Watanabe Noriko

Watanabe Noriko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. In 1983, she won the Japan Academy prize for Newcomer of the Year for her role in the movie "Tsumiki Kuzushi" and, in 1986, she won the Yokohama Fil, Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress on her role in the movie…

Nakane Toru

Nakane Toru is a japanese actor born on November 6, 1957 in Tokyo, Japan.

Koizumi Norihiro

Nori Koizumi is an award winning film director based in Japan. After years of student-film making he was hired for Robot Communications Inc., one the most competitive film productions in Japan. His ability soon lead him to direct his first feature "Midnight Sun"(2006) in age of 25. This film earned…

Aoi Wakana

Aoi Wakana, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and model who made her debut in a 'Family Mart' commercial on 14 July 2009.

Mackenyu

Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows…

Haishima Kuniaki

Haishima Kuniaki is a Japanese lyricist, composer, and arranger from Saitama city, Saitama prefecture. He graduated from Josai University, Faculty of Economics.

Hoshi Shinichi

Hoshi Shinichi was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer. He is known for his "short-short" science fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages in length, of which he wrote over 1000. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for "Moso Ginko" in 1968. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tamori

Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya. For more than…

Fujita Hideyo

Hideyo Fujita is a Japanese actor in film, television, and commercials. He is also an actor in the KERA theatre company (also known as Nylon100℃, Keralino Sandorovic). (Source: Wikipedia)

Takeuchi Yoshihito

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

7.4

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly…

Tora-san 14: Lullaby

7.4

During his travels Tora-san meets a troubled father with a baby. He shares a drink with the man who then abandons the baby into Tora-san's care. At his hometown in Shibamata, Tokyo, the family is worried about who…

Tora-san 16: The Intellectual

7.4

Tora-san returns to his family's shop in Shibamata, Tokyo to find himself accused of being the father of a 17-year-old girl. It turns out that Tora-san had only given help to the girl's mother after her husband had…

Tora-san 9: Dear Old Home

7.4

Tora-san meets three women on vacation when he travels to Fukui. One of the women meets him at his home, and he believes she has fallen in love with him, unaware that she hopes to marry a potter in the countryside.

Tora-san 5: Runaway

7.5

Tora, an eccentric and resourceful tramp, is always cheerful. Although he is an orphan, he decides to go back home after a long absence. He thus sees again his sister Sakura Suwa, who has bloomed into a pretty young…

Tora-san 20: Plays Cupid

7.5

Tora-san plays at matchmaker, trying to arrange a romance between Ryosuke and Sachiko. His advice proves disastrous and Tora-san instead falls in love with Ryosuke's sister.

Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset

7.5

During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering Tora-san's family around in such an…

Tora-san 18: Pure Love

7.4

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother, who has a terminal illness.

What A Wonderful Family!

7.4

In his fiftieth year of marriage to Tomiko, Shuzo decides to buy her a birthday present for a change. However, she tells him she wants his seal on an application for divorce. Their children swiftly convene a family…

Tora-san 30: The Expert

7.5

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu, he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburo, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all…