Yamanouchi Akira

Akira Yamanouchi was born on July 11, 1921 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kenka ichidai: Dodekai yatsu (1970), Tattooed Life (1965) and Umi o wataru hatoba no kaze (1960). He was married to Misty OTA. He died on October 29, 1993 in Tokyo Japan.

Kayama Yoshiko

Actress | Writer. Yoshiko Kayama was born on January 1, 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Arashi wo yobu jûhachinin (1963) and Edogawa Rampo no injû (1977).

Yamamoto Kiyoshi

Yamamoto Kiyoshi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After growing up in Malaysia, Yamamoto attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School and then graduated from Meiji Gakuin University's Department of Psychology. After his directorial debut in 2003, he has been involved in the production…

Hosokawa Toshiyuki

Hosokawa Toshiyuki was a Japanese actor associated with the Aktor. Born in Fukuoka and raised in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, he completed his education at Yamaguchi Prefectural Toyora High School and briefly attended Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he was involved…

Tamura Nami

Tamura Nami is a Japanese actress born in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo.

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

Kawarasaki Choichiro

Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki…

Iwao Kinshiro

Iwao Kinshiro was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and recitation artist born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of the Faculty of Commerce at Meiji University (明治大学) and later served as the chairman of the All Japan Entertainment Troupe Management Association (全国芸能団運営会) and as a…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Tani Kei

Tani Kei was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician born in Tokyo, Japan. He learned to play the trombone and, while a student at Chuo University, began playing in jazz bands performing for American soldiers during the Occupation of Japan. He quit university and joined the "City Slickers" in 1953,…

Kabei: Our Mother

7.4

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain…

Ring Wandering

7.4

In central Tokyo, young aspiring manga artist Sosuke struggles with drawing a Japanese wolf for his manga. One day, he discovers an animal skull at a construction site and wonders if it belongs to the extinct wolf.…

Nasake no Onna SP

7.4

Matsudaira Matsuko of the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau’s Eighteenth Tax Investigation Section, Information Branch is carrying out secret surveillance on a transsexual bar. She scents tainted money not just from…

Ecchan

7.4

It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this,…

Toritsu Mizusho!

7.4

A school called “Tokyo Metropolitan Water Trade School” is a fictional trade-school that specializes water trade (nighttime entertainment business) education! Ishiwata Naoki who is in the midst of job hunting,…

Kanzarashi ni Koishite

7.5

Mizuki moves from Tokyo to Shimabara city as the newest employee of the city office with the mission to revive Ginryu, a town favorite. The store specialises in kanzarashi a classic of the small town with a special…

Mukou no Hate

7.5

In 1985 Tokyo, novelist Kohei Kimizuka is murdered in an arson case, and childhood friend Ritsuko Ikematsu is arrested. Prosecutor Tsutaguchi investigates Ritsuko’s past and the men in her life, uncovering varying…

Bu Su

7.3

Suzume moved in Tokyo where she's will be live in aunt's house, basically geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not into geisha life style too. When school…

Call for Dreams

7.3

In a rain drenched Tokyo, from a high rise apartment, Eko complicates her life by publishing a 'Call For Dreams' ad in the newspaper. With her scooter she visits strangers who leave descriptions of dreams on her analogue…

Long Goodbye

7.5

Set in Tokyo, Japan during the 1950's. Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife, Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective. Banji…