Ikeda Akira

Ikeda Akira, born in Japan, studied English literature at the Bunkyo University in Tokyo. He made his first feature film, Blue Monkey, in 2006 and received the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival. His film Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won a Hivos Tiger Award at IFFR 2014. (Source: IFFR)

Ri Reisen

Ri Reisen is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo High School. Her parents are the second-generation of Koreans living in Japan. Her birth name is Lee Cho Ja, and her Japanese birth name is Hoshiyama Hatsuko. She made her debut under the name of Hoshiyama Hatsuko…

Nojiri Katsumi

Nojiri Katsumi is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He made his film directorial debut with "Suzukike no Uso" / "Lying to Mom" in 2018 which received rave reviews and various awards in Japanese film festivals.

Minami Riho

Minami Riho is a Japanese actress and fashion model. She was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She is half Japanese and Korean. She is both active in Japan and South Korea. Her Japanese agency is Glow Up, while her Korean agency is Sublime Artist Agency. She was a Japanese trainee from 2012 to 2015.…

Takahashi Juri

Takahashi Juri is a Japanese singer, dancer, and former member of AKB48 (エーケービーフォーティーエイト) and ROCKET PUNCH (로켓펀치; also stylized as RCPC). She then joined AKB48 as a 12th-generation trainee in February 2011 and made her first appearance at theater performance in…

Becky

Becky was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to her English father Simon Rabone and her Japanese mother Satoshi Yoshiko. She also has a younger sister named Jessica who lived in America to study dance and has other family in England, as seen in an episode of Sekai no Hatemade Itte Q!. She debuted as a regular…

Kim Se Yong

Kang In Soo is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor and member of MYNAME (마이네임). He graduated from the Seoul Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in Acting. Before debuting, he spent three years as a trainee at JYP Entertainment but left for personal reasons. He made his acting debut…

Hirosue Ryoko

Hirosue Ryoko is a Japanese actress and singer under the agency FLaMme. She was born in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. In 1994, during her second year of junior high school, she entered the 1st Clearasil "Shiny Face Contest", won the Grand Prix, and debuted in the same commercial in 1995. She…

Lee Shi Kang

Kwak Yong Hwan, known professionally as Lee Shi Kang, is a South Korean actor, singer, dancer, and former member of KINO (키노). He made his acting debut in 2006 with a role in the MBC sitcom "High Kick". He made his singing debut in early 2011 (using his birth name) as part of KINO with their first…

Arai Hirofumi

Arai Hirofumi is a Japanese actor of Korean descent. He is a third-generation Zainichi Korean. Arai made his screen debut in Yukisada Isao's "GO" in 2001 when he was 19 years old. Tokyograph announced in 2007 that Hirofumi entered a "serious relationship" with singer Sakamoto Miu, the eldest daughter…

Ningen no Tsubasa Saigo no Kyatchiboru

Adapted from Hidehiko Ushijima novel, "Disappearing Spring" (消えた春) . Inspired by real story of Shinichi Ishimaru, professional baseball player, who died as a member of the Kamikaze Special Attack Team in WWII.…

Kaze no Bon kara

8.0

Igarashi Hajime, an orchestra conductor, lately has frequent illusions of a young girl. Meanwhile, he learns through a letter that he had in fact a daughter, Aki. When Hajime rushes back to his hometown, he finds that…

Jinbe

6.5

Miku has lived alone with her father, Jinbe, since her mother's death. On her 20th birthday, Jinbe tells her that he made a promise to her mother to raise Miku as his own daughter. In other words, he's not Miku's real…

Jidan Kosho Jinnai Tamako Ura File 3

Tsukasa works part-time at a supermarket. Tsukasa was carrying the luggage of Megumi Hanamura. When he helped her put her luggage in the trunk and collected the carts scattered in the parking lot, the bicycle came…

Pussycat Daisakusen

Three curvaceous go-go dancers (Kei Mizutani, Nao Eguchi and Yukari Nunokawa) on a rampage, looking for a big bag of cash that might be hidden in the kitchen of wheelchair-bound gangster. Director Ryuichi Honda keeps…

The Women of Fast Food

5.8

"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters",…

The! Tetsuwan! DASH!!

The!Tetsuwan! DASH!! is a long running variety show that started out in late night with TOKIO in 1995 doing all sorts of crazy experiments. It moved to prime time and became an hour show and one of the projects was…

Tarch Trip

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like ‘urban view from the artist’s studio’. The film is largely set in the film-maker’s home and the street in the provincial town…

Prison Officer

Taira Bonta, a senior prison officer, is a serious, timid regular guy. He is steady in his work, but is bullied by the prisoners at every turn. He is terror-stricken. However, he only thinks of leading a peaceful life.…