Tomita Isao

Tomita Isao was a Japanese film editor born in Tokyo. His wife was film editor Tomita Nobuko. After graduating from the Nikkatsu Art School, he joined Nikkatsu Studios. He passed away suddenly on October 18, 2002, at 10:46 p.m. due to lung cancer. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation/Edit =…

Yoshikawa Kiyoshi

Yoshikawa Kiyoshi is a Japanese composer and arranger from Tokyo, Japan.

Tsuruga Jiro

Tsuruga Jiro is a former Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. After working with major film studios like Daiei and Toei, as well as running the Human Stage MC School specialized in hosting, he founded JT Production in 1983, where he still serves as the president today. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia…

Mariya

Mariya is a former Japanese actress and television personality from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from an international school in 2005 and went on to attend university. During her active years, she was affiliated with Now Fashion Agency. Her mother is actress and television personality Akigawa Lisa, and…

Tamai Yumi

Tamai Yumi is a Japanese singer and actress from Tokyo, Japan. She is the vocalist for the group Shibusashirazu. She dropped out of the Department of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts. While still in university, she completed the animation directing course "Higashikoganei Sonjuku 2" hosted…

Kishii Ayako

Kishii Ayako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Kishii Ayako (岸井あや子). Her date of death is unknown. After graduating from the Takarazuka Music School as a member of the 23rd class, she belonged to the NAC (N.A.C.) agency. She was married to the actor Kishii Akira…

Yamazaki Erina

Yamazaki Erina is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with 81 Produce. She aspired to become an actress because she wanted to appear in 'Star Wars.' (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation/Edit = MyDramaList)

Ando Mitsuo

Ando Mitsuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He began his career with the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1947 at the age of 18, remaining until 1953. He made his film debut in 1958 with Toei in "Jigoku no Gozen Niji" and continued into the 1960s, appearing in gangster films and action movies…

Akazawa Asako

Akazawa Asako is a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She was affiliated with the Haiyuza Theatre Company. Her father is the actor Matsumoto Katsuhira. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia || Translation = MyDramaList)

Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Kibaiyanse! Watashi

7.0

Takako Kojima works as an announcer in Tokyo, Japan. She is tired of living in Tokyo and she doesn't see a bright future for herself. One day, she is assigned to cover a festival in Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture.…

Dance to Mita

10.0

Mita wanted to become a videographer in Tokyo, but he failed to achieve his dream. He is now back in his hometown and works in the tourism division at city hall. Manabe works with Mita in the tourism division. One…

Sumu Sumu

7.6

An apartment in a building in Tokyo serves as the workplace for Bakarhythm to write scripts and other material. As he sits alone at his desk to write, Bananaman Himura and Wakabayashi Masayasu visit and interrupt his…

Me and the Cult Leader

More than two decades after the Tokyo subway sarin attack by the doomsday cult Aum, director-cum-victim Sakahara Atsushi embarks on an intimate and profound journey with Araki Hiroshi, the cult's PR director, to unveil…

Ozu

Taking after the story for “Tokyo Twilight”, the film forms itself around the travails of a father and his two daughters. Noriko, the eldest, is struggling with a marriage to a violent and uncaring husband while…

The Bad Losers

A young man who came to Tokyo with the dream of becoming an actor goes to see three members of a theater company that he has long admired. However, the theater company has already been disassembled in the air. Once…

Ushiku

5.0

The Ushiku immigration center near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan’s…

Family Story

7.2

Takuya Kobayashi is a university student in Tokyo. He receives his living expenses from his parents who run an apple farm in their hometown. Takuya Kobayashi becomes frustrated and he does not know what to do. He focuses…

Amanogawa

Shiori is a high school student in Tokyo with fond memories of learning to play festival drums from her grandmother. However, she lives with her strict mother who is more concerned about education. Shiori struggles…

Song of the Akamata: The Life Histories of the Islanders, Komi, Iriomote Islands, Okinawa

~~Movie first aired in PorePore Higashinakano at Tokyo ~~It was made in 1972, but only premiered in 2021