Isomi Toshihiro

Isomi Toshihiro is a Japanese film producer and art director from Daito City , Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Ritsumeikan University College of Social Sciences . After working for a fashion manufacturer and editor of the Daily Wood Newspaper, he became independent. He established the group…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Ozawa Fujio

Ozawa Fujio was a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and lyricist from Tokyo. In 1935, he joined the Daito movie Negamo studio and wrote the original script for the film "Ronin Sugoroku," which was released on September 19 of the same year. After the war, he became a novelist, and many of…

Kishi Matsuo

Kishi Matsuo was a Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. He is known as the critic who discovered the filmmaker Yamanaka Sadao. He graduated from Keio University. In 1937, at the strong recommendation of film director Shimizu Hiroshi, he retired…

Matsubayashi Shue

Matsubayashi Shue was a Japanese film director, former naval officer, and a monk, born in Sakurae-cho, Gotsu-shi, Shimane. His Dharma name is Shaku Shue. After he graduated junior high school in 1938, he went to Kyoto and graduated from the Ryutani University specialized department. He moved to Nihon…

Negishi Toichiro

Negishi Toichiro was a Japanese actor, film director, and screenwriter born in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. After graduating from Waseda University's Faculty of Commerce, he entered the new theater company Venus and made his stage debut. In February 1925, he joined the Nikkei Kyoto Studio, and in…

Kawabe Goro

Kawabe Goro was a Japanese actor born in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is a star actor who played an active part in Nikkatsu movies in the early Showa period. On August 15, 1925, when he was 38 years old, he said goodbye to his long-standing stage play life and joined the Nikkatsu General Film Studio.…

Kunishima Soichi

In 1914 (Taisho 3), he entered Fukushima Junior High School (currently Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School ), but dropped out on July 3 of the same year to join Masao Inoue's troupe and took the first stage at Hongo-za. . Joined Shochiku Kamata Film Studio in 1922 (Taisho 11), under the name of…

Ichikawa Suminojo

Ichikawa Suminosuke was a Japanese Kabuki actor and actor born in the Miyazu clan of Tango Province. He is sometimes referred to as Ichikawa Tomiyuki, and his real name is Okumura Sukichi. His old stage names are Nakamura Umetaro and Nakamura Rokusho. His death date is unknown. In 1867, when he was…

Studio wa Tenya Wanya

6.0

A behind-the-scene look of Daiei's film productions in their Kyoto and Tokyo studios. It ends with a talent show featuring some of its most prolific stars. (Source: MyDramaList)

Devil's Temple

7.9

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from a play by Tanizaki…

Miyako no Kaze

7.0

The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn) and then enters the fashion industry.

Bakumatsu Kokosei

7.0

Teachers and students go on a field trip to Uzumasa Movie Studio in Kyoto. A major earthquake occurs. A teacher and several students are then transported back in time to the late Edo period. ~~ Adapted from the story…

River of the Night

6.7

Kiwa is a daughter of a long-established fabric dyeing business in Kyoto and a master of wax-balloon dyeing. Her work is going well, but she is so devoted to her job that she has missed the chance of marriage. 　　…

Byakkotai: Yabure Zarushatachi

4.6

Daimyo of Aizu Katamori Matsudaira is appointed to the unfamiliar position of Kyoto Military Commissioner and then goes through the Boshin War. "Byakotai" depicts seven years, from 1862 when the tragedy begins to 1868.…

Hannari Girori no Yoriko-san

7.2

The original manga follows Yoriko Shindō, a 29-year-old Kyoto cigarette store employee who has a sharp look in her eyes but is actually a kind-hearted person. She meets Yūichi Yamada, a 26-year-old magazine editor…

Hakuoki

6.9

A young girl, Chizuru Yukimura, travels from Edo to Kyoto in search of her missing father and becomes entangled in the affairs of the Shinsengumi. (Source: kiiroitori at MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the otome video…

One Second Ahead, One Second Behind

7.2

Hajime, who works at a post office counter in Kyoto, does everything at a faster pace than most people. One day, he meets Sakurako, a street musician, and falls in love with her due to her singing voice. Although he…