A Summer Family

Kamimura (62 years old), is a Japanese dancer who lives in the Perche region of south Normandy, France. He has been living with two women, in a strange life, for the past few years. In early summer, June, a dance festival…

The Ugly Duckling

6.1

This is an elementary school version of 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei. Gansuke is an elementary school teacher from Hokkaido who moves to Tokyo to be near his sweetheart Masako, who wants to become a hair stylist. He…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 7

Asami Mitsuhiko visits Aizu City on a job as a reporter and witnesses the sudden death of lacquer craftsman Hirano Koji while touring a lacquerware workshop. An autopsy reveals that Koji died of poisoning from a poisonous…

Love of Tune Nep

The late-night program with the theme of a joint party, each time a participant broadcasts a joint party. For example, the male side is an normal person, while the female side is a woman who loves anime cosplay , or…

Hocho Mushuku

Kure Ryusuke worked as a cook at Kirinoya, a Japanese restaurant in Tsukiji, Tokyo. But because of some stabbing incident , inflicted by his son, he got kicked out. For now on, wandering around Japanese restaurants…

Translucent Tree

4.0

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 18

Near Chigo-ga-ike in Kyoto, the strangled body of reporter Takada is discovered in a river. It appears he was killed elsewhere and thrown off a bridge. Meanwhile, at the home of Tadataka, head of the Tanmasu-ryu ikebana…

August Love Song

This story centers around four people whose lives are intertwined. Eizo runs a Chinese restaurant and is dealing with the sorrow of losing his wife. His daughter Chika writes lyrics and dreams of becoming famous. Eri…

Maiden Punch

A woman who had changed jobs moved to Tokyo dreaming of becoming a professional boxer. She aims to become a champion through various encounters. (Source: Japanese = Jwiki || Translation = MyDramaList)

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 27

Thirty-four years ago, a man named Nomoto Sueharu was found dead in Okoshino no Mori, crushed beneath a fallen torii gate. Beside his body lay a bronze hitokatashiro—a ritual effigy traditionally used as a human…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Yagyu Hiroshi

Yagyu Hiroshi was a Japanese actor, host, talent, voice actor, and organizational executive, born in Funajima, Ibaraki, Japan. He graduated from Ibaraki Prefectural Tsuchiura First High School and briefly attended Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine before leaving due to poor eyesight and illness.…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Tamiya Jiro

Tamiya Jiro was born on August 25, 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan as Shibata Goro. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Showdown at Night's End (1964). He was married to Fuji Yukiko. He died on December 29, 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.

Date Shin

In 1925 he became a member of the theater company Tsukijishogekijo, where he made his debut in the play Gasu. When this theater company was disbanded in 1929, he joined forces with, among others, Osamu Takizawa and transferred to the left-wing theater company Tokyo sayokugekijo . There he spent a lot…

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

Tanimura Masahiko

Masahiko Tanimura was born on February 25, 1927 in Yamagata, Japan as Makoto Takeda. He was an actor, known for Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974), Torakku yarô: Totsugeki ichiban hoshi (1978) and Akutarô-den: Warui hoshi no shita demo (1965). He died on August 6, 2000 in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan (Source:…