Kagaya Fukunosuke

The store name Narikoma-ya. Adopted by the fourth generation Nakamura Shiba, and first staged under the name of the first Nakamura Kotaro. In 1881 (Meiji 14), the fourth generation Nakamura Fukunosuke was attacked and gained enormous popularity. At a young age, he became the next generation to serve…

Uehara Ken

Uehara Ken was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He was born to wealthy, well-connected parents. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was first recognized for his musical talents and handsome appearance. Uehara joined Shochiku in 1935, debuting…

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

Ito Daisuke

Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…

Hanaoka Kikuko

Hanaoka Kikuko was a Japanese actress born Takigawa Ikuyo (瀧川幾代) in Teramachi, Shizuoka, Japan. After marriage, she was legally known as Matsuzaki Ikuyo (松崎幾代). She was recognized for her work as a comedic actress at Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s and as a supporting actress…

Chikamatsu Yoshie

Chikamatsu Yoshie, born Uematsu Yoshie (植松芳枝) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She previously performed under the stage names Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松よし枝) and Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松良枝) She joined the Shinpa Theater Company (劇団新派) in 1945 and left in…

Araki Shinobu

Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…

Oda Akane

Oda Akane is a Japanese actress. The affiliation office is Oscar promotion. Born in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. Graduated from Hinode Girls' College High School (now Hinode High School). In 1990, she was in elementary school in the upper Mikawa town adjacent to her hometown. She won the Grand Prix…

Ishiyama Yudai

Ishiyama Yudai is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Kinjo Gakuen. After graduating from high school, he entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 12th gen member. After a three-year training period, he belonged to the Tokyo Theater Ensemble. In the 1980s, he belonged to Ishihara Promotions…

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…

Mayaku Gai no Satsujin

A suspense drama depicting the war of the police force against the drug crimes in the streets of the international city of Kobe. ~~ Adapted from a novel written by Kashiwara Ichiro (樫原一郎).

Momotaro-zamurai

7.0

Momotaro must save the life of his brother. The film is an early collaboration of Misumi Kenji and Ichikawa Raizo, who will work together until Ichikawa's death. A ronin walking down Kuramae-dori in Asakusa, wearing…

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…

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…

Pursuit at Dawn

This documentary-style police drama depicts life in the back alleys of Tokyo’s Shimbashi district. The film’s camera work shows the beginnings of Ichikawa’s innovative style.

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…

Even if This Love Disappears Tonight

8.6

The pure and touching love story between a high school girl who suffers from anterograde amnesia, whose memories are reset when she wakes up, and an ordinary high school boy who lives a dull daily life. Kim Jae Won…

Orange

8.3

During the spring of her 16th year, Takamiya Naho receives a letter from her future self. Upon reading the initial page of the letter, her class was introduced to a transfer student from Tokyo named Naruse Kakeru.…

Be with You

8.6

Su A, before passing away, makes an unbelievable promise to her husband, U Jin, to return one year later on a rainy day. Miraculously, she keeps the promise and reappears before her husband and son, but all her memories…