Kato Youki

Youki Kato was born on December 16, 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is of mixed Taiwanese-Japanese ancestry while her mother is Taiwanese. She is an actress, known for "A ma de meng zhong qing ren" ("Forever Love") (2013), "Mulan on the Run" (2012) and "Love You 10,000 Years" (2010). In Forever Love,…

Imai Tadashi

He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…

Ninagawa Yuki

Ninagawa Yuki, born in Yokohama, is a Japanese actress, filmmaker and painter. She is a daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi and elder sister of the actress/singer Ninagawa Miho. Ninagawa's acting debut was a role in the 1978 rock opera "Salome". In films, she appeared in "Kurutta Kajitsu" in 1981,…

Shinoda Noboru

Shinoda Noboru was a cinematographer born in Saitama, Japan. He studied at Nihon University and is best known for Love Letter (1995), Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004) and Love Hotel (1985). He died in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: IMDb)

Mineo Sho

Mineo Sho is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He's currently represented by Vivienne Office. At the age of 21, he transitioned from a beautician to an actor. After three years in a theater company, he appeared in numerous visual works, including movies, dramas, music videos, and commercials. He…

Kim Soo Yong

Kim Soo Yong made his debut in 1958 with A Henpecked Husband and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with Scent of Love (2000). He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (a.k.a. Sorrow Even Up in Heaven) (1965) as well as some 50 literary…

Yamamoto Maika

Yamamoto Maika is a Japanese actress, TV personality, and fashion model. She is known for her roles as Kaede Kayano in Assassination Classroom, Chiyomi Horikiri in the 2015 television drama Minami-kun no Koibito, and Mizuki Kurata in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga series After the Rain, among…

Kimura Daisaku

Daisaku Kimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a cinematographer (over 50 credits) and a director, known mainly for: "Samurai's Promise" (2018), "Memory" (2017), "The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity" (2009). He worked as the Assistant Cameraman on many of Kurosawa Akira’s movies from "The…

Nakagawa Taishi

Nakagawa Taishi is a Japanese actor, host, and model. He is best known for his leading role as Yuiji Kira in the live action “Closest Love to Heaven”, and as Tenma Hase in the second season of “Hana Yori Dango”. Nakagawa originally started as a child actor but because of his sudden growth spurt…

Matsu Takako

Matsu Takako, born June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress and pop singer/songwriter. She was born into a traditional Buyo house, and her Buyo name is Matsumoto Koka (Matsumoto Koka the First). Her father is Matsumoto Koshiro IX, Kabuki actor and head of the Buyo house;…

Bon Lin

5.9

Natsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon.She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring…

All Esper Dayo! SP

6.3

High school student Kamogawa Yoshio suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Asami Sae in Tokyo asking for his help. Kamogawa Yoshio loves Asami Sae. Kamogawa Yoshio goes…

The Egoists

6.5

Kazu is the only son of a prominent family. In spite of his distinguished upbringing, he spends most of his time gambling all his money away in Tokyo. He meets Machiko, the number one pole dancer at a club in Kabukicho,…

Sister

6.7

Nagisa Miyoshi and Saho Miyoshi are sisters and very close to each other. Younger sister Nagisa Miyoshi leaves her hometown of Hiroshima and begins to live with her older sister Saho Miyoshi, who has already moved…

Furusato ~Musume no Tabidachi~

6.8

"Sada Masashi Drama Special Furusato ~Musume no Tabidachi~ " is a human drama about "family" based on the theme of singer songwriter Sada Masashi's song "Kakashi" (Scarecrow), a song about a family's love towards a…

Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...

7.0

Kaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways, but still live close to each other in central Tokyo. Hiroki works for a newspaper company, and Takeshi has followed in…

A Weather Report

One summer, Hikaru Nishizawa, who was born and raised in Niigata and just graduated from high school, comes to Tokyo alone to meet her father, whom she has never met, without telling her mother Mayumi. A road movie…

Ai no Komuragaeri

Sato Kaori, who worked as a local government employee, was moved by an independent film she saw at a local film festival and quit her job to move to Tokyo. Kaori, who was working in the film industry, met Kohei, who…

Kusuburi Onna to Sundome Onna

7.2

Yamamoto Ikuko, a mother of two who wants to divorce her abusive husband but cannot do so due to her low economic power and low self-esteem, meets Kudo Honoka, a member of the Reiwa generation who is always second…