Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

Ikawa Kotaro

Kotaro Ikawa was born in 1976. At Hitotubashi university, he learned cinema theory from Kan Nozaki and started to make films. He began his film career as a cameraman. His directorial debut is the work of a one-man film crew: he receives credit not only for direction, but for script, production, cinematography,…

Oizumi Akira

Ohizumi Akira was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

Yamamoto Kaichi

Yamamoto Kaichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has been a major figure in Nikkatsu and appeared in both contemporary and historical dramas. In 1895, when he was 18 years old, he joined the new school "Otojiro Kawakami Ichiza" led by Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899 when he was 22 years old, he participated…

The Night Receptionist

6.2

During a thunderstorm in Tokyo, a hotel night receptionist sees something he should not have seen. (Source: Viddsee.com) ~~ Co-production with Indonesia.

Dreams on Fire

8.0

Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfill her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met with the harsh reality that success isn't something that comes quickly or easily. Whilst juggling her job as a hostess…

Restart

6.8

Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting…

The End of Life

Saya who came to Tokyo after being traumatized by an incident eight years ago. She learns that the man involved in the case has been engaged to her sister and returns home without being able to stand. Saya's radical…

On the Way

He came to Tokyo to become an actor but found himself struggling in the city. His life becomes intermingled with a writer who had written a novel that closely resembles his own life. What did he discover about his…

The Light of Spring

8.0

In a tiny suburban Tokyo apartment, the Hirabuki family, a couple with two children, is getting ready for a trip. The question, “Where are we going?” is met with silence. The camera does not follow them on their…

Crank

8.0

Maru runs around Tokyo. Maru hears from his fellow messenger Hide that he might be leaving Tokyo. (Source: shortshorts.org)

Kakurega de Yofukashi

Yui came to Tokyo dreaming of a glamorous college life, but she had no hobbies or boyfriend and was living a boring daily life. While wasting time in the park, the idol-like actor Shunta Aizawa passed in front of her,…

Inochi aru Kagiri

3.0

After moving to Tokyo Kida Toshiyuki starts a music career while working. Then he marries and went back home, where he discovers he suffers from muscular dystrophy. One day he fell on the stage and decided to stop…

Instruments of a Beating Heart

First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often struggles to keep…