Ota Yu

Joined TV Tokyo in 2002.

Kakisawa Aya

Pastry chef from Tokyo .

Tanaka Hosaki

Born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied at Keio University, where he joined the KAKI-KUU-KYAKU Theater Company in 2016. He has directed an independent film that won the Grand Prix in the Science Fiction category at the 9th TOHO CINEMAS Student Film Festival.

Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Kobayashi Hiromi

Born in Tokyo . After graduating from university , she joined a theater company and performed on stage . After 11 years , she left the theater company . After that , he expanded his range of activities to narration work , etc.

Saito Emi

After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University, majoring in film, she gained experience as an assistant director under many directors. In 2017, she directed the short film "Tokyo Capsule" under the Young Filmmaker Development Project (ndjc). In 2018, her feature film project "Birth Cry" won the President's…

Yagi Keiko

After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities…

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Byplayers Season 2

7.2

The TV channel TV Tokyo is about to launch a morning drama, "Shimakko-san". Endo Kenichi, Oosugi Ren, Taguchi Tomorowo, Matsushige Yutaka and Mitsuishi Ken are sent to the filming location, but for some reason they…

Devil

1.0

Saeki moves to Tokyo to attend university and takes boarding in a quiet residential area. Living there, too, are Teruko, the teenage daughter of the home's owner, and their relative, Suzuki. Although still a high school…

Inochi aru Kagiri

3.0

After moving to Tokyo Kida Toshiyuki starts a music career while working. Then he marries and went back home, where he discovers he suffers from muscular dystrophy. One day he fell on the stage and decided to stop…

The Night Receptionist

6.2

During a thunderstorm in Tokyo, a hotel night receptionist sees something he should not have seen. (Source: Viddsee.com) ~~ Co-production with Indonesia.

Dreams on Fire

8.0

Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfill her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met with the harsh reality that success isn't something that comes quickly or easily. Whilst juggling her job as a hostess…

Restart

6.8

Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting…

The End of Life

Saya who came to Tokyo after being traumatized by an incident eight years ago. She learns that the man involved in the case has been engaged to her sister and returns home without being able to stand. Saya's radical…

Kichiku

6.8

It is 1976 in Tokyo’s working class neighbourhood. Takenaka Sokichi runs a small printing company called Takenaka Printing with his hardworking wife Umeko. Although they are a subcontractor for large printing companies,…

born, bone, boon.

6.5

Hitoshi returns from Tokyo to his hometown on Aguni Island to introduce his new wife Yoko to his family. However, his real reason for coming back is the island's cultural tradition of "senkotsu," or washing the bones…

On the Way

He came to Tokyo to become an actor but found himself struggling in the city. His life becomes intermingled with a writer who had written a novel that closely resembles his own life. What did he discover about his…