Living in Deafblindness

Living in a world without light or sound, the deaf-blind connect with the world through finger contact. Despite being confronted by solitude as if left alone in the middle of space, the camera looks upon deaf-blind…

Living an Ordinary Life

A documentary depicting daily life at Derato, an assisted living facility for severely mentally and physically handicapped children in Shizuoka Prefecture's Fujinomiya City. The parents of the disabled children were…

The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories

A documentary by Otsu Koshiro, cinematographer of Summer in Narita that depicted the struggle against the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to extensive archive footage, Otsu includes new images shot in Narita…

Last Present

7.3

Hiraki Asuka is diagnosed with cancer with three months left. She returns to her daughter and former husband, both of whom she had abandoned before, in order to spend her last days, especially with her daughter and…

Spring in Between

7.3

Haru, a magazine editor, struggles with her demanding boss and distant boyfriend. She meets Tohru Okunai, a painter with a developmental disability who only uses blue in his art. Known as a genius, Okunai’s blunt…

Informa: Beasts of the Underworld

7.7

~~ Adapted from the novel "Informa" (インフォーマ) by Okita Garyo (沖田臥竜).

The Way We Live

7.8

The theme of this drama series is the bonds between parents and children and between husband and wife. What does it mean to love another person? What does it mean to live? And what is true happiness? One day a man…

Ganbare! Red Vickies

Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Motoki Sojiro

A Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director. He was most famous for producing several films for Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Ikiru and Throne of Blood. He also produced films for other directors, including Mikio Naruse, for whom he produced…

Fujimatsu Sora

She is a former member of STEREO FUKUOKA and Toki wo Ikiru and a former founding member of MAGICAL SPEC from Toki wo Ikiru. She joined Toki wo Ikiru on October 30, 2017, and graduated on January 28, 2023. She graduated from MAGICAL SPEC from Toki wo Ikiru on February 25, 2023. (Source: Jpop Wiki Fandom)

Uchi Hiroki

Uchi Hiroki, born in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, is a Japanese idol singer, songwriter, actor, and model. Uchi auditioned for Johnny & Associates in May 1999, at the age of twelve. He had no interest in the entertainment industry, instead dreamed about a professional baseball career, but was signed…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Yada Akiko

Yada Akiko is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 6th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix for "Boku no Ikiru Michi".

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Odagiri Miki

Odagiri Miki was a japanese actress born in the county of Toyotama-gun in Tokyo. Since childhood, she received a gifted education at Buyō (a traditional Japanese performing art) and worked as a child actress at the Shinkyo Theater Company. In 1935 she debuted on the stage with "Before the Dawn". However,…

Urabe Kumeko

Actress. Kumeko Urabe was born on October 5, 1902 in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ikiru (1952), Oka wa hanazakari (1952) and House of Many Pleasures (1955). She died on October 26, 1989.

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Tora-san 22: Talk of the Town Tora-san

7.6

Shimura Takashi of "Seven Samurai" and "Ikiru" appears for the third and final time in the Tora-san series. Tora-san encounters a high priest for several times on the road. He also meets his brother-in-law's father,…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2008 Fall Special

7.3

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Body Rental" (ボディレンタル) >> Story 2: "Do Tsukido Tsukarete Ikiru no Sa" (どつきどつかれて生きるのさ) >> Story 3: "Shigo Kon" (死後婚)…