Ogata Ken

Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]

In television,…

Katsu Shintaro

He was born Okumura Toshio on November 29 1931. Shintaro Katsu began his career in entertainment as a shamisen player. He switched to acting because he noticed it was better paid. He played the role of blind masseur Zatoichi in a series of films in 25 movies between 1962 and 1973, starred and directed…

Sera Akira

After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan Junior High School (currently Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Seishikan High School ), he graduated from the Spanish Department of Osaka Foreign Language School. 1935 (Showa 10), participated in the founding of the Osaka joint troupe with…

Taichi Kiwako

Taichi Kiwako, also known by her stage name Shimura Taeko, was a Japanese actress born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. She was separated from her biological mother shortly after birth and adopted by her foster parents, a fact she discovered during high school. Kiwako attended Ushigome Nakano Elementary School,…

Wakabayashi Shiho

Wakabayashi Shiho is a former Japanese actress from Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. At the time of her debut, she belonged to Koichi Ichikawa's office, and after to Ota Production and Sun Music Brain. In 1983, when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school, she won the Grand Prix at Nippon Television's "★…

Ishii Masanori

Ishii Masanori is a Japanese actor, talent, voice actor, and narrator from Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was in charge of the comedy combination "Ari to Grasshopper". He graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Commerce and Industry High School, and is currently managed by HoriPro.…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Tozawa Yusuke

Ito Masahira

Ito Masahira is a Japanese actor.

Ogura Hisahiro

Ogura Hisahiro is a Japanese actor. He was born in Taiki, Watarai, Mie, Japan on October 26, 1954. He has a main role in film Yumemi Doori no Hitobito as Satomi.

The Wind Carpet

10.0

“Carpet of the Wind” depicts the story of Makato, a Japanese carpet merchant, who travels to Iran to arrange for the weaving of a special carpet.

Fly Boys, Fly!

7.1

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze (divine wind) or suicide pilots.

Chuzai Keiji 4

2.0

Atsushi Enami used to be a detective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department but now he works at the police box. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novels “Chuzai Keiji” (駐在刑事) and “Chuzai…

Chuzai Keiji 5

2.0

Atsushi Enami used to be a detective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department but now he works at the police box. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novels “Chuzai Keiji” (駐在刑事) and “Chuzai…

good-bye

Misaki Noriko has been living in a net cafe with her daughters Hana and Kaze. One day, Noriko loses her job and is unable to properly find new employment or a means to borrow money. So, she takes her children and heads…

Hello Harinezumi

7.5

Akatsuka Detective Agency stands inconspicuously at Shimo Akatsuka in Tokyo’s Itabashi ward, right above a small snack shop run by their landlord. Akatsuka's eccentric chief Kaze Kaoru founded it with her two investigators…

Saibaku: Madi ni Shamisen Kanaderube

A documentary that records the last two years of Yujiro Takahashi, a Japanese folk song singer and Tsugaru shamisen master who passed away in September 2012. Born in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture in 1934, Yujiro moved…

Chuzai Keiji

7.2

Police Officer Enami Atsushi was a capable detective with MPD’s First Investigation Division. For a certain reason, he was demoted to Okutama Police Station’s Mizune Police Substation and is now well-liked and…

Kaze no Garden

7.5

Despite being a respected anesthesiologist at a famed Tokyo hospital, Shiratori Sadami has a disastrous family life. Before his life in Tokyo, his infidelity prompted his wife's suicide and the incident separated him…

Kaze no Mukou he Kakenukero

7.6

Story of a girl who lost her father, meets a man and keeps challenging the jockey's dream after the earthquake. (Source: News Yahoo) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Kaze no Mukou he Kakenukero" (風の向こうへ駆け抜けろ)…