Shirakawa Yumi

Yumi Shirakawa was a Japanese film and television actress. She starred in Rodan and many other Japanese movies and TV shows. She was married to actor Hideaki Nitani until his death in 2012. She died of heart failure on June 14, 2016 at the age of 79.

Okae Kumiko

Okae Kumiko was a Japanese actress who was born Owada Kumiko in Tokyo on August 23, 1956. In 1983, she married actor, Owada Baku, and they had a daughter, Owada Miho, who is also an actress. She died April 23, 2020 of pneumonia due to the new coronavirus.

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Akira

Akira (Birth name: Kurasawa Ryohei) is a Japanese actor and dancer who used to be in Rather Unique, but in summer 2006, he joined the 14-member J-pop group EXILE. He chose the stage name Akira because if his family name is Kurosawa, which is shared with the prolific film director Kurosawa Akira. On…

Tonoyama Taiji

Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō…

Yamaguchi Kaori

Yamaguchi Kaori was born in Aichi. She belongs to the entertainment office Foster. She debuted as an actress in 1993.

Matsuda Yusaku

Yusaku Matsuda (September 21, 1949 – November 6, 1989) Japanese actor best known for roles in action films and a variety of television series in the 1970s as well as a switch to a wider range of roles in the 1980s. His final appearance was as the villain Sato in Ridley Scott's Black Rain. Considered…

Hirayama Aya

Hirayama Aya, born January 13, 1984, is a Japanese actress who has appeared in various films including Waterboys (2001), as well as appearing in two television programs in her native Japan, "Waratte Iitomo" and "Itsumo futari de". Aya was born in Kuroiso, Tochigi, Japan which is now part of Nasushiobara.…

Ichikawa Danjuro XIII

Ichikawa Danjuro XIII is a Japanese actor. He is the eleventh and current holder of the Ebizo name. He is a famous Kabuki, television and film actor and heir to the prestigious Ichikawa clan of kabuki actors. The son of Ichikawa Danjuro XII, he was born in Tokyo and began his career at the age of six…

Sada Mayumi

Sada Mayumi is a model and actress from Tokyo. She is three-quarters Japanese. Her maternal grandfather is an American. She is currently represented by LDH Inc. On October 1, 2008, she married Kunichi Nomura. On April 6, 2009, she gave birth to their first child. She later gave birth to another child…

Can Anyone Love

6.6

A comedy drama centering around 4 sisters. The sisters and their families live in the same multi-story building with a coffee shop on the 1st floor.

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill

7.8

Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn't happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and runs away from home. Somehow, when Yuri later opens her eyes, she…

Tora-san 25: Tropical Fever

7.7

Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love, sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she has been hospitalised in Okinawa after falling sick. Tora-san rushes to her bedside —taking his first plane…

Hana no Shogai

4.0

Ten to Chi to deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Funahashi Seiichi's novels "Hana no Shōgai". The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

Hana Kimi Remake

7.2

Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California where she was raised. She fell in love with Sano Izumi, a hopeful high jump hero, who has quit after an accident. As she wants him to go back to the sport once…

Hana-Dama: Phantom

4.8

Teiichi works as a projectionist at a movie theater that is about to close down. One day, he sees a girl in black reflected onto the screen. He checks the film, but he can't find the girl anywhere there. Later, he…

Pro Golfer Hana

6.0

Part-time employee Nomiya Hana is ordered by her boss to play golf with some clients. While playing, she is spotted by legendary coach Daigo Kazuma and with his encouragement, she attempts a career in professional…

Kaza Hana

7.0

An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her…

Hana Yori Mo Naho

7.2

The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki has arrived in Edo to seek revenge against Jubei Kanazawa. Kanazawa is the man responsible for the death of Aoki's father, and now it's up to the grieving swordsman…

Hana no Asuka-gumi!

7.6

The story of Kuraku Asuka, a junior high student who has to fight a big delinquent organisation and their underlings.