Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Nishino Emi

Nishino Emi is a Japanese keyboardist, singer, support musician, and actress. She started playing the piano at the age of 2. She started studying classical music in earnest when she entered kindergarten, which was connected to Kunitachi College of Music. She majored in classical piano after graduating…

Luo Yun Xi

Luo Yun Xi, also known by his English name Leo Luo, is an award-winning actor, dancer and singer born in Chengdu, China. He graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy, majoring in ballet. After graduation, he worked as a dance instructor at Macau Conservatory, where he was also one of the lead dancers…

Nakae Shinji

Sato Yoshitaka, known by the stage name Nakae Shinji, was a male Japanese voice actor and narrator. Nakae narrated numerous Nintendo commercials during 2006. He retired in 2007 due to his failing health; Kubota Hitoshi took over his role as the narrator of the Nintendo commercials, and Otomo Ryūzaburo…

Enomoto Kanako

Enomoto Kanako is a Japanese talent, businesswoman, former actress, and former idol born in Minato-ku, Tokyo. After working at Lucky Come Come, her entertainment agency was Talent x Kids x Talent. She graduated from Minato Ward Asahi Junior High School and dropped out of the full-time regular course…

Lee Pace

In 2003, Lee Grinner Pace starred in the Sundance hit, Soldier's Girl (2003), an extraordinary telefilm created for Showtime. The film was based on the true story of a transgender nightclub performer in love with a soldier who is brutally murdered for their relationship. His breakthrough performance…

Ueda Marie

Marie Ueda is a Japanese singer and actress. During elementary school, she took parts in various auditions for singing contests. When she became a junior high school student, her voice was wanted by another Fukuoka talent agency, however, she didn't want to become a talent, Marie always stated that…

Yamada Jundai

Yamada Jundai, born 14 February 1973, in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor. His real name is Yamada Sumihiro. He is represented by Horipro Booking Agency. His father is actor and singer Sugi Ryotaro. In his private life, he and former Mito Komon actress Takyo Kei married in the spring of 2016. They had been…

Ueto Aya

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Aya Ueto received her first break in August 1997, when, at the age of 11, she won the Special Jury Prize at the 7th All-Japan Bishoujo Contest. After this initial success, she tried her hand at both acting and singing, appearing in various minor TV drama roles, as well as a low-budget…

Ota Tadashi

Ota Tadashi was a Japanese composer and pianist born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He became acquainted with the organ at the age of 8 and began studying piano and composition at the age of 15. After graduating from commercial school in 1919, he composed numerous songs and children's…

Ryoko Sakka Chaya Jiro 4

4.0

Travel writer Chaya Jiro is visited by his ex-wife, Kazuko. Kazuko has doubts about the cause of death of her uncle, Wasaburo, who fell to his death in the Kumano River in Wakayama two weeks earlier, and asks Jiro…

Holiday Dreaming

7.3

Ah Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream, he sees the dead body of Chen Shing Shing, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream…

The Crying Wind

5.5

Seikichi, 70, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by…

Koi no Jikan

When their mother falls ill, two sisters are faced not only with her extended care, but with the romances that spring from this change in situation. The younger sister, a married woman with children, falls for the…

One Day on the Road

An animal, once warm and alive with blood running through its veins until just a few minutes ago, now crashed and scattered in the wreckage. Rabbits and water deer are often being killed on the road as they try to…

Better and Better

6.1

"Better and Better" is based on two separate stories that unfold together. A rich young man who has made his fortune competes with a geeky young man who was wandering through the area. The competition is to see who…

Twiceborn

5.7

On July 15, 1991, Satoru Ichijo is about to give a lecture at Tokyo Dome. Time goes back to a fateful spring day right before his college graduation. Satoru received a message from the spiritual world and realized…

Warabinokou - To the Bracken Fields

4.0

A poor village in the Tohoku area. The village has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, they must move to the place called Warabino, far away from home. This spring, eight elderly residents leave…

No Name Stars

8.0

Gwangju in May 1980, what does it look like in your memory? Mr. Hwang, a shop owner who was willing to open the door of the store and shared drinks, driver Yang who took a bus full of citizens and went to Geumnam-ro,…

Reunion Dinner

7.2

When you want to see each other's parents during Chinese New Year, but you cannot resolve the estrangement with your mother, what will you do? As the Spring Festival approached, chief advertising creative director…