Nakayama Keiko

Nakayama Keiko is a singer from Tokyo and a former idol singer. Her agency at the time of her idol period was Sun Music Productions. Her father is Satake Akio, an actor. Her maternal grandfather is film director Fuyushima Taizo. In 1975, she was scouted for Fuji TV's "All-star Kazoku Taiko Utagassen"…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Nishida Hikaru

Nishida Hikaru is a Japanese J-pop singer and actress. She made her singing debut with the release of the single Fifteen on April 6, 1988, named after her age at the time. Hikaru is well known for her ability to speak English. She was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture but her family quickly moved…

Onoe Kikunosuke V

Onoe Kikunosuke V, born August 1, 1977 as Terashima Kazuyasu, is a Kabuki and film actor. Kazuyasu came from an established Kabuki house. He is the second child of Onoe Kikugoro VII and actress Fuji Sumiko, and his older sister is actress Terajima Shinobu. Kazuyasu made his Kabuki debut in February…

Dazai Osamu

Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji in Aomori Prefecture. His father, Genemon, was a landlord. Osamu was born as the sixth son of the Tsushima family. Due to his mother being ill and his father busy working after his birth, he was raised by a nanny for a year before his aunt, Kie, took over until he…

Kito Aya

Kito Aya was born on July 19, 1962, in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture. When she was in the third year of junior high school, she frequently complained of poor physical condition including falling and her family consulted the Koseikai Hospital. She was diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration, an…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Yasui Shoji

Born in Tokyo, Yasui first joined a troupe led by Kazuo Hasegawa. He entered the Nikkatsu studio in 1954 and made his debut in a film scripted by Ozu Yazujirou. After starring in The Burmese Harp, he starred with his own family in the television show Chako-chan. He joined the Gekidan Shinpa troupe and…

If Utchan Nanchan Does It, I Have To Do It!

Comedy show consisting of several segments: mainly games, parodies, pastias of Japanese pop culture: including anime, video games, manga and popular programs. There are also quizzes, a reference to "Family Feud", a…

Fushin no Toki

6.0

Asai Michiko is a 28-year old housewife. Her husband is 38-year old Yoshio, who works at an advertisement agency. Five years into their marriage, Michiko finds out that Yoshio has been having an affair. Michiko visits…

PICU: Shoni Shuchu Chiryo Shitsu Special 2024

8.1

In this special drama, Takeshiro is portrayed on the stage of Okadama Hospital a year after he was assigned to PICU. Takeshiro came to see the guidance of two residents who came in the late clinical training. I would…

Flash to a Wealthy Family

My Stepbrother in the Prince’s Mansion Treated Me like a Treasure but My Own Brother Regretted It

7.2

In her previous life, Wen Xing Luo's sister suddenly returned home and took away her father and brother's love and her marriage with the prince. When she opened her eyes again, Wen Xing Luo returned to the year when…

It's a Wonderful Life

7.7

Dysfunctional members of an affluent family learn to get along with one another and to pursue romantic prospects.

Cang Xing

7.3

Wen Xing Luo, daughter of the Minister of Rites, devoted herself to her family in her past life, only to be betrayed and killed by them. Unexpectedly reborn at the time of her parents' divorce, she schemes to enter…

Taming the Husband

Amid the turbulent political struggles surrounding the canal transport system, Jin Bao Zhu, the daughter of a butcher, marries Xie Yan, the legitimate son of a canal transport family who has been wronged and left disabled.…

Su Ran Ran's Husband Hunting Journey

7.6

The ancestral grave of the Su has great feng shui; others bow and beg for sons, but they can easily have nine. When they wanted a daughter, Su Ran Ran is born. As the only daughter, she’s treated and treasured like…

To Die Ordinary - Independent Life

This is a sequel to the film Living an Ordinary Life which documented for five years the parents who created a social welfare facility in Shizuoka Prefecture's Fuji City under the ideal living normally in the region…