Uchida Asao

Uchida Asao, born Uchida Tomoo in Pyongyang, Korea, during Japanese rule, was a Japanese actor. He was affiliated with Kohinata Project after working with Enkei Theater and the Gekkoai theater troupe. After graduating from Pyongyang First Middle School, Uchida worked for Higashiman Waryu Coal Mine,…

Kobayashi Toshiko

Kobayashi Toshiko, born in Tsukiji, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. In April 1946, she left school and joined the Nichigeki Dancing Team (NDT), making her stage debut in February 1947. In 1949, she was scouted by director Kinoshita Keisuke of Shochiku and debuted in the film "Yabure Daiko."…

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…

Imai Kazuko

Imai Kazuko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Kitazawa Hyo

Kitazawa Hyo was a Japanese actor from Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Yamamoto Shinya

Yamamoto Shinya is a Japanese actor, director, talent, and reporter from Kanda, Tokyo, Japan.

Endo Koji

Endo Koji is a Japanese composer managed by SOUND KID'S. He has worked on a vast number of films in the past decade. He has been composing music for Takashi Miike since the 1997 film Rainy Dog. He currently works out of his own studio named SoundKids in Tokyo, Japan. Endo first picked up jazz guitar…

Okae Kumiko

Okae Kumiko was a Japanese actress who was born Owada Kumiko in Tokyo on August 23, 1956. In 1983, she married actor, Owada Baku, and they had a daughter, Owada Miho, who is also an actress. She died April 23, 2020 of pneumonia due to the new coronavirus.

Kids War Special: Kore de Final! Zaken na yo

Imai Akane is a third-year junior high school student with a sense of justice. She lives with her three siblings-in-law, Kenichi, Rika, and Hiroshi, at the boarding school, Taiyo Gakuen, in Tokyo. She had to camp in…

Translucent Tree

4.0

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer…

Tazunebito

7.0

In 1952, Mitsuki waits for the streetcar with her lover Toichiro in Hakodate, Japan. This is the last time Mitsuki sees Toichiro. When Mitsuki boards the streetcar, Toichiro has vanished. 50 years later, Megumi runs…

Gachiban New Generation 1

6.9

Oomoto Tokio is a yankee (troubled kid). He is from Nishi-Kawaguchi in Kawaguchi, Japan. Tokio hates to lose. He decides to make money and also throw away his virginity. He goes to Ikebukuro, Tokyo and begins to work…

Rolling

7.3

Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away…

Dear Deer

7.0

When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village. Twenty-five years later, the eldest child, Fujio, still lives…

Feelings

Choi Seok, a principal of a girls' high school, adopts a daughter called Jeong Nim. Her step-sister, Sun Im, is jealous of her ability. One day, Jeong Nim calls Choi Seok "Darling" and Choi Seok returns her to Tokyo.…

Compassion

Choi Seok, the principal of a girls' school, takes and raises Jeong Nim, the daughter of a friend who died in the independence movement. After graduating from a girls' school as a senior, she goes to Tokyo Normal School…

I'm Fine, My Angel

8.0

An angel is quietly praying at a sanctuary in Heaven. She sees a vision of the struggles and sufferings of five people living on earth. Fuka, a fifth grade elementary schooler, is bullied by her classmates. Yuya, a…