Otsuka Michiko

Otsuka Michiko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Otsuka Michiko (大塚道子) was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo. She attended Tokyo Women's High School (東京女子高等師範学校付属高等女学校) but did not complete her studies. After training…

Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

Ikawa Kotaro

Kotaro Ikawa was born in 1976. At Hitotubashi university, he learned cinema theory from Kan Nozaki and started to make films. He began his film career as a cameraman. His directorial debut is the work of a one-man film crew: he receives credit not only for direction, but for script, production, cinematography,…

Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Mori Momoko

She is an actress and model born in Tokyo, Japan.

Ota Rikako

Ota Rikako is a Japanese child actress from Tokyo.

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Manzai Association the Movie

A documentary film about comedians in Tokyo who put their hearts on the stage. Why do Manzai performers continue to stand on the "stage"? Since June 2023, as a new and youngest ever chairman of Manzai association,…

Nibisabi no Su

After leaving Ishikawa Prefecture to live in Tokyo, Haruto is confused by the changes in people, towns, and time after his grandmother's death and feels that life is difficult. One day, his older sister Akane, who…

See You Again

Manga artist Yuki rushes from Tokyo to Kyoto upon receiving news that her father has been critically injured in an accident. After her father is discharged from the hospital, he goes to a nursing home named Hallelujah…

Blood & Sweat

7.7

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,…

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…

Return to Sender

A quiet little shop in downtown Tokyo serves as a haven for Japan's lost young souls. They share their innermost feelings with their future selves in letters they'll receive exactly one year later. (Source: nhk.or.jp)

The Box Man

6.3

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…