Watanabe Yoshinori

Watanabe Yoshinori was a Japanese movie and TV producer from 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.

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…

Naito Chin

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

Isono Yoko

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

Kobayashi Tatsuo

Kobayashi Tatsuo is a Japanese screenwriter and critic from Tokyo, Japan.

Hama Yuko

Hama Yuko is a Japanese actress born at Meguro in Tokyo. She was married to Ichikawa Ennosuke III, a kabuki actor, and gave birth to Kagawa Teruyuki, who also became an actor, before divorcing three years later in 1968. She started working in the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater…

Ito Takaaki

Ito Takaaki is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

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…

Street of Shame

7.6

This gritty drama of six working girls in one brothel in Tokyo's Yoshiwara red-light district explores how the women came to work in such a place -- trying to pay for their children's education, trying to bail their…

Prism

7.6

Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious about what she does. It is the same with romance.…

Izakaya Bottakuri

7.7

Bottakuri is a small bar located in the deserted downtown of Tokyo. In this place the beautiful sisters Mine and Kaoru, who inherited the restaurant from their late parents, serve hearty food and sake. The two sisters…

Delinquent to Doctor

7.7

Rookie doctor Tagami Kotoha is assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Odaiba Bay Medical Center. Strikingly beautiful, Kotoha causes a stir throughout the hospital as she heads to the neurosurgery staff room. There, she…

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

7.9

A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko…

Himitsu no Arashi-chan

8.3

Himitsu no Arashi-chan was a Japanese variety show on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) starring Arashi and the members of Othello as their co-hosts. The show ran from April 10, 2008 to March 21, 2013 and airs from 10:00…

Smiles in the Mirror

8.0

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired…

The Castle of Sand

7.6

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Mikkoku wa Utau

7.5

Sara Masaki is a detective of Investigation Team 1 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His colleague, Detective Saito Kota, dies during an investigation of a murder case. Afterward, Masaki is transferred to…

Moratorium Tamako

6.3

Tamako (Atsuko Maeda) graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout…