Umeura Yoichi

Umeura Yoichi is a Japanese television and film producer born in Tokyo. He has served as the head of Toho Television and as the President of Tokyo Eiga Shinsha. In 1993, Umeura became President of Tokyo Eiga Shinsha, a subsidiary of Toho, where he continued his work in television film production. However,…

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Chiba Kichizo

He belonged to the magic lantern club of Yoshizawa Shoten , he worked as a developing engineer, and became a photography engineer when the company started producing newsreels in 1903 (Meiji36) .. In 1905 (Meiji 38) Togo Taisho Katsudo Shashin was filmed and according to Edamasa, Chiba was the first…

Ochiai Naobumi

A Japanese poet and literary scholar. Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional…

Reizei Kimihiro

Reizei Kimihiro was a Japanese actor and director from Tokyo. He belonged to FMG. He was the 4th chairman of the "Let's Win the University of Tokyo" (2006-2015). After graduating from The 5th Commercial High School in Tokyo, he joined the theater company Bungakuza after working at the Bungakuza Theater…

Abe Yutaka

A director from the mid-twenties, Abe had trained in Hollywood, where he played bit parts in films starring his compatriot, Sessue Hayakawa. After returning home, he became known as the Lubitsch of Japan, a reputation founded on his witty and polished social satires. A Mermaid on Land (Riku no ningyo,…

Toyoshima Keisuke

Born in 1971 in Shizuoka. While studying at the University of Tokyo, Toyoshima’s short film Kanashii Dake (1994) was premiered at Pia Film Festival in 1994. After graduating from the university, he went to Los Angeles to take the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the American Film Institute.…

Tsukamoto Shinya

In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…

Ono Daisuke

Born in Chiba in 1988, Daisuke graduated from The Film School of Tokyo in the narrative program. His first film, Sainara, BAD SAMURAI (2016) won the Grand Prix at the Kanazawa Film Festival. His second film, Wolf na Sissy (2005) won the Grand Prix and Best Actor at the 18th TAMA NEW WAVE. (Source: Chicago…

Shin Tokyo Koshin-Kyoku

~~ Adapted from the story by Yanagisawa Ruiju (柳沢類寿).

The Actor and the Model

5.2

An American male model working in Tokyo meets a Japanese actor at a photo shoot, and the two fall in love. For six months, they carry on in secret until one night, a text message unravels their relationship and exposes…

The Fallen Angel

6.9

A depressed artist makes his way to Tokyo where, struggling with addiction, his attempts to connect with people are frustrated by his own self-loathing. (Source: Netflix Japan)

Tokyo Ghost Trip

6.9

Setsu and Souwa are members of the Inui family, descended from Itako. Their high school graduation is coming up, but the head of the Inui family suddenly runs away. Their older brother Kai, a priest who studied exorcism…

Zenbu of Tokyo

7.8

It's about the adventures of 11 quirky high-school girls in Tokyo; 10 of them came from Nagano for a Class Trip, and group leader Yurika Ikezono has drawn up a "perfect" itinerary for her group for the free time part…

Adrift in Tokyo

7.4

Takemura begins the film as an 8th-year college student who has somehow managed to accumulate ¥840,000 in debt. Abandoned by his parents in childhood, he has no one to turn to for the cash. One night a stranger with…

TOKYO AIRPORT - Tokyo Kuukou Kansei Hoanbu

7.4

Tokyo’s Haneda Airport is the busiest airport in Japan with 1 airplane taking off and landing every 2 minutes. In a year, 6 billion people (an average of 170,000 people a day) pass through the airport. Shinoda Kaori…

The Sealer

7.8

A beheaded man’s corpse is discovered in Tokyo, cut with an impossibly sharp blade but mysteriously bloodless. Young reporter Sanjo Mio, investigating the case, witnesses a plume of black dust erupting from the wound—visible…

Sherlock: The Untold Stories

8.0

Set in present-day Tokyo, Homare Shishio works as a freelance crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio has been fascinated with original sin and how people become criminals. He is a genius with an impulse to commit…

Tokyo Friends

6.9

Small-town girl Rei moves to the big city to pursue her dreams. In Tokyo, she finds work at a pub and befriends the three other girls who work there, art student Maki, opportunistic Ryoko, and aspiring actress Hirono.…