Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Morishita Aiko

Morishita Aiko is a Japanese actress who has appeared in a number of feature films and television series. Her real name is Yoshida Kayo. She was born in Musashino, Tokyo. She graduated from Kojimachi Gakuen Girls' High School. She was scouted during her high school studies and debuted as a model. She…

Ando Mitsuo

Ando Mitsuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He began his career with the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1947 at the age of 18, remaining until 1953. He made his film debut in 1958 with Toei in "Jigoku no Gozen Niji" and continued into the 1960s, appearing in gangster films and action movies…

Watari Mai

Mai Watari is a Japanese actress and an exclusive model for Non-no magazine. She once lived in Turkey. (Source: MyDramaList)

Ueda Kanade

Ueda Kanade is a Japanese comedian, part of comedy trio 'Sanji no Heroine'. (Source: Wikipedia)

Sugimoto Tetta

Sugimoto Tetta is a Japanese actor from Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His agency is Tristone Entertainment. He dropped out of Kanagawa Prefectural Fujisawa Technical High School. In 1981, he made his debut with the Yokohama Ginbae family rock band, Grease. In the same year, he made a regular…

Nanao

Nanao is a Japanese model and actress who is affiliated with Platinum Production. Her real name is Nanao Arai. Nanao started entertainment activities in 2009 when she was 20 years old, she was a regular model as a martial arts ring girl and race queen in the magazine Pinky which became a turning point,…

Minoru Murata

Murata Minoru was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor in the Taisho and early Showa periods born in Ogawamachi, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He is the first deputy director of the Directors Guild of Japan. He joined Norimasa Kaeriyama's Film Arts Association from the Shingeki movement and is known…

Hankai Kazuaki

Hankai Kazuaki is a Japanese actor who has starred in various projects such as Kodoku no Gurume Season 8, Iyasaretai Otoko, Legal V, and many more. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kato Rosa

Rosa Kato is an Italian-Japanese actress and commercial model. Kato was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father and a Japanese mother. Her family moved to Kagoshima, Japan when she was 5 years old. Kato received a Japanese education. Kato is not fluent in Italian. She is a graduate of Kagoshima West…

An Ant Strikes Back

More than 5,000 people died from the ramifications of overworking in Japan between 2006 and 2017 – and this is only the official number. Rarely do Japanese employees stand up against exploitative working conditions,…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2009 Spring Special

6.9

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Bakudan Otoko no Switch" (爆弾男のスイッチ) >> Story 2: "Rinne no Mura" (輪廻の村) >> Story 3: "Quiz Tengoku Quiz Jigoku" (クイズ天国クイズ地獄)…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2004 Fall Special

7.0

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (不幸せをあなたに) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (We Bring You Misfortune) promoting a new sales…

Kaidan

7.0

01: Yotsuya kaidan / Yotsuya kaidan / Kaydan Yotsuya (Director Tatsuo Yamada (I)) 02: Kaidan botan dourou / Kaidan botan dourou / Peony Lantern (Director Masateru Nishiyama) 03: Kaidan kakuidori / Kaidan Bat (Director…

Koibitotachi no Jikoku

5.9

Eiji Nishie, who lives in Sapporo, is a prep school student who aims to become a medical school. He reunited at a dental clinic with a woman who saved the other day when she was about to be raped by bad guys on the…

Charisma Yoga Instructor Mikako no Jizoku Fukano na Koi desu ka

Taxi Driver no Suiri Nisshi 36: Chizu wo Shitsu Kushita Jokyaku Hokuriku Kanazawa ~

~~ Adapted from the novel "Yoake Hideo no Jikenbo Series" (夜明日出夫の事件簿シリーズ) by Sasazawa Saho (笹沢左保).

Is Love Sustainable?

7.5

Sawada Kyoka, a yoga instructor, lives with her father, Sawada Rintaro, a Japanese language scholar who has lost his zest for life since his wife's passing. Constantly at odds, Kyoka feels burdened caring for him and…

Jigoku

7.2

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave. (Source: IMDb)

Jigoku Shoujo

7.1

Somewhere in the vast sea of the Internet, there's a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear…