Onoe Kajo

Onoe Kajo was a Japanese actor born in Kobe. He was a thorough supporting player of Kyoto historical drama, and at the age of 30, he also played a leading role. His older brother is actor Kataoka Matsuyan. He became a stage actor from early on under the name of Ichikawa Momotaro. After working in the…

Kato Tai

Kato Tai was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, and raised in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. He was mainly active as a director of period dramas and chivalry films. (Source: MyDramaList)

Amihama Naoko

Amihama Naoko is a Japanese actress born in Kobe, Japan.

Masuda Toshio

Masuda Toshio is a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. In 1944, he entered Kobe Prefectural First Kobe Middle School and then enrolled in Niihama Technical College. However, in July 1945, he was expelled from the school for opposing the military training conducted by the…

Kumamoto Pro-Wrest

Kumamoto Pro-Wrest is a Japanese comedian from Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. She is a member of the comedy duo "Benishouga" (紅しょうが). She graduated from Kobe Municipal Suma High School and attended Kobe Women's University before dropping out. She is a graduate of the 35th class of NSC Osaka, a comedy…

Kominami Mayuko

Kominami Mayuko is a Japanese actress born in Kobe city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo College of Music in March 2020. First appearance in a TV drama is the NHK asadora "Yell".

Atsuta Yuharu

Atsuta Yuharu was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and grew up in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in 1922, he joined the Shochiku Corporation, and due to his love for painting, he entered the photography department of the Shochiku Kamata Studios. After 15 years as an…

Saito Shiko

Saito Shiko, born in Kobe, was a Japanese actor. He made his debut in silent movies in 1925

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…

Fujita Yosuke

Fujita Yosuke, born in Kobe in 1963, won the Grand Prize at the Torino Film Festival with his 8mm film Tora in 1987 while still attending university. In the 1990s, he worked for the comedy theater troupe Otona Keikaku. After creating a series of documentary and short films, he made his feature film…

The Guitarist from the Sea

4.0

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling. (Source: Letterboxd)

Yellow Line

6.0

A criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women.

Beppin no Machi

A former law professor turned amateur detective searches for a runaway daughter and stumbles upon a murder case in Kobe. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Beppin no Machi" (べっぴんの町) by Kenjo Haku…

She's Rain

A youth drama depicting love stories between high school boys and girls that unfold on the Hankyu Railway Line and the streets of Kobe. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the novel "She's Rain" by Hiranaka Yuichi…

Hashire! Ichiro

8.0

One day in the spring of 2000, at the Kobe Green Stadium, the franchise of the professional baseball team Orix Blue Wave. After the Hanhin-Awaji earthquake in 1995, Blue Wave has been helping the promotion for the…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 2

Prosecutor Chikamatsu Shigemichi, who has just been transferred from the Kobe District Public Prosecutor's Office to the Kanazawa District Public Prosecutor's Office, teams up with public prosecutor's assistant Takasugi…

Memories Corner

7.6

A young French reporter visits Japan to investigate the phenomenon of ‘Death By Loneliness," which seems to have occurred following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. She interviews various people in Kobe and meets Kenji…

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).

Turtle's Wings

A documentary film “Tame no Tsubasa” that reflects the people of Suma-ku, Kobe, who come into contact with creatures such as turtles, fish, and insects, and thinks about how to live a rich life. (Source: kisspress.jp)

Les Miserables

7.5

This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile…