Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Hayama Yoko

Hayama Yoko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She dropped out of Yamawaki Gakuen High School. At the age of 7, she joined Gekidan Wakakusa at the recommendation of his mother and started performing arts activities as a child actor. In 1955, she made her silver screen debut with "Shiinomi Gakuen" and…

Takase Yukina

Yukina Takase was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She made her debut in musical Annie when she was 10 as a child actor and since then she's worked in film, TV series and commercials in Japan. She moved to Los Angeles and started a new career in The US in 2018.

Asaji Naoki

Asaji Naoki is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He belongs to Bungakuza.

Shimada Ryuichi

Shimada Ryuichi was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he worked as an assistant director and also made many industrial PR videos. For his first feature-length film "Nowhere to Go", he received the New Directors Award of the Directors Guild…

Nakayama Keiko

Nakayama Keiko is a singer from Tokyo and a former idol singer. Her agency at the time of her idol period was Sun Music Productions. Her father is Satake Akio, an actor. Her maternal grandfather is film director Fuyushima Taizo. In 1975, she was scouted for Fuji TV's "All-star Kazoku Taiko Utagassen"…

Tomura Michiko

Tomura Michiko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She currently belongs to Echoes Co., Ltd. Tomura graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Performing Arts, Acting Direction Course.

Mabuchi Haruko

Mabuchi Haruko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. She died from lung cancer at the age of 75. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tsuchiya Ayumi

Tsuchiya Ayumi was a Japanese actor from Tokyo, Japan. He died in a car accident when he was 26 years old.

Ono Shinya

Ono Shinya is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Rikkyo University. Ono belonged to Imura Pro and MC Planning (Tokyo). In 1965, he entered the entertainment world as the 5th gen member of the Theater Research Institute attached to Bungakuza. In 1966, Ono made…

Orizuru Osen

6.9

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antique dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures.…

Passing Fancy

7.6

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live. (Source: IMDb)

Seinen no Ki

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities, despite the wishes of his father, who wants him…

Tada's Do-It-All House

7.6

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appeared unannounced. Back in their schooldays, Haruhiko…

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

7.6

Set in 1958 Tokyo. Norifumi Suzuki owns a small auto body shop named “Suzuki Auto”, where he works and lives with his loving family. One day, he comes back home with a new employee, Mutsuko Hoshino, who moves in…

Masquerade Hotel

7.6

Three murders occur in Tokyo, with numbers left at each scene, possibly indicating the location of the next. Detective Nitta Kosuke investigates, suspecting the next murder will happen at Hotel Koruteshia Tokyo. He…

Takara's Treasure

7.7

Taishin has moved to Tokyo from his hometown of Fukuoka in order to reunite with Takara, a stranger who had consoled him in his grief the year prior. However, despite finally getting a chance to express his gratitude…

Japan Sinks: People of Hope

7.8

In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Higashiyama Eiichi pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Higashiyama…

Sherlock: The Untold Stories

8.0

Set in present-day Tokyo, Homare Shishio works as a freelance crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio has been fascinated with original sin and how people become criminals. He is a genius with an impulse to commit…

Shoplifters

8.3

Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's pension. As he…