Masaki Hayashi

A musician who works with piano and is also a composer. He also makes arrangements for jazz. Although he has worked in soundtracks, he also does a lot of musical work outside of soundtracks.

Miyagawa Reiko

Reiko Miyagawa is an actress, known for Musume jûroku jazz matsuri (1954), Geisha warutsu (1952) and Haha kikaku (1956).

Okubo Tokujiro

Okubo Tokujiro was a Japanese composer, orchestrator and a jazz saxophonist.

Uchida Akari

Originally, she was active as a singer of a local jazz cafe under her real name, Kuniko Ogata. After that, she was scouted at the age of 16, 1966, appeared under the name Kuniko Fuji in "Saturday Tiger" on TBS, the 1967 "live in love the days of limited" than Toshiba record (the name at this time Made…

Hana Hajime

Hana Hajime was a Japanese actor. He was the leader of the comic jazz band The Crazy Cats, which featured such talent as Ueki Hitoshi and Tani Kei, and which starred in a series of film comedies (such as the "Irresponsible" (Musekinin) series at Toho) and in TV variety shows such as "Shabondama Holiday.…

Ishibashi Etaro

Ishibashi Etaro was a Japanese actor, pianist in the jazz band "Hana Hajime and Crazy Cats", and cooking expert. Born in Shinbashi, Tokyo as the son of musician Rando Fukuda and grandson of painter Shigeru Aoki. When Etaro was three years old, his father, Rando, raped actress Hiroko Kawasaki. Rando…

8mlee

8mlee is the vocalist of Gritty Kitty, an American Jazz funk R&B blues pop band based in Seoul, South Korea.

Jang Sa Ik

South Korean singer whose music combines elements of popular music, jazz, and Korean traditional music, in particular, the style of pansori. He spent his childhood listening to his father and his uncle playing traditional music on the taepyeongso, a traditional Korean oboe and he grew to love the sounds…

Jes Jespipat Tilapornputt

"Jes" Jespipat Tilapornputt, originally nicknamed Por, is a Thai actor managed by The One Enterprise (เดอะ วัน เอ็นเตอร์ไพรส์) and Be On Cloud (บี ออน คลาวด์). He's the nephew of famed jazz saxophonist Metawat Sapsanyakorn. After graduating…

Huangyang Tian Tian

Huangyang Tian Tian is an actress in Mainland China. She was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. She received professional Chinese dance training when she was four years old, and transferred to jazz dance when she was five years old. Since then, she has participated in various performances and catwalks every…

Groovin' On

8.2

“Groovin’ On” is a long-form romantic drama, following the story of Alto, a freshly graduated jazz guitarist, facing a near quarter-life crisis when taking over his late father’s bar in Chiang Mai. While duty…

Between the White and Black Keys

6.8

The year is 1988, and the Showa period is coming to an end. At a yakuza-run cabaret bar in Ginza, Hiroshi, an aspiring jazz pianist, is asked by a mysterious man to play “The Godfather: Theme of Love.” The problem…

Tsuki no Koori

Kitamura Ryuji lives with his wife and children in Tokyo. Koharu is a student he meets while giving a photography lecture as a special lecturer at a vocational school in Sapporo. Koharu, an aspiring jazz singer, asks…

C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri

7.2

Min, who is part of a Cantonese street opera troupe and a part-time cover artiste, meets Kit, a struggling jazz musician who has just broken up with his celebrity singer girlfriend. Through her bubbly personality,…

Summer Blooms

7.3

Hatsumi Takimoto, now working part-time at a family-run cafe after leaving her teaching job, is forced to confront her past when a former student, a struggling jazz singer, asks for help escaping an abusive relationship.…

Tears for You

7.2

Tears for You is a love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town,…

Kids on the Slope

7.8

It is summer 10 years ago. Kaoru transfers to a new school and has a fateful encounter with the school's terrifying bad-boy Sentaro. They bond over jazz and Kaoru finds that he's oddly drawn to the rough-mannered Sentaro.…

Manager Rinko Kazehana's Love

8.0

Rinko Kazehana is the manager of a big company. She is on a fast track at work and her love life is going equally as well. Her boyfriend runs a jazz cafe. Things change when her rivals at work scheme for her downfall…

Kaisha Monogatari: Memories of You

5.0

In this downbeat, comedic portrait of '80s corporate Japan, a section chief and family man (Hajime Hana) fights off the gloom of his impending retirement by rekindling his youthful love of jazz music. (Source: IMDb)

Swing Girls

8.2

Set in present-day Japan, Swing Girls is the story of girls who meet and are deeply fascinated by jazz. The heroine is a very typical Japanese teenager. Her character is suggestive of the hidden problem of today's…