Haruna Ai

Haruna Ai was born on in Osaka. She is a Japanese transgender talent, singer, actress, and businesswoman. She currently resides in Tokyo and is signed to Sands Entertainment. She's been active in the entertainment industry since 1995. She has one brother. She was aware that she was a woman since childhood.…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Takamatsu Kinnosuke

Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Takamatsu acted in shinpa theater before joining Makino Film Productions in 1924. He left the studio in 1926 and joined director Kinugasa Teinosuke in the independent production of the avant-garde film A Page of Madness, playing the crucial role of the bearded inmate. He…

Uchida Asao

Uchida Asao, born Uchida Tomoo in Pyongyang, Korea, during Japanese rule, was a Japanese actor. He was affiliated with Kohinata Project after working with Enkei Theater and the Gekkoai theater troupe. After graduating from Pyongyang First Middle School, Uchida worked for Higashiman Waryu Coal Mine,…

Yamauchi Emiko

Yamauchi Emiko is a Japanese actress and singer from Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

Saito Yoichiro

Saito Yoichiro is a Japanese actor, born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Iwasaki Kaneko

Iwasaki Kaneko is a Japanese actress born in Hakodate, Hokkaido. She graduated from Tachibana Girls' High School in Kugahara, Ota. In 1949, she enrolled at the Haiyuza Training Institute and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company after graduating in 1952. Currently, she serves as the representative of the…

Kieta Onna

~Adapted from Kenji Kosugi's (小杉健治) work.

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

7.5

Miyazawa Masajiro owns and runs a pawn shop for generations. His first son is Miyazawa Kenji and his daughter is Miyazawa Toshi. Kenji is supposed to take over the pawn shop as the first son, but he refuses to take…

Two Homelands

7.7

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area…

School Lawyer: Finding the Colors of the Stars

8.0

Shiratori Kenji is a lawyer who has a unique sensitivity to the "colors" and "smells" of letters and sounds. Kenji is dispatched as a school lawyer to Hama Solaris High School, a private school that is in the midst…

Alice's Resident

Tsugumi was sexually abused by her father as a child and is gripped by regret and trauma for not telling her mother. One day, she meets Kenji in whom she confides and begins to see a future for herself. The hurt and…

Cold Bloom

7.0

After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Shiori and Kenji, a couple working at a small factory recovering from the tragedy, are looking forward to having a baby. But Kenji dies in an accident caused by his colleague…

The Glass Cape

6.0

This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the early 1920s. Fatherless Karin, who lives alone with her ailing mother, meets and befriends Takada Saburo, nicknamed "Mata Saburo of Wind". She and her classmates…

Kirisakareta E

~~ Adapted from the novel "Kyoshoku no Jigazo" (虚飾の自画像) by Kosugi Kenji (小杉健治).

Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!

7.1

45-year-old nurse and mother Yoko lives with her only daughter Tsukiko. The duo has a tight relationship that resembles more best friends rather than mother and daughter. Tsukiko's father passed away before she was…

The Flower of Shanidar

7.2

A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold…