Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Kumagai Jiro

Kumagai Jiro is a Japanese actor who appeared (or at the very least had a presence in) no less than 20 sci-fi films, and many other films besides. He reportedly lived no more than 3 minutes away from Toho studios during the height of Toho’s output. From 1963 onward he acted under the stage name “Kumagai…

Ito Kisaku

Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…

Matsuo Fumindo

Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…

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…

Fukuda Jun

Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China (currently Changchun City). He spent his childhood in Manchuria because his father worked for the South Manchuria Railway. Although he went on to Nihon University, he rarely attended lectures and spent most of the day reading and watching movies. In 1946, Toho…

Kato Shigeo

Born June 16, 1925 in Hase, Kamakura City , Kanagawa Prefecture . Ishikawa Island Aviation Industry youth school (Ishikawa Island Technical High School later) then in 1946 he joined Kamakura Academia theater department and graduated in Graduated 1949 . 1952 quasi-exclusive contract with (at the same…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Abe Hiroshi

Abe Hiroshi, born in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese model and actor. He began his career as a model, but successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. Abe graduated from Chuo University in 1988 with…

Aikawa Sho

Aikawa is a Japanese actor who has appeared in a number of Kurosawa Kiyoshi's films, including Eyes of the Spider, Serpent's Path, License to Live, Seance, and Pulse.

Oracion

5.0

Oracion is the name of a racehorse, a descendant of the fabled Arabian, King of the Wind. He is purchased by a Tokyo electronics manufacturer from a humble Hokkaido breeder as a gift to his teenage daughter Kumiko,…

Kowai Dowa: The Ugly Duckling

The fourth of six stories from the Kowai Fairy Tale series (コ ワ イ 童話). Each of them is a loose and macabre adaptation of one of the classic fairy tales. This story adapts a fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling".…

Onna Taxi Driver no Jiken Nisshi 6

One day, Eriko accidentally put her husband's former subordinate in a taxi, but the man was murdered. As Eriko, who senses fate, pursues the truth, things take an unexpected turn... A woman and a man who stand in the…

A Chair on the Plains

7.4

Filmed on location in Northern Pakistan, a camera company executive named Kentaro Toma who becomes obsessed with a certain photograph of a lone chair in a meadow, which he and a customer-turned-friend named Togashi…

Josei Sakka Mysteries Utsukushiki Mitsu no Uso

6.9

MOONSTONE A husband, who is a member of the municipal assembly, fails to get elected at the prefectural level. Due to his failure, he physically abuses his wife. While the wife resists, she kills him in the process.…

Hotarugawa

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Mizushima Tatsuo is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Tsujisawa Eiko while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had…

Higanjima

6.4

At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his…

New Way of the Dragon

8.0

In the early years of the Republic of China, the king of Nanquan, Qiu Zhen Rong, and the North-legged Du Duo Hao made a battle in the battle against Taiwan. When Qiu Zhen Rong first got 10 years old, he witnessed the…

Ghost Book

7.5

In the dead of night, a mysterious ghost wearing a white cloth appears by the children's bedside and whispers, "Do you want your wishes to come true?" Kazuki and his friends, who have a desperate wish they want to…

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

8.4