Tamura Motoharu

Leonard Kuma

Leonard Kuma was a Japanese comedian and actor.

Jinbo Tomoko

Okada Eiji

Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed…

Yamaguchi Makiya

Makiya Yamaguchi is a Japanese actor, born on February 4, 1973 in Soja, Okayama. He was educated at the Seika University in Kyoto. [Asianmediawiki]

Baisho Mitsuko

Baisho Mitsuko, born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Imamura Shohei, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also appeared in the films of Kurosawa Akira. She won awards for best actress…

Nakajima Hiroko

Nakajima Hiroko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She belongs to MR. She debuted in 1989 at the age of 17 with "Music Box". She starred in "The Cherry Orchard" in 1990 and won various movie awards such as the 14th Japan Academy Award for Newcomer Actor.

Tamura Masakazu

Tamura Masakazu, born in Setagaya and died in Minato, was a Japanese actor. He was the third actor from the acting trio "The Three Tamura Brothers", alongside his brothers Takahiro and Ryo. His half-brother is actor Mizukami Yasuhiro. In 1961, he signed an exclusive contract and debuted in his first…

Miyamoto Nobuko

She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Miyazawa Rie

Miyazawa Rie is a Japanese actress. Her father is Dutch while her mother is Japanese. She was previously married to a Hawaii-based surfer-turned-entrepreneur with who she has a daughter. She finalized the divorce in March 2016 after 7 years of marriage. On March 16, 2018, it was reported that she and…

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…