Tachibana Yasuhito

Tachibana Yasuhito is a Japanese producer. He is the representative of the production company 'Nemeton.' After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked at Cable Broad Networks (now USEN) before joining the production company Dramax Television (now TBS Sparkle) in 2004, affiliated with the…

Nobutomo Naoko

Naoko Nobutomo was born in 1961 in Kure City, Hiroshima. After graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1984, she started her career in film production and went on to creating numerous documentary programs. At the age of 45, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she proceeded to document her life:…

Tsuji Hisaichi

Born in Hyogo prefecture. He started writing film criticism, while attending the University of Tokyo, and became a regular author of the magazine "Film Criticism". Later on, he become planner, director and producer. He was also a writer, using pen name Tatsuo Nogami . In TV, he was in charge of Toshiba…

Son Seung Hun

Son Seung Hun is a South Korean musical theater, film and drama actor. He graduated from the University of Tokyo Film Center, Department of Acting, as well as from Chung-Ang University Theater and Film, and the School of Arts, Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Acting Musical.

Yano Shiho

Yano Shiho is a Japanese model. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tamagawa High School. She began working in small modeling gigs at the age of 16, initially based in his hometown of Shiga Prefecture. She then transferred to Tokyo at the age of 18 to begin working nationwide, making her official…

Kinoshita Houka

In 1980, Kinoshita auditioned for the film, Gaki Teikoku, which he passed and made his acting debut. After graduating from Osaka University of Arts, he entered Yoshimoto Kogyo and joined Yoshimoto Shinkigeki troupe, but he did little to stand out on the comedy stage, and quit after three years. In 1989,…

Izumi Masayuki

Izumi Masayuki was a Japanese actor born in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. He was affiliated with the talent agency Gift during his lifetime. He completed his education at Komagome High School and later graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Tokai University's Second Engineering Faculty. Izumi…

Kato Rosa

Rosa Kato is an Italian-Japanese actress and commercial model. Kato was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father and a Japanese mother. Her family moved to Kagoshima, Japan when she was 5 years old. Kato received a Japanese education. Kato is not fluent in Italian. She is a graduate of Kagoshima West…

Kaku Kento

Kento Kaku (born July 3, 1989) is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has appeared in several feature films, television series, and stage productions. He is represented with Amuse, Inc. His wife is actress Nana Eikura. They married in August of 2016 and welcomed their first child in June of 2017. On…

Oki Hiroyuki

Oki Hiroyuki was a Japanese director and visual artist. He studied in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, and started experimenting with film around the same time. In 1990, he received the Special Jury Prize at the Image Forum Festival for his film Swimming…

The Blue Pearl

8.0

The Blue Pearl follows a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers) in a superstitious coastal town. Noe is meek and affectionate, while Riu is strong-willed and jaded by city life. Despite their differences,…

The Bright Day of My Life

6.0

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob. (Source: TMDB)

Beauty the Enemy

4.0

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of an orchid farmer is abandoned by her two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city. (Source: Filmaffinity.com) ~~ Adapted from a novel by Kawaguchi Matsutaro…

The Tattooed Hitman

The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo’s underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there’s a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed…

The Days of No Return

8.0

The story of a high school boy in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father. (Source: Letterboxd)

The New Morning of Billy the Kid

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out…

A Watcher in the Attic

7.0

The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he’s found his soulmate.…

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars

6.3

Ginya Yabuki is a successful criminal on the fringes of Kabukicho, dealing in whale meat and flash memory chips with a small group of six comrades. But it wasn't always like this. Yabuki used to be a member of the…

Tokyo Knights

7.0

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime. ~~ Adapted from the novel by Kenzaburo Hara.

The Castle of Sand

7.6

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.