Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Kayano Takayuki

Kayano Takayuki is from Oita Prefecture, but lives in Fukuoka Prefecture currently. He graduated from Kyushu University, department of Image Design and Faculty of Design. His film "Journey Across the Night" (2022), won the Excellent Film Award and Audience Award in the domestic competition feature category…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Hattori Ryoichi

Hattori Ryouichi was a Japanese composer, arranger and lyricist born on October 1, 1907 in Osaka, Japan. He is one of the most important musicians in the history of Japanese pop music who honed his musical sensibilities with jazz. He passed away on January 30, 1993 from respiratory failure. His sons…

Hanabu Tatsuo

Hanabu Tatsuo was born in Fukugawa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo (now Koto Ward, Tokyo). He is best known for being an actor that largely appeared in supporting roles in jidaigeki dramas. In 1930, he entered Tokyo Prefectural Third Middle School (currently Ryogoku High School, Tokyo) as a first-year student…

Kosugi Ryuichi

Ryuichi Kosugi is a Japanese comedian who performs tsukkomi in the comedy duo Black Mayonnaise. His standing position is on the left. His partner is Takashi Yoshida. Kosugi is represented with Yoshimoto Kogyo. He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Katsura High School. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tono Eishin

Tono Eishin was a Japanese actor and voice actor, born in Okubo, Yodobashi, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Seikei High School (成蹊高等学校) and later studied at the Haiyuza Training Institute (俳優座養成所) as a 12th-term student. He made his film debut in 1962 with Aobeka Monogatari (青べか物語).…

Hanakuma Yusaku

Yusaku Hanakuma is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist, and was born in 1967 in Tokyo. He studied art at Chiyoda Art Technical College and the premier Setsu Mode Seminar in Tokyo. He is the winner of numerous manga awards, including the GARO Magazine Nagai Katsuichi Award and the 13th Annual Award…

Aoyama Kiyoshi

In 1955, while enrolled at Chuo University's Faculty of Letters , he passed Toho New Face Audition and entered the film industry. After dropping out of college and making his debut in Asagiri (Director: Seiji Maruyama , 1955), he moved to Nikkatsu, where he resumed filmmaking, and became a participant…

Shoten

The show is based on the Ogiri style of rakugo, a form of traditional Japanese storytelling. The ogiri system sees a host put questions to a panel of fellow rakugo storytellers who must produce a funny or witty response.…

Tightrope no Onna

6.4

Tokura Yuri, a struggling pianist in Tokyo, visits her family home in Ashiya City, Hyogo prefecture for the first time in eight years after receiving news of the death of her father, Tokura Ryuji. Yuri had left home…

Sadako: Tomurai no Pendant

Tokudaiji Shunichi, a fourth-year film major at Jonan University and aspiring actor, is the leader of the 'Urban Legend Research Circle'. The Circle has a YouTube channel, but it doesn't get a lot of hits. So Shunichi…

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

7.1

The film opens in a surrealistic mountain setting as a young, determined Toshiko, executes a daring escape from her sexually abusive, obsessive and oppressive, lunatic uncle Sonezaki. Speeding away down the road, she…

Ruri no Shima

7.5

On Hatomi, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place, the closing of the school is…