Ishihara Mariko

Ishihara Mariko is a Japanese actress and former singer born in Tokyo, Japan. She made her film debut in the 1980 adaptation of "Tonda Couple", a popular manga series. She gained further renown for her role in the TV series "Fuzoroi no Ringotachi". She published her autobiography in 2006. (Source: Japanese…

Yamaoka Tetsuya

Yamaoka Tetsuya was a Japanese actor born in the former Tokyo city. He graduated from Waseda University. While studying at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, he mobilized students and piloted fighter planes as a second lieutenant in mainland China. After he was demobilized,…

Uotani Kanae

Uotani Kanae is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo. She's best known for her role in Azumi.

Kato Kazuo

Kato Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He attended Meiji Gakuin University briefly before leaving to pursue his acting career. Kato was initially affiliated with the Bungakuza theater company starting in 1946. In 1963, he helped establish the theater company Kumo and later…

Kosugi Kenji

Kenji Kosugi is a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He was a member of the Japan Detective Writers Association and served as a selection committee member in the short and series of short stories selected by the Japan Detective Writers Association Award from 1993 to 1994. (Source: Wikipedia)

Inagaki Shun

Inagaki Shun is a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Tokyo. (Source: MyDramaList)

Fukada Yusuke

Fukada Yusuke, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese writer. He passed away from pneumonia. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nishina Karin

Nishina Karin is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her agency is Breath Inc.

Hama Yuko

Hama Yuko is a Japanese actress born at Meguro in Tokyo. She was married to Ichikawa Ennosuke III, a kabuki actor, and gave birth to Kagawa Teruyuki, who also became an actor, before divorcing three years later in 1968. She started working in the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater…

Tanno Yuji

Tanno Yuji, born in Tokyo, was a Japanese film director, animation director, screenwriter and producer.

Kaiji

7.6

Ito Kaiji moves to Tokyo after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life…

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

7.6

Set in 1958 Tokyo. Norifumi Suzuki owns a small auto body shop named “Suzuki Auto”, where he works and lives with his loving family. One day, he comes back home with a new employee, Mutsuko Hoshino, who moves in…

Tada's Do-It-All House

7.6

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appeared unannounced. Back in their schooldays, Haruhiko…

Masquerade Hotel

7.6

Three murders occur in Tokyo, with numbers left at each scene, possibly indicating the location of the next. Detective Nitta Kosuke investigates, suspecting the next murder will happen at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. He…

Takara's Treasure

7.7

Taishin has moved to Tokyo from his hometown of Fukuoka in order to reunite with Takara, a stranger who had consoled him in his grief the year prior. However, despite finally getting a chance to express his gratitude…

Japan Sinks: People of Hope

7.8

In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Higashiyama Eiichi pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Higashiyama…

Sherlock: The Untold Stories

8.0

Set in present-day Tokyo, Homare Shishio works as a freelance crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio has been fascinated with original sin and how people become criminals. He is a genius with an impulse to commit…

Ao no SP: Gakko nai Keisatsu Shimada Ryuhei

7.4

The city of Tokyo introduces a school police system, stationing law enforcement officers within middle schools. Ryuhei Shimada, a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Unit 1, known…

Crazy for Me

7.3

Set in Tokyo, the story follows Kojima Haruta, a 40-year-old man who hits the rock bottom as he fell mentally ill which led him to lose his job, family, and even a place to live. After a certain turn of events, Haruta…

Shoplifters

8.3

Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's pension. As he…