Hayasaka Akira

Hayasaka Akira, born Tomita Yoshisuke (富田祥資), was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. Born in Hojo, Onsen, Ehime, Japan, he grew up in a prominent merchant family and was exposed to pilgrimage culture early in life. He attended Matsuyama Middle School and was in the Naval Academy at the end…

Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

Morita Shingi

Morita Shingi was a Japanese film producer, screenwriter, and director. From 1937 he was consistently registered with Toho during and after World War II. On July 16, 1951, he died at his home in Shinmachi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo at the age of 53, due to a skull fracture.

Horikawa Tonko

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei".…

Emi Suiin

Emi Suiin was a novelist, translator, and editor born in Ichibancho, Okayama City. Starting with literary works, he left his works in a wide range of fields such as popular novels, detective novels, adventure novels, and expeditionary stories, and was involved in the editing and publishing of magazines…

Tokutomi Kenjiro

Tokutomi was born on December 8, 1868 in Minamata, Japan to a samurai family. He was the younger brother of journalist and historian Tokutomi Sohō. He converted to Christianity in 1885, and moved to Imabari, Ehime, where he lived with Shiro Sokabe and was a student of Tokio Yokoi. This is also where…

Ai Shosuke

Ai Shosuke is a Japanese novelist, screenwriter and director. His real name is Ai Bunpei (あい ぶんぺい). Born in Beijing, China in 1941, Ai later moved to Fujieda, Shizuoka, Japan in 1943, and then to Yaizu in 1953. Following his graduation from Waseda University's literature department, he embarked…

Terayama Shuji

Terayama Shuji is a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. His oeuvre includes a number of essays claiming…

Takeuchi Yuko

Takeuchi Yuko, born in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her big break with NHK's television series Asuka and JT Green's commercial. She had gone on to star in many TV shows, movies, and commercials. On May 10, 2005, Takeuchi married Nakamura Shidou, a Kabuki actor. They met…

Sano Hayato

Hayato is the eldest member of the boy group M!LK under Ebidan Kids- Stardust Promotion as a part of their EBiDAN branch, known for classics as "I can't drink coffee". M!LK made their first appearance on November 24, 2014. Hayato made his acting debut with the 2015 movie, Kuchibiru ni Uta o (Have a…

The Extraordinary Pursuer

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The film tells the story of Wu Xiao Yue, a Kung Fu girl who travels to Tokyo to pursue the dream of a girl group, but accidentally encounters evil extraterrestrial creatures and plagues the earth. In order to protect…

Tokyo Butterfly

"SCORE" was a popular band formed by four university students. The band was offered a major contract, but they broke up after a minor misunderstanding. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties…

Tokyo Telepath 2020

Summer 2018. Tokyo has become a giant building site in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Behind the ambitious buildings' facades, an even more far-reaching transformation is unfolding: the city is…

Tokyo Houchi Shokudo

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This drama takes place on Ojima Island otherwise known as "Tokyo Island". It will depict the daily events of a small diner in a place where the passage of time ticks away at a leisurely pace. (Source: Old Anime Lady…

Tokyo Cinderella

Kyoka, a top contender for the Miss Campus Grand Prix, dreams of marrying a celebrity and living a glamorous life as a celebrity mom. Aspiring to become the ultimate “pro girlfriend,” Kyoka sets her sights on popular…

Diamonds in the Sand

Yoji is a divorced Japanese salaryman living alone in Tokyo. After the loss of his caring mother, he faces an empty life without any meaningful relationship. A chance encounter with Minerva, a Filipina who works as…

Tokyo Butterfly Night

Under a high-rise building in Shibuya, a woman falls to the ground with a scream next to two high school girls who are taking a selfie! Amid the hustle and bustle, a crowd of curious onlookers gather, and a mysterious…

Nihon Toitsu: Tokyo Hen

This is a crime suspense entertainment drama about a fierce battle between the Kyowakai, Japan's largest gang of yakuza, the anonymous, mobile crime group (Tokuryu), which has become a social problem as a group of…

The Girl at the End of the Line

Tachibana Kiyoko, a student at an all-girls high school in Tokyo met Okusawa Akari, who was wearing a bright blue dress, at the start of the new school year, in her first year of high school. In contrast to the other…

silence in TOKYO

In 2020, COVID-19 suddenly strikes the world. A state of emergency is declared and people disappear from the streets. The director, Katsuhiko Mori filmed the streets every night in a deserted Tokyo, documenting a landscape…