Katsumura Masanobu

Katsumura Masanobu is a Japanese actor, born in Saitama, Japan. He made his debut as an actor in 1990, in Boku ga Byouki ni Natta Wake. Since then he has starred in several TV series and films. He is affiliated with the talent agency SiS Company.

Kojima Yoyo

Kojima Yoyo, born Kojima Masaji (小島正次), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and opera singer. He began his career in Asakusa opera and Shinpai before moving into film acting. Born in Okachimachi, Shitaya, Tokyo, he attended Urawa Junior High School in Saitama and later enrolled in the Tokyo Music…

Takehisa Chieko

Takehisa Chieko was a Japanese actress from Akita Prefecture who was active in the Showa period. After moving to Tokyo she started at Komatsugawa High School, but entered the movie world at the age of 15 and dropped out. She joined the Enomoto troupe Casino Foley in 1930 at the age of 18. She then she…

Furumaya Tomoyuki

Tomoyuki Furumaya is a Japanese film director. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Furumaya was attending Nihon University when his 16mm film, Shakunetsu no dojjibōru, won the grand prize at the Pia Film Festival. That earned him a Pia Scholarship to make his first theatrical feature, This Window Is Yours,…

Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Ikuta Toma

Ikuta Toma is a Japanese actor and entertainer born in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. He has a younger brother, Ikuta Ryusei, who is a Fuji TV announcer. His wife is the actress Nana Seino. Ikuta spent his early childhood in Muroran, Hokkaido, until the age of two. In 1996, his mother, a fan of the group…

Isono Kiriko

Isono Kiriko is a Japanese talent, actress, and comedian born in Minamiise-cho, Watarai-gun, Mie Prefecture. She graduated from Mie Prefectural Minamiise High School. Isono belongs to Japan Music Entertainment. She debuted in 1980. After graduating from high school, in 1982, she got a job at a local…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Wakabayashi Tatsuo

The Warped Forest

5.9

Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken…

Cast-off Cicada Shell's Forest

One morning, Yuko, who has been missing for 3 months, comes back home. Her husband Akihiko doesn't believe she is Yuko, even though she has the same appearance and habits. Akihiko visits Yuko's doctor, named Yamai,…

Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie

6.6

A washed up horror film director named Kuroishi Koji and his assistant director named Ichikawa Miho visits a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Miyoshi…

The Petrified Forest

7.1

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend's abusive employer.

Funky Forest: The First Contact

6.6

Three unpopular brothers, Masaichi, Masaru and Masao, are struggling to be popular among the girls. Luckily enough, they finally get a chance to have a co-ed picnic with some pretty young ladies! With 21 free-associative…

Death Forest 4

6.4

Freelancer reporter Uchida Kazuki knocks down the creepy monster Yoshie, but during that time Hatakeyama is sacrificed. While chasing after the mystery of Yoshie, Kazuki visits a hospital. She visits a man, based on…

Death Forest

6.6

Saki and her friends have a good time camping in the forest. On their way back home, they take a dark narrow road believing it is a shortcut. Their car breaks down and they now stuck. Suddenly a man, who appears to…

Death Forest 3

6.5

Uchida Mayu is a high school student in a peaceful town near Tokyo. She suffers from violence from her stepfather and plans to run away to her uncle's home in Tokyo. As she is about to board the last bus to Tokyo,…

Death Forest 2

6.9

A high school drama club has a training camp at an ex-school building near a dark forest. Troubled student Kizuki suddenly joins the drama club on the day they go to the training camp, but Kizuki doesn't take part…