Sakurada Junko

Sakurada Junko is a Japanese singer and actress. She was part of a music trio in 1973, which included Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori. Sakurada then became successful in a solo music career, with 18 top ten singles in the 1970s. Her acting career ran from 1973 to 1993. She received multiple awards for…

Honda Hirotaro

Honda Hirotaro was born on February 8, 1951 in Ibaraki, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen raida × Supa sentai × Uchuu keiji: Supa hiro taisen Z (2013), Himeyuri no To (1995) and Toyotomi Hideyoshi tenka wo toru! ( 1995). (Source: IMDB)

Sakamoto Akira

Japanese actor from Saitama Prefecture.

Miyamoto Nobuko

She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Shimizu Koji

Shimizu Koji is a Japanese actor.

Hayafune Kaeko

She was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. In 2008, a finalist at the 34th Kido Prize Scenario Contest for “Sakana no Nemuri” (A Fish’s Sleep). In 2009, a runner-up at the 35th Kido Prize Scenario Contest for “Demosthenes to Gogatsu no Propeller” (Demosthenes and the May Propeller). After writing…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Koseki Yuta

Koseki Yuta, alternatively written as 'Koseki Yuuta', is a Japanese actor. He's been active in the entertainment business since 2003 and has starred in commercials for products such as "Phantasy Star Portable 2" and plays such as "Musical Shugo Chara!". He is mainly known for his part in the "Prince…

Tamura Masakazu

Tamura Masakazu, born in Setagaya and died in Minato, was a Japanese actor. He was the third actor from the acting trio "The Three Tamura Brothers", alongside his brothers Takahiro and Ryo. His half-brother is actor Mizukami Yasuhiro. In 1961, he signed an exclusive contract and debuted in his first…

Sleep in the Rain

Sleep in the Shadows

Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into his bar. He always idolizes Fuyuki as his elder brother. Shinji is a member of the charity group which looks after…

Memories of His Scent

High school girl Hinoki has a keen sense of smell. Perhaps it has something to do with her father, who ran a coffee bean roasting store. This sets the quiet and contemplative girl apart from others. When she reads…

Sleeping in the Red Earth

The year is 1949. While digging in ten-thousand-year-old red clay deposits, amateur archaeologist Aizawa discovers stone fragments that he believes to be the relics of ancient humans. But in the postwar construction…

While the Women Are Sleeping

6.1

Kenji Shimizu is a writer. He goes to a resort hotel with his wife for a one week vacation. Kenji Shimizu is bored with his wife and is also in a slump with his writing. He decides to get a job. Kenji just kills time…

Let Him Rest in Peace

7.5

Because his friend was framed for a crime he did not commit, Tsuyoshi Shindo returns to his hometown to settle the score with yakuza boss Ryuichi Sakaguchi (Ryuzo Hayashi).

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,…

Dear Heart

Miwako, who visited a villa on the plateau with her husband, Shinji, who is a mystery writer, is confused that Shinji, who has just undergone heart transplant surgery, has begun to behave strangely. She leaves Shinji…

The Bad Sleep Well

7.7

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Crime or Punishment?!?

6.5

Keralino Sandorovich's black comedy in the Japanese/British style is about an unsuccessful gravure (pin-up) model Ayame Enjoji(Namuri Riko). She does not get the big gigs like her old school friend Momo Mimikawa (Ando…