Salah Soltane

Salah Soltane is an Japanese-based visual effects professional.

Kuni Yasushi

Kuni Yasushi is a Japanese actor.

Kuni Ichitaro

Kuni Ichitaro is a Japanese actor.

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Joe Yamanaka

Yamanaka Joe was a Japanese musician, actor, and professional boxer from Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His real name is Yamanaka Akira and his ring name during his professional boxer days was Jo Akira. Born as the only mixed-race child of the seven siblings. His father is "African-American". He…

Kameishi Seiichiro

Kameishi Seiichiro is a Japanese actor, screenwriter, novelist and lyricist.

Kimura Yoshino

Born in London and raised in Tokyo. She was sent to camp in Maine when she was 13 and now speaks fluent English. She was a Takarazuka fan which inpsired her dream of acting, and started out as a model. She was in her first commercial for JAL when she was still a high school student, and made her drama…

Harada Ryuji

Harada Ryuji is a Japanese actor. In May 2019 Weekly Bunshun reported that Ryuji had been having affairs with multiple women. Later the official Twitter account of the Sazae-san stage play announced that he will be dropped from the cast and was replaced by Katsurayama Shingo. The Sazae-san stage play…

Kashiyama Fumie

Real name Fumie Watabiki (綿引 文枝). Actress.

Kuroki Hitomi

Hitomi Kuroki is a Japanese actress. Before entering the television business, she was one of the top musumeyaku (those who play the female role) in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female theatre troupe. In 1997, she won many awards for her outstanding performance in "Lost Paradise". Apart from her acting…

Asakusa Kid

7.0

In 1973, after leaving the university, Kitano spent his days alternating the waste of time with the work of barman, until the lighting: go to Asakusa and become a comedian actor! Here, in a strip-tease club called…

BROTHER

7.4

Shot in Los Angeles, California, Takeshi Kitano plays Yamamoto, a lone yakuza officer. Defeated in a war with a rival family, his boss killed, he heads to L.A. As time passes, Yamamoto and his new gang emerge as a…

Takeshi Kun, Hai!

7.3

Set in slums of Tokyo, the daily life of the child Takeshi Kitano and his family is depicted with a comedy touch, the drama revolves around the Takeshi Kitano who is kind but mischievous.

Takeshi's Castle

8.2

Takeshi's Castle is a Japanese game show. It featured the Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to…

Necchu Jidai Special

Soon after Kodai and his wife returned to Tokyo, Atsuko's real mother came to live with the Kitano family.

Takeshis'

6.8

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big…

Gotaisetsu SP

7.1

Abandoned by his mother at a young age, Akagi Kaede is raised in Yamaguchi by his grandmother and the priest at his school, Father Kitano. After leaving his hometown, Kaede returns years later to serve as a priest…

Sodom no Ringo

6.2

Editor Shitara Mari hears that Miwa Yoshio, the boyfriend she split up with over a quarrel six months ago, has committed suicide. He was engaged to Miyamura Megumi whom he met through a online dating site. Miyamura…

Dolls

7.4

The film crosses between dreamlike and highly stylized realism. The film opens in the traditional bunraku doll theater and then cross-cuts between three modern love-tragedies - a daring tragic triptych on the nature…

Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

7.7

Housewife Sasamoto Sawa works as a part-time supermarket cashier. One afternoon, she unconsciously pickpockets a lipstick at the supermarket. Takigawa Rikako sees a part of this. What she proposes is Sawa's assistance…