Sudo Ken

Sudo Ken, born Sudo Kenjiro (須藤健二郎) in Azabu, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was also known by the name Sudo Ken (須藤建). He graduated from Waseda Jitsugyo School (早稲田実業学校). Sudo began his acting career in 1934 with the Theatre Antime troupe (劇団テアトル・アンチーム).…

Hanaoka Kikuko

Hanaoka Kikuko was a Japanese actress born Takigawa Ikuyo (瀧川幾代) in Teramachi, Shizuoka, Japan. After marriage, she was legally known as Matsuzaki Ikuyo (松崎幾代). She was recognized for her work as a comedic actress at Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s and as a supporting actress…

Oda Masao

Oda Masao, born Saiki Masao (斎木政雄) was a Japanese actor born in Waseda, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. He later changed his name to Oda Masao (織田真佐男). He began his acting career at age six and graduated from Tokyo Prefectural School of Arts (東京府立工芸学校). In 1930, he enrolled…

Nozawa Hisashi

Nozawa Hisashi was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the Kuniko Mukōda Prize in 1998 for his screenplay Nemureru Mori (A Sleeping Forest) and Kekkon Zen'ya (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1997 for Hasen no marisu (Dotted-line Malice) and the…

Murano Takenori

Murano Takenori is a japanese actor born on April 19, 1945 in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan.

Fujiki Yu

Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Nakano Ryoko

Nakano Ryoko, born Kawasaki Ryoko (川崎良子), in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She graduated from Aichi Prefectural Tokoname High School (愛知県立常滑高等学校) and initially joined an amateur theater troupe in Nagoya after graduation. Seeking to pursue acting professionally,…

Sasaki Haruka

Born in Akita Prefecture and grew up in Suzuka City. Since 2016, she has been a member of theater company Tokyo Dry Battery. Her agency is Knockout, Inc.

Bumpkin Soup

6.2

A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology…

Tezuka's Barbara

6.3

The story is set in modern-day Tokyo. Famous novelist Yosuke Mikura encounters a young girl in the subway station and brings her home to his condominium. The girl's name is Barbara. For all her bad manners and constant…

Keiko Desu Kedo

6.4

Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cancer and she becomes obsessed with the passage of time. And so, three weeks before her 22nd birthday, she decides to record this period of time…

My Father, the Bride

6.4

Toka is a career woman in Tokyo. For the 3rd year anniversary of her mother's death, Toka travels back to her hometown on a remote island. There, Toka sees her father, Seiji, wearing her mother's clothes. Toka is shocked,…

It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up

6.4

I got a job in Tokyo, but after 10 years she went back to her hometown. Now, I is 27-years-old and lives with her parents. Even though she works as a freelance writer, her parents treats her as a freeter. She meets…

The Box Man

6.5

In the bustling streets of Tokyo, a peculiar man dons a cardboard box over his head. Through a small peephole, he observes the world and diligently records his observations in a notebook. The photographer, known as…

Blood & Sweat

Suzumiya Aki is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division. She possesses an exceptional nose and tenacity at crime scenes and has solved numerous challenging cases. However,…

Nihon Toitsu 67

Himuro Renji and Tamura Yuto return to Tokyo to confront Okada Toru. What awaited them was a notice of succession from the Hasseikai, which was supposed to be affiliated with the Kyowakai. When Himuro learns that the…

The Next Generation: Patlabor

6.6

In the year of 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Due to a long running depression, Labors, which are robots used in construction, are fired. The Division 1 of "Patlabor" is also dispersed. Patlabors are used by the Tokyo Metropolitan…