Kawashima Akira

Kawashima Akira is a Japanese comedian, tarento and actor who has featured in films, television, and radio. He performs boke and writes all the material in his comedy duo Kirin. His partner is Hiroshi Tamura. Kawashima is represented by Yoshimoto Kogyo and is mainly active in Tokyo and Osaka. (Source:…

Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Kurosawa Hisako

Kurosawa Hisako was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist, but was drawn to screenwriting, where she found early success with Tokyo Noir (2004), Finger (2006) and Show Me A Beautiful Night (2007).…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Shiba Toshio

He was born on April 27, 1947 in Taito-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Kyoko Mano. Their daughter is actress Yuki Shibamoto. Shiba formerly went by his real name, Toshio Shibamoto (柴本俊夫 / SHIBAMOTO Toshio).

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Matsuoka Joji

Matsuoka Jōji is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards…

Hayashi Yumika

Hayashi Yumika was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress; she was the subject of a 1997 documentary…

Inoue Waka

Waka Inoue is a Japanese idol, tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro, Tokyo as Naoko Aramura. Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga. Waka's main claim to fame in the tarento circles is her bustline. Although she moved away from bikini modeling as her primary work in 2006, she has continued to…

Tsuruta Mayu

Tsuruta Mayu, born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese actress. In 1996, she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike Wadatsumi no Koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited…

Equinox Flower

7.6

Wataru Hirayama is a wealthy Tokyo businessman who acts as a go-between for couples seeking marriages. When an old schoolmate Mikami approaches him for help concerning his daughter Fumiko, who has run off owing to…

Air Girl

7.6

Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' influence, Komari Sano dreamed of becoming a pilot. During World War II, her older brother died as a kamikaze pilot…

Stray Dog

7.7

A very hot day in Tokyo. Someone stole from a young detective his gun. What will happen next? Will it be used for a crime? After "Drunken Angel" next noir film directed by Kurosawa Akira.

Emergency Room 24 Hours Season 3

7.7

A major earthquake occurs immediately below Tokyo. This series depicts the members of the emergency room staff, confronting life head-on as they give people hope and courage. This popular TV drama series depicts the…

Chokotto Kyoto ni Sundemita

7.8

27-year-old Eto Kana lives in Tokyo and has never been out of the city before. She used to work as a designer and stay in a company dormitory but moved back to her family home after resigning due to the stress from…

The Next Generation: Patlabor

7.8

In the year of 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Due to a long running depression, Labors, which are robots used in construction, are fired. The Division 1 of "Patlabor" is also dispersed. Patlabors are used by the Tokyo Metropolitan…

I Will Return Today

7.8

Katsuhiro works at a bank in Tokyo. Without complaint, Katushiro works for his wife Chika and their son. His wife suddenly takes their son to her parents' home in Yamanashi. Since then, Katsuhiro goes to Yamanashi…

Sumu Sumu

7.6

Set in an apartment building in Tokyo that Bakarhythm rents for his writing work, commonly known as his workspace . Whenever Bakarhythm is alone at his desk, Himura Yuki of comedy duo "Bananaman", Wakabayashi Masayasu…

Sakura no Tou

7.4

Kamijo Ren is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren’s childhood triggered his thirst for power…

Home Drama

7.9

In a house in the outskirts of Tokyo, there lives a family of eight. Such a large family is rare these days; however, not one is related by blood. They all lost a loved one in the same holiday accident. Moved by Shogo's…