Miyauchi Junko

Miyauchi Junko is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Juntoku Girls' High School. She was formerly affiliated with Bungakuza but resigned in December 1963. Until the 2010s, she was affiliated with Kiraku-sei. In 1951, she received the Encouragement Award at the 6th Geijutsusai…

Nihei Masanari

Nihei Masanari was a Japanese actor born in Nagata-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Senshu University High School. He had worked at the Nihei office and belonged to Mesena. His father was German. Because he liked movies, he aspired to be an actor in his third year of high school and…

Tanaka Hiroshi

Yasumi Toshio

Yasumi Toshio was a Japanese screenwriter.

Sawamura Sonosuke II

Sawamura Sonosuke II was a Kabuki actor born in Asakusa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture. His younger brothers are the actors Ito Yunosuke and Sawamura Shonosuke I. He debuted at the Imperial Theater in 1922. Two years later in 1924, he succeeded to the name of the second-generation Sawamura Sonosuke.…

Sato Shimako

Sato Shimako is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Her husband is the film director Takashi Yamazaki . In 1992, she made his directorial debut in the movie “Tale of a Vampire” and won the Aboriaz Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

Kataoka Eijiro

Susukida Kenji

Tsukigata Ryunosuke

Born in Miyagi Prefecture, Tsukigata entered the actor's school at Nikkatsu in 1920, but earned his first starring role working at Makino Shozo's studio in 1924. He became a star of chanbara films, but got into trouble when he ran away with Makino's daughter, Makino Teruko, even though he was married.…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Watashitachi Ga Suki Datta Koto

10.0

Adapted from a novel by the same title by Miyamoto Teru.

Tokio

7.5

The year is 1979, and Miyamoto Takumi's life suddenly changes when he meets a mysterious young man named Tokio at a park in Asakusa. The young man says, "I've come from the future. I'm your son, Tokio." Thinking it's…

Underworld Beauty

7.0

The moment he’s released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for…

Tales of a Golden Geisha

6.3

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships…

Ruten no Umi

It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Ruten no Umi" (流転の海) by Miyamoto Teru (宮本輝)

The Little Finger and the Forbidden Body

2.0

Operating his business of “call girls” at the countryside and living languidly, Jun Miyamoto is having a ambiguous relationship with one of the call girls, Yuri, and seeing a psychological counselor, Takeda, secretly.…

Yuriko, Dasvidaniya

6.0

Set in 1924, the film follows the relationship between author Yuriko Miyamoto and openly lesbian Russian literature translator Yoshiko Yuasa. (Source: Wikipedia

Mou Ichido Kimi ni, Propose

7.2

A love story involving a wife who has partly lost her memory and her husband who tries to reconstruct their relationship. Miyamoto Haru works as a mechanic at an automobile repair shop. He married his wife Kanako,…

Gibo to Musume no Blues 2020-nen Kinga Shinnen Special

7.9

It is the autumn of 2019, one year since Miyamoto Akiko re-entered the workforce. Her job is based in Osaka and she has been living apart from her stepdaughter Miyuki who is in Tokyo. Headhunted by a major consulting…

When You Wish Upon A Star

7.5

Tsutsumi Kotaro is a teenager living in Toyama Prefecture who fails to get into a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Kotaro's mother, afraid of what others will think, decides to send Kotaro off to distant relatives…