Haruta Junichi

Jyunichi Haruta is a Japanese actor from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. His real name is Misao Haruta. Haruta joined the J.A.C (Japan Action Club), a theater troupe founded by Sonny Chiba, after leaving high school. -- Wikipedia

Masuda Hidehiko

Minegishi Toru

Minegishi Toru was a Japanese actor. He died of lung cancer at the age of 65.

Fujita Sokyu

Fujita Sokyu is a Japanese actor born in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, who belongs to the theater group Yen. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of Russian Language. In 1973, after graduating from college, he became a research student at the theater company Un. In 1976,…

Fukiishi Kazue

Fukiishi Kazue is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for What the Snow Brings, Tegami and Memories of Tomorrow. Her father, Fukiishi Tokuichi, is a former Kintetsu Buffalos baseball player. She married actor Fukuyama Masaharu on her birthday…

Sakai Masato

Masato Sakai is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Kuhio taisa and Nankyoku ryourinin and the award for best supporting actor at the 2008 Nikkan Sports Film Award, at the 33rd Hochi Film Award and at the 51st Blue Ribbon Awards. He also received…

Nakama Yukie

Nakama Yukie is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings. At the start of her career, she was a gravure idol and singer (her debut single "Moonlight to Daybreak" was released in 1996), and appeared in bit roles…

Oku Tomoya

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is represented by Amuse Inc.

Komazuka Yui

Komazuka Yui is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She was born in Tokyo and her birth name is Komazuka Yuko. She works with the agency Liberta and debuted in 1975 with a group of the Shiki Theatre Company. (Source: MyDramaList)

Matsumoto Marika

Matsumoto Marika, born September 12, 1984, in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress and seiyu. Though only active since 2000, her unique voice and professionalism have gotten her a lot of experience in a short period of time. She is a graduate of Suginami High School. From 2001-2003, she was known…

Summer on the Frontline : 15 Years Old

7.0

A movie adaptation of Kazuo Tahara's memoir,, which describes the hardships of 15-year-old junior high school students, who were left behind near the border between the Soviet Union and Manchuria due to the defeat.

Last Present

7.3

Hiraki Asuka is diagnosed with cancer with three months left. She returns to her daughter and former husband, both of whom she had abandoned before, in order to spend her last days, especially with her daughter and…

Kakashi to Racket

6.8

Aki transferred from Tokyo to a school on a rural island. Tamako was born and raised on the island. Now, they attend the same middle school. Aki was a member of the soft tennis club back in Tokyo, but an incident caused…

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

Adapted from Tsuneyuki Mori novel with the same title. Although the book is a fiction, it is based on the true stories of the Kamikaze Unit, known from suicide attacks. The title "Moonlight" is taken from Ludwig van…

The Door into Summer

7.6

In 1995, Takakura Soichiro is a scientist who works on developing a robot. He is also on the verge of completing a plasma battery, following the wishes of the deceased Matsushita. Matsushita was a friend of Takakura's…

Summer Vacation 1999

6.6

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school.…

The Summer of the Ubume

6.7

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with…

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

6.3

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish,…

Happy-Go-Lucky

7.5

"Fourth grader Takashi and four other classmates struggle to master a move on the horizontal bar - a move their gym teacher states that they must learn or they will be failures in life. While Takashi attempts to master…

Ritsuko & Ken-chan

Known as the island of Cross where Hidden Christians took refuge in the old days, Kuroshima Island lies off the coast of Nagasaki. Rit-chan and Ken-chan lead a self-sufficient life there while harboring a secret of…