Ogura Ichiro

Ichirou Ogura is a Japanese actor from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Kinoshita Houka

In 1980, Kinoshita auditioned for the film, Gaki Teikoku, which he passed and made his acting debut. After graduating from Osaka University of Arts, he entered Yoshimoto Kogyo and joined Yoshimoto Shinkigeki troupe, but he did little to stand out on the comedy stage, and quit after three years. In 1989,…

Kanai Yuta

Kanai Yuta is a Japanese actor born in Fussa, Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Theater de Posh. He made his debut as a lead actor after passing a public audition for the movie "The Mischievous Trio: Thief X's Story" in 1998. He announced his marriage at the end of 2012 on his blog and welcomed a…

Tanaka Yoji

Tanaka Yoji is a Japanese actor. He was born in Nagano, Japan.

Matsuoka Joji

Matsuoka Jōji is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards…

Asamiya Mika

Mika Asamiya is an actress, known for Umi no kingyo (2010), Umi no ue no kimi wa, itsumo egao. (2009) and Taga kokoro nimo ryu wa nemuru (2005).

Kudo Qyoko

Qyoko Kudo is a Japanese movie and stage actress. While having her initial acting classes at UPS Academy founded by Narahashi Yoko, she got her debut role in the Alejandro González Iñárritu's movie 'Babel' in 2006. The Edmund Yeo film 'Kingyo' brought her to Venice Film Festival in 2009. She received…

Edmund Yeo

Edmund Yeo is a Malaysian film director, screenwriter and film producer. He first received international acclaim in 2009 when his Japanese-language short film, Kingyo, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. His main works are Aqerat (2017), Liu lian wang fan (2014) and Chicken Rice Mystery (2008). (Source:…

Otsuka Ai

Ai Otsuka (Tsuka Ai, born September 9, 1982) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, and actress from Suminoe-Ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo," which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly…

Yoshizawa Ryo

Yoshizawa Ryo is a Japanese actor from Tokyo represented by Amuse. He was signed by the agency after winning Right On award at the Amuse National Audition 2009, for which his mother registered him to join. His breakthrough roles were as Okita Sougo in Gintama, and as Yuichi in Friends Games. In early…

Snow on the Blades

7.5

Kingo Shimura serves Naosuke Ii as his lord, but Naosuke Ii is killed by ronins from the Mito Domain. He is not allowed to kill himself and receives a secret order to exact revenge. Kingo Shimura travels for 13 years…

High and Low

8.0

"High and Low" focuses on Gondo Kingo, a powerhouse executive in the Japanese shoe industry. In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a proposition that throws him in hock down to his own furniture, he's…

Actress

6.0

The film tells the story of famous Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

Love Letter

6.8

This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story. Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke Kinoshita, "Koibumi" explore the…

A Hen in the Wind

7.4

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices…

Tokyo Love Cinema

6.9

The characters of "Tokyo Love Cinema" find love waiting for them in all corners of the world, as they travel to Cannes, Venice, Istanbul, and back to Tokyo buying films. Masaki Takasugi worked at a department store…