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.

Tanaka Shunsuke

Shunsuke Tanaka is an actor, singer, talent and a former member of BOYS AND MEN and its sub-units YanKee5 and NO IDEA. He is most known for his roles in Samurai Rock (2015), A Beast in Love (2020) and Zenigata (2018).

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,…

Nakakita Chieko

Nakakita Chieko (1926-2005) was a Japanese actress. A character actress who never quite got her due, despite roles in numerous high-profile movies from the 1940s onward. Although a vigorous participant in Toho's labor disputes of that early period, like so many others she never really left, in part…

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…

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…

Love in the Air

7.7

Sengoku Gunto Den Dai Ichibu: Toraokami

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…

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…

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…