Natsuki Junpei

Natsuki Junpei is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a supporting player for Toho in the 50s and 60s, recognizable by his high forehead and dry, often worried expressions. He's best remembered for a single, lingering shot as a power plant worker in the original 1954 film, Godzilla.

Mifune Toshiro

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He also portrayed Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's…

Ito Minoru

Frequent supporting actor across a number of genres, usually in minor roles. In special effects films he appears most frequently as a reporter. He had slightly more prominent roles in television, appearing in episodes of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven. In 1952 (Showa 27), he signed an exclusive…

Dobashi Akihiro

Dobashi Akihiro is a Japanese novelist and screenwriter, born in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. After leaving Hitachi, Ltd. in 2000, he started a web production company and worked on screenplays, novels, and manga originals. In 2011, he won the 38th Japan Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the movie "Super…

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Kurosawa Akira

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, he directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After…

Koyuki

Koyuki began her career after winning a modelling competition in 1995 for Non-No magazine. Two years later, she became a professional model. In 1998, she landed several supporting roles in television dramas and appeared in numerous print ads and TV commercials. In 2003, Koyuki played her first starring…

Maruyama Ryuhei

Maruyama's career as a Johnny's idol has interesting beginnings. He was among 3 fresh Johnny's Jrs selected at an audition on September 22, 1996 (along with fellow member Subaru Shibutani) and appeared in an idol magazine announcing their selection on the same day. After not hearing from the agency…

My Anniversaries

Sakurai Shoji was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 29 years in prison, where he wrote poems, songs, letters, and diaries to stay sane. Since his release on parole in 1996, he has been fighting for his own acquittal,…

Girl's Life

7.2

Sakurai Rina, a popular model of Koakuma Ageha, a hair and make-up magazine for gals, makes her actress debut. Abandoned by her family and betrayed by her boyfriend, Haruka Ichinose comes to Tokyo with her pet turtle,…

Gekokujo Juken

7.6

Sakurai Shinichi is married to Kanako and they have a daughter named Kaori. Both, Shinichi and Kanako received only a middle school-level education. Even though they don't have much money, they are a happy family.…

Okashi no Ie

7.5

Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making a great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular…

Key of Life

7.5

Sakurai is an aspiring actor who becomes frustrated with his life. Sakurai then decides to kill himself, but before committing suicide Sakurai heads off to a public bathhouse. At the bathhouse, Sakurai then witnesses…

Koneko no Kimochi

Sakurai Haruka (Endo Mai), who attends a fashion school, has lived a vague life with her mother, Kyoko (Inoue Naomi), since her father died in an accident two years ago. And Kyoko hasn't been able to overcome the grief…

A Girl & Three Sweethearts

8.0

Sakurai Misaki is a pastry chef who dreams of someday working for a renowned Patisserie overseas; she has prioritised work to the extent that she has forgotten how to kiss. When she loses her job at a bakery and has…

25 Twenty-Five

6.6

Detectives Sakurai Shintarou and Hikage Koichi are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized…

Candy

Megumi Sakurai, an office worker was laid off after sexually harassing her boss. Looking for a new job, she lands an interview at the cabaret "Killer Lips". However, the interview turned out to be a talk with a real…

Does the Flower Bloom?

6.9

Kazuaki Sakurai is a 37-year-old man working at an advertising agency. For a CM shooting, he goes to a beautiful house. At the house, he meets Yoichi Mizukawa while he is painting a picture. Yoichi is a 19-year-old…