Dream of Illumination

6.0

Noboru runs a real estate agency in a provincial city. He is cold-blooded when it comes to making a sale. His daughter is high school senior Nana. Nana has continuously changed schools due to her father's work. She…

Traveling Alone

Misaki, who has worked in Tokyo for ten years, spends quality time with her family and friends again in her hometown. At an event where classmates gather, she learns that the boy she liked in middle school has died.…

A Voyage of Bun-you: Vietnam and Okinawa

Ishikawa Bunyo is a famous reporter who was stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam war and stayed there in the aftermath, photographing battles and the transition to modern Vietnam. He has also documented the presence…

Zatoichi at Large

7.4

On the road, Zatoichi meets a dying pregnant woman and delivers the child moments before she passes. Honor bound, he sets out to find the next-of-kin who he discovers have their own problems.

Travelling Actors

5.9

Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self-important barber who funds their show decides to replace them with a real horse, they…

Tabiya Okaeri

7.5

Using her stage name, Oka Erika works as an entertainer and a program reporter. She is in her 30's and her real name is Okabayashi Eriko. Erika loves to travel. Her program "Chobit Tabi" is also about traveling, but…

Five Star Tourist

7.3

In the past, Kyoka was an excellent employee at the travel agency, Sunset Tours. She was even called the "legendary travel master." But a conflict with her boss led to her transfer to another department. Now, Kyoka…

Matsushita Sachiko

Matsushita Sachiko was a Japanese actress. Her husband is actor Kawabe Kyuzo. She graduated from Meguro High School. In 1953, she became a member of the Bungakuza Institute, and in 1955 he performed for the first time as a nun in "Cyrano de Bergerac". Matsushita died at the age of 74 at a hospital in…

Saga Zenpei

Saga Zenpei was a Japanese actor and filmmaker born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Japanese Art School. In 1929, he joined the Japan Proletarian Artist Alliance, but became an actor, and in the same year he entered the Tokyo Left Wing…

Nakahira Ko

Nakahira Ko was a Japanese film director. Born in 1926 in Tokyo, Nakahira directed 34 films between 1956 and 1975. His 1971 film Yami no Naka no Chimimoryo (A Soul to Devil) was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Nakahira died in 1978 at the age of 52. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kikuchi Rinko

Kikuchi Rinko is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. She debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo-directed…

Kamenashi Kazuya

Kamenashi Kazuya, often referred to as Kame, is a Japanese actor and idol from Edogawa, Tokyo. He joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny's at age 12. He made his acting debut in 2005. In 2002, he and five others formed Johnny’s Juniors group, KAT-TUN. At first, KAT-TUN was only meant to be backing…

Miyake Ken

Member of the Johnny's Entertainment idol group V6. He's scheduled to depart Johnny & Associates in May 2, 2023. On July 3, 2023 it was announced that he has joined Takizawa Hideaki's newly established company 'TOBE.'

Cocco

Cocco is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, picture book writer, essayist, and novelist from Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture. She belongs to Colorful Records. She made her debut on an indie label under the name "Cocko" with a self-titled EP Cocko on November 21, 1996, but changed her name to Cocco…

Okada Eiji

Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed…

Tashima Meru

In 2011, Tashima took part in the 10th generation auditions for the idol group Morning Musume. She passed 3 rounds and advanced to the final, but was not chosen to join the group. In 2012, the idol group HKT48 held its 2nd generation audition. Tashima participated and passed. She was added to the group…

Takagi Hitoshi

Takagi Hitoshi was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He died at the age of 78 due to partial ischemic heart disease.

Rikuoh

8.1

Miyazawa Koichi runs a small but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese socks). He is the CEO of a fourth-generation company with about 20 employees. Due to a decrease in demand for tabi, the company…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2001 SMAP Special

7.5

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Extra" (エキストラ) A man decides to go against a society whose every action and exchange of dialogue has already been prewritten in the screenplay of…

Go, Masao!

7.1

"Love, Masao-Kun Ga Iku" describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Matsumoto Hideki and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program.…