A City of Love and Hope

7.0

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed,…

Gazing at Love and Death

7.0

Beyond Love and Hate

2.0

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth,…

The Heart of Hiroshima

One morning, Kazue is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop where she works and breaks all the records she is carrying. The driver of the motorbike, Yukio, works at a printing company.…

The Love and Adventure of Kuroki Taro

6.0

Kuroki Taro is a middle-aged stuntman. When he’s not getting his kicks taunting the police with bizarre mind games, he’s rescuing the unfortunate and downtrodden. (Source: MUBI)

Last Run: 100 Million Ten's Worth of Love & Betrayal

6.0

Morita, a Japanese former Formula 2 driver known as "Kamikaze Run", who is asked by Onodera, an old friend and current representative of a large trade company, to function as intermediary for an auction of vintage…

The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai

7.3

Kaoru Mitarai is a distinguished novelist, but she causes a car accident. The victim's son is Ryuhei Kanzaki. He is also a writer, but an unpopular one. Ryuhei Kanzaki demands to Kaoru Mitarai that she must write a…

Kaseifu wa Mita! 26

Hitsudan Hostess

7.8

At the age of one, Rie Saito loses her ability to hear. She grows up as a rebellious child, running away from home frequently in her hometown of Aomori. By writing calligraphy in a club Rie starts to open her eyes…

Tensai Bakabon 3

5.6

The Bakabon family saga rewinds to the college years, when youthful Mama and Papa Bakabon met at Bakada College. How did their love story begin, and what exactly was Papa researching with Professor Kamihitoe?

Okada Mariko

Okada Mariko is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Yoshida Yoshishige, until his death in 2022. Her father was the noted silent film actor Okada Tokihiko, who before his early death (the year following his daughter's birth) starred in Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Chorus (1931). As an adult,…

Matsushita Yuya

Matsushita Yuya is a Japanese pop and R&B singer, actor, dancer, and rapper from Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. He began his solo music career in 2008 under Epic Records Japan (エピックレコードジャパン) and made his acting debut in the 2009 film Kanashii Boyfriend (悲しいボーイフレンド).…

Eguchi Yosuke

Eguchi Yosuke is a Japanese poet, actor and singer. Since 1986, he has appeared in a number of television series and movies. He is married to the actress and pop star Chisato Moritaka, with whom he has a son and a daughter. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yonekura Ryoko

Yonekura Ryoko is a Japanese actress and ex-fashion model. She studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. A member of the Oscar Productions agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as CanCam.…

Kimura Yoshino

Born in London and raised in Tokyo. She was sent to camp in Maine when she was 13 and now speaks fluent English. She was a Takarazuka fan which inpsired her dream of acting, and started out as a model. She was in her first commercial for JAL when she was still a high school student, and made her drama…

Aijima Kazuyuki

Aijima Kazuyuki is a Japanese actor born in Saitama, Japan. He joined Mitani Koki's Tokyo Sunshine Boys theatrical troupe in 1983. Aijima was one of the few Tokyo Sunshine Boys to pass the movie auditions to star in their own film - in fact, he stole the lead. Most of them never made it into the film.

Maruyama Tomomi

Maruyama Tomomi is a Japanese actor and model born in Tomi, Nagano. He belongs to Cube. Maruyama graduated from Ueda Higashi High School in 1993, after which he entered the entertainment business. An advertisement he did for JT's Seven Stars in 2003 caught the attention of director Otani Kentaro, which…

Tanimura Mitsuki

Tanimura Mitsuki is a Japanese actress. Mitsuki's mother encouraged her to join an Osaka theater troupe as a second-grader. She began her career in the entertainment industry as a photo model. She made her acting debut on the NHK TV drama "Manten" in 2002. In 2005, she got her first starring role in…

Nojima Shinji

When the bubble economy was really making its presence felt, Nojima was going quietly out of his head in Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu. Born in 1965, he dropped out of college before graduating, and the first job he managed to get was at a can manufacturing plant. It was this experience…

Ichikawa Yui

Ichikawa Yui is an actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. She is also known by her nickname, Yui-nyan. As an actress, she has appeared in several dramas (doramas), and in recent years she has concentrated more on her film career. She played a minor role in the movie Ju-on: The Grudge and reprised her…