Ozawa Fujio

Ozawa Fujio was a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and lyricist from Tokyo. In 1935, he joined the Daito movie Negamo studio and wrote the original script for the film "Ronin Sugoroku," which was released on September 19 of the same year. After the war, he became a novelist, and many of…

Miyata Yoyo

Miyata Yoyo was a Japanese actor born in Mikawa, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. His real name was Iwashita Nobuo (岩下信夫). He graduated from Kumamoto Technical High School in 1929. After working with Miss Wakana's troupe, he became an exclusive performer for Yoshimoto Kogyo in 1938. In 1942, he moved…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Sawa Tamaki

Sawa Tamaki was a Japanese singer, actress, and politician from Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After performing arts activities, she turned into politics and was a member of the House of Councilors. She made her debut as a singer from Teichiku in 1956 while she was a student at Yamawaki Gakuen…

Chiba Kichizo

He belonged to the magic lantern club of Yoshizawa Shoten , he worked as a developing engineer, and became a photography engineer when the company started producing newsreels in 1903 (Meiji36) .. In 1905 (Meiji 38) Togo Taisho Katsudo Shashin was filmed and according to Edamasa, Chiba was the first…

Utsumi Toppa

Utsumi Toppa, born Kimura Sadayuki (木村貞行) in Utsumi, Minamiuwa, Ehime, Japan, was a Japanese manzai performer. He was the younger brother of screenwriter Misho Kingo (御荘金吾) and the husband of singer Maeshima Setsuko (前島節子). Toppa graduated from Naniwa Commercial School (浪華商業学校)…

Hanaoka Kikuko

Hanaoka Kikuko was a Japanese actress born Takigawa Ikuyo (瀧川幾代) in Teramachi, Shizuoka, Japan. After marriage, she was legally known as Matsuzaki Ikuyo (松崎幾代). She was recognized for her work as a comedic actress at Shochiku Kamata Studio in the late 1920s and as a supporting actress…

Ishiyama Yudai

Ishiyama Yudai is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Kinjo Gakuen. After graduating from high school, he entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 12th gen member. After a three-year training period, he belonged to the Tokyo Theater Ensemble. In the 1980s, he belonged to Ishihara Promotions…

Mackenyu

Mackenyu Maeda, known simply as Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles and is the son of a famous Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows…

Horie Mitsuko

Horie Mitsuko is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She has voiced several characters throughout her career, such as Sailor Galaxia in Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars and Remi in the Nippon Animation World Masterpiece Theater series Remi, Nobody's Girl. She is also part of the judging panel at the Animax…

Meitantei Catherine

7.3

Catherine Turner is the daughter of the Vice President of the United States, and she had come with her father on his official visit to Japan. Since she runs a flower arrangement business back in the US, Catherine decides…

Suekko Chounan Ane Sannin

7.4

Haruko Takanashi is 30. She works at a radio station. She is approaching middle management where good looks alone aren't enough. She isn't very romantic so she devotes herself to work and play and suddenly finds herself…

Gu Ra Me! Minister President's Cook

7.3

Ichiki Kurumi is 25-years-old. When she was young, she went to France. Now, after she came back to Japan, she works as a waitress at a high-end traditional restaurant (ryotei). She is talented with cooking. Meanwhile,…

Ningen no Shomei

7.4

The police raid a club in Roppongi, Tokyo - a trendy area of the city that attracts youths and, more recently, drug trafficking. When a drug dealer tries to escape from a club with a gun in hand, the whole club goes…

Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy

7.4

Jiro is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doesn't go outside or socialise with people. After the death of his father, Jiro's mother runs away and leaves behind a 6 month dog…

Taroman

7.6

A tribute to Japanese avant-garde painter, sculptor, and art theorist Taro Okamoto made by the NHK to promote the 2022 Taro Okamoto Exposition in Osaka. A sun-faced giant, Taroman, comes to Earth to face off against…

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final Series

8.2

{Episodes 40-41-42} Originally intended to be the very last episodes of "Furuhata Ninzaburo" (but later followed by the last SP / prequel of 2008). The episodes are all of different length (respectively, 106', 91'…

Five Star Tourist

7.3

In the past, Kyoka was an excellent employee at the travel agency, Sunset Tours. She was even called the "legendary travel master." But a conflict with her boss led to her transfer to another department. Now, Kyoka…

Miss Oyu

7.2

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces…

Tantei Kazoku

8.6

An old saying has it that it takes the first generation to create the business and the second one to destroy it. When the Tanaka Family's father, a career private eye, passes away, the eldest daughter and mother figure,…