Kaneko Katsumi

Katsumi Kaneko is a former Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University and was a member of the Tokyo Actors' Cooperative Society. (Source: MyDramaList)

Aida Shigekazu

Aida Shigekazu is a Japanese musician and music producer from Tokyo, Japan. He started his career as a guitarist in 1989 while studying at Meiji Gakuin University. Early in his career, he auditioned for the band GO-BANG'S but was turned down due to his age. However, he was later asked to substitute…

Tatsu Noriko

Tatsu Noriko is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Previously known by her stage name Ryu Noriko (龍のり子), she graduated from the 14th class of the Haiyuza Theatre Company's training institute. Tatsu has worked with the Bungakuza Research Institute and the Zenshinza Theatre Company, and…

Amanashi Mayuko

Amanashi Mayuko is a Japanese producer born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Department of Cultural Policy Studies at Aoyama Gakuin University. She is the CEO of Studio Neco, Inc.

Aimono Mitsuo

Aimono Mitsuo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan.

Takigami Yuka

Takigami Yuka, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a former Japanese idol and talent. She was previously affiliated with Horipro. In 1999, she passed a magazine audition, and in 2000, she joined the entertainment industry as a member of the idol group P-chicks, following a public internet vote. After P-chicks…

Mikawa Yoichiro

Mikawa Yoichiro was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His birth name was Mikawa Yoshikazu (三川義一), and he was previously known by the stage name Mikawa Yoichiro (美川洋一郎). Following his graduation from Setagaya Junior High School, he left home due to a strained relationship with…

Kawashima Akimasa

Kawashima Akimasa is a Japanese editor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan, and the second daughter of Higuchi Noriyoshi, a low-ranking official in the Tokyo Prefecture. She is recognized as the first professional female writer in modern Japan. She began her education at Hongo Elementary School in 1877 but withdrew…

Ogasawara Ryoichi

Ogasawara Ryochi is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan, affiliated with the theater company Haiyuza. He began his training at Haiyuza's institute in 1959 as part of the 8th class. In recent years, he has continued to work actively in stage performances. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kibaiyanse! Watashi

7.0

Takako Kojima works as an announcer in Tokyo, Japan. She is tired of living in Tokyo and she doesn't see a bright future for herself. One day, she is assigned to cover a festival in Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture.…

Dance to Mita

10.0

Mita wanted to become a videographer in Tokyo, but he failed to achieve his dream. He is now back in his hometown and works in the tourism division at city hall. Manabe works with Mita in the tourism division. One…

Sumu Sumu

7.6

An apartment in a building in Tokyo serves as the workplace for Bakarhythm to write scripts and other material. As he sits alone at his desk to write, Bananaman Himura and Wakabayashi Masayasu visit and interrupt his…

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…

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…

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…

Family Story

7.2

Takuya Kobayashi is a university student in Tokyo. He receives his living expenses from his parents who run an apple farm in their hometown. Takuya Kobayashi becomes frustrated and he does not know what to do. He focuses…

Amanogawa

Shiori is a high school student in Tokyo with fond memories of learning to play festival drums from her grandmother. However, she lives with her strict mother who is more concerned about education. Shiori struggles…

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