Watari Ninja Boy

6.9

~~Based on the manga by Shirato Sanpei.

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

7.0

A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi

All About My Dog

7.0

The main story arc is about a young working grunt in the advertising world whose horrendous experience being jerked around by corporate sponsors, talent agents, and his own boss over a stupid dog food commercial pushes…

Hinatazaka46 Documentary Film 2nd

9.2

Be a Light to the World

9.0

Kite, a childhood friend who reunited with the main character, Rei, was the music producer and sound writer for the Brutal orchestra band Vampillia. After seeing their performance at the live house, Ray aims to become…

You Are the Film

One day, Madoka, a playwright based in Shimokitazawa, and Kazuma, who plays in a band in Sangenjaya, go to see a movie, only for an “impossible structure” to emerge in which each of their own experiences is projected…

Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle

Gakuryu Ishii, who is a professor of film course at Kobe Institute of Technology, suddenly disappears after falling into a mad state driven by his own idea of "self-revolutionary movie struggle work". His assistant…

Tomie: Re-birth

6.4

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the…

Godzilla Minus Zero

It's been two years since Godzilla brought devastation to Tokyo. Now, in 1949, the story continues with the Shikishima family as they and the people of Japan must face another attack when Godzilla resurfaces, even…

Teruo Ishii Movie Soul

A documentary about director Teruo Ishii, a genius who died in 2005 at the age of 81, leaving behind numerous masterpieces such as blockbuster works such as the "Abashiri Bangaichi" .

Kawazu Seizaburo

Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…

Kataoka Ichitaro

Kataoka was born on February 13, 1877 to Hikoemon HARASAWA, the master sculptor for Kyoto Imperial Palace, at Harasawa's house on the corner of Sakaimachi-dori and Marutamachi-dori streets, right across from the Imperial Palace. Upon his father's death in 1881, he was adopted by Seizaburo TSUKAMOTO.…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Dan Tokumaro

Dan Tokumaro was a Japanese actor and screenwriter born in Kireto-cho, Hyogo, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. He is the first actor to play Tange Sazen. His eldest daughter is actress Yamamoto Toriko, his son-in-law is actor Gomi Ryutaro, and his granddaughter is broadcast writer Yamamoto Manami. In 1916,…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Tsurumaru Mutsuhiko

He was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, as the eldest son of six siblings of a doctor, Bunko. After graduating from Waseda High School, he moved to the United States in 1923 and then went to Spain to save his travel expenses when he saw a picture of El Greco. He returned to Japan in 1927.…

Adachi Masao

Adachi’s career testifies to the opportunities which “pink” cinema provided for the expression of dissident attitudes. He had achieved notice as a student filmmaker collaborating on such creative experimental films as The Lacquered Bowl (Wan, 1961), a tragedy set in an isolated village. From 1966…

Kanjiya Shihori

Kanjiya Shihori is a Japanese actress. As a middle school student, she was discovered by talent scouts at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. She attended Otsuka Women's University but left early to pursue her acting career. She is currently managed by ABP, Inc. talent agency. Her family name, Kanjiya, is extremely…

Shiomi Yo

Shiomi Yo, born Katasayama Kisaburo (片山喜三郎) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Previously known as Shiomi Shigeru (汐見蓊), he pursued a career in theater after leaving Keio University’s Faculty of Economics in 1917. In 1920, Shiomi co-founded the New Theater Group Kenkyiza with Ishikawa…