The Ugly Duckling

6.1

This is an elementary school version of 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei. Gansuke is an elementary school teacher from Hokkaido who moves to Tokyo to be near his sweetheart Masako, who wants to become a hair stylist. He…

The Doctor

Kazuma Asou, who helps out in his friend's clinic, is a doctor enjoying a peaceful life on rural Ishigaki Island. However, his father's death causes him to move to Tokyo and he starts working for a big hospital where…

Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic

A young female Japanese hacker returns to Tokyo for a short visit and is quickly caught up in a web of crime and violence by the city's most notorious hikikomori psychopath. Source: IMDb

Tokyo Sotsugyo

8.8

Fifteen years ago, Moeko abandoned her husband Ichiro and three children and moved to Tokyo. And divorced. As time passed, the eldest daughter Rinko, the second daughter Nobuko, and the eldest son Tatsuro each lived…

The Winds of God

6.7

Two Osaka comedians, Makoto and Kinta, are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into…

Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World

6.1

Kyoko, a young and talented photographer wandering around Tokyo, tries to give meaning to her life through her camera. She is asked to do a nude photo shoot for a magazine. On the street she accosts a girl named Miho,…

The Rapeman 7

Mild-mannered high school teacher by day, masked, knife-wielding rapist for hire by night, Rapeman rights wrongs through penetration, teaching the evil women of Tokyo respect for their elders, for society, and for…

Tokyo Decameron

An omnibus film featuring three reports of madness and sensuality. > Story 1: "Two Women Known as Mariko" A young comely lass named Mariko, whom, because of to a strange series of occasions during her youth, finds…

Tokyo Love Collection

7.0

This is a comedic love story revolving around three young work, and love, oriented women in their 20s. The central character, Hara Ayaka, is turned on to her gay male friend and fails to notice that her roommate Natsuki…

Kimura Hideakira

Born in Tokyo, he spends his childhood in the United States. After he entered Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics, he began to compose by himself. After graduating, he studied abroad at Berklee College of Music to study music theory and arrangement. After graduating from the…

Takigawa Koito

Born in 1984 in Tokyo and raised in Sapporo from the age of 3. He initially began training in soccer to become a member of the national team before suffering a setback. He moved to Tokyo in 2002 and began working at a restaurant. He became interested in rakugo and started being mentored by Takigawa…

Ishihara Umi

Ishihara Umi is a Japanese artist and film director. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a BA in Fine Arts and went on to study at the University for the Creative Arts in London for an MA in Filmmaking. Her work consists of a surreal mix between documentary and fiction. The Garden Apartment…

Tanaka Mayuko

Tanaka Mayuko is a Japanese stage actress and voice actor. She is from Tokyo. She has an O blood type. She is 162 cm tall. She belongs to Group Impact (Kitazawa section) and the theater company Sugoroku.

Yanagiya Gontaro III

The third generation Yanagiya Gontaro is a rakugo storyteller from Kita-ku, Tokyo. He belongs to the Rakugo Kyokai and is a consultant to the association. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Meiji Gakuin University. At Meiji Gakuin University, he was active in the Rakugo Study Group. On April 1, 1970,…

Yanagiya Gontaro I

The first Yanagiya Gontaro was a Japanese rakugoka born in Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1939, he belonged to the Toho Meijinkai. In addition, h becomes a signboard rakugoka of Toho along with the 3rd generation Kinba Sanyutei. Even after the war, he remained popular but fell ill in 1950. At the same time, a…

Hiraiwa Yumie

The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa Yumie was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to…

Rionne McAvoy

Rionne McAvoy is a documentary filmmaker originally from the Gold Coast in Australia. Now residing in Tokyo, Japan, for over 17 years, Rionne is fully bilingual in English and Japanese. Rionne grew up in South East Queensland, Australia, and at the age of 19 went to Japan for an 8-week karate training…

Ichikawa Ennosuke IV

The fourth generation Ichikawa Ennosuke is Kinoshi Takahiko. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, as the eldest son of Ichikawa Danshiro IV. His uncle is the famous Ichikawa Ennosuke III, father of the actor Kagawa Teruyuki. He graduated from Keio University in 1998 with specialization in Japanese literature.…

Nakagawa Ryutaro

Nakagawa Ryutaro, born in 1990 in the Kanagawa prefecture, released his first feature film in 2012. His sixth feature Summer Blooms (2017) was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. He has attracted further attention both in Japan and abroad through his latest work Silent…