Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Takeda Tetsuya

Tetsuya Takeda, born April 11, 1949, is a Japanese folk singer and actor. Takeda is perhaps most known in Japan for his starring role in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's long-running, highly rated television drama Sannen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei.

Akatsuka Makoto

An actor from Ibaraki Prefecture . Blood type is O type. His often read as " Masato ", but it is " Makoto ". His hobbies include watercolor painting , lyrics , guitar , and Tohoku dialect . He has appeared in many works directed by Yoji Yamada, including " The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness " and…

Nagasaki Shunichi

Nagasaki Shunichi (長崎俊一, 18 June 1956) is a Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter.

Nagasaki Taisei

Member of the group StarmenKIDS

Izaki Kentaro

Born in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Sawamoto Yoshimitsu

Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1966. Sawamoto Yoshimitsu is a known CM planner / creative director. After graduating from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo, he joined Dentsu. He is responsible for a number of hit commercials, including the Softbank “Shiratoya” series and the Toyota…

Ikeda Ko

Born in Nagasaki prefecture . After graduating from Waseda University , he belonged to the Shiki Theater Company and Tokyo Kid Brothers , and while stepping on numerous stages, he also showed a solid presence in TV dramas . Also active as a singer, released a number of special effects and anime theme…

Yoshimura Tamao

Japanese actress from Nagasaki Prefecture. Blood type: O.

Ito Hideaki

Hideaki Ito was born in Nagasaki, Japan. His father was an official in the Japan Self Defense Force and his mother is a housewife. As a child, he became very sick and was hospitalized for about three years. During this time, he said that he wanted to become a pilot because he felt isolated in his hospital…

Shoro Nagashi: Anata wo Wasurenai

8.0

In the summer of 1982, Sakurai Masahiko returns home to Nagasaki so he can participate in sending off the floating lanterns during O-bon. It's the first O-bon since his beloved aunt, Setsuko, has died. Masahiko is…

The Boat to Heaven

9.0

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean every day. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin and…

Castella

7.2

Masashi, a 5th-grade student, lives in Nagasaki with his family: father Masato, mother Kiyoko, younger brother Shigeri, younger sister Reiko, and grandmother En. For the first time, Masato agrees to let Masashi have…

Devotion to Railway

6.0

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki. (Source: TMDB)

Villain

7.5

Shimizu Yuichi is a young man who takes care of his grandparents in a decaying fishing village in Nagasaki. His grandparents raised Yuichi instead of his mother. Yuichi, a lonely man, works as a civil employee. One…

Tora-san in Goto

8.0

The documentary follows for 22 years a nine member family involved in the manufacturing of udon in the Goto Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture.

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

8.3

A grand tale of love, friendship, and family spanning 70 years, set between the coal industry boom in Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, from 1955 and modern-day Tokyo. The story weaves together the bonds of family,…

Ao Haru Ride Season 2

7.8

Yoshioka Futaba was once a middle school student who fell for her warm-hearted classmate Tanaka Kou. But young love proved to be cruel, and the duo was separated due to circumstances beyond their control – with Kou…

A Story of Yonosuke

7.7

Set in the 1980s, Yokomichi Yonosuke is a college student with a warm heart from the port city of Nagasaki. His girlfriend Yosano Shoko is the daughter of a company president.

Have a Song on Your Lips

7.9

Yuri Kashiwagi is a genius pianist and part-time teacher in Tokyo. When her former colleague Haruko goes on maternity leave, she asks Kashiwagi to take over for her as the choral advisor at a middle school on one of…