Maro Akaji

Maro Akaji is a Japanese actor, butoh dancer, and director born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the founder of the avant-garde butoh group Dai Rakuda-kan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Camel Arts. His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro…

Kaga Takeshi

Kaga Takeshi is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV. His real name is Katsuta Shigekatsu. Kaga was born in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture,…

Mizuhashi Fumie

Mizuhashi Fumie is a Japanese screenwriter and essayist from Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture. Her husband is Director Isamu Nakae, and the couple has two children.

Kako Zanmu

Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…

Matsuura Masako

Matsuura Masako is a Japanese screenwriter and director. She was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture and graduated from Yokohama National University.

Komaki Nana

Komaki Nana is a Japanese actress from Saitama prefecture. She was a freelance actress since the age of 17, but in July 2017 she entered Ota Production. In February 2018, her first movie "Kanazawa Shutter Girl" was released.

Kobayashi Kanae

Kobayashi Kanae was a Japanese actress born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. In 1916, she moved to Kyoto to reside with her uncle, the film director Kobayashi Yaroku, and made her debut as a child actor in movies. As she grew up, she worked at the Daimaru department store. In November 1924, she ventured…

Kobayashi Yaroku

Kobayashi Yaroku was a Japanese film director born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. In 1907, he joined Yokota Shokai as a cameraman. From around 1909, he became an assistant director. He joined Nikkatsu's photography department in 1912 and was eventually promoted to a director.

Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Denden

Denden, born Ogata Yoshihiro, is a Japanese actor and former comedian born in Chikushino City, Fukuoka Prefecture and raised in Mizumaki Town. He belongs to the Alpha Agency. After graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo to apply for an apprenticeship under Atsumi Kiyoshi, but he could not meet…

Kodomo Keisatsu

6.7

A middle-aged veteran detective at the special investigation division of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department has his body transformed into that of a child by breathing in a special gas when he chased after an…

Laundry Chigasaki

6.9

Set at a laundromat in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Drama series follows part-time employee Nagi Nagumo, laundromat owner and its customers.

Jinjin: Sononi

2.0

Tateishi Ginzaburo is a street performer in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. One day, he meets a young man named Yamashita Tetsuo. Tateishi Ginzaburo introduces the young man to part-time work in forestry. Yamashita…

Kansatsui Asagao 2

8.0

Asagao continues her work as a forensic scientist at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father Taira and her husband Shinya are busy with their work as detectives. Her daughter Tsugumi…

World of the Taiikukan

Ayame Otsuka, who lives in Shimomura, Kanagawa, surrounded by beautiful trees, attends Kitaashigara High School in the mountains on a daily bus, and will soon be graduating. Ayame, who has stepped into the gymnasium…

Sensha Toso

A documentary about a Vietnam-era anti-war movement that focussed on tanks that were stationed in a US military repair facility in Kanagawa prefecture in 1972. The U.S. Army Sagami General Depot in Sagamihara City,…

Keiji to Kenji, Tokidoki Hanji

7.4

Gota Nakaido is a detective based at the Minatomirai Police Station in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Prior to joining the police force, he spent 8 years working as a high school Physical Education (PE) teacher…

Iki wo Hisomete

7.6

The Tama River, where the water flows along the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa, pours into Tokyo Bay and the large sky spreads out. People who enjoy sports, lovers who are close to each other, students who practice…

Yuganda Hamon

7.6

Sawamura Masahiko is a reporter with a local newspaper, Shin Kanagawa Nippo. One day, he gets a scoop on a hit-and-run case. Morimoto Atsukoa, the grieving wife of the man who died, is reportedly the culprit. Masahiko…

Kansatsui Asagao

7.8

Asagao is a rookie forensic scientist, who works at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is a licensed doctor and respected by those around her. Asagao lives with her father Taira, who is…