Ogasawara Shojiro

Ogasawara Shojiro was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He entered the Army Childhood School, but dropped out due to illness, and graduated from Gakushuin High School. In the Taisho era, the dawn of Japanese cinema, he became an exclusive member of Ogasawara Productions, which was established by his brother…

Kitagawa Machiko

Born as a daughter of a stationery store in Tokyo (Chikada Co., Ltd., a sales and wholesale company for office supplies). She had an older brother, but he died in the war. In 1949, while a student at the higher girls' school decided to try out for new Toho when she went to visit the studio. She was…

Iwata Haruki

Iwata Haruki is a Japanese voice actress and actress from Tokyo, who graduated from Keio University. She belongs to Mirai Productions.

Kaburagi Haruna

Kaburagi Haruna is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo.

Miyajima Kenichi

Miyajima Kenichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture. His real name is Hishida Yukichi and former stage name Miyajima Kensuke. He entered a vocational school but dropped out After the war, he belonged to the Daiei Tokyo studio and played supporting roles and a bit parts in many…

Sasaki Keisuke

Sasaki Keisuke was a Japanese film director from Tokyo. He graduated from the Fisheries Department of Miyagi Commercial School. Sasaki joined Kaoru Osanai's shingeki movement and joined Shochiku Kinema when it was founded in 1920.

Hasegawa Kimiyuki

Hasegawa Kimiyuki was a Japanese screenwriter and art critic born in Tokyo. He graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine. He debuted as a screenwriter in "Kimi to Iku America Koro" which was published in 1950. Taking advantage of his experience working in the forensics of the Criminal Department…

Akiyoshi Kaoru

Akiyoshi Kaoru was a Japanese manga artist and painter from Tokyo. While attending Takachiho Junior High School, he took a sick leave for two years due to pulmonary tuberculosis. During that time, he posted in the manga section of Asahi Graph and became a disciple of the manga artist Tsutsumi Kanzo.…

Sono Kayako

Sono Kayako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo and raised in Tennoji Ward, Osaka. She graduated from Kobe College Faculty of Letters. In 1953, she became an auditor of NHK's Osaka Broadcasting Theater Company, appeared in the station's "Bonus", and has been active since the early days of television.…

Ohara Noriko

Ohara Noriko was a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo Prefecture. She was previously represented by Aoni Production, then Production Baobab, but then became a freelancer. Her son, Tobe Atsuo, is a Sunrise animator. She was best known for the roles of Nobita Nobi (Doraemon), all of the female…

Yoru no Chimata wo Haikaisuru

Matsuko Deluxe wanders around Tokyo, randomly visits shops that he finds on the road, and interacts with people in the city. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kakashi to Racket

6.8

Aki transferred from Tokyo to a school on a rural island. Tamako was born and raised on the island. Now, they attend the same middle school. Aki was a member of the soft tennis club back in Tokyo, but an incident caused…

Arashi no Namida

7.4

Fall 2006 in Tokyo, Satoko lives happily with her husband Yusuke, baby daughter Haruko and parents-in-law. One day, Satoko loses her husband and daughter by accident. She meets a crying a baby girl and calls her Haruko.…

Convenience Store Yume Monogatari

6.0

Koichi lives in Tokyo. He hears that his father Kozo has a heart attack and rushes back to his hometown. Kozo ran a liquor store for years. Despite the opposition of Kozo and people around him, Koichi changes the liquor…

Eternal Maria

Maria came to Tokyo from her countryside and started working as an AV actress. However, as her name grew, her younger brother in her hometown began to be teased at school, and her worried mother repeatedly calls her.

Gonenme no Hitori

6.0

Set in Tokyo, May 2015. A middle-school girl Ami was suddenly stopped by a stranger named Shuji. He says she looks exactly like his daughter Reiko who died in the Tsunami of the Great Quake 5 years ago. Despite the…

Austin Grayson

Graduation work from Tokyo Visual Arts Department of Broadcasting.

Moon Dream

6.0

When Bob visits Tokyo on a business trip, he forgets his passport and bag on a bus and gets help from Sayuri, who he happens to meet there. However, as soon as he was relieved to find his bag, he losses all his money…

16-18-4

3.0

A day at the Tokyo Race course. (Letterboxd)

Ningen no Shomei

6.7

One day in Tokyo in 1974, a black youth with a scruffy appearance mysteriously dies inside a hotel elevator headed for the top floor. He had been stabbed deep in the chest with a knife. A single tear ran down his cheek.…