May'n

May’n is a vocalist who was a finalist in the 2003 HoriPro Talent Scout Caravan “Love Music Audition”. In 2005, she made her major debut at 15 years old with the single “Crazy Crazy Crazy”. In 2007, she was chosen to be the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in the anime Macross Frontier. She has…

Tamori

Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya. For more than…

Yamaguchi Karin

Yamaguchi Karin is a Japanese actress born in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Her parents' home is "Chiyoda Bookstore", a long-established foreign bookstore in Nihonbashi Kabutocho. After graduating from Ochanomizu University Junior and Senior High School and Toho Gakuen College Junior College, she became an actor…

Fujita Yosuke

Fujita Yosuke, born in Kobe in 1963, won the Grand Prize at the Torino Film Festival with his 8mm film Tora in 1987 while still attending university. In the 1990s, he worked for the comedy theater troupe Otona Keikaku. After creating a series of documentary and short films, he made his feature film…

Tamada Shinya

Tamada Shinya is a Japanese screenwriter and director, born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1986, works as a scriptwriter and director both for Japanese TV and for theater. His feature film debut “Lust In A Karaoke Bar” (2018) was based on the play of the same title that he wrote for his own theater troupeKikaku…

Ohira Toru

Ohira Toru was Japanese narrator and voice actor from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He was a representative of Ōhira Production. One of his most known roles is the dub voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars. He was also known for his many narration roles, most notably in the Super Sentai series. He was a…

Anazawa Masahiro

Anazawa Masahiro is a former Japanese idol and actor from Kanagawa, Japan. He joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates and performed in 1995 as a trio on KinKi Kids's crowning program "Soko Go KinKi Dai Broadcasting" with Asakura Kazuo and Sakurai Sho. Anazawa made a regular appearance…

Mori Tatsuya

Mori Tatsuya was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1956 and studied at Rikkyo University. In 1986, he began working for a TV production company. He then went freelance, shooting two documentaries about the Omu Shinrikyo sect, entitled A (1998) and A2 (2001). A was shown at the Berlin International Film…

Sakamoto Junji

Sakamoto Junji was born in Sakai (Osaka Prefecture) in 1958. He started his career as an assistant director, working with Ishii Sogo, among others. His directing debut Knockout (1989) won a number of newcomer awards. His movies My House (2003) and The Projects (2016) were both screened at Nippon Connection…

Sugimoto Miki

Sugimoto began her career as a model and television personality. She made her film debut in Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971), which starred Reiko Ike. Sugimoto's and Ike's careers would become closely linked in several of Toei's Pinky Violent films, in which they were usually cast as rivals. In 1973,…

Duel with Samurai

7.0

During the Ming dynasty in China, the coastal areas were rampant. A Wokou who refers to himself as the Nippon Ronin (Chan Hung Lit) colludes with the local coastal tyrants of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces and cult…

Ike! Ushiwaka Kotaro

4.0

It is a followup series to Go! Greenman and the fourth in a series of tokusatsu shows primarily produced by Toho and Nippon TV, though it does not share canon with any of the shows preceding it. (Source: Wikizilla)

Saiyuki

6.0

This remake of the hit series of the same title (aka Monkey), which was aired from 1978 to 1980 was made especially for the TV station Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)'s 40th anniversary, which also made…

Sanbyakurokujugoya: Tokyo-hen

Koroku, who hates marriage of convenience, loves Teruko, and Ranko, an Osaka girl, relentlessly longs for Koroku. (Source: Nippon Eiga)

Shabekuri 007

8.2

Shabekuri 007 is a Japanese talk and variety television show featuring seven high-profile comedians alongside different guests each week with little to no scripts, produced and aired on Nippon TV. The show uses no…

Kasai no Hito Special 2

Maezaki Family Court is in a suburban city about an hour away from Tokyo by the bullet train. This time Judge Kuwata, a rumored oddball, deals with a divorce mediation of a famous fashion magazine editor. Based on…

Umui Geino no Mura

Ryukyu dance and sanshin music are among the most impressive traditions from Okinawa. Director Daniel Lopez, being of Swiss-Spanish origin and living in Okinawa, is fascinated by the way these art forms are still being…

We’re Millennials. Got a Problem? International

7.4

Masakazu, Yamaji, and Maribu belong to the so-called Yutori generation, notorious in Japan for its lack of ambition. Masakazu’s sake brewery is on the verge of bankruptcy, and his marriage is on the rocks. But the…

Origami

Atsushi Suwa, a painter, is offered a contract to paint a portrait of a couple’s deceased son. In order to learn about him, he studies photos of him and draws the faces of his family and a friend, who talk about…

Life Back Then

7.0

The plot revolves around a young man named Nagashima Kyohei who has felt emotionally detached due to a traumatic incident in his high school days. However, when he takes a job sorting through the personal belongings…