Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Abe Yutaka

A director from the mid-twenties, Abe had trained in Hollywood, where he played bit parts in films starring his compatriot, Sessue Hayakawa. After returning home, he became known as the Lubitsch of Japan, a reputation founded on his witty and polished social satires. A Mermaid on Land (Riku no ningyo,…

Kagawa Teruyuki

Kagawa Teruyuki is a Japanese screen and stage actor. Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Hama Yuko. His grandmother is the film actress Takasugi Sanae. In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps since…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Kagiwada Hana

Kathy Nakajima

Japan television personality. He is also a leading expert on Hawaiian quilts in Japan. She is the mother of Nanami Katsuno (model and singer), Masae Katsuno (actress), and Yosuke Katsuno (actor and handicraftsman).

Shimizu Zenzo

Munekiyo Mariko

Munekiyo Mariko is a Japanese actress and model from Hiroshima Prefecture.

Mamiya Yuka

Kurihara Kodai

Kurokawa no Techo

7.5

Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire… How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal? Her greatest weapon…

Tokyo Kachinka Musume

4.0

A popular girl walking alone in Ginza.

MOZU: Night Cry of the MOZU

7.8

A bomb explosion incident occurs in downtown Tokyo and Ginza. Many people are caught in the explosion, and Kuraki Naotake, a police superintendent in Public Security Bureau, loses his wife. Together with Osugi Ryota…

Tokyo Profile

7.4

A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.…

Mama wa Bartender: Koyoi mo Odorou

Hoshino Akari is a bartender working at the long-established bar "BAR 1511" in Ginza. She fell in love with a man who visited the bar where she used to work and married him. Although she had two children, her husband…

Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku

7.2

Poison is used in a murder at a famous jewellery store in Ginza, Tokyo. Tsubaki Eisuke, a member of the old nobility, is regarded as a suspect. Unable to endure further humiliation, he commits suicide. Believing in…

Women's Police - Swirling Butterflies

5.0

Kaoru Masaaki, the security manager of a cabaret and bar in Ginza, known as "women's police" because he protects their hostesses, gets involved with a human trafficking gang while trying to rescue an old lover's mising…

Matsumoto Seicho no Satsujin Ko Oku no Hosomichi

Asako Kurata admires her beautiful aunt Takako Ashina, who runs a clothing store in Ginza. One day, Masako visits her uncle Nobuo's hometown, where she learns that her uncle's forest has been secretly sold. Asako begins…

Japan’s Longest Summer

3.3

The year is 1963. Twenty-eight former military and government officials meet at a restaurant in Ginza to lament over Japan’s decision to surrender in World War II.

Jotei Kaoruko

6.7

Kiritani plays a young woman named Saya, who becomes a Ginza hostess after finishing high school. Saya is looking for her mother, whom she has been separated from all her life, while Saya's rival Miki is another young…