Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Izawa Hiroshi

Toshihisa Izawa (伊澤 俊久 Izawa Toshihisa?, born September 4, 1955), better known by his stage name Hiroshi Izawa (伊沢 弘 Izawa Hiroshi?), is a Japanese actor, voice actor and director. Izawa was born in Tokyo, Japan and is the director of the theatrical troupe Big Face, and a member of Theater…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Billy Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul

Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, nicknamed Billy, is a filmmaker and producer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo…

Kako Takashi

Kako Takashi is a Japanese pianist and composer, who works in both jazz and art-music idioms. Kako began playing piano at eight years old and learned to play jazz while in his teens. He has won numerous music awards and is one of Japan's leading composers, and as a pianist, he is also described as a…

Shigetome Manami

Shigetome Manami is a Japanese performer, model and actress. She is a former member of the musicial group E-Girls, as well as the former leader and member of the musical group Flower. Flower, her main group was active in was a unit from 2010 to 2019. She is signed with LDH Entertainment. Manami is a…

Koshikawa Michio

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1965. Besides his early work in theater, he has a background in film distribution and production. He established the production company Slow Learner in 1997 and produced films like The Prisoner by Adachi Masao (2006 / NC ’07), Sketches of Kaitan City by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi…

Saga Zenpei

Saga Zenpei was a Japanese actor and filmmaker born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Japanese Art School. In 1929, he joined the Japan Proletarian Artist Alliance, but became an actor, and in the same year he entered the Tokyo Left Wing…

Chou

Cho (Born as Nagashima Shigeru) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was Nagashima Yuichi. He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater Company…

Inoue Nozomi

Inoue Nozomi is a Japanese actress born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of CAMINO REAL. During the Hyogo Prefectural Suma Higashi High School, she belonged to the broadcasting department, and was awarded the Excellence Award in the reading section of the 57th NHK Cup National High…

Strangers in the City

4.5

Searching for Yukari, a former pupil who has gone missing, cram school teacher Hatano returns to Tokyo for the first time in 12 years. He had once been a teacher at a prestigious girls' high school there, but was forced…

This Is Tokyo

Taro, a director living in Tokyo, receives an offer from a US firm to direct a green tea commercial. There’s one caveat. It needs to be set in Tokyo but shot in LA. The place prepared for him to shoot the commercial…

Restaurant from the Sky

7.4

Wataru lives with his wife and his daughter Shiori on a cattle ranch in Hokkaido. He inherited the cattle ranch from his father. He learns to make cheese at a cheese workshop. He isn't as skilled in making cheese and…

Genkai Danchi

7.1

Ayamecho Complex is a public housing complex that was built in the suburbs of Tokyo in the 1970s. Back then, it was a lively place and a desirable address for people. But now the number of residents have declined and…

Lady Kaga

7.0

Higuchi Yuka is the only daughter of Higuchi, a long-established inn in Kaga Onsen. Fascinated by the tap dancing she saw in elementary school, Yuka moved to Tokyo with the aim of becoming a tap dancer, but her dreams…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake

6.3

Two teachers work together at the same high school. Hikawa Toru is a methodical but naive elite graduate from the University of Tokyo while Akagi Masashi is a physical education teacher who is kind-hearted but a little…

Tonde Saitama

7.1

The story is set in a fictional Japan where people are discriminated according to their birthplace and residence. Saitama Prefecture is particularly criticized by the people in Tokyo. One day, a mysterious male student…

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption

7.6

The year is 2017 and three years since Friend has governed the world with his Friendship Democratic Party. A destructive virus has hit Tokyo and the government builds a gigantic wall to quarantine the city. Friend…

Kinkanshoku

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other,…

Aristocrats

7.3

Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20's, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied…