Bread of Happiness

7.5

Young married couple Rie and Nao move from Tokyo to Tsukiura in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Nao bakes bread and his wife Rie makes food that complements the bread. Spring, Summer, Autumn…

The Residents

It is summer and we are taken to an apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward which will be overwhelmed by a number of people who claim to be the resident. First it is a woman who has just quit her job, then it is a woman…

Shylock's Children

7.0

A million yen goes missing at the Nagahara Branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank. Long-time customer service staff Nishiki sets out on a mission to uncover the truth together with his colleagues Airi and Tabata. After coming…

The Castle of Sand

7.6

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Our House Party

7.1

Tomoya is a 21-year-old a university student in Tokyo and a chance encounter with Shoichi, a gay bar owner who operates in Shinjuku 2-chome, allows Tomoya the chance to begin articulating his homosexuality. He will…

Smiles in the Mirror

8.0

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired…

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

7.9

A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko…

Sea's Lid

6.7

Mari grew tired of living in Tokyo and decided to move back to her small hometown in Shizuoka Prefecture. She opens a small store selling ice flakes with syrup which she enjoys herself. Mari runs the store with Hajime-chan…

The Fallen Angel

6.9

A depressed artist makes his way to Tokyo where, struggling with addiction, his attempts to connect with people are frustrated by his own self-loathing. (Source: Netflix Japan)

Nippon Noir: Detective Y's Rebellion

7.3

Yusa Kiyoharu from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is a cool-headed detective who is in charge of the investigation frontline and will do whatever it takes to achieve his objectives. One day, when he wakes…

Isayama Hiroko

Isayama Hiroko, a Japanese actress and writer born in Fukuoka, Japan, graduated from Fukuoka Jogakuin High School before pursuing a career in acting. Moving to Tokyo in 1971, she trained at the Actor's Studio attached training institute and made her film debut in 1972 with "Play of White Fingers" (白い指の戯れ).…

Fuji Mariko

Mariko Fuji was born on June 18, 1955 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Usugeshô (1985), Abe ichizoku (1995) and Yagyû ichizoku no imbô (2008).

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Ozawa Shoichi

Ozawa Shoichi, born in Tokyo, was a Japanese actor, radio host, haiku poet, singer and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company. Ozawa, who graduated from Waseda University, began acting after college, beginning with his debut stage role…

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…

Nakamura Shikaku

Nakamura Shikaku II was an important 20th century supporting onnagata actor. "Active in both Tôkyô and Ôsaka, he was well versed in old onnagata customs and wrote books such as "Kabuki Zuihistu" ("Kabuki Jottings") and "Yakusha no Sekai" ("The Actor's World")." (Samuel Leiter in "New Kabuki Encyclopedia")(Source:…

Minoru Murata

Murata Minoru was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor in the Taisho and early Showa periods born in Ogawamachi, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He is the first deputy director of the Directors Guild of Japan. He joined Norimasa Kaeriyama's Film Arts Association from the Shingeki movement and is known…

Yamanouchi Akira

Akira Yamanouchi was born on July 11, 1921 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kenka ichidai: Dodekai yatsu (1970), Tattooed Life (1965) and Umi o wataru hatoba no kaze (1960). He was married to Misty OTA. He died on October 29, 1993 in Tokyo Japan.

Matsukane Yoneko

Yoneko Matsukane was born on October 22, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gôgô sentai Bôkenger (2006), Berusaiyu no bara (1979) and Taan (2001).

Akutagawa Yasushi

Akutagawa Yasushi was a Japanese composer and conductor. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Music in 1949 and studied composition with Hashimoto Kunihiko, Shimofusa Kanichi and Ifukube Akira at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai (The Three) along with Dan Ikuma and Mayuzumi…