Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

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…

Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

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…

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.

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…

Ikawa Kotaro

Kotaro Ikawa was born in 1976. At Hitotubashi university, he learned cinema theory from Kan Nozaki and started to make films. He began his film career as a cameraman. His directorial debut is the work of a one-man film crew: he receives credit not only for direction, but for script, production, cinematography,…

Otsuka Michiko

Otsuka Michiko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Otsuka Michiko (大塚道子) was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo. She attended Tokyo Women's High School (東京女子高等師範学校付属高等女学校) but did not complete her studies. After training…

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…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Keishicho Tsuiseki Sosagakari: Kosa

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, Pursuit Investigation Unit, is a department that investigates unsolved cases from a unique perspective and leads them to resolution. They are…

The 5 O’Clock Chime

In Tokyo, an unfulfilled romantic encounter and sudden disappearance leave Seiji struggling to make sense of what never happened and what might have been. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Co-production with the U.K. ~~ Release…

Kurumi no Heya

6.4

In Tokyo in the 80s, before the Big Bubble: Momoko is the second oldest daugther of four siblings in the Mitamura family. After her father Tadashi Mitamura is laid off from work and suddenly disappears, the sensitive…

Tetsuo 2 : Body Hammer

6.6

A Tokyo businessman named Tomoo Taniguchi who is attacked by street thugs and shot with a strange device, which causes his body starts to go through changes that give him special powers that are fueled by rage. When…

Chiwawa

6.6

In Tokyo, Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dead body is found in Tokyo Bay. Her body is in pieces. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her, like her real…

About Her Brother

6.9

In Tokyo, on a corner exists Takano Pharmacy. The owner is widow Ginko Takano who lost her husband a long time ago. Ginko has one daughter named Koharu who lives with her, and also living with them is Ginko's mother-in-law…

2030 Kanata no Kazoku

6.9

In Tokyo in the year 2030, 27-year-old Itakura Kakeru lives in a shared apartment. He is suddenly approached by Ogiwara Misae, his housemate three years his senior, about wanting his help to have a child. Kakeru has…

Hirukyun!

A Tokyo local information variety show covering various topics that go in within Tokyo. (Source: MyDramaList)

Cry As If You Mean It

7.8

While Tokyo is selected to host for the Olympics in 2020, Shinichi, who still lives in a small town, is suddenly obsessed with the delusion of his death. He tries everything left undone but ends up with nothing. Meanwhile,…

Video Girl Ai 2018 SP

6.9

TV Tokyo announced on Sunday that Den'ei Shōjo ~Video Girl Ai 2018~, the new live-action television series based on Masakazu Katsura's Video Girl Ai (Den'ei Shōjo) manga, is getting a new spinoff special that will…