Suehara Takuma

Suehara Takuma is a Japanese actor, scriptwriter, director, model, poet, and painter, currently leading the Obonro Theater Company. Born to musician parents, Suehara was introduced to music at an early age. He later studied at the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, where he joined the drama research…

Machida Kyosuke

Machida Kyosuke is a retired Japanese actor. Before his retirement, Machida had appeared more than 150 films, including many yakuza films produced by Toei. When he was a child, he became Mas Oyama's pupil. Now he is the advisor of the International Karate Organization Kyokushin-kaikan. (Source: Wikipedia)

Watanabe Atsushi

Born in Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture . His parents divorced in his childhood and he was taken in by his mother. He moved to Tokyo when he was in the third grade of elementary school. In 1960 , he made his debut in the Fuji TV drama " Anchan ". The following year, in 1961 , he also starred in…

Yuki Keiko

Yuki Keiko is a Japanese lyricist and former actress born in Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan. She entered the entertainment industry at the age of 16 using the stage name Fujita Keiko (藤田佳子) and made her debut as an actress in "Juudai no Himitsu". In 1954, she joined Daiei Film. In the 1960s, she was…

Hongo Naoki

Hongo Naoki is a Japanese singer and actor from Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. He works exclusively for New Century Records. After working as a Ground Self-Defense Force officer, in 1971, he participated in the audition program "Star e Bakushin!!" on Nippon Television and won the Grand Champion. In the…

Watanabe Takeo

Composer, Musician, Poet. Born in Tokyo . His nickname was " Nabetake ". Born as the eldest son of the composer Urato Watanabe. He composes various genres, and has left impressive songs especially in historical drama and animated works. He used many instruments such as the harpsichord , which had never…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Wazaki Shunya

Wazaki Shunya was a Japanese actor from Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from Hiroshima Prefectural Kure Miyahara High School. Wazaki joined Toei in 1957 and has appeared in many historical films produced by Kyoto Studio. He transferred to Shochiku in 1966 but became freelance in 1969,…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Kanai Dai

Kanai Dai was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. He dropped out of the Chuo University, Department of Law. In 1952, he founded the theater company Izumiza. His eldest son is the actor Kanai Setsu. On June 17, 2001, at the age of 74, he died of pneumonia at a hospital…

Mugen Shinshi Doll Hell

~~ Adapted from a manga of the same name.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

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This haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife. (Source: letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the novel by Mizukami Tsutomu.

Red Room 2

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Four contestants are locked in a room with $1,000,000 on the line. They must play a card game called “King” in which the winner of each hand forces the loser to do whatever they want until there is only one left.

Kowai Dowa: The Little Mermaid

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The second one of six stories from the Kowai Fairy Tale series. Each of them is a loose and macabre adaptation of one of the classic fairy tales. Ushio Hayakawa is a mute worker in "Mermaid House". One day, she hands…

Yamamura Misa Suspense: Red Hearse Final - Kyoto Doll for Funeral

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sogiya Shacho Ishihara Akiko Series" (葬儀屋社長 石原明子シリーズ) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).

Air Doll

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A life-size sex doll lives in a modest apartment in Tokyo, she can't speak nor move and she's the only companion of her master, a middle-aged man. He speaks to her, bathes and then make love every day when he returns…

Toma Kyoju no Tensai Suiri 3

~~ Adapted from the novel "Karakurikan no Satsujin" (偶人館（からくりかん）の殺人) by Takahashi Katsuhiko (高橋克彦).

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

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Gojo Wakana is a high school boy fascinated by hina dolls and in training to become a "kashirashi", a craftsman who makes the dolls’ faces. He is wholeheartedly absorbed in making his favorite dolls, but his interests…

Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery

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The Vampire Doll

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After her brother goes missing while he's visiting his fiancee, Yuko, in a countryside mansion, Keiko becomes concerned and decides to find him. She convinces her boyfriend to tag along and when the duo arrives at…