Kojika Ban

Kojika Ban, born Kojika Atsushi (小鹿敦) in Asakusa, Kappabashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Initially interested in painting, he became passionate about theater after joining his high school drama club at Omiya High School (大宮高等学校). He later pursued a degree in Theater Studies…

Ito Kisaku

Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…

Morita Shingi

Morita Shingi was a Japanese film producer, screenwriter, and director. From 1937 he was consistently registered with Toho during and after World War II. On July 16, 1951, he died at his home in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo at the age of 53, due to a skull fracture.

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Furukawa Yuki

Furukawa Yuki is a Japanese actor who grew up abroad. At the age of seven, he and his family moved from Japan to Canada. Then they relocated to the United States when Furukawa was sixteen. He completed high school there before returning to Japan to study Engineering at Keio University. Furukawa gained…

Toda Erika

Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model by the age of 13. She moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school and started her acting career…

Kawaguchi Haruna

Kawaguchi Haruna is a Japanese actor and model born in Goto, Japan. She began modeling in the mid-2000s, appearing in the youth fashion magazine "Nicola". She then went on to make her TV acting debut in the series “Tokyo Dogs” in 2009. In 2022, she was called as the "CM Queen" for having 21 brands…

Mackenyu

Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows…

Hanayome Rikkouho

8.0

Tokyo Times reporter Yukiko Kusao was struggling, but the company was on the verge of collapse. Editor-in-Chief Izumi was trying to take over the Metropolitan Times by funding Kamiyama, a young husband who is interested…

Onna Keiji Otomichi Takako - Kogoeru Kiba

6.0

Tokyo detective Otomichi Takako leaves for Tachikawa City to join the investigation of a bizarre, possible, homicide case. A businessman entered a family restaurant alone. Shortly later, the man burst into flames.…

Big Time Gambling Boss

7.4

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan…

Planet of the Crabs

Tokyo High Tide director Murakami Hiroyasu returns to the Tama River estuary to document Yoshida Tadayoshi, who has been conducting independent observations of crabs over a 15-year period. The camera's relentless focus…

Bird Woman

Tokyo in a pandemic. Toki is fed up with the men who take advantage of the fact that their face is hidden by the mask to molest her. One morning, Toki orders a bird mask from a friend who makes masks of animals, and…

Stop the Bitch Campaign

6.1

Tokyo’s Valentine Call is a special kind of phone club. Older salarymen pay to wait for calls from teenage girls, discreet meetings are arranged, and handfuls of yen are exchanged for a quick session of enjo kosai,…

The Golden Demon

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings and failures of courage, the engagement of Kanichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kanichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a…

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…

SPEC: Birth

8.2

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department forms a special unit called Mishou (Unidentified Crimes Unit) to tackle complex cases with no evidence, witnesses, or connections to major organizations, which are beyond the…