Tanaka Haruo

Haruo Tanaka was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to secondary leads and even into leading roles against actresses…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Kataoka Ichitaro

Kataoka was born on February 13, 1877 to Hikoemon HARASAWA, the master sculptor for Kyoto Imperial Palace, at Harasawa's house on the corner of Sakaimachi-dori and Marutamachi-dori streets, right across from the Imperial Palace. Upon his father's death in 1881, he was adopted by Seizaburo TSUKAMOTO.…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Yamagishi Santa

Yamagishi Santa is a director affiliated with Koe Inc. He is primarily known for his music video directing work but also directs variety shows, dramas, and films. Together with singer and actor Hoshino Gen and designer Ohara Daijiro, he is a part of the video production unit "Yamada Ichiro".

Nagashima Seira

Nagashima Seira is a Japanese idol and a former member of Nogizaka46's 1st Generation. She graduated on March 20, 2016, and is now affiliated with HoriPro. On April 3, 2025, it was announced that she and actor Ichikawa Tomohiro had officially married.

Nakagawa Nobuo

Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to the Kinema Junpō film magazine. He joined Makino Film Productions in 1929 as an assistant director and worked under Masahiro Makino. When that studio went bankrupt in 1932, he switched to Utaemon…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Kobayashi Mao

Kobayashi Mao is a Japanese actress and news anchor. She is perhaps best known for her appearances on Fuji TV as a weathercaster and on News Zero as a co-anchor, but she has also played several supporting roles in Japanese dramas and movies. Mao was born in Ojiya, Niigata and is a graduate of the department…

Horie Mitsuko

Horie Mitsuko is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She has voiced several characters throughout her career, such as Sailor Galaxia in Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars and Remi in the Nippon Animation World Masterpiece Theater series Remi, Nobody's Girl. She is also part of the judging panel at the Animax…

Free and Easy

5.6

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke…

1980

8.0

Hashiba Reiko returns as a trainee teacher to the high school she graduated. Until recently, she was a B-grade idol actress known as Ichinoe Kirina. She gave up the career, and became missing for one year. And now…

Ah! House Collapses!

6.0

Real-life wrestler Shinya Hashimoto plays Shishio, a wrestler who builds a perfect home for his demure and pretty wife, only to have it destroyed in an off-the-ropes wrestling throwdown when his rival, Ichijoh (deliciously…

Shin Kaze no Rondo

In 1942, Arisawa Maki and Noshiro Koji are engaged, but tragedy strikes when Koji’s older brother, Ichiro, dies in the war. Koji is forced to marry Ichiro’s widow, Asami, while Maki is wed to Koji’s younger brother,…

Ryoko Sakka Chaya Jiro 7

4.0

Chaya Jiro, a travel writer, visits Nagano Prefecture with deputy editor Yamakura Shinkichi and editor Nakamura Sakie for an interview trip for a weekly magazine. The corpse of Sakie's classmate Tsutsumi Ichiro is…

Four Roads to Hell

5.6

Part of the “Tales of Terror From Japan” series. Four Roads To Hell is an omnibus featuring short stories based on true accounts as collected from writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama: 1. Another One 2.…

Teacher and Three Children

6.3

Set at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took…

The Betrayal

6.8

An absolutely fabulous film, featuring an extended fight scene (~10minutes!) that is the best since SWORD OF DOOM! Far and away Raizo Ichikawa’s best fighting ever!!! He plays an honorable clan retainer and assistant…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 9

Hatomura Shugoro, a genius surgeon who has abandoned his position as a doctor, honor, and future, finds a masked woman, Ichijo Masami, who is about to jump off the roof of the building. Unable to leave, he joins forces…