Dazai Hisao

Dazai Hisao was a Japanese actor born in Senzoku, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. During middle school, due to the impact of military training where he was fired at close range by a machine gun, his hearing deteriorated slightly, and since then, his voice became about one octave higher than others. Although…

Kitakoji Isamitsu

Kitakoji Isamitsu was a Japanese poet and aristocrat, holding the title of viscount. He was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Kitakoji Suketake and Yanagiwara Byakuren (柳原白蓮), a poet. Isamitsu was also a cousin of Emperor Showa, born just six days after him. The family faced financial difficulties,…

Seki Junko

Seki Junko is an announcer belonging to the Announcement Department of the Kansai Telecasting Corporation. She was born in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture. She graduated from the Faculty of Human Sciences at Osaka University in April 1988, after which she joined Kansai Television. She is currently the…

Ito Minoru

Frequent supporting actor across a number of genres, usually in minor roles. In special effects films he appears most frequently as a reporter. He had slightly more prominent roles in television, appearing in episodes of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven. In 1952 (Showa 27), he signed an exclusive…

Kusama Akio

Toho 's exclusive actor . He has appeared in several war movies since the war , such as the movie " Kato Hayabusa Squadron " directed by Kajiro Yamamoto released in 1944, and after the war, he has appeared in many works regardless of genre, including Toho special effects movies. In 1971 (Showa 46),…

Kunishima Soichi

In 1914 (Taisho 3), he entered Fukushima Junior High School (currently Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School ), but dropped out on July 3 of the same year to join Masao Inoue's troupe and took the first stage at Hongo-za. . Joined Shochiku Kamata Film Studio in 1922 (Taisho 11), under the name of…

Oyama Debuko

In May 1924 (Taisho 13), while attending Kosaka Elementary School (currently Kosaka Elementary School in Higashi Osaka City ), an old system in Osaka Prefecture , her sister Masako joined Shochiku Kyoto Studio and made her debut under the stage name of Kikuko Tachibana . In the same year, Yasu also…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Honjo Manami

Honjo Manami is a Japanese talent, actress, voice actress, narrator, and essayist born in Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name is Sawada Manami (沢田まなみ). She is represented by Acura Inc., a talent agency. She spent her early years in Tokyo before moving to Osaka and Hyogo at the age of 4, where she…

Kura

10.0

Kura is a vivid portrait of life in a Sake brewing family in northern Niigata prefecture from the Meiji to Showa eras, based on the award winning novel of the same title by Miyao Tokomiko. (Source: DramaWiki)

Oie San

7.0

Based on the novel "Oie san" by Kaoru Tamaoka this drama is made to commemorate the 55th anniversary of Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. It's the story of a Kobe-based general trade company called Suzuki Shouten during…

Keishichou Nasi Goreng ka

6.6

25-year-old Kazahaya Kyoko is appointed to head an investigative division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, called the Nasi Goreng Division. She is an unconventional division head who believes that an entire…

Kohaku ga Umareta hi

7.5

After the war, the Occupation Forces’ General Headquarters was about to seize the broadcasting station, NHK, with the objective of directing its broadcasts in September 1945 (Showa 20). At that time, NHK’s director,…

Ghost Yankee

7.4

The story focuses on Togeru, who got into a car accident and becomes a ghost. Togery then meets "Wanpaku-dan", a group of yankees from the Showa era whose souls did not manage to depart in peace 40 years ago. Despite…

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.9

The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On

8.0

This documentary was five years in the making, and revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II who gained notoriety by slingshooting steel pinballs at Emperor…

Suzuran

8.0

The 60th NHK Asadora Drama is Suzuran. Locations include Hokkaido Numata and Tokyo. Beginning in 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting…

Utahime

7.4

Koizumi Akira, a son of a popular songstress, travels to a small-town cinema in far-off Kochi Prefecture to watch the closing movie before the theatre shuts its doors forever. The movie takes place in the same village…

Hanako to Anne

7.9

Follows the life of a translator Hanako Muraoka; from the turbulent Meiji Period, to the Taisho Period and the Showa Period. Hanako Muraoka would go on to translate novel "Anne of Green Gables," by Canadian author…