Hamada Torahiko

Hamada Torahiko was a Japanese actor born in Nahari Town, Aki District, Kobe Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University [Faculty of Letters. Hamada belonged to the Haiyuza Theater Company. After working as a research student at the mobile theater company Mizuho Theater Company, he joined the theater…

Kato Seiichi

Kato Seiichi was a Japanese actor born in Takahashi Town, Jobo District, Okayama Prefecture. He joined the Tsubouchi Shoyo Literary Society and is known as a stage actor from the early days of the new drama. His father was a Han scholar from the Kumamoto domain, but he died shortly after Seiichi's birth,…

Motoki Isamu

Motoki Isamu is a Japanese art director.

Kikuchi Yuho

After finishing middle school, Yuho Kikuchi taught at an elementary school and at the same time studied English literature. He joined the Mainichi Shimbunt Osaka, and served on their editorial staff for several decades. In between he wrote novels mostly based on foreign works. "Ono-ga-tsumi" (One's…

Senda Korenari

Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known mostly for founding the Haiyūza theatre company, and translating and directing the works of Bertolt Brecht in post-World War II Japan. He appeared in over 50 films between 1936 and 1970. His stage name comes…

Asagiri Kyoko

W Shitsuji: Ojosama Dochira ga Okonomi desu ka?

Since losing her mother, Hanano lives alone until one day this is no longer possible. She has no money, so she decides to mail an envelope given to her by her mother, who said, "Use this once in your life when you're…

Itsuka wa Kitto Christmas

One day in December a person is forcibly taken to a cafe by their best friend, hair and makeup artist Fumiya... There they are met by three handsome men: Sugisaki, a cool, elite-type regular, Jin, the kind and refreshing…

Yoda Yoshitaka

Yoshikata Yoda was a Japanese screenwriter. He wrote for over 130 films between 1931 and 1989. He is most famous for his work with Kenji Mizoguchi. (Source: Wikipedia)

Mori Kikue

Mori Kikue, born Kobayashi Kiku in Numata, Tone, Gunma, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She dropped out of Gunma Prefectural Takasaki Girls' High School and in 1925, joined the Shin Geki Research Institute as a member of its first class. In 1929, she made her stage debut with the comedy troupe Kigekiza…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Mizoguchi Kenji

Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Mizoguchi's work is renowned for its long takes and mise-en-scène. According to writer Mark Le Fanu, "His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they…

Kakurega de Yofukashi

Yui came to Tokyo dreaming of a glamorous college life, but she had no hobbies or boyfriend and was living a boring daily life. While wasting time in the park, the idol-like actor Shunta Aizawa passed in front of her,…

Sagitori! 2: Keishicho Tokushu Sagi Toriatsukaigakari Funaki Eiichi, Tojikomerareru?!

Funaki Eiichi, a genius detective who boasts a 99% confession rate, takes on another difficult case! The victim this time is... Funaki himself?! In pursuit of Todo, the boss of the special fraud group "Sunny," he heads…