Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Yamamoto Satsuo

Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho.…

Hanaoka Kikuko

Hanaoka Kikuko was a Japanese actress born Takigawa Ikuyo (瀧川幾代) in Teramachi, Shizuoka, Japan. After marriage, she was legally known as Matsuzaki Ikuyo (松崎幾代). She was recognized for her work as a comedic actress at Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s and as a supporting actress…

Egawa Ureo

Egawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to a German father and a Japanese mother. His name "Ureo" is a Japanification of his German name "Willy". He joined the Taikatsu film studio in 1920, but not finding stable work, he joined a gang of delinquents. Egawa of this period became the model for Ton Satomi's…

Bando Mitsugoro X

Morita Hisashi (January 23, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was a Japanese Kabuki actor, television presenter, and writer. Born as the eldest son of the Yamatoya guild, his grandfather was Bando Mitsugoro VIII, one of Japan's most revered kabuki actors who was designated as a "Living National Treasure"…

Sendo Akiho

Sendo Akiho is a Japanese actress, born on April 5, 1969 in Hyogo, Japan.
Akiho debuted in January 1990 as a Japanese idol, releasing the song "It's a Melody."
In the early 1990s, Akiho was called the "Gakuensai no Queen" (Queen of School Festivals).
Variety shows she either emceed…

Maeda Tetsu

He is from Osaka Prefecture. At the photo studio, he worked as a freelance assistant from a part-time job of a tool, and became an assistant director, and he was involved in works by Itami Juzo, Takita Yojiro, Sakai Yoichi, Sakai Yoichi, Sakamoto Junji, Matsuoka Koujishi, Suo Masayuki and others. Under…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Amatsu Bin

Amatsu Bin was a Japanese actor born in Miyagi Prefecture Kanan Town, Momou District (now Ishinomaki City). After graduating from Miyagi Normal School, he started teaching. During the war, he served as a child soldier instructor in the Marine Corps. He got married in 1944, adopted his son-in-law, and…

Shirei Masaaki

Businessman , actor , singer-songwriter. He made his debut in 1982 with the single "Body and Mind Scandalous". However, after about two years, he quit his career as a singer and moved to a TV drama . Since 2000, he has been running a computer school "Forty Co., Ltd." in Asakusa , Taito-ku .

Indigo no Yoru

7.5

Yoko Moriguchi stars as a woman who was previously a successful editor at a major publisher. One day, her fiance suddenly disappeared, and an embezzlement incident later led her to lose her job. She ended up as the…

Natsuko no Sake

7.6

Natsuko lives her dream as a copy writer for an advertising company in Tokyo. But when she hits a slump in her career, she returns to her family's sake brewery in the countryside. There she discovers her older brother…

Edward

7.6

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his…

The Law Cafe Special

7.6

This special episode serves as a teaser/preview of what to expect from the upcoming season. It features behind-the-scenes, as well as clips of the cast speaking about the show; what they think and feel. (Source: kisskh)

Whistleblower

7.6

Tamio Hakkaku works as a subsection chief for a company. He has not received a promotion in a long time. Other members including Makoto Kitagawa as the manager of the same department work very hard. One day, Manji…

My Family Goes Viral

7.4

Akari works as a manager at a cafe. She is sincere and she has a good reputation with those around her, but she has a secret. Due to a video, Akari gets popular on social media. Soon, her family, who have peaceful…

Eureka

7.6

Eureka begins violently as a crazed businessman hijacks a bus and shoots anyone who tries to make a run for it. The bus driver survives, along with two young kids, an older brother Naoki and a younger sister Kozue.…

Jao Ban Jao Ruean

7.5

Rejected woman comes back as a ghost to threaten the reincarnation of her past love and his new love.

Emergency Room 24 Hours

7.5

Featuring Yosuke Eguchi as a young emergency room doc and Nanako Matsushima as his unappreciative assistant also fails. It is just one medical emergency after another interrupted by bits of silliness, such as the scene…

Medical Team Lady da Vinci's Diagnosis

7.6

Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and…