Uzaki Ryudo

Uzaki Ryudo is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor from Kyoto, Japan. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock music bands. He also composed many of Momoe Yamaguchi's songs with Aki Yoko, whom he's married to. Uzaki began his popular music career…

Kubozuka Shunsuke

Shunsuke Kubozuka is a Japanese actor. He is the younger brother of actor Yosuke Kubozuka. He is a graduate of Keio University, one of Japan's most prestigious schools. In 2003 he went on hiatus to attend Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently represented by Infini…

Nagato Hiroyuki

Hiroyuki Nagato was a Japanese actor. He starred in Season of the Sun, Endless Desire, My Second Brother, Stolen Desire, and Sukeban Deka, and Yo-Yo Girl Cop. Nagato comes from an illustrious film family. His younger brother Masahiko Tsugawa is an actor. His wife Youko Minamida was an actress. His grandfather…

Omi Toshinori

Toshinori Omi is a Japanese actor.

Ishimaru Kenjiro

Kenjirou Ishimaru is a Japanese actor and announcer. He is best known for his role in Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Den-O as the owner of the DenLiner. He has also appeared in multiple competitions of Sasuke as a competitor and during that time has become one of only two people to fall off the Rolling…

Yo Kimiko

Yo Kimiko is a Japanese actress from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for the best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Departures and Dear Doctor respectively.…

Hamada Mari

Hamada Mari is a Japanese singer and actress born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. She released two solo albums and solo singles in the 1990s, after being part of the Japanese band "Modern Choki Chokies." She was also part of the Japanese "unit" (temporary band) "Unknown Soup & Spice" in 2003. She is the namesake…

Kobayashi Ryoko

12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Jul to Sep 2008): Best Supporting Actress for Maou (Source: DramaWiki)

Sato Jiro

Sato Jiro is a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He grew up in Tōgō, Aichi District. He is represented with From First Production. He graduated from Shinshu University Faculty of Economics. His first directed work is Memo (released in 2008), based on his experience of obsessive-compulsive…

Masana Bokuzo

Masana Bokuzo is a Japanese actor. Masana starred as Asao Konishi in L: Change the WorLd.

The Brownie in Me

August in the Water

7.4

After an accident, the teenage girl Izumi gets superpowers and understands that she now has a special role in the universe.

Sheep in the Box

Otone works as an architect. Her husband, Kensuke, runs a construction company. Set in the near future, the couple decides to take in a state-of-the-art humanoid as their son. (Source: Deadline, AsianWiki; edited by…

A Hen in the Wind

7.4

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices…

A School Behind Bars

7.7

"Hei no Naka no Chuugakou" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside…

My Summer of You

Saeki Chiharu and Toda Wataru are two high school students who share a common hobby. They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends until one day, their relationship takes a sudden twist. What…

Smiles in the Mirror

8.0

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired…

Restaurant in the Forest

7.5

Kyoichi tries to commit suicide in the forest, but fails and is saved by Kinji, a hunter. A few years later, he was put in charge of a restaurant deep in the forest that Kinji owned. Kyoichi's cooking, which he honed…

Mo-Ruerani

The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an elderly woman named shows up at the studio and beckons Shinta to come with…

Talentless Takano

7.2

Takano Tsumeko carries herself confidently and speaks with a calm voice. Even though she appears very competent, which helped her pass her job interview at her current company with ease, she is shockingly incompetent.…