Ogawa Hirooki

Ogawa Hirooki was a Japanese composer born in Shinbashi, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. He served as a director of the Japan Composer's Association. He graduated from Daikura High School of Commerce's Junior Division in 1943, and furthered his studies in vocal music under Tachimatsu Fusako and Sonoda Seiichi,…

Wakamatsu Hiroki

Wakamatsu Hiroki is a Japanese drama producer at the Drama Production Center within Fuji Television's Programming and Production Bureau. Originally from Minamisoma, Fukushima, he graduated from Fukushima Prefectural Haranomachi High School and Waseda University’s School of Social Sciences, where he…

Okamoto Yoshihiko

Okamoto Yoshihiko was a Japanese film director, television drama director, and journalist, born in Korea during the Japanese colonial period. He attended the Army Officer School (陸軍士官学校) and witnessed Japan's defeat in World War II. Afterward, he joined the Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党)…

Motoki Sojiro

A Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director. He was most famous for producing several films for Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Ikiru and Throne of Blood. He also produced films for other directors, including Mikio Naruse, for whom he produced…

Furumaya Tomoyuki

Tomoyuki Furumaya is a Japanese film director. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Furumaya was attending Nihon University when his 16mm film, Shakunetsu no dojjibōru, won the grand prize at the Pia Film Festival. That earned him a Pia Scholarship to make his first theatrical feature, This Window Is Yours,…

Brian Tee

Jae-bum Takata, known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-American actor. Tee was born in Okinawa, to a Korean-American father and Japanese mother. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where…

Nagao Mariya

Mariya Nagao is a Japanese television personality and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. Nagao is represented by Irving. She joined AKB48 as a 9th generation trainee in late 2009. On December 8, 2010, together with Mina Oba, Haruka Shimazaki, Haruka Shimada, Miyu Takeuchi, Mariko Nakamura,…

Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Masuda Takahisa

Masuda Takahisa is a Japanese idol from Johnny's Entertainment. Masuda joined Johnny's Entertainment in November 1998. During his junior days, Masuda back danced for many of his seniors in the agency, such as KAT-TUN, and participated in many Johnny's junior photoshoots. In 2001, he was cast as a middle…

Saotome Taichi

Saotome Taichi is a Japanese film and stage actor best known for playing beautiful young men and onnagata roles of women. He is known as "Nagashime Ouji" (流し目王子) or "Sidelong Glance Prince". His father is the head of the gekidan sujaku theatre troupe, and Saotome grew up within the troupe,…

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2025

>> Story 1: "Yomi no Mori" (黄泉の森) Yoshinori invites his girlfriend Ayumi and enters a forest notorious as a suicide spot. However, unnerved by the eerie atmosphere, Yoshinori quickly suggests they leave. At…

Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow

6.9

Satoshi Murayama is a player of shogi (Japanese chess) who learned the game from Mori over a 10-year period starting at the age of 15. In 1994, he decided to move to Tokyo to get Meijin, which is one of the seven titles…

Kono Utsukushiki Sanga; Asia Shokoku no Kokubou

It is a documentary that asks what the homeland is and how the armaments are prepared to protect each famous place and people's lives by covering Asian countries such as Vietnam, South Korea and Cambodia. The director…

Gachiban 6

2.0

Kinkasa High School's head yankee, Mori Monji, was spending his days in fights with friends of the black skull team. A new teacher, Anan, asks him about the future in a three-way interview, but Monji can only think…

Gachiban 5

8.7

The fifth of popular Yankee action starring Kazuma Sano. Mori Monji who overcame Kanagawa with the Black Skull Team. In front of Monk and others who aim to conquer the whole nation, the Kansai Yankee and Manta Corps,…

Gachiban: Supremacy

7.1

The delinquent head of the Kinugasa High School, Mori Monji, still can't find a worthy successor, so he keeps repeating a year and spends his days finghting. Meanwhile, Hayato tries to become a proper working adult,…

The World of Shura

The Ryuan family is a yakuza clan with a stranglehold on Yokohama. Internal discord begins to brew when Mori assassinates the head of a rival gang. In the midst of all that, Mori is sought advice by Engetsu about taking…

Hikiko-san

6.3

It revolves around an urban legend in which a girl named Hikiko Mori was taunted and bullied relentlessly by her classmates, eventually resulting in her accidental death. Holding a grudge against all bullies, Hikiko’s…

Yukari-kun wa Gap ga Zurui

7.0

“That gap is unfair~!” Once a week, Mori Meiko begins working as an instructor at an announcing school. She manages to get through the unfamiliar classes thanks to her earnest student “Yukari-kun,” whose real…

Nobunaga Miman

5.0

Oda Nobunaga forgot his original identity after being reincarnated in various creative worlds of later generations. Ranmaru Mori, partially remembering his original appearance, decided to defeat his rival, Mitsuhide…