The Way of the Director

4.0

Kitagawa and Saito, both aspiring to be a movie director, win awards at a movie festival but can't become a professional movie director. With support from a small theater manager named Araki, Saito decides to make…

Actress

6.0

The film tells the story of famous Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

The Frivolous

Centring around the elections in Osaka, the film introduces the Japanese election process by following a rather unlikely candidate, whose election campaign isn't backed up by a powerful part. (source: mydramalist.info)

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

7.0

A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

6.9

Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.

Goodbye, Flickmania

10.0

Miss Kurosawa 2

On December 23, Kurosawa Kazuko goes to her favorite bar with friends Mitsuura Yasuko, Ookubo Kayoko, and Tsubaki Oniyakko to drown her sorrows. Not wanting to go home, Kuzuko and Kayoko then goes to another bar. There…

Miss Kurosawa

Kurosawa is the only member of the female comedy trio Morisanchu who is still unmarried. Miyuki Oshima has married a broadcast writer and Tomoko Murakami’s husband is in the apparel industry, leaving Kurosawa as…

BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues

Two brothers start working as benshi narrators of silent films in a cinema in the early 20th century. This premise is the jumping-off point for an epic family saga that follows the protagonists and their descendants…

Neko no Kioku

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Aoyama Erina

Aoyama Erina is a Japanese model, actress and AV idol. She originally started her career as a model with the name Ren Suzuki, but gradually switched her career to AV. While she was working in AV, she had a chance to be in "Sora Aoi's TSUMUGI" (directed by Hidekazu Takahara). She played a role, a daughter…

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Hayashi Tsuchitaro

Hayashi Tsuchitaro was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. His interest in movies began during the era of silent films, leading him to frequent the Chiezo Production Studio in Sagano, run by Kataoka Chiezo. In April 1937, at age 15, he joined the sound department of Nikkatsu's Kyoto Studio…

Wakahara Harue

Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…

Horikoshi Kenzo

Horikoshi Kenzo is a Japanese film producer. He is the representative of the film production and distribution company Eurospace and also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the Anime and Manga Faculty of Kaishi Professional…

Ichikawa Hisao

Ichikawa Hisao was a Japanese producer born in Honjo, Tokyo, Japn. He graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. After working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Communications, he joined Shinko Kinema in 1939. He initially worked in the publicity department. He was called up for military…

Kawaguchi Setsuko

Kawaguchi Setsuko is a former Japanese actress who was active in the early 1950s. She was born in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan. Her husband is the former actor Namishima Susumu (波島進), and their eldest daughter is also a former actress, Ogura Kayo (小倉加代). She graduated from Gunma Prefectural Kiryu…

Saki Cato

Saki Kato was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1989. She is a choreographer, actor and filmmaker. Kato began dancing from a young age and appeared in musicals in middle school. After experiences in theater production, choreography and acting, she studied at the Actor’s Course at Eiga Bigakkou where she…

Rosa Aguirre

Rosa Aguirre was a Filipina actress who worked for Sampaguita Pictures and Lvn Pictures. She was married to actor Miguel Anzures and mother of former child actor Narding Anzures. She made her first movie on 1938, Himagsikan ng Puso, with Rudy Concepcion. Under X'Otic Pictures and Eiga Hekusa she made…