Kobayashi Yaroku

Kobayashi Yaroku was a Japanese film director born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. In 1907, he joined Yokota Shokai as a cameraman. From around 1909, he became an assistant director. He joined Nikkatsu's photography department in 1912 and was eventually promoted to a director.

Takeda Shinji

Shinji Takeda is a Japanese actor, tarento and saxophone player. He is represented by Horipro and made an actor debut in the drama "Nakayoshi" in 1990, and made a movie debut 2 years later. Takeda has had notable roles in such works as "The Incite Mill", "Kyō Kara Hitman" and "Tokyo Eyes". He was the…

Ichikawa Suminojo

Ichikawa Suminosuke was a Japanese Kabuki actor and actor born in the Miyazu clan of Tango Province. He is sometimes referred to as Ichikawa Tomiyuki, and his real name is Okumura Sukichi. His old stage names are Nakamura Umetaro and Nakamura Rokusho. His death date is unknown. In 1867, when he was…

Ito Takaaki

Ito Takaaki is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Hirao Masaaki

Hirao Masaaki was a Japanese composer and actor.

Onoe Matsunosuke

Onoe Matsunosuke was a Japanese actor. He was initially an actor with an itinerant kabuki troupe. In his autobiography, he claimed that he had made his stage debut as early as 1880, in a performance given by the Tamizo Onoe company. Fascinated by the stage, he left his home by the age of 14 to travel…

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.

Tanaka Misato

Misato Tanaka is a Japanese actress.

Ito Shiro

Ito Shiro is a Japanese comedian, actor, talent, and moderator born in Takecho, Shitaya-ku, Tokyo. He is a consultant to the Japan Comedy Association. He belongs to Orte Planning. His son is actor and talent Ito Takaaki. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Ichigaya Commercial High School, he hoped…

Katagiri Hairi

Katagiri Yumi, better known as Katagiri Hairi, is a Japanese actress represented by Stardust Promotion. She was born in Ōta, Tokyo.

Knockout

7.0

After narrowly surviving a traumatic brain injury, macho pro boxer Adachi Eiji puts his life on the line for another chance at boxing glory—vying for a comeback despite the seriousness of his condition. A hyper-masculine…

Bowl

Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the more resonant accomplishments of the now famous Nihon University Film…

Saredo Kissho to Suru

Frustrated in life and wanting to disappear, Ririko meets Adachi, a man who can’t help but regret the death of his lover Eve, who died in an accident. She also meets Eve’s spirit, who clings to Adachi, and makes…

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan’s context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members…

Spiders Nau

9.0

An Amateur band of four , Nina (Noma) on female vocals, Masaru (Shunji Igarashi) on guitar vocals, Nada (Osamu Adachi) on keyboards, and Tatsuani (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) on drums, playing in front of a crowded audience.・…

Ame-gari no kimi

The screenplay for Bishop Koyama's Rain for the Dead (Ame-agari no kimi) was written by the director himself, based on the eponymous (with regard to the Japanese title) short manga by Waita Uziga (who's also the movie's…

Sabishii Karyudo

7.0

Iwanaga Kokichi (nicknamed "Iwa-san") runs a small used bookstore and takes care of his daughter-in-law and grandson. He had lost his son, and it's still unclear whether his death was an accident or suicide. One day…

Manga Mitai ni Ikanai

6.2

Tozuka Osamu is a divorced, struggling middle-aged manga artist with no hope of getting ahead. Along with his only daughter Rumi, assistant Aramaki Hirohiko who lives together with them, his editor in charge Adachi…