Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Nakagoshi Noriko

Nakagoshi, first debuted as a model for ViVi magazine in 1999. She began acting the same year, making her acting debut as Midori Sato in the show Tengoku no Kiss. Her acting attracted her great attention and from there, she moved onto bigger roles. Her breakthrough role came in the 2003 NHK asadora,…

Kusakari Tamiyo

Kusakari Tamiyo is a Japanese actress and former ballet dancer. She began ballet at the age of 8 before joining the prestigious Asami Maki troupe. At 22 she became their principal dancer and had her first leading role as Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake". That year she also won first prize at the All Japan…

Asano Atsuko

Asano Atsuko is a Japanese actress who debuted at the age of 15 after playing a minor role in the series "Eden No Umi". She was born in Adachi, Northern Tokyo, Japan. She began acting in feature films and, by 1983, won a Best Supporting Actress Award from the Japan Academy Prize for Yokiroh. Since 2003,…

Taguchi Tomorowo

Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer, and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan…

Tsurumi Shingo

Tsurumi Shingo is a Japanese actor and talent from Tokyo and lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa. He graduated from Seikei University Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science. He belongs to HoriPro. His younger brother, Mikami Yuichi, is also a former actor. Tsurumi made his debut at the age of 12 when…

Ozawa Yukiyoshi

Ozawa Yukiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in 1974 in the United States as his father, orchestral conductor Ozawa Seiji, was directing the San Francisco Symphony. He comes from a family involved in the arts; along with his father's work in the world of classical music, his mother is former model and actress…

Nakao Akiyoshi

Nakao Akiyoshi is a Japanese actor. He debuted in 2000 at the age of 12 in the NTV drama "Food Fight". He married Naka Riisa on March 21, 2013. They co-starred for the first time in the movie "Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo" in 2009 and co-starred again in NHK drama "Tsurukame Josanin" in 2012. They started…

Kamikawa Takaya

Kamikawa Takaya is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor born in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. He started his career as an actor at 30, with a role in the NHK television series "Daichi no Ko". (Source: Wikipedia)

Saotome Taichi

Saotome Taichi is a Japanese film and stage actor best known for playing beautiful young men and onnagata roles of women. He is known as "Nagashime Ouji" (流し目王子) or "Sidelong Glance Prince". His father is the head of the gekidan sujaku theatre troupe, and Saotome grew up within the troupe,…

Shiawase wa Tabete Nete Mate: Soshun no Yojo Hen

Mugimaki Satoko, who has developed an illness she will have to live with for the rest of her life, commutes from an apartment complex where the rent is 50,000 yen to her part-time job four days a week. Having given…

NHK One Point Korean Lesson

6.0

NHK Butterfly Effect

7.4

In this new historical entertainment, Satoh Takeru and Kamiki Ryunosuke use excavated footage to relive the unknown chains of history. The flapping of a single butterfly's wings triggers a chain of events that becomes…

Songs of Tokyo

Showcasing Japanese music to the world. Featuring live performances by some of Japan's leading J-Pop singers and musicians. (Source: NHK World)

Heavenly Road to Tibet

7.0

The Qingzang road, 1,937 km long at an average altitude of 4,200 m, leads to Lhasa in Chinese Tibet. Starting out from Xining, an interesting mixture of Tibetan, Islamic, and Han cultures, the camera crew passes through…

Kouhaku Uta Gassen

7.6

Kouhaku Uta Gassen is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK network and by some overseas…

Kawa, Itsuka Umi e

7.2

NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of the well-known actors and actress of Japan today. A ball floats from the river's source to the sea, unlocking…

Nipponretto Ikimono Cho Densetsu: Gekijo Ban Darwin ga Kita!

NHK’s nature documentary program “Darwin Is Here!” is back on the big screen for the first time in 15 years and it features animals over the four seasons: a chipmunk stockpiling food for winter, a snow hare running…

Naotora: The Lady Warlord

7.7

NHK's 56th taiga drama series. During the Sengoku period, the Ii family governs the Totomi region. Due to many past wars, there are no more male successors left to become a lord. Naotora Ii, the only daughter of the…

Sanadamaru

7.8

NHK's 55th taiga drama series. Sanada Yukimura was born to a lord who owned a small piece of land in Shinsu (present-day Nagano Prefecture). He survived using wisdom, courage and much effort during the Sengoku period…