Ashizawa Akiko

Ashizawa Akiko is an award-winning Japanese cinematographer and photographer. Starting in 8mm film and pink film, Ashizawa eventually became an assistant to the cinematographers Hideo Itō and Takayo Oshikiri. She turned independent in 1982 and has photographed the films of directors such as Kiyoshi…

Nakamura Shuri

Nakamura Shuri is a Japanese actress and an idol. She belongs to Ota Production. In 2016, when she was in the first year of junior high school, she was enrolled as a scholarship student at Watanabe Entertainment's training center. One year later, she started studying to be an actress as a 6th generation…

Hamaguchi Ryusuke

Hamaguchi Ryusuke is a Japanese director and screenwriter born in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked in the film industry for a few years before entering the graduate film programme at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His graduation film, Passion, screened…

Makita Tetsuya

Makita Tetsuya is a Japanese actor, best known for the role of Takeshi Momoshiro of the fourth generation Seigaku cast in The Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu. Makita is affiliated with the acting unit D-Boys, produced by Watanabe Entertainment. Makita started his career as a fashion and promotional…

Denden

Denden, born Ogata Yoshihiro, is a Japanese actor and former comedian born in Chikushino City, Fukuoka Prefecture and raised in Mizumaki Town. He belongs to the Alpha Agency. After graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo to apply for an apprenticeship under Atsumi Kiyoshi, but he could not meet…

Sato Ryuji

Dubbed as "The Prince of 2.5D" and "The person who was born from 2.5D", Sato Ryuji is a stage actor and singer associated with the Himawari Theatre Group. He has been casted as both supporting and main roles from dramas, movies and musicals. He is most known for playing Zaizen Hikaru in The Prince of…

Kojima Hijiri

Hijiri Kojima was born on March 1, 1976 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Atsumono (1999), Shinkuronishiti (2004) and Naito heddo (1995). She was previously married to Hirofumi Kiyonaga.

Harada Yoshio

Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…

Mackenyu

Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

The Flame of Devotion

6.7

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountains, who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman’s son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. (Source: letterboxed.com) Based on a novel written by Kamo…

Hitozuma Sagishi

Miyako and Kiyomasa are two petty cheats. One day, they come across the perfect victim - Sakuma, nicknamed the tax evasion king. The couple decides to trick him, force him to invest in a non-existent restaurant, and…

Hikaru Hekiga

2.0

Follows Sone Kikuo as he develops the gastroscopy in post-WWII Japan.

Cold

6.0

Genius scientist Kikuo Himura succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Himura's cold vaccine. Doctor Ichinose is jealous of Kikuo Himura and tries to get the…

Tensai wo Sodateta Nyoubou: Sekai ga Mitometa Suugakusha to Tsuma no Ai

7.8

Mathematics genius Oka Kiyoshi spent about 15 years researching the Hartogs Inverse Problem which went largely unnoticed because it was too difficult to understand by the Japanese academic world. However, when he started…

Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current

6.8

Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where…

The Daughter of the Samurai

The story revolves around Kiyo, a young Japanese woman who is engaged to marry Teruo. Teruo returns to Japan after studying abroad in Europe, accompanied by a German journalist named Margot. Kiyo struggles to adjust…

Lightning

7.5

A bus conductress Komori Kiyoko, the youngest daughter in a family of squabbling half-siblings. All the children are products of different fathers, though they share the same mother: a tragically weak-willed woman…

Undressed Minako

8.0

Movie "Undressed Minako" follows the life of Kiyoshi Hayashishita's ex-wife Minako Hayashishita. Minako Hayashishita separated twice from Kiyoshi Hayashishita and the movie reveals secrets about their divorce. Her…

Sweet My Home

7.3

A sports instructor in Nagano is named Kiyosawa Kenji. He is fascinated by a model house called Mahou no Ie, which is able to warm the inside of an entire home with only one air conditioner unit. Kiyosawa Kenji decides…