Funaki Kazuo

Funaki Kazuo is a Japanese actor and Enka singer born in Ichinomiya, Aichi.

Sugawara Kenji

Sugawara Kenji was a Japanese actor, known for his work in movies, television and Shinpa plays. During his lifetime, he was a permanent director of the Japan Actors Association and a director of the Actors House Actor Training Center. (Source: wikipedia)

Sugiura Naoki

Sugiura Naoki (8 December 1931 – 21 September 2011) was a Japanese actor. He began his career on stage, beginning his film career in 1957. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kaji Noboru

Kaji Noboru is a Japanese director and producer from Kuwana, Mie, Japan.

Yashiro Koji

Yashiro Koji is a Japanese actor.

Sugai Kin

Kin Sugai was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for The Funeral. Sugai is famous for her role in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.

Murase Sachiko

Sachiko Murase was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1991. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kawachi Tamio

Kawachi Tamio was a Japanese actor. He was a student at Kanto Gakuin University when Ishihara Yujiro, one of his neighbors in Zushi, Kanagawa, invited him to join the Nikkatsu studio. He made his debut in A Slope in the Sun (1958) playing Ishihara's younger brother. The studio initially sold him as…

Nakaya Noboru

Nakatani Noboru, a Japanese actor born in Takanawa, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, initially enrolled in Chuo University’s Faculty of Law but left to pursue a career in theater. He began his theatrical journey with Bungakuza Theatre Research Institute in 1950, becoming a full member in 1951. His film debut…

Takada Toshie

Takada Toshie is a Japanese actress.

German + Rain

The 16-year-old Yoshiko (nicknamed "Gorilla Man" by her boss, after a manga character) has lived alone since her parents divorced; her mother is now dead and her father is in hospital. She works as a gardener's assistant…

Black Rain

7.6

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Okinawa: The Afterburn

An American director examines the spirit of the people of Okinawa from the fighting with US forces in World War II to now with US military bases on the island.

Flowers and Rain

6.0

Yoshida, a returnee who spent his childhood in London, attends high school without being able to adapt to the Japanese atmosphere of a blocked and rural society. Eventually, as he started to distance himself from school,…

Azuki Beans and Raindrops

Yuki, who works for a real estate company, continues to live with Nobu, her ex-boyfriend who was supposed to have broken up with her. However, something happens that prompts Yuki to urge Nobu to leave her house. Meanwhile,…

Midnight Rain

7.4

Tokura Takashi (Oda Yuji) is a talented and somewhat arrogant surgeon who is recruited to work for a private hospital run by the secretive Izumida family. Through an odd series of events, he finds himself in the company…

The Woodsman and the Rain

7.4

Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack…

Life in Smokey Blue

7.8

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly…