Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

Zhou Yun Peng

Zhou Yun Peng, formerly known as Zhou Bin, was born in Liaozhong District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He is an actor from Mainland China. In 2005, he became an actor at Changchun Northeast Wind Theater; later, Zhou Yun Peng was accepted as an apprentice by Zhao Ben Shan and became Zhao Ben Shan's…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Horiuchi Keizo

Horiuchi Keizo was a Japanese composer, lyricist, translator, and music critic born in Kaji, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. He also used the pen name Yasutani Shizuo (安谷鎮雄). He was the third son of Horiuchi Iataro, the owner of "Asada Ame". However, he abandoned his inheritance rights to Asada Ame at…

Okamoto Kido

Okamoto Kido was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Okamoto Keiji (岡本啓二). He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the age of three, he began studying classical Chinese texts under his father's guidance, and at nine, he began learning Chinese…

Kako Zanmu

Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…

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…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Annie Yi

Annie Yi is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan. In the early 1990s, she ventured to Hong Kong for her career, followed by a stint in Japan from 1996 to 1997. After turning 29 in 1998, she began her career development in China. She grew up in a military dependents' village. Her father…

Hori Kotaro

Bakugyaku Familia

6.3

Hino Tetsu was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle gang in the Kanto area. Now, Tetsu is a middle-aged man who is looked down upon by his rebellious son Shuhei. One day, Tetsu and his old biker gang gather…

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

6.6

The story takes place in the outskirts of Tokyo in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Overflowing with orphans and refugees from the disaster, the district gets a visit from the female sumo group Tamaiwa…

Daimon: Otoko de Shinitai

4.0

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival…

Dice and Swords

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. While everything is being rebuilt from the ground up, and for the sole purpose of expanding their territory and gaining more power,…

Kaze to Kumo to Niji to

8.4

The story of Taira no Masakado, a lord of the Kanto district in the mid-10th century, best known for his failed revolt against the Kyoto government in 903AD.

Yume no Mitsuke Kata Oshietaru!

An elementary school teacher who lost his passion for his job and became lethargic is assigned to an elementary school in the Kanto region. However, the school was just a "bullying eradication model school" with many…

Gachiban Z Proxy War

6.0

While Mori Monji was away in Tokyo the high school was his by a Yanki from North Kanto's Pirhana Gang. The only yankis left are no good at fighting. So they get an idea to call the First and Second Banchos of the Black…

Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Kono Yaro Season 2

6.8

Ten days have passed since the conflict between the semi-criminal group "TMT" and the Yakuza organization "Kanto Myojin-kai" and the death of Myojin-kai's underboss Ryumon. The funeral of Hojo Kasumi, whose body was…

Climber's High

7.1

Based on a novel by Yokoyama Hideo reporting of an airplane crash at the fictional Kita-Kanto Shimbun. The story is based on the real life incident of the 1985 airplane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. On August…

Anarchist from Colony

8.0

Set in Korea under Japanese rule period. In 1923, an odd rumor spreads that around 6,000 Koreans are massacred after the Great Kanto Earthquake. In order to conceal this event, the Japanese Ministry decides that they…