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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Harada Yoshio

Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…

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.…

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…

Suzuki Seijun

Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically…

Aoki Shinsuke

Shinsuke Aoki (AOKI Shinsuke / 青木伸輔) is a Japanese actor, born on Monday, March 8, 1976, in Tokyo, Japan.
His talent agency is Toyota Office.

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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

7.6

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,…

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.…

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…

Dear Sa-chan

6.4

After moving to Tokyo for college, Kyosuke finds himself torn between his long-distance girlfriend, Sa-chan, and his beautiful, married neighbor, Shino. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Dear Sa-chan"…

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…

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…

Back Hug

6.5

After Sakura fails the Tokyo University Entrance exam for the fourth time, she takes on a job as a housekeeper for Tokyo University graduate Takuma, who shuts himself in his room. Will these unlikely people be able…