Cherry Blossoms in the Air- The Suicide Raiders- Oh,Buddies!

1943, Tokyo. Shinkichi Hamamura, a university student, learns that his father, a military officer, died in battle. Impacted by this event, he decides to join Tsuchiura Naval Air Corps with his friends. Shinkichi is…

Sweet Revenge

7.6

Kiriko's elder brother has been prosecuted for murder. She races to Tokyo, looking for a defense lawyer named Otsuka for help in the trial. But when she can't afford the legal fees, Otsuka refuses to help. When Kiriko's…

The Bright Day of My Life

6.0

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob. (Source: TMDB)

Seno!

Tetsujin Tsubaki , runs a transportation shop in a shopping district near the Tamagawa River in Tokyo , where he lives with his mother, Kanako, and his son, Ken, who is a junior high school student. Drama depicting…

Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow

6.9

Satoshi Murayama is a player of shogi (Japanese chess) who learned the game from Mori over a 10-year period starting at the age of 15. In 1994, he decided to move to Tokyo to get Meijin, which is one of the seven titles…

Beijing Watermelon

7.1

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters…

The Last Man: The Blind Profiler - Fake / Truth

7.7

After Minami Hiromi, a completely blind FBI special agent known by the alias “Last Man,” the final trump card who always brings any case to an end, completes his training in Japan and returns to Washington, D.C.,…

The Woman in the Rumor

7.2

Hatsuko Mabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession.…

10 Things I Want to Do before I Turn 40

7.9

Tojo Suzume, who has been single for over 10 years and spends his days just going back and forth between his office and home, realizes that there are only three months left until his 40th birthday. Suzume makes a list…

Norwegian Wood

6.7

Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend…

Ninagawa Yuki

Ninagawa Yuki, born in Yokohama, is a Japanese actress, filmmaker and painter. She is a daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi and elder sister of the actress/singer Ninagawa Miho. Ninagawa's acting debut was a role in the 1978 rock opera "Salome". In films, she appeared in "Kurutta Kajitsu" in 1981,…

Yokota Einosuke

When Inabata Katsutaro, the Japanese businessman who introduced cinema to Japan with the Lumière Cinématographe on 15 February 1897 swiftly grew disenchanted with the work, he turned to Yokota Einosuke, the owner of a Kobe export-import business. The very opposite of the meticulous and restrained…

Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…

Tono Eijiro

Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…

Ichikawa Sumizo VI

Ichikawa Jukai III was an outstanding tachiyaku actor, excelling in nimaime roles. From the end of the Meiji era to the first decade of the Shôwa era, he was an active member of the troupe led by Ichikawa Sadanji II, which was involved in the creations of many Shinkabuki dramas, written by playwrights…

Togawa Yukio

Togawa Yukio was a Japanese novelist and children's writer born in Saga City. He established animal literature based on correct observations and knowledge about animals and is a leading figure in Japan alongside Muku Hatoju. He has also worked on reportage, war stories, and manga. From an early age,…

Nagai Go

Nagai Kiyoshi, better known by the pen name Nagai Go, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey,…

Yoshioka YUI

Yui, stylized as YUI, (born March 26, 1987) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, composer, actress, and radio personality. She is currently signed to Studioseven Recordings and attached to the talent agency Stardust Promotion.

Yui was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She grew up in a single-parent family;…

Tiffany Young

Stephanie Young Hwang, known professionally as Tiffany Young, is an American singer, dancer, presenter, and member of GIRLS' GENERATION (소녀시대; also known as SNSD). She was born in San Francisco and grew up in Diamond Bar, California. She lost her mother at the age of 12 and became estranged…

Nana

Im Jin Ah, known professionally as Nana, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress, model, and former member of the girl group AFTER SCHOOL (애프터스쿨). She graduated from Ochang High School and earned an associate's degree in Beauty Arts from Seoul Arts College. She debuted in November 2009 as…