Nishioka Yoshinobu

Nishioka Yoshinobu was a Japanese art director and film producer born in Asuka, Nara, Japan. While studying at the Faculty of Literature at Hosei University, he was conscripted and experienced the end of World War II on the Korean Peninsula. He was detained in the Soviet Union until 1947, and upon returning…

Nakamura Kinji

Nakamura Kinji, born Yoshida Kokichi (吉田幸吉) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. His father was the head clerk to the first generation of Nakamura Kichiemon I (初代中村吉右衛門), which led Nakamura to begin his career as a stage actor at a young age. After World War II, he worked…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Otabe Michimaro

Otabe Michimaro, born Toki Michimaro ((釈通麿) in Yanaga, Sanmon, Fukuoka, Japan was a Japanese actor and chief priest. He was also known as Otabe Doma (小田部道磨). The son of a temple family in Yanagawa Town, he was drafted into the Pacific War at the age of 18. After returning, he attended…

Kitamura Eizo

Kitamura Eizo was a Japanese actor and director born in Shin-Ogawa, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. His wife is actress Seki Etsuko (関えつ子) and his daughter is actress Kitamura Takeko (北村岳子). He graduated from Daishi High School and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature in the Faculty…

Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Mimura Shintaro

Mimura Shintaro was a Japanese screenwriter born in Okayama, Japan. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University but dropped out. His real name Iwai Shintaro (岩井伸太郎). He joined the screenplay collective "Narutakigumi" in Kyoto during the early days of the talkie era. In 1926, he joined the…

Matsuo Fumindo

Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…

Inoue Yasushi

Yasushi Inoue (May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, Inoue was raised in Shizuoka Prefecture. Inoue studied at both Kyushu University and Kyoto University. He balanced his studies with a career as college…

Takagi Akimitsu

Takagi Akimitsu was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko)…

Otoko Tomodachi

Kanna, an illustrator living in Kyoto, is approaching her thirtieth birthday and feels a quiet sense of stagnation in her life. It has been years since she won an award for a picture book and briefly found herself…

Sousa Chizu no Onna

6.1

Tachibana Tamako (Maya) is a veteran at the Criminal Investigation unit of the Kyoto Prefectural Police. She’s known as a “map maniac” and knows every inch of Kyoto as long as you can find it on a map. The police…

The Woman in the Rumor

7.2

Hatsuko Mabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession.…

IP: Cyber ​​Sosahan

7.3

Depicts the activities of the "Cyber ​​Comprehensive Criminal Officer" newly established by the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters.

Iryu Sosa Season 4

7.5

Itomura Satoshi is back again, but in Kyoto and with a new team. He begins work at the 1st Investigation Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Station. The 1st investigation division with deals with the most difficult…

Specialist 2

7.6

Mysterious codes written in alphabets and numerals appear on the streets of Kyoto. Stickers with numbers have been pasted in all directions and at street intersections in the city. The curious Takuma Yoshito, Anegakoji…

Kasouken no Onna Season 15

8.2

Sakaki Mariko, a member of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Crime Lab, meets her greatest enemy, Ochiai Sakiko. Nicknamed the “queen of firearms and drugs”, Sakiko is an outstanding female detective who has transferred…

Shinsengumi of the Dead

8.0

Zombies suddenly appear in the final years of the Edo period in Kyoto. Kuzuyama Gesutaro is a samurai who belongs to the Shinsengumi. The Shinsengumi is a special police force organized by the Bakufu (military government)…

Mikaiketsu no Onna Special

7.7

Detective Tomo Yashiro travels with Detective Risa Narumi and Detective Shinji Kusaka to the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters. 3 days earlier, Yusuke Takemura, who ran a cafe, was found dead in Kyoto. 3 of the…