Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Hasebe Yasuharu

Hasebe Yasuharu was a Japanese film director best known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976), Rape! (1976), Rape! 13th Hour (1977) and Raping! (1978). Earlier genre films directed by Hasebe include Black Tight Killers (1966) and the…

Hatsumi Masaaki

Hatsumi was born in Noda, Japan on December 2, 1931. He heavily participated in sports during his school years, along with martial arts and theater, including becoming "captain of the football team". While attending the Meiji University, he continued learning judo and eventually rose to Yudansha or…

Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

Kiyoko Ranman

7.4

The drama takes place in the 28th year of the Meiji Era. After their victory in the First Sino-Japan war, the whole of Japan is celebrating. Against this backdrop, lives a girl named Kiyoko, who is the daughter of…

Kenkaku Shoubai Kagerou no Otoko

6.0

Akiyama Kohei, one of Edo’s best swordsmen, lives a leisurely life with his wife, Oharu, who is 40 years his junior. In contrast, his serious son, Daijiro, devotes himself to practicing at his own training hall every…

Yoshiwara Uradoshin

7.5

Bodyguard Kamimori Mikijiro and his wife Teijo welcome their third New year at Edo’s largest pleasure quarters, the Yoshiwara red light district. On the second day of work of the New Year, an unprecedented disappearance…

Ghost Boxing 3

6.0

A hundred years ago, the Demon Sovereign was in the world, and no one could stop it. Later, in order to seal the Demon Venerable, the Kairen clan prevented him from harming the world. The great elders in the clan have…

Legend of Chenzhen

7.1

With the resolve to “learn from enemies to subdue enemies”, Chen Zhen studies industrial technologies abroad in Japan. Faced with continuous provocation from Ninja Chiyo, he, together with Xue Zi Li, the master…

Wars in Chinatown

5.0

Master Ye Zhuo destroyed the evil forces alone, but he witnessed the tragic death of his wife. He learned that the gang leader had gone overseas to treat his injuries. Ye Zhuo then went to a foreign country to fight…

Mannequin

1. Movie costume designer Choon Hwa and shaman Lee Hwa live in the same house with their sister-in-law. 2. In order to resolve the grudge against Choon Hwa's husband and younger brother's death through sexual intercourse,…

Kamijo Reiko no Jiken Suiri 8

Kamijo Reiko and Ozaki Kensaku, an aspiring accountant, visit Kakunodate in Akita Prefecture for the renovation of public facilities. A series of murders occur there. Strangely, before and after each incident, Kensaku…

Sakuya Konohana

9.5

A story about a girl with little ambition who gradually matures as a woman through a Japanese card game competition that she unwillingly participated. Koi, who dreams of a quiet and modest life, ends up entering a…

Into the Dreams... And Horror Experiences

7.2

University student Aoi Ueno attends a special lecture “What is a Dream?” by psychological counselor Keiji Kamiyama. During the lecture, another student, Kaede Yamauchi, talks about her dream in which she stabbed…