Uchida Issaku

Uchida Issaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He was a member of the Directors Guild of Japan (日本映画監督協会). He graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University (早稲田大学) in 1946. Uchida joined Nikkatsu (日活) in 1954,…

Shimada Masayuki

Ono Takeo

Tonomura Shin

Tonomura Shin was an actor born in Yamagata, Japan.

Nakamura Yuko

Nakamura Yuko is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2001 for the film Firefly and the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for Strawberry Shortcakes.

Yuge Tomohisa

Yuge Tomohisa is a Japanese actor who has had roles in numerous TV Asahi Tokusatsu shows as well as a number of films.

Sada Mayumi

Sada Mayumi is a model and actress from Tokyo. She is three-quarters Japanese. Her maternal grandfather is an American. She is currently represented by LDH Inc. On October 1, 2008, she married Kunichi Nomura. On April 6, 2009, she gave birth to their first child. She later gave birth to another child…

Higashino Keigo

Higashino Keigo was a Japanese writer born in the Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Japan. He incorporated his experience in his hometown into his works; notable examples include "Byakuya" and "Namiwa Shonen Tanteidan". Originally, his last name was read as Tono, but his father changed the reading to Higashino.…

Matsuda Satoshi

Matsuda Satoshi is Japanese actor who played Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight in Kamen Rider Ryuki. He also voiced Len, in Japanese dub of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Recently, Satoshi Matsuda confirmed via Twitter that he did not reprise his role as Knight in the video game Super Climax Heroes, but stated…

Nakamaru Yuichi

Nakamaru Yuichi is an actor and J-pop singer, born in Tokyo, Japan. He's an active member of the J-pop band KAT-TUN and the oldest of the group. He joined Johnny's Entertainment in November 1998. In 2001, Yuichi joined KAT-TUN from its formation, debuting on March 22, 2006. He and bandmate Koki have…

252 Seizonsha Ari: Episode ZERO

7.9

13 years before the Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred, Japan had no hyper rescue teams. In 2009, 2 years before Tokyo is directly hit by an unprecedented typhoon, Hayakawa Yusaku sets his sights on hyper rescue. 252…

Takaramono

Ten years have passed since the Great Hanshin Earthquake near Kobe, the worst Earthquake Japan has seen in 80 years. At the time, Sen was a middle schooler living in Kobe her father. she is reminded of her father and…

Sono Machi no Kodomo

8.0

Two survivors of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake of 1995 in Kobe happen to meet years later on the day before the memorial ceremony for the earthquake. Still haunted by the memories of that day, they have a hard…

Going Global

In 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan, unexpectedly changed the fate of a Chinese port city. Four young people from different backgrounds and with different ambitions are swept up by the tide of the…

Japanese Humanity and Justice

8.0

Nori Seki is a journalist who learns about the fact that Hanshin Tigers president Inada has a homosexual relationship with a male singer. A man named Katsuji Kogure finds out about this secret and reports it to his…

Mr. Rookie

2.0

Summer 200X. The Hanshin Tigers continued to make good progress with the sudden appearance of the relief pitcher "Mr. Rookie". Mr. Rookie, who wore a tiger-patterned mask, only pitched for the home game at Koshien,…

Karei naru Ichizoku

7.3

Daisuke Manpyo is the owner and president of the successful Hanshin Bank. He also owns several other companies and some real estate. His son-in-law is a bureaucrat at the Ministry of the Treasury, who tips him off…

Hatachi to Ippiki

7.3

Drama special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

The Harbor Lights

Akari is a third-generation Korean resident in Japan born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. "I barely feel like a Korean resident, and don't recall the disaster. The earthquake, family, nationality - What do…

After the Quake

6.9

Four-episode anthology drama that depicts the 30-year period time after The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from four out of six short stories from the collection "after the…