Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Kusunoki Mitsuka

Japanese actress and pin entertainer. She is from Tokyo. Her husband is actor and comedian Moro Morooka.

Hokimoto Sora

Hokimoto Sora studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Inspired by the work of director Aoyama Shinji, he started making films during his studies. His graduation film, A Song That Never Ends (2014), an homage to his deceased father made by using archival material and abstract…

Nukui Riran

Nukui Riran is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan.

Nakazawa Seiroku

Nakazawa Seiroku is a Japanese actor, born in Tokyo, Japan.

Ono Kosei

Kosei Ono is a Japanese actor, born in Tokyo and raised in the EU. (Source: Instagram)

Fujiwara Yayoi

Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Yayoi embarked on her artistic journey in 2016 by studying fine arts at University of the Arts London and graduated with a BA in Performance: Design and Practice in 2019. Fujiwara continued her education at the New National Theatre Tokyo Drama Studio from 2020…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Ishii Isao

Ishii Isao, born 1960 in Tokyo, is a Japanese cinematographer. He studied and graduated from the Nihon University College of Arts in Film Department. (Source: Letterboxd)

Ishizaka Yuri

Yuri Ishizaka, a fashion model and actress from Tokyo, graduated from Nihon University College of Art. She made her debut in 2001 with the weekly Asahi "'01 Bishoujo Model (Cover)". After that, she has been active in Japan and abroad for numerous commercials and magazines. She started her activities…

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 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…

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…

Is There a Vet in the House?

6.5

Shiba Kentaro is a compassionate vet in an old Tokyo neighborhood. He doesn't only treat pets, but also interferes in the problems of pet owners and struggles to be of help.

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,…