Forget Me Not

6.0

The film is set in a run-down coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka. Michiyo, moved from Tokyo with her young son Mamoru after getting divorced from her husband. When Mamoru is picked on by bullies, a tough local boy named…

The Singing Bamboo

6.0

The strange music could be heard from a jazz club in a comer of a big city. Trio called Arafa were giving a hot session. Namihiko was a Shyakuhachi (bamboo flute) player. At that time his mother called him to get back…

Daytime Shooting Star

7.9

Yosano Suzume is a naïve country girl who transfers to a high school in Tokyo. When she gets lost on her first day in the big city, a man named Shishio comes to her rescue. He turns out to be her homeroom teacher.…

A Table!: Nostalgic na Kyujitsu

8.0

This is a story that will soothe you and satisfy your intellectual curiosity as it depicts the peaceful daily life of Jun and Yoshio, a married couple who have spent a long time together, their seasonal cooking that…

The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger

8.2

Akiko had to quit life as an idol due to mental illness. Facing having no job, nobody to support her, and only 100,000 yen in her bank account, she takes up her friend’s suggestion that she move in with 56-year-old…

Our Blue Moment

6.9

Fumi Ichii, who works at the bakery, has her own personal view of marriage that "I'm not confident that he will love me for the rest of my life and I'm not confident that I can love him. forever". Then the story begins…

Planet of the Crabs

Tokyo High Tide director Murakami Hiroyasu returns to the Tama River estuary to document Yoshida Tadayoshi, who has been conducting independent observations of crabs over a 15-year period. The camera's relentless focus…

A Night in Nude

7.0

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who…

Higanbana - Women's Crime File

7.2

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates a new division that consists of five female detectives. The new division is called Higanbana, which is a flower with a poison root. The five female detectives have their…

Always: Sunset on Third Street 3

7.7

Tokyo in 1964. The Olympics are set to take place in Tokyo and the country has experienced a period of rapid economic growth. The inhabitants of Third Street live amidst all the change in their usual optimistic ways.…

Nikaido Satoshi

Nikaido Satoshi is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities, Wako University. He is a 6th gen member of Furano Juku. He belongs to Agent Office Tact. While attending university, he enrolled in a TBS training school for one year. In 1993, he made his drama debut with "Oka…

Fujita Makoto

He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…

Leslie Kee

Leslie Kee is a Singaporean photographer based in Japan. Arriving in Tokyo in 1993, Kee was faced with a language barrier. To overcome it, he learned the Japanese language at a local institution. Kee worked 3 jobs every day for 5 years, he was well known for sleeping 3 hours per day since he was young.…

Akagi Keiichiro

Born Akatsuka Chikahiro in Tokyo, Akagi and his family moved to Shonan, during World War II, to avoid air attacks, eventually settling in Hayama. His childhood was largely a pleasant affair, though it was sometimes punctuated by hardships typical for most Japanese families during the postwar years.…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Okazaki Yuki

Okazaki Yuki was born in Asakusa, Taito in Tokyo. She is a Japanese actress and singer. She dropped out of Nihon University College of Art. She studied ballet as a child. She began acting as a child, appearing on TV and on stage where she performed in Japanese versions of popular Broadway plays like…

Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Ogata Ken

Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]

In television,…

Fumiya Chiyoko

Fumiya Chiyoko is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo. She married film director Masaki Kobayashi on April 2, 1952. They had no children.

Ebara Tatsuyoshi

Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.