo (now Shinagawa-ku , Tokyo ). In the 1930s Nikkatsu Kyoto studio joined in, Sadao Yamanaka studied with, Marne SanTaro , Kinugasa fourteen San , Hiroshi Inagaki…

Mori Mitsuko

Mori Mitsuko, real name Murakami Mitsu, was a Japanese actress. In May 2009, she became the first actor in Japan to have performed the stage play Hōrōki (放浪記 "A Wanderer's Notebook") 2,000 times. She was born in Kyoto, Japan. On May 11, 2009, Takeo Kawamura announced that Mori would be awarded…

Tsuji Hitonari

Tsuji Hitonari is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Tsuji Jinsei, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a vocalist of the rock band ECHOS in 1985 and the original song "ZOO" reached over a million…

Kurahara Koreyoshi

He was born in the city of Kuching, then part of the kingdom of Sarawak (now a state of Malaysia) on Borneo. He was the nephew of literary critic Korehito Kurahara, and older brother of film director Koretsugu Kurahara. His son Jun Iwasaki, a former producer for Ishihara International Productions Inc.,…

Mori Kikue

Mori Kikue, born Kobayashi Kiku in Numata, Tone, Gunma, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She dropped out of Gunma Prefectural Takasaki Girls' High School and in 1925, joined the Shin Geki Research Institute as a member of its first class. In 1929, she made her stage debut with the comedy troupe Kigekiza…

Kamisama no Wadachi: Checkpoint of the Life

6.0

Set around Ide, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, Sasaoka Yuri and Ogawa Yosuke have been friends since they were children. They are crazed about bicycling. The two grow up through interacting with people in town.

Kasouken no Onna Season 18

7.8

Sakaki Mariko attends an annual concert held by the Kyoto Prefecture Police Music Band. At that time, Mariko hears from Domon Kaoru that a woman's dead body is found under a cliff. The victim is Konno Megumi, and she…

Soko ni Hikari ga Arunara

Sanae is a third-year junior high school student living in Kyoto. During her last winter of middle school, when school events and club activities were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, her grandmother, who…

Nihon Toitsu 66

An incident occurs over the redevelopment of land in front of Kyoto Station, causing Himuro Renji and Tamura Yuto also go to the site. In the midst of all this, Kenjiro, the president of the local community and also…

Kasoken no Onna Final

In a special zone for smart mobility demonstration experiments in Kyoto City, multiple autonomous driving devices simultaneously malfunctioned, resulting in an explosion that killed a male development staff member…

A Day on the Planet

6.2

Seven friends gather at Masamichi'fs house in Kyoto, where he'll soon begin graduate studies. All of them college students; Nakazawa, an aspiring filmmaker still contemplating his first project, his adorable girlfriend…

Love's Twisting Path

6.3

A love story torn by swords... Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and…

Akai Reikyusha 33 Sotoba Komachi Ga Shinda

5.0

Crime set in the traditional theatre branch of Kyoto.

Uzumasa Jacopetti

4.0

Set in Uzumasa, Kyoto, Shoji Hyakkan lives with his wife and kid happily. He then begins to build a house held together by magnets. One night, Koji steals and kills a cow, to use its cowhide as decoration wall material…

The Old Capital

7.1

Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing…