Mizunoya Kiyomi

Mizunoya Kiyomi, born Sada Mizutani (水谷貞) in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She began her career at the age of nine, debuting alongside her aunt, actress Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子). As a child, she was a member of the Geijutsuza (芸術座) and its Children’s Drama Group (芸術座童話劇部).…

Imai Kazuko

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

Mayuzumi Toshiro

Mayuzumi Toshiro was a Japanese composer. He studied at Tokyo University of Art and Music and Le Conservatoire de Paris. Mayuzumi organized the "Three Composers' Group" in Tokyo and was a pioneer of contemporary music in the 1950s. Among his achievement was making some of the first electronic music…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

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.

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,…

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…

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."…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

The Snow Country

6.9

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local…

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…

Watashi no Aozora 2002

6.0

Hey, hands off my... well, he's not my husband, but he's mine! Back by popular demand, the My Blue Sky saga continues! Whatever happened to the spunky Nazuna, her hale baby, Taiyo, and Kento, the man who left them…

Catch a Wave

6.7

Taiyo, a 16-year-old high school boy and his two best friends Taguchi and Kobayashi, decide to spend their summer, completely free from their parents, at Taguchi's vacation house in Shonan, a coastal city couple of…

Heart Loss - Niji ni Furetai Onnatachi

7.3

Fukaya Sakurako is married to the owner of ‘Fukaya’, a long-established miso shop in Nagoya City. She lives comfortably with her husband Kazuhisa and their daughter Yuko, a university student. Sakurako is content…