Takehisa Chieko

Takehisa Chieko was a Japanese actress from Akita Prefecture who was active in the Showa period. After moving to Tokyo she started at Komatsugawa High School, but entered the movie world at the age of 15 and dropped out. She joined the Enomoto troupe Casino Foley in 1930 at the age of 18. She then she…

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Mihashi Ko

Mihashi Ko was a Japanese actor who flourished during the Taisho and Showa eras. His real name was Ohashi Yoshio (大橋芳雄). Born in Tokyo, he dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and joined the New Theater Association. He made his debut on stage in February 1920 in "Blue Bird"…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Shimazaki Toson

Shimazaki Toson was a Japanese writer active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He began his career as a Romantic poet, but went on to establish himself as a major proponent of Japanese Naturalism. (Source: Wikipedia)

Takagi Akimitsu

Takagi Akimitsu was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko)…

Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Onoe Baiko VI

Onoe Baikô VI was one of the best onnagata of the Meiji, Taishô and the first years of the Shôwa eras. He costarred stage giants like Onoe Kikugorô V, Kataoka Nizaemon XI, Matsumoto Kôshirô VII or Onoe Kikugorô VI. The duo Onoe Baikô VI-Ichimura Uzaemon XV was extremely popular. He was expected…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Kono Mama ja, Boku no Shorai Shireta Mono

Inui Fumiya is the section chief of the sales promotion department of Showa Toki, a toilet manufacturer. His colleague Tanokura Takahiko has been promoted to the head of the sales department. Fumiya has been slow to…

Hoshi o Tsugu Mono

5.0

Kenji Yoshida, who was born in the Showa Era and is now nearing retirement age, was approached by a female reporter on a TV program on his way to the station. Kenji, who was willing to respond to her interview, guided…

Tenkirimatsu Dark Story

2.0

The legendary thief Tenkirimatsu survived turbulent times over the three eras of Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. ~~Adapted from the novel by Asada Jiro (浅田次郎).

Moonlight Mask

6.7

The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him…

Ultra Heroine Legend: Contest of Goddesses

The Ultraman series spans multiple eras, starting with the Showa Era's Ultra Q and extending to the Heisei Era's TDG series, showcasing the franchise's evolution over time. This special program features invaluable…

Trot Girls Japan

"Trot Girls Japan" is a new audition project to determine the number one diva by singing classic songs from the Showa to Heisei eras, including folk melodies, mood songs, enka, group sounds, folk, new music, and city…

Superstar Minami Is My Boyfriend!?

7.1

Chiyomi is a high school girl, who was born and raised in a retro Showa-era shopping district in Shonan. She is a member of the basketball club and has a kind personality that stays cheerful despite her somewhat complicated…

Flowers

7.3

"FLOWERS" covers the lives of six woman whose lives span a period of three generations (from the Shōwa period all the way through to the present day). Starting in the 1930's, Rin (Aoi Yu) is worried about her arranged…

Beppin-san

7.7

It is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever…

Ressha Sentai ToQger vs Kamen Rider Gaim Spring Gattai Special

7.2

In this 1-hour crossover prequel to Heisei Vs. Showa: Kamen Rider Taisen Feat. Super Sentai between the then-current Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series, the ToQGers make a stop at the Zawame city train station for…