Yuhigaoka no Sori Daijin

A school drama centered around Yujiro Oiwa, an English teacher returning from the United States, who was assigned to Yuhigaoka Gakuen Junior High School. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)…

No Retreat...No Surrender...Si Kumander

A wife runs berserk when her husband, an automobile shop entrepreneur-mechanic, pays more-than-casual attention to a younger woman. (Source: IMDb)

Blue Moshikuwa Blue: Mohitori no Watashi

Sasaki Aoko has lived in an unhappy marriage for years and still remembers her former lover. Knowing about her husband's affair, she gets into one as well. During a trip with her lover, she meets a woman who looks…

Aoi Hitomi no Sei Life

8.0

Beth, an American high school girl, is homestaying with a family in Kamakura while studying in Japan. Due to some circumstances, she ends up having a "fake" marriage with Yutaro, the son of the family. This is a story…

Nipponichi no Kattobi Otoko

Kurata Kento is a reporter for a local newspaper and Kento's older brother is an elite reporter for a national newspaper. The two reunite and clash over different approaches to reporting. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia…

Dr. Koishi no Jiken Chart 3: Dokuyaku

4.0

The death of millionaire Sakurai Seiichiro sparks an ugly battle amongst his three daughters over his inheritance. When one of Sakurai's daughters is poisoned to death, Dr. Koishi's expertise is called upon to solve…

Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo

7.0

The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure of a million ryo. He tries to recover it but his brother's…

No Wake

In one of the hospitals, there is an incident related to blood transfusion - a young patient suffering from anemia, due to neglect of the procedures, is cut off from it. This initially meaningless problem, shakes the…

Glass no Chie no Wa

About how the lives of a sandwich man dressed as a clown and an actress pursued by the media intertwine. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Onna no Ichidaiki: Mukai Chiaki

2.0

This special retells the story of Mukai Chiaki, an upbeat woman with a can-do attitude. Overturning the stereotypical image of women, she ventures into the field of medicine as a surgeon, a profession dominated by…

Yanagi Sakuko

Yanagi Sakuko was a Japanese actress born in Nicho-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her real name is Kuroyanagi Chiyoko. In the 1920s, she was the heroine of numerous Shochiku films. She lost her father shortly after birth, and her mother died when she was five years old. Yanagi, who became an orphan, was taken…

Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

Higashiyama Akemi

Higashiyama Akemi, born Toshie Tamegai (為ヶ井寿江), is a Japanese singer and actress from Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with Antenne. In 1963, she successfully auditioned on the Nippon TV program "Hoihoi Music School." The following year, at the age of 17, she debuted as a youth song…

Okayasu Yumiko

Yumiko Okayasu is an actress, known for Shuto Konsoku Trial (1988), Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara dounaru (1989) and Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara odoroita!! (1990)

Noguchi Hisamitsu

Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Ito Minoru

Frequent supporting actor across a number of genres, usually in minor roles. In special effects films he appears most frequently as a reporter. He had slightly more prominent roles in television, appearing in episodes of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven. In 1952 (Showa 27), he signed an exclusive…

Namihira Akio

Namihira Akio was a Japanese singer known for his wartime songs. His real name was Namihira Yoshihiro (波平惠弘). He was born in Hirara, Okinawa, Japan. He attended the Kanto State Dai-Ren Second Junior High School but transferred to Miyako Junior High School to prepare for entrance exams to a music…

Nakamura Shikaku

Nakamura Shikaku II was an important 20th century supporting onnagata actor. "Active in both Tôkyô and Ôsaka, he was well versed in old onnagata customs and wrote books such as "Kabuki Zuihistu" ("Kabuki Jottings") and "Yakusha no Sekai" ("The Actor's World")." (Samuel Leiter in "New Kabuki Encyclopedia")(Source:…

Kurotsuchi Mitsuo

Kurotsuchi Mitsuo was a Japanese screenwriter and director born in Kumamoto. Following his graduation from Kumamoto High School and the law department of Rikkyo University, he became an assistant director with Kinoshita Keisuke Productions. After two years of work, he became a freelance writer. He debuted…