Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Yagi Keiko

After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities…

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Ebara Tatsuyoshi

Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.

Koda Hiroko

Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…

Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Inoue Kohei

Born in Tokyo, Inoue is a Japanese film director and a commercial planner. His major films include Excited Death (Moosic Lab 2018 Grand Prix for Short Films) and Dong Teng Town (TIFF 2020). He has also worked on a video for Nogizaka 46. Excited Death is his first feature film. (Source: TMDB)

Fujii Rokusuke

Originally from Tokyo , his real name is Rikusuke Tanaka, and he used Ayamine and Rokuyo as his haiku names . Originally a fishmonger as a family business, he became an actor by becoming a disciple of Yoho Ii , who follows the Shinpa trend . He was active in the Ii troupe and the Shizuma Kojiro troupe…

Call for Dreams

7.3

In a rain-drenched Tokyo, from a high-rise apartment, Eko complicates her life by publishing a 'Call For Dreams' ad in the newspaper. With her scooter, she visits strangers who leave descriptions of dreams on her analogue…

Bu Su

7.3

Suzume moved in Tokyo where she's will be live in aunt's house, basically geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not into geisha life style too. When school…

Kabei: Our Mother

7.4

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain…

Nasake no Onna SP

7.4

Matsudaira Matsuko of the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau’s Eighteenth Tax Investigation Section, Information Branch is carrying out secret surveillance on a transsexual bar. She scents tainted money not just from…

Ring Wandering

7.4

In central Tokyo, young aspiring manga artist Sosuke struggles with drawing a Japanese wolf for his manga. One day, he discovers an animal skull at a construction site and wonders if it belongs to the extinct wolf.…

Ecchan

7.4

It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this,…

Toritsu Mizusho!

7.4

A school called “Tokyo Metropolitan Water Trade School” is a fictional trade-school that specializes water trade (nighttime entertainment business) education! Ishiwata Naoki who is in the midst of job hunting,…

Salaryman Kintaro

7.2

Yajima Kintaro comes to Tokyo and is hired by Yamato Construction Company when he saves the life of the company's CEO. A former leader of a motorcycle gang, Kintaro, is known for his highly principled and forthright…

Kamen Rider Black: Hurry to Onigashima

7.0

Children all over Tokyo mysteriously disappear without warning. Kotaro suspects that the Gorgom are behind the abductions and follows a suspicious-looking tour bus with children on it, only to lose its trail off a…

Kanzarashi ni Koishite

7.5

Mizuki moves from Tokyo to Shimabara city as the newest employee of the city office with the mission to revive Ginryu, a town favorite. The store specialises in kanzarashi a classic of the small town with a special…