In Another Language

Summer 2020. Pedestrians have begun to return to Tokyo. In one corner of a cafe, a man and woman are taking part in a One Coin English Cafe where participants can casually enjoy English conversation for a small price.…

Tama Minamisho Tatakiage Keiji: Chikamatsu Heikichi 5

A woman was murdered late at night in Karakida, a suburb of Tokyo, by hitting her head with a blunt object. The neighborhood residents reported sightings of a young man in a white T-shirt running toward Karakida Station.…

The Granny Girl

Hatsue and Takashi are an ordinary couple living in an old apartment in Tokyo. As usual, the husband goes to work and the wife does the housework. The two seem to be leading an ordinary life, but Hatsue is carrying…

"Children of the Hakkyo School Project”, Work-in-Progress 2017

10.0

Documentary about kids growing up as they attend the Korean school in Edakawa in Tokyo's Koto district. Footage covering first-graders in 2010 through graduation was edited as a work-in-progress and given a special…

My Blue Oni

7.2

Riko Tsujimura, an editor at a small publishing house in Tokyo, returns to her hometown for the first time in years. A woman, unexpectedly has to face not only her professional challenge, but also her past, full of…

My Hero

A story about an 'ikumen' dad and his family showcasing a dual-income couple. Matsumoto Ryo is an IT consultant in Tokyo. While on paternity leave, he becomes exhausted from looking after the children and doing chores,…

The Secret of the Black Dahlia

8.1

Toyama, an office worker who has been transferred from a rural area to Tokyo. "I'm not good at socializing with people, so I was thinking of a peaceful and free life without socializing with my neighbors. Okazaki of…

Last Chestnuts

One day, a mother who used to be hospitalized in Tokyo comes to Kashihara city in Nara prefecture to find her son. But the only clue she has is the digital camera which her son forgot at the hospital. (Source: MUBI)

Gray Wall Gear

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Takama Kenji

Takama Kenji is a Japanese cinematographer born on March 10, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cinematographers. As a student at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Takama Kenji first studied Economics. Later he began working as a camera assistant at Wakamatsu Productions and…

Kaneko Nobuo

Kaneko Nobuo was a Japanese actor, culinary researcher, host, and talent born in Shitaya, Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in a family of dentists and struggled with tuberculosis from a young age, facing a prognosis that he might not live past 20. Despite his health challenges, he graduated from Kyoka Gakuen…

Tamba Yoshitaka

Yoshitaka Tamba (丹波 義隆 Tamba Yoshitaka?, born July 13, 1955) is a Japanese actor. He is the eldest son of actor Tetsurō Tamba. In 1973, while attending high school, he landed a part in the movie Sumi yuriko directed by Omori Kenziro. He also appeared in the movie Aoba shigeru reru around the…

Ishidate Tetsuo

Ishidate Tetsuo was a Japanese actor born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After working as a 13th gen member of the Haiyuza Theater Company and a member of the Bungakuza Theater Company, he made a big break in the 1970 TV drama "Oku-sama wa 18-sai". He starred in a number of family dramas in…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Nishiyama Mayuko

Mayuko Nishiyama was born on January 21, 1978 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Byakuyakô (2006), Renai shashin (2003) and Sen no kaze ni natte (2004).

Ozawa Maju

Maju Ozawa was born on January 3, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gekijôban kamen raidâ Agito: Purojekutô jî fô (2001), Hyakunin no Ijin (2006) and Dong jing gong lüe (2000).

Nakajima Tomoko

Nakajima Tomoko was born on June 5, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for The Taste of Tea (2004), Tugumi (1990), Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991), and Hotaru in Kita no Kuni Kara (1981-2002). She has been married to Toshinori Nishimura since 1998. They have one child.