Nemi Zong

Nemi Zong, a Taiwanese-Japanese actress and model, was born in Taiwan and moved to Japan at the age of five. In 2007, she participated in the 5th Tokyo Girls Collection Beauty Pageant at Saitama Super Arena, where she reached the final selection. This led to her being discovered by the Japanese talent…

Sano Shiro

Sano Shiro is a well known Japanese actor and director, born on March 4, 1955 in Yamanashi City, in the Yamanashi Prefecture. He directed the movie Tales of Terror from Tokyo Vol. 1. (Source: French Nautilijon)

Aijima Kazuyuki

Aijima Kazuyuki is a Japanese actor born in Saitama, Japan. He joined Mitani Koki's Tokyo Sunshine Boys theatrical troupe in 1983. Aijima was one of the few Tokyo Sunshine Boys to pass the movie auditions to star in their own film - in fact, he stole the lead. Most of them never made it into the film.

Lee Ji Hoo

Lee Ji Hoo, born as Lee Joon Kyu, is a South Korean actor. He made his debut under the stage name JK in the 2014 Japanese movie "Tokyo: City of Glass".

Seguchi Leiya

Leiya is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. Watching EXILE's performance on TV inspired him to take up dancing. He joined LDH's dance school EXPG in Fukuoka before transferring to the main Tokyo branch. His dancing talent led him to join the EXPG trainee team EXILE…

Aikawa Juri

Aikawa Juri is a Japanese model and actor born in Ichikawa, Chiba. He graduated from Chiba Prefecture Tachi Kawanami High School and became active as a popular reader model for the magazine Tokyo Street News during his high school years. He also modelled during the Paris Fashion Week, and debuted his…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Sugawara Hiroshi

Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Arts at the Department of Film and Television, studying movie production and production, winning the Cumuldee Award (Excellence Award). After returning home, in 1988 he made his directorial debut…

Suzuki Kyoka

Suzuki appeared in Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name and Yōichi Sai's Blood and Bones. She won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Yokohama Film Festival for her role in Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald, at the 42nd Blue Ribbon Awards for Keiho and at the 2011 Tokyo Drama Awards for Second…

Ninagawa Mika

Ninagawa Mika is a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography and film. Ninagawa currently lives and works in Tokyo. The appeal of her photography can best be summed up by a signature approach that is bathed in dreamlike vivid colors. Whether it is portraiture, landscape, or still life, at the…

Ten'yawan'ya

6.0

Wary of being accused of war crimes, Inumaru Junkichi moves to his mentor's hometown, where he meets various eccentric characters. This movie depicts the contrast between the devastation of Tokyo and the laid-back…

Out of Focus

A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female photographer. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and, upon arrival and on her first day, is tasked…

Strangers

Yukie, a dental nurse in a rural town, doesn’t verbalize her true feelings often but she dreams of living by the sea. This is vague desire becomes something more concrete when the relentless power harassment of her…

Flowing Towards You

Satomi quits her job and works as a storekeeper at her sister's general store. Then, a man named Tomonori appears, waiting for his lover. He leaves the store, and the two of them talk while walking through the streets…

Yoyogi Johnny’s Depressing after School

Yoyogi Johnny, a slightly unusual high school boy, spends his after-school time at his own pace, making his strong-willed girlfriend angry, spending all his time talking in the squash club room with the eccentric members,…

Electric Dragon 80.000 V

7.0

When a child, Dragon Eye Morrison undergoes electro-shock treatment for his aggressive behavior. The levels of sheer energy absorbed by his body over the years allows him to channel and conduct electricity. Now an…

Mothra

7.3

Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were protected by a special juice given to them by the natives. A joint expedition…

Ghost Writer

7.6

Tono Risa is a gifted writer in her 30s. She has already made a name for herself, but actually feels that she is at the end of the road. At that moment, Kawahara Yuki, a young woman in her 20s who has come to Tokyo…

Love Stories From Fukuoka 15

6.6

A series of real-life stories submitted by viewers in Fukuoka about their personal experiences with love, loss and longing. All the stories are based in Fukuoka, the capital city of the Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu…

I Am Kirishima

On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confession to the Kamakura hospital staff treating him: “I am Satoshi Kirishima.” On January 29th, he died. For 49 years,…