Matsuoka Masahiro

Matsuoka Masahiro is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is a member of Tokio, a Johnny Entertainment musical group. His nicknames are Mabo and Maa-kun. He starred as Shinichi Ozaki in "Godzilla: Final Wars" and the comedy series "Yasuko to Kenji". Matsuoka joined the pop/rock band Tokio as a drummer in…

Sakura Kinzo

Sakura Kinzo is a Japanese actor and comedian.

Amuro Namie

Amuro Namie is a former Japanese recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and entrepreneur who was active between 1992 and 2018. At the height of her popularity, she was referred to as the "Teen Queen" and "Queen of Japanese Pop Music". She was born in Okinawa, Japan.

Yamazaki Tsutomu

Yamazaki Tsutomu, born in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actor. He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the…

Minami Kaho

Kaho Minami is a Japanese actress of Korean descent active in film, television and commercials. Minami starred in Gakuryu Ishii's 'Angel Dust'. She has also appeared in films such as Masayuki Ochiai's 'Infection', Tian Zhuangzhuang's 'The Go Master', and Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's 'Sketches of Kaitan City'.…

Sugawara Daikichi

Sugawara Daikichi is a Japanese actor born in Kami, Japan as Sugawara Hironori. He is married to Takeuchi Miyako.

Tamura Taijiro

Sasaki Sumie

Sasaki was born on June 22, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. She has a younger brother and sister. In 1951, she married journalist Akira Aoki. The two remained married until Aoki's death of lung cancer in 2003. In 1951, Sasaki joined a theater troupe and acted in her first play, Sono Imoto. She won an award for…

Kamei Toru

Kamei Toru is a Japanese director and screenwriter.

Hara Fumina

Hara Fumina is a Japanese actress and idol. She was married to former football player Nakanishi Tetsuo.

Shin Kaze no Rondo

In 1942, Arisawa Maki and Noshiro Koji are engaged, but tragedy strikes when Koji’s older brother, Ichiro, dies in the war. Koji is forced to marry Ichiro’s widow, Asami, while Maki is wed to Koji’s younger brother,…

So no Otoko, Ishiki Takai Kei

6.4

Tsubokura Haruko, a division manager of a mid-sized IT company, Saotome Accounting Software, is feeling gloomy. She will soon be 35 and has misgivings about her own life. “I wonder if it’s good that my life stays…

Ningen no Shomei

7.4

The police raid a club in Roppongi, Tokyo - a trendy area of the city that attracts youths and, more recently, drug trafficking. When a drug dealer tries to escape from a club with a gun in hand, the whole club goes…

Mayaku Gai no Satsujin

A suspense drama depicting the war of the police force against the drug crimes in the streets of the international city of Kobe. ~~ Adapted from a novel written by Kashiwara Ichiro (樫原一郎).

99-nen no Ai ~ Japanese Americans

7.8

The story follows a family of Japanese immigrants who crossed over to America 99 years ago. Kusanagi plays both the young Hiramatsu Chokichi (later taken over by Nakai) and his son, Ichiro. When the war breaks out…

Hagure Shocho no Satsujin Kyuko 4

This time, Hokuto Tetsutaro, becomes the chief of the Tochigi Prefectural Police's Nikko Central Police Station and encounters a murder case. The victims died on the borders of Tochigi, Saitama, and Gunma prefectures,…

Ichiro

7.4

19-year-old Onodera Ichiro, who was born and raised in an Edo residence, is hastily summoned to return to his hometown after his father, the chief attendant of feudal lord processions, is killed in an accidental fire…

Haruko no Ningyo

7.1

In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling…

Mou Ichido Kimi ni, Propose

7.2

A love story involving a wife who has partly lost her memory and her husband who tries to reconstruct their relationship. Miyamoto Haru works as a mechanic at an automobile repair shop. He married his wife Kanako,…

Dr. Irabu Ichiro

8.0

Kano, the leader of a yakuza group, has the courage and spirit of a yakuza to be unfazed even if he is held at gun point. He has authority over those around him and plays tough. Recently, however, he for some reason…