Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Kanda Takashi

Kanda Takashi, born Kanda Sumitaka (神田澄孝) in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Kakashi Pro (かかしプロ), Amachi Proze (アマチプロゼ), and Kitagawa Office (北川事務所). He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Department of French Literature,…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Yamamoto Satsuo

Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho.…

Kim Nam Il

Kim Nam Il is a South Korean retired football player and current coach. He played defensive midfielder and graduated from Hanyang University, playing for the school's team from 1996 until 1999. In 1996, he was also selected as a part of the under-20 national team and debuted in a AFC Youth Championship…

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…

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Tsushima Toshiaki

Tsushima Toshiaki was a Japanese composer born in Okayama, Japan. He graduated from Ehime Prefectural Imabari Technical High School, Electrical Engineering Department. He moved to Tokyo and attempted to enter the Tokyo Institute of Technology, but was unsuccessful. Instead, he enrolled in the Music…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Futari Biyori

Kuroyu lives with his wife Chie, who suffered from an incurable disease in a townhouse in Kyoto. Suddenly, Ito, a graduate student, came to visit the two of them to teach magic. Taking this opportunity, changes will…

Enzai Shikei

8.0

Three years ago, a young girl was kidnapped in Kyoto. Her parents paid the 60 million yen ransom, but the police failed to arrest the criminal. The girl's body was found two months later, and a suspect, Yamazaki Tetsuya,…

Geisha Bengoshi Fujinami Kiyoka

Fujinami Kiyoka is an up-and-coming attorney who grew up in Kamishichiken, Kyoto, has a divorced child, and is also an active geisha. The highlight is the contradictory duality of a hardworking lawyer and a glamorous…

Yellow Taped Newswoman

6.4

After an ownership change, a local newspaper changes names to the Kyoto Times. The newspaper's policy also undergoes a change to focus on increasing readership. Shinobu Kurogane is a reporter for the Kyoto Times. In…

Kasouken no Onna Season 16

8.1

Members of the Scientific Research Institute, including Forensic Medicine Researcher Sakaki Mariko of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Crime Lab, try to solve cases by using forensic medicine, physics and chemistry as…

Kasouken no Onna Season 17

7.9

Members of the Science Research Institute, including Sakaki Mariko from the Kyoto Prefectural Police Crime Lab, try to solve cases by using forensic medicine, physics and chemistry. Sakaki Mariko goes by the motto,…

Omotenashi: The Ceremony

6.8

Jacky is the young heir to a construction company in Taiwan. His father sends him to Kyoto to oversee the renovation of a hotel they bought. Jacky is going in hopes to get back his ex-girlfriend Naoko and to sell the…

Inochi Moete

17-year-old Hidefumi, who is about to take the entrance exam for Kyoto University, lives with his father, Yuya, his mother, Makiko, and his sister Ryoko. One day, Hidefumi gets dizzy during a physical education class…

Asian Blue

8.0

An anti-war drama depicting a transport ship that sank off the coast of Maizuru, Kyoto, on August 24, 1945. (Source: Japanese-cinema-db)

Hangman's Knot

7.0

A creepy loner college student faces off against thug siblings and their crew in a murderous rampage through the streets of Kyoto. Source: Netflix