Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Jerry Fujio

Jerry Fujio is a Japanese singer, actor, and talent. He belongs to Office Kiko. Fujio dropped out of Keio High School attached to Senshu University. His daughters are former actresses Fujio Miki and Fujio Aki. His ex-wife is singer Watanabe Tomoko. Fujio's mother suffered from alcoholism to avoid loneliness…

Iwato Shisetsu

He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…

Mitz Mangrove

Mitz Mangrove was born in the Midori Ward of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture on April 10, 1975. He works mainly as a crossdressing talent but is also an actor, narrator, and drag queen. His father is Tokumitsu Jiro, who served as Isetan's UK president and the deputy manager of their Shinjuku location.…

Kubota Atsundo

Kubota Atsundo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He was a member of the Japan Writers Guild (日本放送作家協会) and the Japan Screenwriters Association (日本脚本家連盟). As a child, he was evacuated to Hamamatsu, Japan. After graduating from Hamamatsu High School (浜松一中)…

Kuno Shiro

Kuno Shiro was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Asakusa, Japan. In 1933, he debuted on stage with the Shinpa theatrical group. In 1937, he joined the Todo troupe. In 1945, he became a member of the Enoken troupe. In 1947, he joined the Toho Theater Division. In 1948, he founded the Shortcake…

Arishima Ichiro

Arishima Ichiro, born Oshima Tadao (大島忠雄) in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of a steel factory owner. After attending Hioki Elementary School (日置尋常小学校) and Nagoya Middle School (名古屋中学校), where he developed an interest in theater, he…

Otomo Jun

Otomo Jun was a Japanese actor born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He was affiliated with Sogei Pro, Teatro Kakko, Hanabusa Pro, and the Tokyo Actors Cooperative Association. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School's pre-war Teacher Training Course and worked as a music teacher at Osaka Municipal Namba…

Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Sachiko no Ko

The story of Sachiko, a prostitute who works in Shinjuku 2-chome. The woman, despite the difficult situation and adversities, helps everyone around her as much as she can. Soon, however, the woman is faced with a series…

Ryuji

7.6

Ryuji, an executive of the Santokai gang that controls the Shinjuku–Kabukicho area, has been living a smooth life, running an underground roulette den in an apartment through his two subordinates. One day, however,…

Shabon Dama

6.0

Yajima Teppei known also as "Dr.Po", creates a small clinic in Nishi-Shinjuku.Soon, however, the land on which the clinic is built, becomes the subject of a political dispute. Redevelopment from a political origin,…

Working Holiday

6.0

Okita Yamato (AKIRA), who works at a host club in Shinjuku, gets a surprise visit from Susumu (Hayashi Ryoi), his son from a relationship that ended over a decade ago. Yamato has no choice but to live with Susumu,…

Tokyo: The City of Glass

2.0

Toru, a graduate student who runs a bar in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo's gay district, meets Yong, a Korean man, and he falls in love. This seemingly ordinary event is somehow linked to a 20-year-old homicide case, and…

The Night Kindergarten

ABC Childcare Center offers 24-hour childcare in Okubo, neighboring the Kabukicho nightlife district in Shinjuku. The facility has tried out numerous unique experiments including nutrition education through meals prepared…

Girl Boss Guerilla

6.1

Miko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. Successful for a short time in ruling the streets it…

Black Crow 0

10.0

Prequel in the "Black Crow" series about an agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. The story focuses on the protagonist's hidden past. Rookie police officer Kanzaki…

Maria

8.4

Sora, the third of four sisters, inherits from her father Sakamoto Medical Practice in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Sora sees even those with no money and the waiting room is always crowded with penniless patients. Keeping…

Homunculus

6.6

Nokoshi Susumu has worked previously in a top foreign financial company, but now, he is a 34-year-old homeless, unemployed man who lives in a car and hangs out aimlessly in a park in Shinjuku. One day, he meets Ito…