Okamoto Kido

Okamoto Kido was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Okamoto Keiji (岡本啓二). He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the age of three, he began studying classical Chinese texts under his father's guidance, and at nine, he began learning Chinese…

Shimizu Kinichi

Shimizu Kinichi was a Japanese comedian and film actor born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He began his career at 16 in Tokyo, becoming a disciple of Shimizu Kintaro, a leader in Asakusa Opera. During this period, he took the name Shimizu Kinichi and had a child with actress Mine Rei. After Kintaro's death…

Morita Shingi

Morita Shingi was a Japanese film producer, screenwriter, and director. From 1937 he was consistently registered with Toho during and after World War II. On July 16, 1951, he died at his home in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo at the age of 53, due to a skull fracture.

Shishi Bunroku

Shishi Bunroku was a Japanese novelist and director from Tsukioka-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy and a recipient of the Order of Culture. He went to Keio University's Department of Finance but dropped out. In 1942, he won the Asahi Prize for Culture for "Kaigun" which…

Otani Kijaku

Otani Kijaku was a Japanese actor born in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He joined Yokota Shokai in the last years of the Meiji era and had supporting roles in silent movies mainly starring Onoe Matsunosuke. On September 10, 1912 , Yokota Shokai became Nikkatsu due to the merge with Fukuhodo, Yoshizawa…

Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Wakayama Kiichiro

Wakayama Kiichiro is a Japanese actor and director born on November 30, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. On November 28, 2013, he was arrested by the Chiba Prefectural Police Matsudo Police Department for violating the Stimulant Control Law for possessing a small amount of stimulants at his home in Minami-Azabu.…

Sakamoto Takeshi

Sakamoto Takeshi was a Japanese actor born in Sakagoshi, Ago, Hyogo, Japan. His real name was Nagai Takehei (永石武平). After graduating from Sakagoshi Elementary School, he initially worked at a watch shop in Osaka, Japan. However, his life took a turn when he attended a magic show performed by…

Hoigaku Kyoshitsu no Nagai Ichi Nichi

5.0

Yokohama. Early in the morning, I received a phone call from Kanagawa Prefectural Police chief Hamada at the home of Niijima, a professor of forensic medicine at Kanagawa Medical University, asking me to dissect the…

Kumori Nochi Harley

Ryo is a huge fan of motorcycles and rock music. One day, returning home, he discovers that his parents took in Sumire - a young girl who will stay at their home, until her parents, will figure out what about their…

Rainbow Trout

8.4

Take two successful and self-absorbed couples and a younger sister from the sprawl of Seoul and set them down for a weekend out in the countryside where there's not much else to do but squat in rivers to increase your…

Kutsukake Tokijiro: Yukyo Ippiki

According to the code of the gamblers, Tokijiro, though he dislikes killing, has to join in the fighting when afforded a night's stay and meals at the home of a town boss. He will be tested again and again in the bloody…

Kizuna

In the Tokyo Azabu area, the president of a company, Yumioka Yuichi, is stabbed to death at his home. It is revealed through the testimony of his daughter, Misako, that his wife, Naoko, had a lover. The police suspect…

Introduction

5.8

1. the father had asked him to come but he was occupied when he came 2. she wanted to study in Germany and her mother had to find cheap lodging 3. he went to see his mother at a beach restaurant and she was with an…

Kami no Tsuki

6.5

Rinka Umezawa is a housewife who pursues things that will bring her small happiness in life. Her husband Masabumi holds a stern belief that he will support his wife Rinka. The couple do not have children. Rinka begins…

Unfold

6.9

Bai Che, a death-scene cleanup worker, is suddenly confronted with the mysterious death of his adoptive father at a job site. As alarming messages regarding the black-market organ trade begin to surface, a break-in…

Plage

7.6

Takao is a 32-year-old employee of a travel agency. He is bored with his life and not good at his job or finding love. He decides to go somewhere new for a change and he ends up taking a stimulant drug without knowing.…

House of the Disappeared

7.5

Mi Hui was an ordinary housewife, married to police detective Cheol Jung and had a son. Suddenly, her husband died, and her son went missing at their house. As a result, Mi Hui was imprisoned for the past 25 years.…