Ueda Yasushi

Ueda Yasushi is a tv drama director and producer born on May 22, 1967. He had been a part of every Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari since his getting his start directing them in 2002.

Iida Joji

Iida Joji is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, television drama director, and novelist born in Suwa, Nagano, Japan. He attended Suwa Seiryo High School (諏訪清陵高等学校) and later dropped out of Meiji University (明治大学). Iida began his career as an independent filmmaker and has…

Yoshida Yoh

Yoshida Yo is a Japanese actress born in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Her real name and old stage name is Yoshida Yoko. She is represented by the talent agency Oranku. She discovered her love for acting after first appearing on stage in 1997, where she stayed until 2007 when she was discovered by…

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Odaka Megumi

Odaka Megumi is a Japanese actress who made her film debut in the movie "Taketori Monogatari" aka "Princess from the Moon". The following year she won a Japanese Academy Award for "Rookie of the year" for her performance in this movie, amongst others.

Hashimoto Hiroshi

Hashimoto Hiroshi is a Japanese screenwriter from Hokkaido. He graduated from Otaru University of Commerce. In 1989, he made his debut as a screenwriter with "Totte Oki: Virgin Love! Dotei Monogatari 3".

Kato Haruhiko

Haruhiko Kato was born in 1975, in Aichi. He debuted in a TV drama series "Ari yo, saraba (Farewell, Ari)" in 1994. Since then, he has appeared in numerous commercials, TV dramas and variety shows. His amiable charm has won him popularity among wide audiences.

Matsushima So

Matsushima So, born in Shizuoka, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actor, and talent working under Johnny & Associates. He is a member of the group timelesz (formerly known as Sexy Zone) and debuted at the age of 13, being one of the youngest talents to debut in Johnny & Associates along with former…

Yoshikawa Ai

Yoshikawa Ai is a Japanese actress. While working as a child actress under the name "Yoshida Riko", she was represented by Moon the Child Agency. Her representative works includes the television series Oh! My Girl!!, Hanayome to Papa and Yamada Taro Monogatari. She retired from the entertainment industry…

Kiki Kirin

Kiki Kirin was a Japanese actress from Kanda-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from high school, she started her acting career in the early 1960s as a member of the Bungakuza theater troupe using the stage name Yuki Chiho. She was aiming to become a pharmacist but abandoned college because her leg was injured…

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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…