Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Hirose Yutaka

Hirose Yutaka, born Hirose Kazuhisa (広瀬和久) in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and talent agency representative. He began his career in 1984 and was affiliated with several agencies, including Toei Television Production (東映テレビプロダクション), Toei Actor Center…

Adachi Masao

Adachi’s career testifies to the opportunities which “pink” cinema provided for the expression of dissident attitudes. He had achieved notice as a student filmmaker collaborating on such creative experimental films as The Lacquered Bowl (Wan, 1961), a tragedy set in an isolated village. From 1966…

Lau Kar Leung

Lau Kar-leung, also known as Liu Chia-liang, was a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor, filmmaker, choreographer and martial artist. Lau is best known for the films he made in the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio. One of his most famous works is The 36th Chamber of Shaolin which starred Gordon…

Hwon

Shim Young Joon, known professionally as Hwon, is a South Korean singer, dancer and former member of THE KINGDOM (더킹덤, formerly known as KINGDOM). He graduated from Yangji High School. He joined in August 2022 as the group's vocalist with their 5th EP, "History of Kingdom: Part V. Louis". The…

Kiuchi Midori

Kinouchi Midori is a former Japanese idol and actress. In early 1978 she scored her biggest hit with "Yokohama Eleven", which reached the Oricon top 30. That same year she announced her retirement because of her marriage to composer and arranger Tsugutoshi Goto. They divorced 4 years later, and she…

Mori Kikue

Mori Kikue, born Kobayashi Kiku in Numata, Tone, Gunma, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She dropped out of Gunma Prefectural Takasaki Girls' High School and in 1925, joined the Shin Geki Research Institute as a member of its first class. In 1929, she made her stage debut with the comedy troupe Kigekiza…

Ito Chihiro

Born in 1982, Chihiro Ito started working in movie production in 2000, as staff in the art department. A pivotal event in her career was when she met film director Isao Yukisada. He suggested to her that she write a screenplay for his next film "Seventh Anniversary" (2003), which became Ito's professional…

Sakai Noriko

Noriko Sakai is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She debuted in 1986 as an idol singer, and her short hair style, smile, and youthful image became a talking point in entertainment media. She married Yuuichi Takasou in 1998, and divorced on July 31, 2010. She and Yuuichi…

Nakazawa Yuko

Nakazawa Yuko is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume. Yuko Nakazawa was one of five runners-up in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese rock idol. After…

Tokeikan no Satsujin

7.6

The story is set in 1989 at a mysterious mansion called the “Clock House,” located on the outskirts of Kamakura. After graduating from graduate school, rookie editor Kawaminami Takaaki, otherwise known as Konan,…

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms 2018

7.6

Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels to Hiroshima to go after her father, Asahi, who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi’s older…

Falling for My Hater

7.5

A top actress goes into hiding at a valley guesthouse after a scandal ruins her career. There, she meets the sharp-tongued guesthouse owner, who despises celebrities, and who also turns out to be behind the anonymous…

Pegasus 2

7.6

Former champion driver Zhang Chi teaches at a driving school in troubled times, relying on his reputation to make ends meet. A failing automobile factory offers to sponsor Zhang Chi in the last Bayinbrook Rally. (Source:…

Nigatsu no Shosha: Zettai Gokaku no Kyoshitsu

7.6

Kuroki Kurodo was an extremely competent teacher at a prestigious cram school for the middle school entrance exam. He begins to work as the director of a cram school with poor performance. He declares that the students…

Ghost Husband

7.6

Chi Hsuan meets Yuan Le Mei at a masked dance and falls in love with her. However, the mother of Yuan Le Mei doesn't approve of them being together. After Chi Hsuan saves Yuan Le Mei, they are allowed to marry, but…

Naomi and Kanako

7.6

Oda Naomi aspired to become a curator at an art gallery, but she currently works in a department store. Her job is to cater to VIP customers. She is not happy with her current position. One day, her friend since their…

Kamisama no Karute

7.5

Ichito Kurihara is a physician at a small hospital in Nagano Prefecture that is short on doctors leaving him to cover many specialities and having to work as many as three days in a row without sleep. Only with the…

Forever Young

7.5

It centered on young people with experience at a particular period of time in their lives, the experience with no regrets. The boys and girls in the movie are still very young; their future is filled with many chances,…

Suits Season 2

7.6

Shogo Kai is a partner at a law firm in Marunouchi, Tokyo. He brings back Daiki Suzuki to his law firm from Boston. Shogo Kai then assigns Daiki Suzuki to a case. The case involves a large publishing company as they…