Kudo Shizuka

Kudo Shizuka (工藤静香) is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was very popular from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. She was also member #38 of the super idol group Onyanko Club and member of the gravure group Momoko Club. In 1984, Kudo Shizuka auditioned for the Miss Seventeen Contest…

Akutagawa Yasushi

Akutagawa Yasushi was a Japanese composer and conductor. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Music in 1949 and studied composition with Hashimoto Kunihiko, Shimofusa Kanichi and Ifukube Akira at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai (The Three) along with Dan Ikuma and Mayuzumi…

Miki Satoshi

Kanagawa Prefecture Yokohama born . Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Letters . Only you were submitted together invited to the friend who saw the part-time job recruitment of trainees of TV writer in college is passed, entered the office of the TV writer from the age of 20 , " Tamori Club…

Matsuda Seiko

Seiko Matsuda is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal idol" by the Japanese media. Matsuda was born in the Kamachi clan, which was from the Saga Genji line and was also a former sengoku daimyo of Yanagawa Domain. However,…

Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Akagi Keiichiro

Born Akatsuka Chikahiro in Tokyo, Akagi and his family moved to Shonan, during World War II, to avoid air attacks, eventually settling in Hayama. His childhood was largely a pleasant affair, though it was sometimes punctuated by hardships typical for most Japanese families during the postwar years.…

Nakamura Yasuhi

Nakamura Yasuhi is a Japanese actor from Osaka prefecture. He completed the video course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design. He belongs to ZAZOUS. Since he was a student at Musashino Art University, he has been involved in independent film production and participated as a…

Onsen Waka Okami no Satsujin Suiri 28: Sapporo Jozankei Onsen ~ Sweets Fair de Renzoku Satsujin!!

Busu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru

6.8

Popular scenario writer, Yamaguchi Osamu is currently dating fashion magazine model Ebihara Yumi. With a high salary and a beautiful girlfriend, one would expect Osamu to be the envy of all around him. Yet there is…

Uta no Gurando Sho

A popular song program which distinguished itself from other song program for its mixing of songs, dances and tales. (Source: NHK)

Koiko no Mainichi

8.0

Based off of a popular manga, this comedy centers around a young man in the yakuza and his younger roommate Koiko.

Versailles No Track Neechan

A work referencing two popular Japanese works; the Toei movie series " Torakku Yaro " and the popular manga title "The Rose of Versailles ". The story is based around the "Versailles Flower Shop", flowers are delivered…

Mikaiketsu no Onna: Keishichou Bunsho Sousakan Season 2

7.6

Kentaro Arita is a popular lawyer who often appears on TV. He becomes involved in an adultery incident and becomes the subject of criticism and curiosity. He is then found dead. The police investigate Kentaro Arita’s…

Hanawake no Yon Shimai

6.9

A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the unbelievably ironclad husband and wife raised includes, an unmarried and…

Momo no Uta

"Momo no Uta" was popular among elementary and junior high school students in Kanagawa Prefecture in the early Heisei era. It was said that singing this song would help you find something you were missing, and in recent…

No Longer Human

7.0

Osamu Dazai is one of the most popular authors in Japan, but he is absorbed in alcohol and love. He is married and has two lovers. ~~ Adapted from the true story of novelist Osamu Dazai.

Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku

7.3

Taiga Kusunoki is a less than popular, tsundere, second-generation actor. Although he is the son of the famous and popular actor, Kotaro Kusunoki, his career is far below the level of his father's. Taiga develops an…