Oshima Yoko

Oshima Yoko is a Japanese actress, born in Miyagi, Japan.

Matsumoto Miyako

Nogi Ryosuke

Nogi Ryosuke, born Takamine Yoshihiro (高峰祥宏) in Higashinari, Osaka, Japan, is a Japanese political activist, former actor, and former singer. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce at Doshisha University (同志社大学). While at university, he was scouted and became the lead vocalist "SHO"…

Naito Takashi

Naito Takashi is a Japanese actor, voice actor, talent, and moderator born in Higashi-ku, Osaka and raised in Korien, Neyagawa. He graduated from Osaka Seikouin High School and dropped out of the Department of Film, Faculty of Arts, Nihon University. After working at Hyundai Production Building, he…

Saito Yoichiro

Saito Yoichiro is a Japanese actor, born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Nakamura Shikaku

Nakamura Shikaku II was an important 20th century supporting onnagata actor. "Active in both Tôkyô and Ôsaka, he was well versed in old onnagata customs and wrote books such as "Kabuki Zuihistu" ("Kabuki Jottings") and "Yakusha no Sekai" ("The Actor's World")." (Samuel Leiter in "New Kabuki Encyclopedia")(Source:…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Hashimoto Kazuto

Hashimoto Kazuto is a Japanese actor.

Niwa Matasaburo

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Shimanto River

6.0

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based…

Chinpira: Two Punks

8.0

Looking like a third-rate salary man, the slightly dumpy Michio has reached his mid-thirties without ever joining the mob, confessing fear about life as a yakuza. Yoichi, the wild country boy from Shikoku he recruits,…

New Asami Mitsuhiko Series 3

Asami Mitsuhiko, a travel reporter, set out for Kochi to cover the legends of the Heike fugitives. On the ferry to Shikoku, he encountered Hashimoto Katsuya (Kaneda Akio), a former police officer traveling alone, and…

Netto! Moso Bu

Higuchi made it to the top four of the Autumn National High School Fantasy Tournament by sheer luck. His opponents are all fierce warriors in the fantasy world, including the previous champion Dosanko Fantasista Akimoto,…

Black Ox

In 19th-century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, a man attempts to reconnect with nature while plowing fields with an ox. Set in the wilderness of Shikoku, in southwestern Japan, the story explores the relationship…

Haruko no Ningyo

7.1

In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling…

Arashi no Hatashiji

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts…

Komyo ga Tsuji

7.7

The 45th NHK Taiga Drama is Komyo ga Tsuji. Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi…

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game: Yugawara Inn

7.8

In a Russian Roulette style game involving sushi, Yamasaki, Tanaka, and Hamada lost and were punished in the second spa-themed no-laughing batsu game, filmed at Yugawara, Kanagawa. A riding crop was the punishment…

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

7.4

Ritsuko discovers an old cassette tape, while packing her things to move into a new apartment. She listens to the tape and hears the voice of a frail girl saying "I'm so afraid of tomorrow that I can't fall asleep.…