Ohara Noriko

Ohara Noriko was a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo Prefecture. She was previously represented by Aoni Production, then Production Baobab, but then became a freelancer. Her son, Tobe Atsuo, is a Sunrise animator. She was best known for the roles of Nobita Nobi (Doraemon), all of the female…

Kubota Joji

Kubota Joji was a Japanese children's literature writer born in Shimada, Goya, Okayama, Japan. He was also a member of the Japan Art Academy. His father, Heitaro, managed the Shimada Textile Mill, which produced items such as lamp wicks. However, his father passed away when Joji was eight years old…

Satoru Hirohara

Born in 1986, director Satoru Hirohara studied at Masashino Art University and Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2010, his first feature film “Good Morning to the World” was released and ever since then, this one as well as his following features have gained Hirohara the attention of critics and…

Takarada Akira

Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor who is most known in the west for his roles in the Godzilla film series. Takarada was born in Japan-occupied Korea, and lived for a time in Harbin, China. His father worked as an engineer on the South Manchuria Railway. After the war, he remained in Harbin, and…

Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Yoshikawa Mitsuko

Yoshikawa Mitsuko was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Yoshikawa Man (吉川マン). After graduating from Taimei Elementary School, she joined the Shochiku Kinema Research Institute in 1924 and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios in 1925. The following year,…

Nakada Yoshiko

Nakada Yoshiko is a Tokyo-born Japanese actress managed by Horipro Booking Agency. She made her debut in the Fuji TV drama " Omatsuri Ginji Torimonocho" and her popularity grew as she took on the role as third daughter Fumiko in the TBS drama "Wataru Seken wa Oni bakari". Since then, she has played…

Natsuki Mari

Mari Natsuki is a Japanese singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and started work as a singer from a very young age, her specialty being jazz and a level of sensuality that was somewhat shocking at the time. She did not marry, which made her quite an icon. But in 2007 she announced…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Nakano Taiga

Nakano Taiga is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He belongs to Stardust Promotion. In 2006, he entered the entertainment world at the age of 13 and made his debut as an actor in the TV drama "Shinjuku no Haha Monogatari". In 2014, he won the Best New Actor Award with Suda Masaki at the 6th TAMA Film Awards.…

Out of Tokyo 202x

How will the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 be remembered by people in the future? Outside the grounds of the Olympic Stadium, Rika, a woman from the future, meets a mysterious man named Shin and discovers he is from another…

Tokyo Suibotsu?!

5.5

This heartwarming story is set in the Tokyo Waterworks Bureau. To instill a sense of urgency in Mitsushima Nagisa, a new waterworks employee who isn't taking her job seriously, her supervisor, Izumizawa Kotaro, and…

The Next Generation: Patlabor

6.6

In the year of 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Due to a long running depression, Labors, which are robots used in construction, are fired. The Division 1 of "Patlabor" is also dispersed. Patlabors are used by the Tokyo Metropolitan…

Unfair: The Special - Daburu Miningu Yes or No?

7.2

The special team of the #1 investigation unit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department learns of a horrifying video transmitted via the Internet. Viewers who watch the video are asked to answer a series of "yes…

Tokyo Salad Bowl

7.8

Koda Mari is a green-haired police officer in the International Investigation Unit of the Higashi-Shinjuku Police Department. Energetic and cheerful, she's dedicated to helping anyone in need, regardless of nationality.…

Mae Nak Buk Tokyo

In this telling of the ghost Mae Nak's story, the Phra Khanong canal is traded for the Tokyo Metropolis. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Based on the Thai legend of "Mae Nak Phra Khanong" (แม่นากพระโขนง)…

The School of Water Business

6.0

Sanae Yamashita (Becky) gets expelled from high school and must now go the Tokyo Water Business Public High School aka The School of Water Business. This school of last resort teaches the "Water Trade" business (bar…

The Policeman's Lineage

7.8

After World War II, Seiji joins the Tokyo police force and during his training makes friends with Hayase, a former Imperial Army officer. Seiji is perplexed by the murder of a male prostitute who was rumored to be…

Me and the Cult Leader

More than two decades after the Tokyo subway sarin attack by the doomsday cult Aum, director-cum-victim Sakahara Atsushi embarks on an intimate and profound journey with Araki Hiroshi, the cult's PR director, to unveil…

Ichikei's Crow: The Movie

7.5

Two years after Iruma Michio left first criminal court ("Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court, he now works as a judge at Setouchi in Okayama Prefecture. He currently has an injury case involving Japan's youngest…