Tai Ari Deshita.: Ojo-sama wa Kakuto Game Nante Shinai

6.9

Mitsuki Aya, who entered Kuromi Girls' High School, one of the best girls' schools in Japan, witnesses the most popular girl in the school, Shirayuri-sama, enthusiastically playing a fighting game in an empty classroom.…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery

4.0

Sayonara, Girls.

7.4

Graduation day is just two days away in a rural high school that is about to be closed. Four female students cherish their last moments before they say goodbye to their school for good. (Source: Official Website) ~~…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 16

~~ Adapted from the novel series "Totsugawa Police Department" (十津川警部シリーズ) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 9

~~ Adapted from the novel series "Totsugawa Police Department" (十津川警部シリーズ) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 6

~~ Adapted from the novel series "Totsugawa Police Department" (十津川警部シリーズ) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 4

~~ Adapted from the novel series "Totsugawa Police Department" (十津川警部シリーズ) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

I'm a New Reporter, Matsumoto Honoka

The Trial

An experimental short featuring people and nails. (Source: Letterboxd)

Experiment Failure Family

An instalment from program A of an omnibus about mysterious creatures made as part of the first film project by Polar Circle, a collective founded by director Kageyama Shu who has gathered together an eclectic range…

Kawamura Genki

Genki Kawamura is the leading producer in Japan, whose credit also includes screenwriter, director, author, creative director, and showrunner. He is currently producing for Paramount Studios alongside JJ Abrams, the Hollywood live-action adaptation of Makoto Shinkai's "your name." with Eric Heisserer…

Kawamura Reikichi

Kawamura Reikichi was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Kawamura Ishigoro (河村石五郎). After graduating from the preparatory department of Nishijin Castle Commercial School in Kanda, he made his stage debut at the age of 13 at Shinshaza in Nakasu. He joined an…

Yasui Shoji

Born in Tokyo, Yasui first joined a troupe led by Kazuo Hasegawa. He entered the Nikkatsu studio in 1954 and made his debut in a film scripted by Ozu Yazujirou. After starring in The Burmese Harp, he starred with his own family in the television show Chako-chan. He joined the Gekidan Shinpa troupe and…

Chikamatsu Yoshie

Chikamatsu Yoshie, born Uematsu Yoshie (植松芳枝) in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She previously performed under the stage names Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松よし枝) and Chikamatsu Yoshie (近松良枝) She joined the Shinpa Theater Company (劇団新派) in 1945 and left in…

Araki Shinobu

Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…

Kawazu Seizaburo

Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…

Hatanaka Ryoha

Primarily associated with the stage, Hatanaka trained as an actor in New York before returning to Japan in 1918, where he joined the theatrical company of actress Sumako Matsui, a pioneer of Western-style shingeki theater in Japan. After her suicide, he continued to work in shingeki, appearing in such…

Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Dan Tokumaro

Dan Tokumaro was a Japanese actor and screenwriter born in Kireto-cho, Hyogo, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. He is the first actor to play Tange Sazen. His eldest daughter is actress Yamamoto Toriko, his son-in-law is actor Gomi Ryutaro, and his granddaughter is broadcast writer Yamamoto Manami. In 1916,…

Yokoyama Unpei

Yokoyama Unpei was a Japanese actor from Hikone Town, Inukami District, Shiga Prefecture. He became the first Japanese film actor to appear in Japan's first feature film. His real name is Yokoyama Yasushi. In 1893, he joined the troupe of Sudo Sadanori, a pioneer of the Shinpa drama, and debuted on…