Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Satsukawa Aimi

Satsukawa Aimi, born in Aoi, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and idol. She was discovered by the same Horipro talent scout who discovered Yuka while shopping with her mother in Tokyo at the age of 14. After finishing middle school, she decided to start a career in the entertainment…

Hayasaka Akira

Hayasaka Akira, born Tomita Yoshisuke (富田祥資), was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. Born in Hojo, Onsen, Ehime, Japan, he grew up in a prominent merchant family and was exposed to pilgrimage culture early in life. He attended Matsuyama Middle School and was in the Naval Academy at the end…

Kono Akitake

Kono Akitake was a Japanese actor, born in Shinko, Annaka, Nagasaki, Japan. He was originally performing under the stage name Yamazaki Shinzo (山崎進蔵). He attended Shimabara Prefectural Middle School and later Tokyo Physics School, though he left in November 1930. In November 1931, Kono joined…

Roel

Kim Sun Ho, known professionally as Roel, is a South Korean singer, dancer and former member of ARGON (아르곤). Before debuting, he used to be part of the broadcasting club during middle school and high school and even wanted to become an announcer. He made his debut in March 2019 as the group's…

Sato Takuma

Sato Takuma is a Japanese director born in Akita, Japan. He graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita Minami High School (秋田県立秋田南高等学校). During his school years, he played soccer, representing the Akita Prefecture select team in elementary and middle school. He also participated in…

Satoki Saburo

Satoki Saburo was a Japanese actor born in Yamamori, Yamagata, Japan. His real name was Sato Kizaburo (藤喜三郎). He was also known by various stage names, including Satoki Saburo (里木三郎), Satoki Saburo (里木左甫良), Satoki Saburo (里木三朗), Satoki Saburo (里木三甫良), Kuromaki…

Ishinomori Shotaro

Ishinomori Shotaro was a Japanese manga artist born in Ishinomori, Toda, Miyagi, Japan. His real name was Onodera Shotaro (小野寺章太郎). Until 1984, he used the name Ishinomori Shotaro (石森章太郎). In 1950, as a middle school student, Ishinomori sent a fan letter to Tezuka Osamu, which…

Lee Ki Hong

Ki Hong Lee is a Korean-American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Minho in The Maze Runner and Dong Nguyen in Netflix's series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, but when he was six years old, his parents moved the family to Auckland, New Zealand. When he…

Yoshioka YUI

Yui, stylized as YUI, (born March 26, 1987) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, composer, actress, and radio personality. She is currently signed to Studioseven Recordings and attached to the talent agency Stardust Promotion.

Yui was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She grew up in a single-parent family;…

Translucent Tree

4.0

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer…

Ito no Mori no Ie

7.4

Housewife Kanako leads an unfulfilling, hurried life in Tokyo. One day, Sakiko, who had been a close friend, suddenly calls her and insists that she come to Itoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture for a class reunion. It has…

Botchan

7.5

Botchan has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher.…

March Comes in Like a Lion

7.5

Kiriyama Rei is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in a traffic…

Makasete Darling

8.0

After four years in the countryside, his company transfers Kagetora and his family back to Tokyo. In their seven years they have gotten used to the peaceful atmosphere and amiable nature of those in the country. However,…

March Goes Out Like a Lamb

7.7

Kiryama Rei is a 17-years-old shogi player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in a traffic accident when…

Kekkon Dousoukai ~SEASIDE LOVE~

6.7

Aiba Mion, 25, came up to Tokyo from the countryside. After graduating from university, she scored a full-time post at a Tokyo apparel company and was assigned to be a shop employee. Mion’s goal is to be in Tokyo’s…

Midnight Swan

7.8

Nagisa is transgender woman. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika…

Life Can Be So Wonderful

6.9

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama film. "The World Is Sometimes Beautiful" Noeda is 38 years old and has lived in Tokyo for 19 years. For 11 years now, she has…

Her Granddaughter

6.9

In the wake of her grandmother’s death, Tsugumi Dozono, who used to work at a large electronics company in Tokyo, decides to move to the home her grandmother left behind in the countryside, and work from home. One…