Miyake Kuniko

Kuniko Miyake was born on September 17, 1916 in Saitama, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Until the End of the World (1991) and Escapade in Japan (1957). She died on November 4, 1992 in Japan. She appeared in more than 180 films from 1934 to 1991. Miyake joined the Shochiku studio…

Kanai Yuta

Kanai Yuta is a Japanese actor born in Fussa, Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Theater de Posh. He made his debut as a lead actor after passing a public audition for the movie "The Mischievous Trio: Thief X's Story" in 1998. He announced his marriage at the end of 2012 on his blog and welcomed a…

Atsuta Yuharu

Atsuta Yuharu was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and grew up in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in 1922, he joined the Shochiku Corporation, and due to his love for painting, he entered the photography department of the Shochiku Kamata Studios. After 15 years as an…

Ohara Reiko

Ohara Reiko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo in 1946 to a family that sold Japanese confectionery in the Hongo area. Upon graduating from high school, she made her debut as an actress. She appeared in what came to be called “trendy” dramas, including “Rikon Tomodachi” with actor…

Ohara Koyu

Ohara Koyu is a Japanese film director known for his popular Roman Porno films, Fairy in a Cage (1977) and the Pink Tush Girl series (1978–1980). One of Nikkatsu's most versatile and prolific directors, filming eight movies in 1979 alone, his stylistic preoccupations led him to be known as "King of…

Hara Setsuko

Hara Setsuko became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these…

Tsukamoto Shinya

In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Something Like It

8.0

In a film about Rakugo, which is a traditional Japanese sit-down comedy, a man living in Tokyo is a young comic practitioner starting out. On his birthday he visits a Soapland (sexually themed bath house) for the first…

Kimi to Ita Natsu

7.0

Three young people, Irie, Sugiya and Asami, decide to share a room together one summer. All three of them experience sadness, love and friendship as they fall in and out of love. They all become a vital part of each…

Tora-san 35: The Go-Between

7.4

On the Goto Islans, Tora-san rescues an old lady and befriends her. She then dies all of a sudden and at her Chritian funeral, he meets the old woman's granddaughter, who lives alone in Tokyo. Back in Shibamata, Tora-san…

Sono Toki ga Kita

Orthopedic doctor Akino is 48 years old. Her husband, Meiji, is the same doctor, but she is now away from Tokyo to concentrate on treating alcoholism. One day, Soeda, who used to be a painter, comes to her clinic as…

Red

Katase Masami has been teased since childhood because of her unnaturally red hair. To add to her sorrow, she has never really received much love from her parents. Masami, who because of all this has a complex about…

Kowloon de Aimashou

6.6

Kaoru Saegusa is a cheerful and dynamic 30-year old woman who is still single. She works at the Tokyo Branch Office of Oedo Travel Agency. One day, she is sent to Hong Kong on business where she meets Shutaro Kamisanjo,…

Et Alors

6.0

Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo but he is unable to get used to the facility's policy of respecting the residents' freedom…

Duel of Night

He was a member of the Majeokdan 20 years ago, and his beloved wife and daughter were taken away by a leader, and he is now living as one of the leading conglomerates among Koreans in Japan in Tokyo. Finally, after…

Only Sun Knows

Weng Nao (29), a Taiwanese youth who claims to be the next master in the Japanese literary world, arrives in the blooming modern city Tokyo in 1934. However, as a result of the rogue and decadent life, his manuscript…

Tooku no Sora

6.0

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time, the man and woman fall in love, but…