Watanabe Ikkei

Watanabe Ikkei, born Watanabe Kazuyoshi (渡辺一惠) in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator affiliated with Seinenza Film & Broadcasting (青年座映画放送). He attended Ichinomiya Municipal Yamato Elementary School (一宮町立大和小学校), Toyokawa Municipal…

Sakai Masaaki

Masaaki Sakai is a Japanese performer from Tokyo. He is best known to English-speaking audiences as the title star of the TV show "Monkey".

Sakura Mayumi

Sakura Mayumi is a Japanese actress born in Imabari, Ehime, Japan. She is affiliated with Niko Film. Sakura developed a passion for films of various genres from a young age, influenced by her mother. Although she aspired to pursue a career in acting, she decided to enter the Department of Sociology,…

Matsuyama Kenichi

Matsuyama Kenichi, who is known for his affinity for strange character roles, was born in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture in 1985. In 2001, Kenichi started his career as a model. In 2002, he made his debut as an actor landing a small role in the NTV drama "Gokusen" as Kenichi Mori. In 2003, Kenichi expanded…

Endo Koji

Endo Koji is a Japanese composer managed by SOUND KID'S. He has worked on a vast number of films in the past decade. He has been composing music for Takashi Miike since the 1997 film Rainy Dog. He currently works out of his own studio named SoundKids in Tokyo, Japan. Endo first picked up jazz guitar…

Okada Yoshikazu

Okada Yoshikazu is a Japanese screenwriter.

Yuki Saori

Saori Yuki is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born Akiko Yasuda in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama. She started her singing career with her older sister Sachiko as a child singer. In 1969, Saori Yuki had a hit with "Yoake no Scat (Scat at dawn)", which sold 2 million units in two months,…

Ueki Hitoshi

Actor, comedian, singer, and guitarist, Ueki came to fame through the comic jazz-band The Crazy Cats led by Hajime Hana. His hit song, Sūdara-bushi, placed in the Oricon top ten and landed him an appearance on the NHK annual music spectacular Kōhaku Uta Gassen. Ueki received the Purple Ribbon Medal…

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.

Takahashi Katsumi

Takahashi Katsumi is a Japanese actor born in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture.

Pirameki's Children Story

7.5

Due to his family’s recommendation, elementary school student Haruto auditions for the children's TV program "Piramekino." At the audition, he meets popular child actress Yui and falls in love with her at first sight.…

1 Pound no Fukuin

7.3

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first-round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can't…

Zoku Harukanaru Yama no Yobigoe

Moriyama Kosaku is released from a Hokkaido prison on parole. After he salutes the prison officers, he approaches a car that is stopped nearby. A mysterious woman Kana is waiting in the driver’s seat. Meanwhile,…

Tsuki no Koori

Kitamura Ryuji lives with his wife and children in Tokyo. Koharu is a student he meets while giving a photography lecture as a special lecturer at a vocational school in Sapporo. Koharu, an aspiring jazz singer, asks…

Otoko no Misao

6.8

A struggling enka singer and single father tries to raise his only daughter and realise their family's dream of him performing on the NHK Kouhaku show.

Hajimete no Onna

~~ Adapted from the short story "Hajimete no Onna" (初めての女), within the novel "Haijin Nakama" (俳人仲間) by Takii Kosaku (瀧井孝作).

Our Meal for Tomorrow

7.5

A 7-year love story between Hayama Ryota and Uemura Koharu from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid…

Mr. Kurosaki's Pure Love Never Stops

7.0

A high school student, Shirase Koharu, helps out at an onigiri shop that was opened by her mother, who passed away three years ago. While assisting her father in running the shop, Koharu also takes care of her two…

Double Suicide

7.2

In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei falls in love for the courtesan Koharu but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with…

Rondo behind the Final Curtain

7.4

Torigai Itsuki lost his wife and is raising his son, Riku, as a single father, while working as a relic organiser. He is in charge of cleaning up and organising the belongings of people who have died alone. One day,…