Tsuboi Taku

Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…

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…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Wada Shu

Wada was born in Kagoshima prefecture. After graduating from Haiyuza Theatre Company, he formed the Yoru no Ki theater troupe in 1980. He appeared in the Katsu Kaishū and Musashi Musashi NHK Taiga dramas, the Nurse no Oshigoto and Aibō live-action television series, and Odoru Daisōsasen THE MOVIE.…

Todayama Masashi

Todayama Masashi is a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Azabu Junior and Senior High School (麻布中学校・高等学校) and the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University (早稲田大学). While at Waseda, he became involved with the theater troupe Daisan Butai (第三舞台)…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Fukada Koji

Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…

Lotlot de Leon

Lotlot de Leon is a Filipino actress. She is the daughter of actress Nora Aunor and actor Christopher de Leon by adoption. Former US Navy Donald Olson and Eva Rodriguez are her biological parents. She is also the sister of actress Matet de Leon, actor Ian de Leon, Kenneth and Kiko. She was married to…

Ishihara Shintaro

Ishihara Shintaro was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, Ishihara is one of the most prominent conservative right-wing politicians in modern Japanese politics. His arts career included a prize-winning…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Tanin Miman: Shinainaru Utomashii Anata

6.2

The day her first crush became her "older brother," Kiyoka's faint feelings of love as a child were quietly contained. With a nameless love in her heart, Kiyoka continued to gaze upon her "older brother," Fuuto. However,…

The Brass Pickers

~~ Adapted from the novel "Yokaden" (妖花伝) by Tsunoda Kikuo (角田喜久雄).

Meet the Monkey

7.2

Mako, Kiyo, and Satsuki are three college students visiting Nikko Toshogu Shrine for winter vacation, a place said to have many power spots and benefits for romance. Kiyo has had a relationship before, but Mako and…

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears

Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It’s been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his…

Song Dreamers

Spending his days doing nothing, Kiyosumi Seiji is only happy when he listens to the music of the idol group "4U". One day Seiji learns the talent agency to which "4U" belongs is holding auditions and decides to try…

Kurui Musashi

5.6

Chusuke is a samurai who is deeply sad and mournful when his best friend Kiyojuro Yoshioka was struck by Musashi in this work. Tadasuke leads a total of 400 people, one from Yoshioka Kazumon and 300 from Nobushi, and…

Saki

6.9

Miyanaga Saki, a first-year student at Kiyosumi High School, lacks enthusiasm for mahjong and plays it so that it will end with neither a win nor a loss. One day, she is influenced by Haramura Nodoka’s genius mahjong…

Keiji Zero Special

7.5

Members of the 13th Section of the Kyoto Police Investigation Division 1 such as Kiyoko Tokiya (Kazuki Sawamura) and Tomoka Saai (Miori Enomoto) depart for an annual comfort trip. This year, it was a mystery tour,…

Sanctuary

7.8

Pushed to the brink, delinquent Kiyoshi Oze takes on the world of sumo as a wrestler under the name "Enno," captivating fans with his cocky attitude — and upsetting an industry steeped in tradition. While sumo is…