Hara Kazuo

Japanese documentary film director. After dropping out of university to work at a special education school, he made his 1972 debut work Goodbye CP about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for…

Hama Mie

Hama Mie is a Japanese actress. She was working as a bus conductor when she was spotted by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. She went on to become one of the most in-demand actresses in Japan. Notable appearances included the 1965 spy comedy Kokusai Himitsu Keisatsu: Kagi no Kagi, which was the source for the…

Zhao Dan

Zhao Dan is a Chinese actress born in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China. She graduated from the Performance Department of Tongji University. In 2011, she made her debut in the Japanese film "RED COW."

Ishimaru Kanji

Ishimaru Kanji is a Japanese actor and singer. He is represented by 'The Library' agency and the 'Sony Music Entertainment' label. In high school and college, Ishimaru studied saxophone but transferred his third year to the Tokyo University of Fine Arts where he graduated with a degree in voice. Pursuing…

Suzuki Seijun

Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically…

Ichikawa Danjuro XIII

Ichikawa Danjuro XIII is a Japanese actor. He is the eleventh and current holder of the Ebizo name. He is a famous Kabuki, television and film actor and heir to the prestigious Ichikawa clan of kabuki actors. The son of Ichikawa Danjuro XII, he was born in Tokyo and began his career at the age of six…

Tomosaka Rie

Tomosaka Rie is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979, in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo. In 1992, Rie Tomosaka joined the entertainment world with the commercial film…

Nakashima Mika

Nakashima Mika is a Japanese singer, model, and actress who achieved five no.1 albums in Japan and also successfully embarked on an acting career, most notably in the live-action manga adaptattion, Nana. Born and raised in Kyushu, she grew up in the small town of Hioki, Kagoshima, where she has said…

Beat Takeshi

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, abroad he is known almost entirely for his filmwork. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost…

Chinen Rina

Rina Chinen is a female Japanese entertainer, former singer, model and TV actress. Rina was born in Naha, Okinawa. Rina was trained in dance and song at the Okinawa Actors School, whose graduates include Namie Amuro and SPEED. Debuting in 1996 with the Single "Do-Do for Me", Rina's career transitioned…

Apoyan

7.1

Based on the serialised novel by Shinno Takeshi, Apoyan tells the story of the people behind every overseas trip. From the travel agents to the people working at the airport. Endo Keita works for JALPAK, and was based…

Tofu Pro Wrestling

7.3

Miyawaki Sakura is a normal highschooler. After her mother died prematurely, she has been living together with her father Ouroboros Youhei, who runs a tofu restaurant and a prowrestling dojo. Youhei was once a prowrestler…

Last Kiss

7.2

Four years ago, Manatsu, who wants to become a photographer, and Fuyuki, who wants to become a hairdresser, were dating while attending the same technical school of beauty. The two of them had promised to marry but...…

Damasenai Otoko

7.3

Kinusaki Tadashi is an ordinary and very well-meaning salaryman. He meets Asaka Mio at a matchmaking party. She asks Tadashi to go and meet her father. However, the man whom Tadashi meets is Kijima Genichiro, the CEO…

Kidnap Tour

7.3

Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko and can tell Yuko what she really feels. On the first day of the summer vacation, Haru is…

Fest Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar

7.4

Fest Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar is a short film directed by Kazuhiro Nakagawa for Godzilla Fest 2023, which took place on November 3, 2023. Produced by Episcope, it is the fourth annual festival film Nakagawa…

Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset

7.5

During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering Tora-san's family around in such an…

Sweet Season

7.0

The affair that Mahiro has been having with the married Yutaka has been the only escape from her troubled family life caused by her father's own extra-marital affair. Mahiro despises her father for his past infidelity…

Asunaro Sansannanabyoushi

7.0

One day, Fujimaki Daisuke, a dull middle-aged salaryman who works for a trading company, is ordered to “temporarily transfer” to Asunaro University’s cheering squad instead of getting laid off, on the grounds…

Shufu Katsu!

7.5

Natsuko Miyamoto (48), a full-time housewife and mother of two (daughter Hana, 20, and son Kotaro, 17), is shocked when her husband Akira (54) announces that he will quit his job to explore his long-term interests…