Saga Zenpei

Saga Zenpei was a Japanese actor and filmmaker born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Japanese Art School. In 1929, he joined the Japan Proletarian Artist Alliance, but became an actor, and in the same year he entered the Tokyo Left Wing…

Yamamoto Kiyoshi

Yamamoto Kiyoshi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After growing up in Malaysia, Yamamoto attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School and then graduated from Meiji Gakuin University's Department of Psychology. After his directorial debut in 2003, he has been involved in the production…

Tamagawa Isao

Tamagawa Isao is a Japanese actor born January 11, 1922 in Shinjuku, Yotsuya, Tokyo (now Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo). He is known for playing intellectual villain roles. He debuted as an actor in 1954's "The Street Without Sun". He died on January 1, 2004 at the age of 81.

Claude Maki

Claude Maki is a Japanese surfing and flight champion, actor and hip hop singer, under the stage name A.K.T.I.O.N., from Akasaka, Tokyo. He is the eldest son of actor and singer Mike Maki and Bibari Maeda , a Japanese-American actress. After much work in theatre, he made his television acting debut…

Shimojo Masami

Shimojo Masami was a Japanese actor born in Busan, South Korea, to parents from Iki, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Busan First Commercial School and lived in Busan until age 20 before moving to Tokyo to pursue a career as a film director. In 1936, he joined the Shinkyo Theatre Company and debuted…

Aoyama Kiyoshi

In 1955, while enrolled at Chuo University's Faculty of Letters , he passed Toho New Face Audition and entered the film industry. After dropping out of college and making his debut in Asagiri (Director: Seiji Maruyama , 1955), he moved to Nikkatsu, where he resumed filmmaking, and became a participant…

Kono Akitake

Kono Akitake was a Japanese actor, born in Shinko, Annaka, Nagasaki, Japan. He was originally performing under the stage name Yamazaki Shinzo (山崎進蔵). He attended Shimabara Prefectural Middle School and later Tokyo Physics School, though he left in November 1930. In November 1931, Kono joined…

Kawazu Seizaburo

Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Nakahara Shoko

Shôko Nakahara was born on July 9, 1970 in Kumamoto, Japan. She is an actress and producer, known for Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Tsunagaru (2016) and Bijitâ Q (2001).

Nagareboshi o Gin! Jiken Kaiketsu Itashimasu 2

6.0

Aibo

7.7

Tokumei Gakari (Special Mission Task Team) is not considered as important as it might sound. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and so-called as the “oversized garbage dealer”.…

Nagareboshi o Gin! Jiken Kaiketsu Itashimasu 1

4.0

Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa

8.0

The special will follow Kotoko and Naoki as they go on their honeymoon in Okinawa, Japan. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Itazura na Kiss" (イタズラなKiss) by Tada Kaoru (多田かおる).

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Special: Zekkyo Hen

8.0

An anthology special consisting of two stories. >> Story 1: “Men in Black” (黒い男たち) Kyoka, a university student who works part-time at a café, returns to her apartment one day to find an old, worn brown…

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Special: Zekkyo Hen

7.2

An anthology special consisting of two stories. >> Story 1: “Puun” (ぶぅん) While searching for a new filming location to replace one that had been canceled, Imoto Natsumi and her group discover a ruined, eerily…

Tetsudo Sosakan 18: Zencho 140-kg! Tokyo~Nikko Kinugawa Nonstop Satsujin Keikaku!! Keishicho Tetsudo

~~ Adapted from the novel "Totsugawa Keibu Seibu Shinjuku-sen no Shikaku" (十津川警部 西武新宿線の死角) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).

Retribution

6.8

Tokyo detective Noboru Yoshioka investigates the death of a woman who has been found murdered. She has been drowned in a puddle but her lungs are puzzlingly filled with salt water. Yoshioka is baffled to find a button…

Bayside Shakedown 2: Save the Rainbow Bridge

7.5

Tokyo, the bayside borough of Odaiba: once a sleepy part of the city on empty, reclaimed land, it's now a bustling destination for hipsters and tourists alike. The local police precinct, long derided as a backwater,…

Always: Sunset on Third Street 3

7.7

Tokyo in 1964. The Olympics are set to take place in Tokyo and the country has experienced a period of rapid economic growth. The inhabitants of Third Street live amidst all the change in their usual optimistic ways.…