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…

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)

Actress

6.0

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

Takayuki Yamada The Movie 3D

2.0

Interview with Yamada Takayuki about his life, career and interests. (Source: TMDB)

Goodbye, Flickmania

10.0

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

6.9

Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.

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

Nakajima Sayoko

Sayoko Nakajima is a former actress that enjoyed a brief but memorable career in pinku-eiga and AV from 1988 to 1990. (Source: TMDb)

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”…

Sato Hisayasu

Hisayasu Sato is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle serious subjects like obsession, alienation, perversion and voyeurism. He is famous for his "guerilla…

Matsumoto Hana

Matsumoto Hana is a Japanese actress and film director. She was recruited at the age of eight and started her professional activities soon after, appearing in movies and television series. In addition to her work as an actress, she also started directing home projects during her second year of high…

Arai Haruhiko

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine. He is also a professor of Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film "W's Tragedy" in 1984. His published but unfilmed scenario, "Divine…

Miyagawa Tomoyuki

Miyagawa Tomoyuki is an executive officer and head of the Programming and Production Department at Nippon Eiga Hoso Kabushiki Gaisha (Japan Movie Broadcasting Corporation). He is from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Arts at Nihon University. After working at Tohoku Shinsha, he transferred…

Nakamura Tsuruzo III

Born the 15th of October 1884. First son of the rakugo storyteller Katsura Eiga. He started his career as a disciple of the zamoto Nakamura Kanzaburô XIII. He made his debut on stage in March 1896 at the Meijiza, where he received the name of Nakamura Kamematsu I. He became a disciple of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Tomomatsu Naoyuki

Tomomatsu was interested in manga and film from high school and started working as an office assistant to manga artist Shungicu Uchida. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay for Shintōhō Eiga's pink film, The Pregnant Woman. His first film as a director was the independently produced Summer Color…

Imaizumi Rikiya

Won the Mito Short Film Festival Grand Prix for Stop Jerking Off(2007) and the Tama New Wave Grand Prix for Two-Timer(2009). He made his commercial feature film debut with the music documentary Tama no Eiga in 2010. I Catch a Terrible Cat(2012) was screened at numerous film festivals overseas, and won…

Kohinata Fumiyo

Kohinata Fumiyo is a Japanese actor, born in Mikasa, Hokkaido. He is a graduate of Tokyo College of Photography which was later renamed Tokyo Visual Arts. He is currently represented by Father's Corporation. (Source: eiga.wikia)