Nakamura Masato

Nakamura Masato, born in Chofu, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese musician, music producer, and actor, best known as the leader and bassist of DREAMS COME TRUE. Nakamura attended Doshisha Kori Junior High School but transferred to Ichikawa Municipal Daiichi Junior High School after one semester. He began…

Nakamura Kinnosuke II

Nakamura Kinnosuke II is a kabuki actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Ogawa Shinjiro (小川信次郎). He belongs to the house name Manya and his crest is the paulownia butterfly, with an alternate crest being Manya Manegazumi. He dropped out of Keio High School. He is the second son of the…

Todoroki Kenji

Todoroki Kenji, born Sato Masao in Otake, Hiroshima, Japan, is a Japanese actor. After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Otake High School, he enrolled at Hiroshima University but left before completing his studies. In 1952, Todoroki became an apprentice to Ichikawa Utaemon. He joined Toei Kyoto…

Seki Sanjuro V

Seki Sanjûrô V was a tachiyaku actor, who spent the best years of his career in Tôkyô koshibai, performing in venues like the Asakusaza (which became the Hôraiza when he managed it for a few years in the 1910s), the Engiza, the Azumaza or the Waseda Gekijô. His forte were jitsugotoshi roles in…

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…

Uchikawa Seiichiro

Uchikawa Seiichiro was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Tadakawa, Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture. He served as an assistant director at Shintoho, which was established in 1947. From 1948, he served as chief assistant director of Ichikawa Kon, Shimizu Hiroshi, Ozu Yasujiro, and others. In…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Fujioka Hiroshi

Fujioka Kunihiro, better known by his stage name Fujioka Hiroshi, is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series Kamen Rider, and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro. Fujioka is a cultural icon in Japan, even having the minor planet 12408 Fujioka,…

Mizuki Yoko

Mizuki Yoko was a Japanese screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, she later graduated from Bunka Gakuin and began writing screenplays to support her family after her father died. Mizuki was active in the 1950s era of the Japanese studio system and is notable for her work with directors Tadashi Imai and Mikio…

Tsuribaka Nisshi

7.8

Hamasaki Densuke is a newly-hired employee who has just joined the big construction company Suzuki Construction. The construction industry is enjoying a boom as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Hama-chan…

Gift from a Cloud

8.1

Qin Tian and Xiao Fan are childhood sweethearts. One day, Qin Tian was diagnosed with severe illness and decided to break up with Xiao Fan. Suddenly, a rain carried him to the future eight years later, when he had…

Midnight Swan

7.8

Nagisa is transgender woman. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika…

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final Series

8.2

{Episodes 40-41-42} Originally intended to be the very last episodes of "Furuhata Ninzaburo" (but later followed by the last SP / prequel of 2008). The episodes are all of different length (respectively, 106', 91'…

Tengu's Kitchen Season 2

8.2

On, who lived a secluded life with Motoi at the age of 14, has not been able to forget the relaxed and careful life in the countryside even after returning to New York. One day, On, tired of the hectic and monotonous…

Tantei Kazoku

8.6

An old saying has it that it takes the first generation to create the business and the second one to destroy it. When the Tanaka Family's father, a career private eye, passes away, the eldest daughter and mother figure,…

Kimi ga Saigo ni Nokoshita Uta

I had always lived trying not to stand out, while she stood out more than anyone. One day, my classmate Toosaka Ayane found out that I wrote poetry. Because she suffered from developmental dyslexia, which made reading…

Taroman

7.5

A tribute to Japanese avant-garde painter, sculptor, and art theorist Taro Okamoto made by the NHK to promote the 2022 Taro Okamoto Exposition in Osaka. A sun-faced giant, Taroman, comes to Earth to face off against…

Setoutsumi

7.5

So Utsumi doesn't have many friends. After school and before going to a private institute, he kills time by doing nothing on the riverside. One day, Shokichi Seto appears in front of him. Shokichi quit the soccer team…

When You Wish Upon A Star

7.5

Tsutsumi Kotaro is a teenager living in Toyama Prefecture who fails to get into a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Kotaro's mother, afraid of what others will think, decides to send Kotaro off to distant relatives…