Dukar Tserang

Dukar Tserang is a notorious Tibetan independent director of movies and documentaries. He is also a musician, sound technician and composer. His works are nationally and internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations in many film festivals, such as the Tokyo FILMeX International…

Iwao Kinshiro

Iwao Kinshiro was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and recitation artist born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of the Faculty of Commerce at Meiji University (明治大学) and later served as the chairman of the All Japan Entertainment Troupe Management Association (全国芸能団運営会) and as a…

Tsurumaru Mutsuhiko

He was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, as the eldest son of six siblings of a doctor, Bunko. After graduating from Waseda High School, he moved to the United States in 1923 and then went to Spain to save his travel expenses when he saw a picture of El Greco. He returned to Japan in 1927.…

Otomo Jun

Otomo Jun was a Japanese actor born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He was affiliated with Sogei Pro, Teatro Kakko, Hanabusa Pro, and the Tokyo Actors Cooperative Association. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School's pre-war Teacher Training Course and worked as a music teacher at Osaka Municipal Namba…

Hara Kazuo

Japanese documentary film director. After dropping out of university to work at a special education school, he made his 1972 debut work Goodbye CP about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for…

Dokumamushi Sandayu

Sandayū Dokumamushi born Iyoshi Ishii on 31 March 1936 in Osaka, Japan is a Japanese actor. He portrayed the role of Daisuke Arashi in the original Ultraman series. He has been a radio personality on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 6, 1969 to the present.

Kanze Hideo

Kanze Hideo was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojo VII, a descendant of Kanami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather, Kanze made…

Azuma Chiyonosuke

Azuma Chiyonosuke was a Japanese actor and dancer. He appeared in more than forty films from 1954 to 1993. Born in Tokyo, Azuma attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, while studying Japanese dance under Bando Mitsugoro VIII. He joined the Toei studio in 1954 and became a star after his debut film,…

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. (source: Wikipedia)

The Storyteller's Apprentice

6.0

A heartwarming comedy set in the world of rakugo (comedic storytelling). Perennial warm-up act Pikacchi busily carries out various errands in the green room, just as he does every day. Meanwhile, the act that is supposed…

Tokyo Design ga Umareru Hi

6.8

Mutsumi is a rookie designer and she is employed at small design company Lemon Design. She is busy with prep work for magazine shoots, like scouting locations and working with photographers. She has doubts about her…

Tokyo Drifter

7.0

Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo is a member of a recently deactivated Yakuza gang. His boss, to whom he holds absolute loyalty, Kurata, has given up the life of crime for himself and his syndicate. Otsuka, a rival gang…

The Modern Lovers

Tatsuo abandons his dreams of directing films to get married and moves to the provinces, but he returns to Tokyo at the behest of his ex-girlfriend Marina from school. He hangs out with his former buddies but tries…

Tokyo MER: Sumidagawa Mission

7.8

Half a year has passed since the official approval of TOKYO MER. Kitami is racking his brains over the issue of a second doctor to replace Otowa, who has left the team in order to expand MER to ordinance-designated…

Tokyowan Enjo

2.0

The story of six sea jackers who occupied a 200,000-ton class tanker in Tokyo Bay, the crew, and the Japanese government trying to avoid the worst. Based on the novel "Critical Explosion" written by Koji Tanaka.

Tokyo Love Cinema

6.9

The characters of "Tokyo Love Cinema" find love waiting for them in all corners of the world, as they travel to Cannes, Venice, Istanbul, and back to Tokyo buying films. Masaki Takasugi worked at a department store…

Tokyo wa 24 Ji

The stage is Tokyo after midnight. Even after the date changes, the city never sleeps. This is a special drama that tells the story of ordinary people living in Tokyo at midnight in a one-cut live broadcast. In a room…

Tokyo Miko Ninja

The setting of the story is Tokyo in 2026, a city where the atmosphere of Edo still lingers strongly, yet human desire and power have swollen to excess. In this world, a disease known as “Yoka,” in which the ugliness…