Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Sato Kei

Sato Kei was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Oshima Nagisa, and for several films with Shindo Kaneto, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no Akuryōo He also…

Kubota Satoshi

Kubota Satoshi is the head of original production at DMM TV. He previously worked at Fuji TV and Amazon Studios. He joined Fuji TV in 1995. While working in the Drama Production Center of the Programming and Production Bureau, he made his directorial debut in 2000 with "Goshuushoku: Ganbare! Nihon no…

Ozawa Shoichi

Ozawa Shoichi, born in Tokyo, was a Japanese actor, radio host, haiku poet, singer and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company. Ozawa, who graduated from Waseda University, began acting after college, beginning with his debut stage role…

Kaihara Yukio

Kaihara Yukio was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Municipal Commercial School and began his career at Nikkan Kyoto Film Studio in 1935. His earliest recorded work was on the film Kojin Okichi: Kurofune Jowa, released in 1937. That same year, he worked as the sound…

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Saegusa Genjiro

Saegusa Genjiro was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Shibuya-mura, Toyoma-gun, Tokyo. In March 192, he graduated from Tokyo Physics School, and in May of the same year, joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Photo Studio Supervision Department. He made his debut as a director in "Minzoku no Reimei"…

Uchujin no Happiness Ron

7.1

Seven aliens from Planet Hapina crash-land on Earth with the princess. Their only goal is to find food that will satisfy the princess's "Hapina Power" - her happiness. The aliens meet a pastry chef who runs a confectionery…

Nihon Toitsu 64

Sakaguchi Joji is shot by Isamu and collapses. Ishizawa Yusho and Yamamura Yoshiaki rush towards him and he flinches when they point guns at him, but Joji stops them. Concerned about the fate of Isamu and his friends,…

Nijiiro no Chalk Chiteki Shogaisha to Ayunda Machikojo no Kiseki

8.1

A chalk company where most of the employees are mentally disabled takes on the challenge of developing a new product to ensure the survival of the company! This is the miraculous story of a small factory that developed…

Nihon Toitsu 71

The two major organizations, Kyowa-kai and Marukami-kai, continued to remain silent even after a month had passed since they lost their top leaders. The Marukami-kai has lost its president, Mita Taigen, and the chairman's…

Shirarezaru Bakumatsu no Shishi: Yamada Akiyoshi Monogatari

6.9

The story will follow the life of Yamada Akiyoshi, a politician and military officer during the period following the Meiji Restoration. Naturally, the drama will focus on Yamada’s youth, before he went on to serve…

Rojo no Ruka

7.6

A young girl named Ruka, who had been living a wandering life in Osaka, is taken in by Fumi, an elementary school teacher. Later, Ruka spends time in Obihiro, Hokkaido, with Natsuhiko, who was her sister's lover, and…

Yakuza Powered by Nihon Touitsu

1995, Kamurocho... An up-and-coming yakuza takes the fall for the murder of a crime boss to protect his sworn brother and his childhood friend. This man is none other than Kiryu Kazuma, the legendary Dragon of Dojima.…

Japan's Organized Crime Boss

6.9

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war…

Closest Love to Heaven

8.0

A love story nurtured by a high school girl named Okamura Ninon who fell in love with the handsome boy, Kira Yuiji. Having been bullied in the past, Ninon finds it difficult to engage with other people, therefore she…

Nihon Boro Yado Kiko

7.8

Haruka Shinomiya is a 27 year old who inherits a management company after her father suddenly passes away. The management company only has the 48 year old, unpopular singer Ryuji Sakuraba under contract. In order to…