Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Hira Mikijiro

Hira Mikijiro was a Japanese actor and director born in Koami-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. He was affiliated with Kei Factory. At the beginning of sixth grade, Mikijiro evacuated to the home of his maternal great-uncle in Kamigeshi-cho, Konu, eastern Hiroshima, Japan. His mother remained in Hiroshima.…

Kinoshita Houka

In 1980, Kinoshita auditioned for the film, Gaki Teikoku, which he passed and made his acting debut. After graduating from Osaka University of Arts, he entered Yoshimoto Kogyo and joined Yoshimoto Shinkigeki troupe, but he did little to stand out on the comedy stage, and quit after three years. In 1989,…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

Saori

Saori is a Japanese actress and former member of the idol group Snappeas under the agency Stardust Promotion. Saori got her start in 2003 when joined the short-lived idol group Snappeas under her birth name "Koide Saori". Soon after, she starred in her first dorama, Tokyo Shoujo. In 2010, she changed…

Izumi Pinko

Takemoto Sayo (Maiden name: Eguchi, previous stage name: Mikado Mariko), known by the stage name Izumi Pinko, is a Japanese actress, comedian, comic storyteller, and singer born in Tokyo. In 1966, after dropping out of Nippon Music High School, she studied under Maki Shinji and made her debut as a singing…

Takamine Hideko

Takamine Hideko was a Japanese actress, singer, and essayist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Her real name was Matsuyama Hideko (松山秀子), and her maiden name was Hirayama Hideko (平山秀子). Her family lived in a household run by her grandfather, Rokusho, who managed a soba restaurant called…

Kubodera Akira

Started modeling while still a student at Nihon University, where he studied agriculture and veterinary medicine. After graduation, he began working in theater. In 2003, he debuted in drama with his role as Kunzite in the live action adaptation of Sailor Moon. He actress Hiroko Ōmori in 2007. On November…

Matsumura Yuki

Matsumura Yuki is a Japanese actor who has appeared in nine feature films, as well as a number of television series and theater productions. He is also a singer and has released eight albums and eight singles. He is represented with All-Stars Company. Matsumura was born in Bunkyo, Tokyo. While attending…

Okina Megumi

Megumi Okina (奥菜 恵, Okina Megumi, born 6 August 1979) is a Japanese actress, and J-Pop singer in the 1990s.

Born in Hiroshima and raised in Tokyo, she made her J-Pop debut on 19 August 1995. She starred in the Japanese original of The Grudge. She married Susumu Fujita…

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,…

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…

Mukou no Hate

7.5

In 1985 Tokyo, novelist Kohei Kimizuka is murdered in an arson case, and childhood friend Ritsuko Ikematsu is arrested. Prosecutor Tsutaguchi investigates Ritsuko’s past and the men in her life, uncovering varying…

Long Goodbye

7.5

Set in Tokyo, Japan during the 1950's. Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife, Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective. Banji…

Lost Man Found

7.6

Matsudo Satoru moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes,…

Natsuzora Spin-off: Aki no Dai Shukakusai

7.8

[Toyo-san's Tokyo Story] The first film is the story of Toyo, who comes to Tokyo alone and is asked by Kazuhisa to voice an old woman character. She then visits an anime voice recording studio and is moved by Doma…

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.…

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…

Early Summer

7.8

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still single at the advanced age of 28.…