Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

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…

Hosokawa Shigeki

Hosokawa Shigeki is a Japanese actor and former model. From 1995 to 2000, he was a professional model. He took time off from modeling in 2002 to study acting more thoroughly. He did not go to an acting school after his high school graduation so he used this time to improve his skill. Though mainly a…

We Love Quintuplets Season 6

The sixth installment revolves around the theme of “family responsibility.” Now in their final year of elementary school, the Sakurai quintuplets find themselves in a position where they must take on more responsibility…

We Love Quintuplets Go!!

Takuya, Miho, Shingo, Norika, and Go jump from sixth grade to their first year of high school. Now high school students, the Sakurai quintuplets face a wide range of teenage challenges: future dreams, self-discovery,…

HAPPY! Media People

Newscaster Saburo Minoda comes from Tokyo to a cable TV station in Echizen City. The creed of cable TV is "make the area happy." Minoda, who once had a series of scoops and was nicknamed "a man with a high audience…

Water Guardians

Hattori Kaito spends his summer enjoying the beach with his friends, Akiyama Roki, Sagara Yuto, Kamo Mirai, and Sakurai Haruto, while helping out at a seaside hut run by Roki’s father. Amid these carefree days, an…

Koisuru Seiza

5.9

Koisuru Seiza is a web drama starring Erina Mano. Each episode is a short story about a girl from each of the twelve horoscopes. Erina Mano portrays all twelve girls. Episode 1: Aries - Episode 2: Taurus - Kawashima…

Speed Master

6.4

Based on the manga "Speed Master" by Kishi Torajirou. Akahoshi is a drifter with great car knowledge who travels from town to town aimlessly until he starts working at Sakurai Motors. The motor competition in town…

AI - Watashi To Kanojo To Jinkou Chinou

6.5

The comedy describes how Tanaka Shizuku who works in a system development company, installs the AI developed by her company into her computer and causes havoc in the lives of her and her flatmate Sakurai Momo who is…

We Love Quintuplets Season 3

The third installment follows the five siblings as they enter the third grade, now bigger in size and leaving the Sakurai household feeling more cramped than ever. The couple begins seriously considering buying a larger…

Go Find a Psychic!

6.6

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilitties. Yone Sakurai…

Drawing Closer

8.9

Hayasaka Akito is a talented artist. He is working hard to be accepted for the Nika Exhibition, but a tumor is discovered in his heart, and he is told that he has one year left to live. Hayasaka Akito doesn't express…