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…

Sawaguchi Yasuko

Sawaguchi Yasuko is a Japanese actress from Nishi, Sakai, Osaka, affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能). She graduated from Sakai Municipal Hiraoka Elementary School (堺市立平岡小学校), Sakai Municipal Uenoshiba Junior High School (堺市立上野芝中学校), and Sakai Municipal…

Ezawa Moeko

Moeko Ezawa was born on March 28, 1939 in Hyogo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ôedo: (Maruhi) onna isha arashi (1975), I Want To (1979) and Trap of Lust (1973). She passed away on December 26, 2022 at the age of 87.

Mariya Tomoko

Mariya Tomoko is a Japanese actress, singer, writer, and Musashino Art University lecturer from Minato-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Takarazuka Music School in 1980, scoring the highest points in her graduation exam. She joined the Takarazuka Revue as a 66th gen member. In 1989, she won the 39th Minister…

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…

Matsukane Yoneko

Yoneko Matsukane was born on October 22, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gôgô sentai Bôkenger (2006), Berusaiyu no bara (1979) and Taan (2001).

Kakiuchi Ayami

Kakiuchi Ayami was the sixth actress to play Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn in the Sailor Moon musicals. Her first musical was the 2001 musical Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady, and her final show was the 10th-anniversary show, Ai no Sanctuary. After her work in the musicals, Ayami released a single…

Morino Mash

Born on September 24, 1996, in Saitama Prefecture. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at Hosei University. Under the guidance of Professor Masao Nemoto, she studied novel writing. After working at an advertising agency, she completed her studies in the Film Scriptwriting field…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

Kato Rosa

Rosa Kato is an Italian-Japanese actress and commercial model. Kato was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father and a Japanese mother. Her family moved to Kagoshima, Japan when she was 5 years old. Kato received a Japanese education. Kato is not fluent in Italian. She is a graduate of Kagoshima West…

Black Widow Business

6.5

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, he suddenly collapses and dies, leaving everything to Sayako.…

Woman of the Photographs

6.4

One day, middle-aged photographer and retouching artist Kai encounters Kyoko, a beautiful woman and model with a huge and ugly scar on her body. She asks Kai if he can erase the scar in her photographs of herself and…

Woman of Water

6.7

Ryo has always had an affinity with water. Ever since she was young, important events in her life have been accompanied by rain. She runs a bathhouse with her fiancé, until one day, during a rainstorm, he is killed…

Dragnet Girl

6.9

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him. (Source: TMDB)

Woman of Tokyo

6.9

The film tells of a student whose sister supports his studies by moonlighting as a translator. When he hears a rumor that, in reality, she is working as a hostess in a seedy dance-hall, he is devastated. (Source: Wikipedia)

Woman in Witness Protection

7.2

Isono Biwako is a vain, shallow, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder and chooses to stand up to a deadly cult and its thoroughly slimy defense attorney. Realizing that the very public life of the woman…

The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie

8.0

Mysterious murder cases take place simultaneously around the world. Crime Laboratory Researcher Mariko Sakaki and Detective Kaoru Domon work together to solve the cases. (Source: AsianWiki)

A Woman of the Butcher Shop

Documentary by artist Yamashiro Chikako, who jumps between reality and fiction to trigger multifaceted interpretations from viewers through the use of allegories. Screened in the New Asian Currents section at the Yamagata…

One in a Million: Tax Squad

7.4

There's a newly established department within what is known as “Kome”: the “Complex National Tax Case Processing Office,” also known by the nickname “Zakkoku.” Yoneda Seiko establishes Zakkoku to handle…