Mori Mitsuko

Mori Mitsuko, real name Murakami Mitsu, was a Japanese actress. In May 2009, she became the first actor in Japan to have performed the stage play Hōrōki (放浪記 "A Wanderer's Notebook") 2,000 times. She was born in Kyoto, Japan. On May 11, 2009, Takeo Kawamura announced that Mori would be awarded…

Yamada Isuzu

Yamada Isuzu was a Japanese actress whose career on stage and screen spanned eight decades. (Source: Wikipedia)

Watanabe Fumio

Fumio Watanabe was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.

Takahashi Etsushi

Takahashi Etsushi was a Japanese actor.

Ryu Daisuke

Daisuke Ryu is a Japanese actor of Korean descent. He won the Japanese "Best New Actor" at the Blue Ribbon Award for his performance in "Kagemusha". On March 21, 2015, Ryu travelled to Taiwan, where he was to perform in the Martin Scorsese film "Silence". Upon arrival at Taoyuan International Airport,…

Kitamura Kazuo

Kitamura Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Takehaya, Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Arts Department of Waseda University's Faculty of Literature. Kitamura was associated with the Bungakuza theater company, where he began as a research student in 1950 and became a full…

Emori Toru

Emori Toru is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Tanaka Haruo

Haruo Tanaka was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to secondary leads and even into leading roles against actresses…

Takemitsu Toru

Takemitsu Toru was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is famed for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy to create a sound uniquely…

Komatsu Hosei

Komatsu Hosei is a Japanese actor.

Tales of a Golden Geisha

6.3

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships…

Ruten no Umi

It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Ruten no Umi" (流転の海) by Miyamoto Teru (宮本輝)

The Little Finger and the Forbidden Body

2.0

Operating his business of “call girls” at the countryside and living languidly, Jun Miyamoto is having a ambiguous relationship with one of the call girls, Yuri, and seeing a psychological counselor, Takeda, secretly.…

Yuriko, Dasvidaniya

6.0

Set in 1924, the film follows the relationship between author Yuriko Miyamoto and openly lesbian Russian literature translator Yoshiko Yuasa. (Source: Wikipedia

Underworld Beauty

7.0

The moment he’s released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for…

Mou Ichido Kimi ni, Propose

7.2

A love story involving a wife who has partly lost her memory and her husband who tries to reconstruct their relationship. Miyamoto Haru works as a mechanic at an automobile repair shop. He married his wife Kanako,…

Higanjima - Love Is Over

6.7

Higanjima is a remote island in Japan. Bloodthirsty vampires dwell on Higanjima as a result of a virus that infected people. Miyamoto Akira who has come to Higanjima in search of his missing older brother, Atsushi,…

The Geisha House

7.6

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their…

Fist of Fury 2

7.6

After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto to…

When You Wish Upon A Star

7.5

Tsutsumi Kotaro is a teenager living in Toyama Prefecture who fails to get into a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Kotaro's mother, afraid of what others will think, decides to send Kotaro off to distant relatives…