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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

Fukuda Toyoto

Fukuda Toyoto, also known by the erroneous credit Fukuda Toyoshi (福田豊士), was a Japanese actor born in Setagaya, Tokyo. He was the eldest son of Japanese painter Fukuda Toyoshiro. Fukuda attended Japan University's Faculty of Literature but later discontinued his studies in the English Literature…

Miyagi Kenji

Miyagi Kenji was a Japanese manzai (comic duo) performer, host, and actor who formed the comic duo "W Kenji" with Azuma Kenji. His real name was Terashima Fumio (寺島文雄). He was born in Okuma, Watari, Miyagi, Japan. In his later years, he was affiliated with Maseki Geinosha talent agency. At the…

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…

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…

Saito Toyokichi

Saito Toyokichi was a Japanese screenwriter and actor born in Tokyo. He left Seisoku Preparatory School (正則予備校) before completing his studies. In 1921, he began acting under the alias Tagawa Junkichi (田川淳吉) with the Stage Association (舞台協会). He later joined Okada Yoshiko’s…

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…