Uchida Issaku

Uchida Issaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He was a member of the Directors Guild of Japan (日本映画監督協会). He graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University (早稲田大学) in 1946. Uchida joined Nikkatsu (日活) in 1954,…

Eto Hirotoshi

Ono Takeo

Shimada Masayuki

Tonomura Shin

Tonomura Shin was an actor born in Yamagata, Japan.

Yamada Yoshikazu

Yuge Tomohisa

Yuge Tomohisa is a Japanese actor who has had roles in numerous TV Asahi Tokusatsu shows as well as a number of films.

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…

Higashino Keigo

Higashino Keigo was born in the Ikuno Ward of Osaka City. He incorporates his experience in his hometown into his works, notable examples include "Byakuya" and "Namiwa Shonen Tanteidan". Originally, his last name was read as Tono but his father changed the reading to Higashino. He graduated from the…

Matsuda Satoshi

Matsuda Satoshi is Japanese actor who played Ren Akiyama/Kamen Rider Knight in Kamen Rider Ryuki. He also voiced Len, in Japanese dub of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Recently, Satoshi Matsuda confirmed via Twitter that he did not reprise his role as Knight in the video game Super Climax Heroes, but stated…

Thank You

4.0

Based on the real-life Furuichi Tadao, who experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake and contributed to the reconstruction of the town while aspiring to become a professional golfer. An enormous earthquake struck a…

BRIDGE: Hajimari wa 1995.1.17 Kobe

Based on true story about Rokkomichi Station that was restored in just 74 days after The Great Hanshin earthquake.

From Kobe

4.5

Katsura is a 19-year-old college art major. She moves to Kobe from Tokyo due to her father's work transfer. There, she learns about the Great Hanshin Earthquake from residents in Kobe. Katsura meets a wheelchair bound…

Live Fashionably or Die

Documentary with an uplifting message about elderly society featuring a fashion show with senior citizens walking the runway. Kobe City was profoundly traumatized by the Great Hanshin earthquake. The Hyogo Modern Senior…

Kiseki no Back Home

An autobiography turned drama that begins with Shintaro Yokota, a rookie with a bright future. Originally from Kagoshima Vocational High School, a scout of the Hanshin Tigers catches Shintaro's baseball sense and large-scale…

The Family

8.0

Set in the 1960s, it depicts the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Manpyo Daisuke, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank,…

Left of Chopin

Rinko and Kentaro have been childhood friends since childhood, and are high school music teachers who are called Tatsuma-sensei because of their unique appearance. Keitarou's piano skill is always the best among his…

Les Miserables

7.5

This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile…

Extremely Inappropriate! Special

7.9

Snarky 1980s PE teacher, Ogawa Ichiro, is back - crashing through the wall of Café Scandal! This time, he's brought along the café "master" and 83-year-old inventor, Inoue, embarking on a new, time warping adventure.…

To Heal the Heart

7.8

An Kazutaka is a young, bashful psychiatrist whose jazz piano skills are as good as a pro. He also has a love for records and books. He searches for his place in the world in his youth. But when he meets the cheerful…