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…

Cream Lemon: The End of a Journey

8.0

The high school students have come to Tokyo from Nagano for a school trip. During a free period, Aya goes out on her own, leaving her classmates who'd enjoyed sightseeing and her boyfriend, Nobu, who wanted to go to…

The New Morning of Billy the Kid

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out…

Carnival in the Night

Japanese independent filmmaker Masashi Yamamoto wrote and directed this purposefully gritty look at life amidst Tokyo's underground music and art scene. Kumi (Kumiko Ota) sings with a new wave band that is struggling…

Icarus Under the Sun

On a winter's night, Haruwo arrives in Tokyo and crashes at her friend Atsuko and her boyfriend's place. She freeloads off them and begins working at a mahjong parlor that is quietly doing business on the second floor…

Miyuki's Wind Bell

Against her will, Miyuki must leave Tokyo and take her two young half-brothers to the country home of their quirky grandmother, but when they arrive, she will discover that she had to leave her home in order to find…

The Wings of the Kirin

7.4

A man's body is found under the statue of a giraffe with wings in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori…

Stay by My Side after the Rain

7.6

Kanade Shinichiro, a working adult living in Tokyo, has decided to hide his homosexuality and never fall in love again due to bitter memories from his school days. One day, he reunites with his high school best friend,…

Memories of Matsuko

8.1

Sho, a teenager living alone in Tokyo, is visited by his father who brings the ashes of his recently murdered aunt, Matsuko. His father asks Sho to clean her apartment, which is filled with years of collected junk.…

Kikujiro

7.8

Masao, who lives alone with his grandmother in an old Shitamachi area of Tokyo, receives a package, and in looking for a seal finds a photo of his long lost mother. He finds her address in Toyohashi, several hundred…

Inagawa Junji

Inagawa Junji was born in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for "Shinrei" (1996), "La Ronde" (1988) and "Tanba Tetsuro no Daireikai Shindara Odoroita!!" (1990). (Source: IMDb)

Toyomi Karita

Toyomi Karita is an actress, known for Tôkyô hanzai chizu (1956), Warning from Space (1956) and Taki no shiraito (1956).

Sawai Takako

Sawai Takako is a Japanese actress born in Osaka. Her sister is the actress Sawai Keiko. She worked at the Yajima Satoko office, and belongs to the Takarai Project. In 1964, when she was in the third year of junior high school, she moved to Tokyo with her sister who entered the entertainment world.…

Takehisa Chieko

Takehisa Chieko was a Japanese actress from Akita Prefecture who was active in the Showa period. After moving to Tokyo she started at Komatsugawa High School, but entered the movie world at the age of 15 and dropped out. She joined the Enomoto troupe Casino Foley in 1930 at the age of 18. She then she…

Sono Kayako

Sono Kayako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo and raised in Tennoji Ward, Osaka. She graduated from Kobe College Faculty of Letters. In 1953, she became an auditor of NHK's Osaka Broadcasting Theater Company, appeared in the station's "Bonus", and has been active since the early days of television.…

Funahashi Seiichi

Seiichi Funabashi was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Mito High School and later from the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. His younger brother, Kazuo Funabashi, was a screenwriter. Seiichi was a member of the Japan Art Academy and was recognized as a Person…

Kato Kazuo

Kato Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He attended Meiji Gakuin University briefly before leaving to pursue his acting career. Kato was initially affiliated with the Bungakuza theater company starting in 1946. In 1963, he helped establish the theater company Kumo and later…

Isomura Chikako

Isomura Chikako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ueda Hisako (上田寿子). She was affiliated with M Three and was a former representative of the theater company Zokei. She graduated from Nara Women's Higher Normal School. In April 1939, she joined the Art Little Theater…

Suzuki Kazuo

Suzuki Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He began his acting career as a student. In 1954, he joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company Training Institute. In 1960, he joined the Tokyo Actor's Consumer Cooperative Society. In 1961, he signed a contract with Toho.…

Komuro Tetsuya

Komuro Tetsuya is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and convicted fraudster. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the disco Velfarre located in Roppongi,…