Living in Two Worlds

7.8

Dai was born to deaf parents and was raised with deep love in rural Japan. However, as he grows older, he becomes troubled by his differences from others and begins to blame his deaf mother for his daily frustrations.…

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…

Christmas on July 24th Avenue

6.5

Sayuri is an ordinary office worker living in Nagasaki, Japan. She spends her free time reading romantic shojo manga set in Europe. Because of this, she's always dreamed that someday she'll meet a great guy who will…

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi

6.6

Kyoko works as an insurance agent. To regain her family's happiness, she becomes involved in a relationship with her boss. Because of that relationship, she is by her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi killed…

My Name Is Yours

6.5

In a small town on the outskirts of Osaka, a high school student murders his father. A few weeks before that incident, in this town filled with boredom, a group of high school students were struggling with their own…

Between Love and Friendship

7.2

With youth, beauty, and wealth, Aizawa Rina is living a life that everyone envies. Rina should be living happily, but somewhere deep in her heart, she always remembers her former classmate, Ichijo Ren. (Source: DramaWiki)…

Blind Love of a Dark Lawyer: The Most Obsessed and Pure Love Story in the World

7.0

Shirai Yui has decided to take a new job as a secretary at the law firm of her childhood friends, the Kami brothers. Yui has feelings for her older brother, Soichi, but when they meet again for the first time in 18…

Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog

6.3

Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. He loves his family and is a family man, but because of his work he is sent to sent to an island. His family stays behind in Tokyo. With the…

The Furthest End Awaits

7.4

Misaki Yoshida runs a roasting coffee shop in Tokyo. She lives alone. In order to find her father, who was separated from her when she was a child, Misaki goes back to her hometown in Noto Peninsula. Misako opens a…

Ishi Tsubute

7.6

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ secret funds are discovered in a scandal which rocks the government and bureaucracy. Detective Kizaki from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Second Investigative Division…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Nakahara Junichi

Nakahara Junichi was a Japanese painter, fashion designer, editor, illustrator, and doll maker born in Shiratori Honmachi, Okawa, Kagawa, Japan. In 1915, his family moved to Funabamachi, Tokushima, due to his father's job. He later relocated several times, moving to Yumimachi, Tokushima, in 1920, then…

Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Kokontei Shincho III

Kokontei Shincho III was a Japanese rakugo performer born in Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Kokontei Shinsei V, younger brother of Kanbaratei Basso X, niece of actress Ikebata Shino, and nephew by marriage of actor Nakao Akira. It should be noted that there are two other individuals…

Horiuchi Keizo

Horiuchi Keizo was a Japanese composer, lyricist, translator, and music critic born in Kaji, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. He also used the pen name Yasutani Shizuo (安谷鎮雄). He was the third son of Horiuchi Iataro, the owner of "Asada Ame". However, he abandoned his inheritance rights to Asada Ame at…

Ichimura Naoki

Ichimura Naoki is a Japanese actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He is affiliated with R Crew. Previously, he was associated with the acting department of Tsuburaya Productions and Hoei Television Productions. His official debut was in "Matsubazue no Rugbyman" (1991). At the age of 19, he joined the…

Todoroki Kenji

Todoroki Kenji, born Sato Masao in Otake, Hiroshima, Japan, is a Japanese actor. After graduating from Hiroshima Prefectural Otake High School, he enrolled at Hiroshima University but left before completing his studies. In 1952, Todoroki became an apprentice to Ichikawa Utaemon. He joined Toei Kyoto…

Taguchi Kei

Taguchi Kei is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Utsuda, Minamisaku, Nagano, Japan. After graduating from Nozawa Kita High School in Nagano, Japan, he graduated from the Department of English Literature at the University of Tokyo. He was associated with Ishi no Kai, Group Teibura, and Promotion…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…