Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Nogawa Yumiko

Nogawa Yumiko is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966). These films…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Honda Tsubasa

Honda Tsubasa is a Japanese actress and model under Stardust Promotion, a Japanese talent agency. In mid-2006, Honda was scouted by seven different people on the same day, which became the reason behind her entering the entertainment industry. She then made her debut as an exclusive model to the magazine…

Kanno Miho

In 1992, Kanno made her debut as a member of a group called Sakurakko Kurabu Sakura Gumi (trans. Sakurakko Club Sakura Group) after passing the orientation for the TV variety show Sakurakko Kurabu. As a member of the Sakura Gumi, she started to participate actively from the group's second single DO-shite…

Kojima Haruna

Kojima Haruna (小嶋 陽菜) is a singer, actress, and a former member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Kojima started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an idol group under Stardust Promotion that disbanded in 2001. Initially, she was under contract with Stardust Promotion when she was still with…

Snakes and Earrings

7.0

Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful, bored and unmotivated. When she meets Ama in a bar, she finds herself mesmerized by his forked tongue and moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her…

Rondo

7.2

Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's…

Noriko's Dinner Table

7.0

A family portrait from contemporary Japan about the generational rebellion of otherwise obedient daughters - since Nagisa Oshima started making movies, it seems that a strong generational conflict slumbers under the…

Bandage

7.2

Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite…

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

7.3

Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a…

Summer Nude

7.3

Asahi Mikuri‎ya works at a photography studio located near the sea. In the past, Asahi Mikuri‎ya dreamed of becoming a famous photographer, but now he is a cameraman for weddings and school events. Asahi Mikuri‎ya…

Chaser Game W2: Utsukushiki Tennyotachi

7.7

Although Itsuki and Fuyu were once separated despite their feelings for each other, they successfully reunite with the understanding of Fuyu’s husband and their daughter. They spend happy times together, filling…

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!

6.3

19-year-old beautiful Shiratori Reiko is a self-professed ultimate princess. Despite her haughty attitude, she is actually a very late bloomer and knows nothing of the real world. Reiko has had feelings for Akimoto…

Labyrinth of Dreams

7.5

Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Tatsuo. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako was killed in a bus accident. Tsuyako…

5 Centimeters per Second

7.8

After transferring to the same elementary school, Takaki and Akari became best friends. However, their lives change when the families of both are forced to relocate. After a year of separation, Takaki is about to reunite…