Kitagawa Machiko

Born as a daughter of a stationery store in Tokyo (Chikada Co., Ltd., a sales and wholesale company for office supplies). She had an older brother, but he died in the war. In 1949, while a student at the higher girls' school decided to try out for new Toho when she went to visit the studio. She was…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Claude Chiari

Claude Chiari is a talent, guitarist and musician born on February 11, 1944 in Nice, France. He first came to Japan in 1967. In 1975, she married Jane Yada, a half-japanese and half-white Russian model, and began living permanently in Japan. He was naturalized in Japan in 1985 and renamed his Japanese…

Izumi Kyouka

A Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. He is best known for a…

Yamamuro Ko

Yamamuro Ko, born Nishimori Takashige (西森高茂), was a Japanese actor from Kochi, Japan. He graduated from Kochi Castle East Commercial School. In 1927, he joined the Nikkatsu Daishogun Studio under the stage name Murakami Eiji ((村上英二), occasionally working under his real name. In 1933,…

Matsuzaki Keiji

He was born in Kyoto Prefecture Graduated from. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He was active as a translator of Soviet - Russian literature and participated in Prokino ( Proletarian Film League of Japan ) formed in 1929, but gradually strengthened his relationship with commercial films and…

Onishi Yasumasa

Although the exact time is unknown, he has been an actor since before the war, became an exclusive actor of Toho from around the 1950s, and has appeared in many movies regardless of the genre since then. He often plays the role of a foreigner because of his deeply carved Japanese features. In 1971,…

Watanabe Mokuzen

Depends on the sources, he was born or in July 10 or June 12, 1870. Novelist from the Meiji era to the Showa era. Born in Uzen Province (currently Yamagata Prefecture). His real name is Watanabe Matsuzo (渡辺末蔵). After working as a journalist at various newspapers, he began writing novels.

Suzuki Kensaku

Suzuki Kensaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Yokohama. He was active in the Nikkatsu contemporary drama during the silent film era. He became a film director at the Komatsu Shokai Takadanobaba studio after being involved in the recording of performances at the Nippon Phonograph…

Ichikawa Udanji II

Ichikawa Udanji II was a Kamigata actor, who followed in the footsteps of his father, excelling in hayagawari and keren, like the koi tsukami scene, the chûnori in a wicker basket for the robber Ishikawa Goemon, or the stage tricks of "Yotsuya Kaidan", "Hôkaibô" or "Kohata Koheiji". He was also a…

The Bride Who Returned From Hell

Bei Sui Mi travels from Singapore to become the Wang family tutor, concealing her real reason for the trip - an investigation into the death of her sister, Mrs. Wang. During her tutorship, she mends the relationship…

I Hear the Whistle

A moving sad story, that made a movie of a real girl, who fights against an intractable disease called Huntington's dance disease, which causes muscle atrophy. ~~ Adapted from poetry.

Cheeky Little Angels

The Shaw Brothers version of The Parent Trap, only they found real twins for the roles of the kids! (Source: Letterboxd)

Violent Fraternity

3.0

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs. (Source: themoviedb)

Temptation Of Angel

6.8

This story of the everyday life of a couple living together is made all the more powerful by the lead's real off-screen romance.

The Eagle's Killer

After being exploited by a fake kung fu teacher, Ah Tai (John Chang) searches for a real master and ends up meeting a ruthless hit man, Ghost Hands Lo Sum (Hwang Jang Lee). He tricks Ah Tai and sells him off to be…

Hyururu... 1985

4.0

Is this fiction or reality? The filmmaker himself suddenly appears on screen with his real name, and the process of making a film with his friends is described. There are casual, everyday conversations with a girl…

Niji no Sekkei

The story of construction of Seikan Tunnel (青函トンネル ) , real railway tunnel connecting Imabetsu Town , Higashitsugaru District , Aomori Prefecture in Honshu and Shirinai Town, Kamiiso District , Hokkaido.…

Onmitsu Kenshi

7.6

The adventures of a roving samurai detective/spy, Akikusa Shintaro whose real identity is Matsudaira Nobuchiyo - the older half-brother of Tokugawa Ienari, the 11th Tokugawa shogun, who is still a minor. Because he…

Necchu Jidai Special

Soon after Kodai and his wife returned to Tokyo, Atsuko's real mother came to live with the Kitano family.