Sugiyama Tokuko

Sugiyama Tokuko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo. She graduated from Jissen Girls' School and initially worked as a nursery school teacher and in the advertising department at Chiba Shimbun. In 1946, she joined Toho's New Face program and trained at the Academy of Stage Arts. She became a member…

Isono Yoko

Isono Yoko is a Japanese actress and reporter from Tokyo, Japan.

Naito Chin

Naito Chin was a Japanese comedian and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of Nihon University College of Art.

Kawai Genji

Kawai Genji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学) and initially worked for various electrical companies, including Oki Electric Industry (沖電気工業株式会社). After World War II, while serving in the General Headquarters…

Kurasawa Momoko

Kurasawa Momoko is a Japanese singer and actress born in Tokyo, Japan.

Sakai Wakako

Sakai Wakako is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan.

Senda Mitsuo

Senda Mitsuo is a Japanese talent and comedian from Tokyo, Japan.

Nukui Tokuro

Tokuro Nukui, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese novelist.

Oshima Kota

Oshima Kota is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo.

Onda Seijiro

He was born in 1907 (Meiji 40) at Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Asakusa District (now Tokyo, Taito-ku, Asakusa) . His father was a landowner in Saitama prefecture . In 1925 (Taisho 14), at the age of 18 , entered the gate of Toyo Kinema 's famous actor Kondo Iyokichi .He was a movie benshi until 1935.…

The Bad Losers

A young man who came to Tokyo with the dream of becoming an actor goes to see three members of a theater company that he has long admired. However, the theater company has already been disassembled in the air. Once…

Ushiku

5.0

The Ushiku immigration center near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan’s…

Song of the Akamata: The Life Histories of the Islanders, Komi, Iriomote Islands, Okinawa

~~Movie first aired in PorePore Higashinakano at Tokyo ~~It was made in 1972, but only premiered in 2021

Joge Kankei

8.0

Honda Konatsu has come to Tokyo from the countryside where hierarchical relationships are strictly observed. She moves into Maison Pilgrim, an apartment building where only the quirky people of the lower class live.…

Clematis no Madobe

Eri was born and raised in Tokyo. She escapes her city life to spend her vacation time in an old house in Shimane where her late grandmother lived. The people she encounters include her architect cousin and fiancé,…

Emotion

A virus is spreading through Tokyo, and a lockdown has been in effect for three months. Mamoru, a young factory worker, finds himself isolated, his only company being phone calls with his boss, his girlfriend, and…

Detouring Blue

Under the neon night lights of Tokyo, callgirl Shiori is chauffeured from assignation to assignation. Mid-ride, a fellow sex worker prompts her to remember her high school days, her dreams of being a playwright, and…

Ozu

Taking after the story for “Tokyo Twilight”, the film forms itself around the travails of a father and his two daughters. Noriko, the eldest, is struggling with a marriage to a violent and uncaring husband while…

Me and the Cult Leader

More than two decades after the Tokyo subway sarin attack by the doomsday cult Aum, director-cum-victim Sakahara Atsushi embarks on an intimate and profound journey with Araki Hiroshi, the cult's PR director, to unveil…

Car Modify

Bar Modify’s is located in downtown Tokyo and it is a haven for car enthusiasts. Three people who go there are Arisu, who actually works at the place, Takuya, an aspiring screenwriter, and Kento, a mechanic. All…