Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Ikawa Kotaro

Kotaro Ikawa was born in 1976. At Hitotubashi university, he learned cinema theory from Kan Nozaki and started to make films. He began his film career as a cameraman. His directorial debut is the work of a one-man film crew: he receives credit not only for direction, but for script, production, cinematography,…

Otsuka Michiko

Otsuka Michiko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Otsuka Michiko (大塚道子) was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo. She attended Tokyo Women's High School (東京女子高等師範学校付属高等女学校) but did not complete her studies. After training…

Yamamoto Kaichi

Yamamoto Kaichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has been a major figure in Nikkatsu and appeared in both contemporary and historical dramas. In 1895, when he was 18 years old, he joined the new school "Otojiro Kawakami Ichiza" led by Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899 when he was 22 years old, he participated…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Zenryaku Ofukuro-sama: Series 1

6.0

Set in downtown Tokyo, a youthful drama about a shy young chef at a Japanese restaurant and the people that surround him.

Eden no Umi

6.6

A new teacher from Tokyo called Nanjo is transferred to a rural all-girl high school. He is happy and kind, and with one exception, the students love him. The exception is not so friendly toward him. This girl and…

Zenryaku Okufuro-sama 2

5.0

Set in downtown Tokyo, a youthful drama about a shy young chef at a Japanese restaurant and the people that surround him.

Ogon no Inu

6.8

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. Goro's master held a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved. (Source: IMBD) ~~ Adapted from…

Jun

Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway,…

Takeshi Kun, Hai!

7.3

Set in slums of Tokyo, the daily life of the child Takeshi Kitano and his family is depicted with a comedy touch, the drama revolves around the Takeshi Kitano who is kind but mischievous.

Will You Be a Star Too

Mika Tachibana moved to Tokyo from Kyushu and worked in a supermarket. One day, she caught a shoplifting woman. However, the woman was Ayako Yamagishi, the president of the music office, who played to draw attention…

The Morning Schedule

Reiko returns to Tokyo with the luggage of her best friend who died suddenly on her travels. Sensing something suspicious about her, her classmate Shimomura decided to look at the 8mm film they had taken on her trip...

Seishun Hokago

“Youth After School” takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter’s marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology…

Gondola

7.4

When Ryo arrives in Tokyo from the Aomori Prefecture he finds employment cleaning windows of high-rises. Pre-teen girl Kagari lives inside one of the buildings. Ryo and Kagari lock gazes for a moment. It is a moment…