Natsuki Sho

Natsuki Sho was a Japanese actor born in Matsuzawa, Ebara, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Seibi Middle School in Suginami, Tokyo, and subsequently enrolled in the acting department of the Japan Film School. After graduating in March 1945, he joined Daiei Tokyo Studio, debuting that year in the film…

Maie Hiromi

Profession: Actor / taxi driver / essayist Alias: Shotaro Tachibana (Tachibana Shotaro) Old stage name: Maie Hiromi Group name: Johnny's Born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, he's the middle of three brothers (sister and brother). He was scouted by the second generation Johnny Kitakawa who worked for the US Embassy,…

Ichikawa Danjuro XII

Ichikawa Danjuro XII, a Japanese Kabuki actor born in Tokyo, Japan, was known for his contributions to traditional theater. He inherited the stage name Naritaya and was affiliated with the Japan Art Academy, holding the rank of Senior Fifth Rank. His birth name was Horikoshi Natsuo, and he also used…

Rionne McAvoy

Rionne McAvoy is a documentary filmmaker originally from the Gold Coast in Australia. Now residing in Tokyo, Japan, for over 17 years, Rionne is fully bilingual in English and Japanese. Rionne grew up in South East Queensland, Australia, and at the age of 19 went to Japan for an 8-week karate training…

Yoshino Mayumi

Yoshino Mayumi, born Kiuchi Masako (木内昌子) in Tokyo, Japan, is a former actress. Initially known by her stage name Kiuchi Masako (木内まさこ), she was selected as the 5th mascot girl for the Unichika brand in 1984, while still in middle school. After graduating high school in 1989, she adopted…

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

Kajiura Yuki

Kajiura Yuki is a Japanese musician, composer and record producer. She has provided the music for several popular anime series. She was born on August 6, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan. She has been into music since 1972 and accompanying her father on the piano. Her family later moved to West Germany because…

Haruna Ai

Haruna Ai was born on in Osaka. She is a Japanese transgender talent, singer, actress, and businesswoman. She currently resides in Tokyo and is signed to Sands Entertainment. She's been active in the entertainment industry since 1995. She has one brother. She was aware that she was a woman since childhood.…

Oda Yuji

Oda Yuji is a Japanese actor and singer. He was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He was born to an upper-middle-class family and attended the private academy of Touin Gakuen. Originally he had a promising career in sports, but had to give it up after a knee injury. He decided to enter drama…

Ohno Satoshi

Ohno Satoshi, born in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, artist, radio host and member of the popular boy band Arashi. Ohno began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency, Johnny & Associates, in 1994 at the age of 13. Ohno started an acting…

Pickpocket

2.0

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a…

What the Snow Brings

6.7

Yazaki Manabu lost his business and wife in Tokyo after the dot-com crash. He returns to his hometown in Hokkaido during the middle of winter. Manabu then takes the advice of a man and bets everything he has on a horse…

Hypnosis

6.9

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife’s birthday. A middle aged…

Seoul Raiders

6.9

It's been five years since Tokyo Raiders was a Lunar New Year hit, and nobody was really clamoring for a sequel. Regardless, they made one anyway: Seoul Raiders. Director Jingle Ma, whose last film was the egregious…

Entotsu no Mieru Basho

7.0

The movie focuses on the life of a lower-middle class couple and their two tenants, living in a poor suburbs of Tokyo.

Air Doll

7.2

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…

Traveling Alone

Misaki, who has worked in Tokyo for ten years, spends quality time with her family and friends again in her hometown. At an event where classmates gather, she learns that the boy she liked in middle school has died.…

Home: The House Imp

7.1

A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a Zasikiwarashi (Japanese yokai). A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife,…

Higanjima

6.4

At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his…

Killing for the Prosecution

7.3

Young Public Prosecutor Okino Keiichiro is assigned to the department of Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office which deals with violent cases. He is thrilled to work with Mogami Takeshi whom he admires. One day, an elderly…