Kitakoji Isamitsu

Kitakoji Isamitsu was a Japanese poet and aristocrat, holding the title of viscount. He was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Kitakoji Suketake and Yanagiwara Byakuren (柳原白蓮), a poet. Isamitsu was also a cousin of Emperor Showa, born just six days after him. The family faced financial difficulties,…

Sagawa Tetsuro

Sagawa Tetsuro, born Katsuno Tadataka, was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tateyama, Chiba. He was a graduate of Waseda University. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on February 17, 2021, in Tokyo at the age of 84. (Source: ultra.fandom.com)

Takenoshita Hirotsugu

Takenoshita Hirotsugu is a Japanese television producer and director, born in the Hyogo prefecture. He is the executive producer of the DREAMAX Television. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, in 1966, he joined TBS and was involved in many dramas. One of his most known works is "3 nen B gumi…

Oda Oideyasu

Oda Oideyasu is a Japanese comedian. His real name is Yoshihiro Oda. He is a member of the Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Head Office. He is the tsukkomi (term used in Japanese comedy) of the comedy duo "Oideyasukoga". His partner in the duo is Koga Ken. He has been choosen as a cultural tourism ambassador for…

Ayata Toshiki

Toshiki Ayata is a Japanese actor and director born in Nara prefecture. He graduated from Meiji University Faculty of Letters. His agency is knockout. After working at the On Theater Free Theater, he formed the theater company Tokyo Kandenchi with Emoto Akira and Bengal. Although he rarely appears on…

Nagai Go

Nagai Kiyoshi, better known by the pen name Nagai Go, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey,…

Fukuyama Shodai

Fukuyama Shodai is a Japanese actor that was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. While he was still in middle school, he was approached by an entertainment production company in Tokyo but he missed his chance since he didn't reply to them immediately. After that he auditioned for a movie with the goal to enter…

Karuma

Karuma is a Japanese actor. At age 16, he moved from Fukuoka to Tokyo with the dream of being an actor. He auditioned many times and gained five years of experience as an extra. He continued to gain a small following, but he wasn't satisfied. He started a YouTube channel at 21 and since gained over…

Wu Chun

Wu Chun, real name Goh Kiat Chun, was born in Brunei of Chinese descent. He was discovered when he traveled to Taiwan and was asked to become a main character (despite his then-lack of Mandarin fluency) in the Taiwanese drama Tokyo Juliet, with which he shot to fame. Later, he also joined the popular…

Kinjo Mana

Kinjo Mana was an actress best known for her role as Ui in "Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger". She was the member of Tokyo Girls Run. She passed away on December 1, 2020, due to illness. (Source : Rangerwiki)

Tokyo High Tide

Murakami Hiroyasu, director of the documentary Nagare, turns his camera on an elderly homeless man who digs for freshwater clams along the Tama River estuary. His life brings into relief numerous issues confronting…

The Benza

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Chris and Kyle are two Americans who share an apartment in Tokyo. They lived in peace and happiness until the day their toilet seat broke. This leaves them with questions such as what happened to their toilet seat?…

The Notes

A misanthropic and eccentric old man from the Netherlands moves to Tokyo, and grows closer to the abused Sri Lankan girl next door through music. One day, the old man picks up a letter written in Sinhalese. (Source:…

Namonaki Itsupen: Tokyo Moratorium

Young people who were absorbed in the production of movies. As the bright and happy days are over, and as they progress toward adulthood, each of them begins to face their own lives. (Source: Japanese = films.mirrorliar.com…

Tokyo Nightfall

A young man named Amenashi is haunted by the death of his younger sister Anna, who took her own life after witnessing a classmate’s suicide in high school. Burdened by guilt, he continues to chase her memory. One…

The Executioner

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Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

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Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country. After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot…

Daiki Tsuneta Tokyo Chaotic

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Musical polymath Tsuneta Daiki is the mastermind behind chart-topping Japanese rock group King Gnu, and now also heads a boundary-pushing artist collective called "millennium parade." In an exclusive first, we were…

The Residents

It is summer and we are taken to an apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward which will be overwhelmed by a number of people who claim to be the resident. First it is a woman who has just quit her job, then it is a woman…