Sugi Yoko

Sugi joined Toho after winning its second New Face competition. She made her mark performing in coming-of-age movies, such as Blue Mountain Range (Aoi Sanmyaku). In 1962, Sugi married an American, retired from the entertainment industry, and moved to the United States. She worked as a public relations…

Wakamatsu Takeshi

Wakamatsu Takeshi was born July 2, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Nihon University College of Art. He's been active as an actor since getting his start in theater. He debuted as a movie actor in 1978 with "Third Base". His tv drama debut occurred in 1986 with "Onna wa Otoko wo Dou Kaeru".

Twist Kim

Made his big screen debut in the 1962 film “A Man From Tokyo,” and rose to stardom through ``The Barefooted Young’ He became known as a quirky and comical supporting actor and appeared in some 160 films during the ’60s and ’70s

Kimoto Yuko

Kimoto Yuko is an actress, known for Tokyo Pop (1988) and Break Town Story (1985)

Nazuki Hiroko

Nazuki Hiroko is a Japanese actress from Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, and is originally from the Kanai family, which once dominated the Fujisankei Group. She started learning Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance) at the Wakayanagi school at the age of 4, obtained her stage name at 11, and became a master…

BJ Fox

BJ Fox is a British stand-up comedian, producer, and actor based in Tokyo.

Ishihara Shintaro

Ishihara Shintaro was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, Ishihara is one of the most prominent conservative right-wing politicians in modern Japanese politics. His arts career included a prize-winning…

Hayashi Mie

Hayashi Mie is a Japanese idol from Setagaya, Tokyo.

Odagiri Miki

Odagiri Miki was a japanese actress born in the county of Toyotama-gun in Tokyo. Since childhood, she received a gifted education at Buyō (a traditional Japanese performing art) and worked as a child actress at the Shinkyo Theater Company. In 1935 she debuted on the stage with "Before the Dawn". However,…

Akiyama Mayu

Mayu Akiyama worked in the fashion industry while studying at the Film School of Tokyo. Her graduation production, "GARCONNE - The Woman having both sexes", featured a refreshingly intersexual protagonist. It was selected for the 11th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival and was nominated for the Art Center…

The Executioner

6.8

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Flowing

6.8

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film…

Intimate Strangers

6.9

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son. (Source: TIFF)

Hypnosis

6.9

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife’s birthday. A middle aged…

Love Come

6.9

Matsuda Makie works as a manager of a flower shop in Tokyo and hasn't had a date in 2 years. Even though she is attractive, her personality is tomboyish. She then meets geeky old acquaintance Miharu, who works as an…

Blue Hour

6.9

Sunada is a 30-year-old TV commercial director based in Tokyo. Tired of pleasing others and torn between her husband and lover, she yearns for a breather. With great help from her weird friend Kiyoura, Sunada decides…

Strawberry Shortcakes

6.9

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. The main characters, impeccably played by four powerful actresses, are modern,…

Starting Over

6.7

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give…

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

6.6

The story takes place in the outskirts of Tokyo in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Overflowing with orphans and refugees from the disaster, the district gets a visit from the female sumo group Tamaiwa…

Shylock's Children

7.0

A million yen goes missing at the Nagahara Branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank. Long-time customer service staff Nishiki sets out on a mission to uncover the truth together with his colleagues Airi and Tabata. After coming…