Toda Keiko

Toda Keiko is a Japanese actress and voice actress. Her most famous role is being the voice of the children's hero Anpanman on the long-running anime Soreike! Anpanman. She also voices Thomas the Tank Engine in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends from Season 1 to Season 8. She is an acclaimed singer…

Miyazaki Aoi

Miyazaki Aoi is a Japanese actress. She is considered one of Japan's most beautiful women. She is best known for roles such as in "Nana" and "Virgin Snow". Her brother Miyazaki Masaru is also an actor, and they starred together in the film "Hatsukoi". Aoi started working in the entertainment industry…

Setouchi Jakucho

Setouchi Jakucho was a Japanese novelist and a nun of the Tendai sect. She graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University with a bachelor's degree in literature. She was the chief priest of Zenkobo at Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei. She had won the Women's Literature Prize, the Junichiro Tanizaki Prize,…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Imaoka Shinji

Imaoka Shinji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. He is also known to use the names "Imaoka Shinji" and "Imaoka Shindi" in his works. During his appearances in pink films, he used the name "Ramon Naka." After dropping out of Yokohama City University,…

Gomi Yasusuke

Gomi Yasusuke was a Japanese novelist born in Namba, Osaka, Japan. He lost his father at a young age and was raised in the house of his maternal grandfather. His grandfather was a major entertainment promoter who owned many theaters and cinemas in the Sennichimae area of Osaka. He graduated from Yao…

Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita 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…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Kurihara Thomas

Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara (栗原喜三郎), was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled in a school for film actors in 1912. After graduation, working as an extra, he entered Oriental…

Fumiko's Feet

6.5

Tsukakoshi is an old man. His mistress is Geisha Fumiko and he is fascinated by her beautiful feet. He requests Unokichi to paint a picture of Fumiko as a model. Second film in a 3 part project titled "Tanizaki Tribute"…

Chijin no Ai Reverse

6.5

Naomi, a teacher, cannot leave Yuzuru, a young man sitting by the roadside like an abandoned cat, alone. She moves to a spacious house and begins living with him. There is no physical relationship between Naomi and…

Akimahende!

6.9

Nowadays, kids have their parents wrapped around their fingers. While they appear to despise their parents, they are actually insecure and want someone to give them love, guidance, and support. Although Katsura is…

Irezumi

6.9

In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's…

Manji Reverse

6.5

Unable to give up on his dream of becoming a painter, Sonoda quits his job and attends art school. While living a life of relying on his lawyer's wife for his family finances, Sonoda is fascinated by Hikari, a beautiful…

Asunaro Hakusho

7.1

On the day of entrance exam someone helps Narumi by giving her a pencil. She wants to thank him but he's soon gone. She couldn't forget her hero so she hopes to see him again. While looking around the campus she hears…

Chijin no Ai

6.2

Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional debut, meets a beautiful woman, Naomi, in a rundown bar one day. Naomi says she is working at the bar while…

Manji

5.9

Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationship develops and starts to affect and involve their partners. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Manji"…

Painless: The Eyes for Signs

7.3

Tameyori Eisuke is a dedicated general practitioner who runs a clinic, which seems on the verge of collapse, in a provincial town. He seems to be a middle-aged man who will never get ahead, but in fact, he possesses…