Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Karube Shinichi

Karube Shinichi is a Japanese Fuji TV announcer from Tokyo. He entered Waseda University School of Law. After graduating in 1985, when he joined Fuji TV as an announcer, he was in charge of hosting special programs related to strange phenomena. Since April 2016, he is the first active announcer of Fuji…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Yamamoto Kaichi

Yamamoto Kaichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has been a major figure in Nikkatsu and appeared in both contemporary and historical dramas. In 1895, when he was 18 years old, he joined the new school "Otojiro Kawakami Ichiza" led by Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899 when he was 22 years old, he participated…

Oizumi Akira

Ohizumi Akira was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

Tanami Yasuo

Tanami Yasuo is a Japanese screenwriter and producer from Tokyo, Japan.

Todayama Masashi

Todayama Masashi is a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Azabu Junior and Senior High School (麻布中学校・高等学校) and the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University (早稲田大学). While at Waseda, he became involved with the theater troupe Daisan Butai (第三舞台)…

Hanayome Rikkouho

8.0

Tokyo Times reporter Yukiko Kusao was struggling, but the company was on the verge of collapse. Editor-in-Chief Izumi was trying to take over the Metropolitan Times by funding Kamiyama, a young husband who is interested…

Big Time Gambling Boss

7.4

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan…

Onna Keiji Otomichi Takako - Kogoeru Kiba

6.0

Tokyo detective Otomichi Takako leaves for Tachikawa City to join the investigation of a bizarre, possible, homicide case. A businessman entered a family restaurant alone. Shortly later, the man burst into flames.…

The Golden Demon

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings and failures of courage, the engagement of Kanichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kanichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a…

Planet of the Crabs

Tokyo High Tide director Murakami Hiroyasu returns to the Tama River estuary to document Yoshida Tadayoshi, who has been conducting independent observations of crabs over a 15-year period. The camera's relentless focus…

Emergency Interrogation Room Season 4

7.7

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department decides to disband the special interrogation team Kintori. The team will be disbanded in 100 days, by September 2021, but the members of Kintori will still carry out their jobs.…

Mikkoku wa Utau Season 2

7.8

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Personnel Division is an elite group responsible for inspection work to uncover misconduct among the more than 40,000 personnel who work for the police force. It is…

Higanbana - Women's Crime File

7.2

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates a new division that consists of five female detectives. The new division is called Higanbana, which is a flower with a poison root. The five female detectives have their…

Sugar & Spice

6.7

A Tokyo suburb with a middle American feel, the city of Fussa is home to a US military base with its wide avenues, second-hand clothing stores peddling American merchandise and bars catering largely to G.I.s. Shiro…

SPEC: Birth

8.3

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department forms a special unit called Mishou (Unidentified Crimes Unit) to tackle complex cases with no evidence, witnesses, or connections to major organizations, which are beyond the…