Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Asaka Kodai

Asaka Kodai is a Japanese actor and former idol. He auditioned for Johnny's Entertainment in December 2002 along with Yaotome Hikaru. In 2004, he was put into the junior unit J.J. Express. He left the agency temporarily around Spring 2007 and came back as a M.A.D. member in Summer 2007. In Spring 2008,…

Mikuni Rentaro

Rentarō Mikuni was a Japanese film actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. The 1987…

Omi Toshinori

Toshinori Omi is a Japanese actor.

Nagoya Akira

Akira Nagoya was born on December 8, 1930 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a Japanese actor, known for High and Low (1963), Three Old Ladies (1974) and Princess Mononoke (1997). He died on June 24, 2003 in Tokyo.

Nagashima Toshiyuki

Nagashima Toshiyuki is a Japanese actor from Imai, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His agency is Grand Slam Co., Ltd. After graduating from Chiba City High School, he graduated from Senshu University Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities. He is also the representative director of Aozora…

Hiraizumi Sei

Born June 2, 1944 in Okazaki, Aichi. Selected as one of Daiei's "New Faces" in 1964, and made his silver screen debut in 1966. His husky voice is quite distinctive and imitated by many other celebrities.

Oura Ryuichi

Oura Ryuichi whose real name is Yasuhiro Kajiura, is an actor, singer and author living in Tokyo. In 2014 he played the Ultra Party Guardians commanding officer in an Ultraman superhero TV series, a role that made him famous. He and ex-wife divorce when their son Sunowa was three. At first, the boy…

Gin Pun Chou

Gin Pun Chou (means Silver Butterfly), whose real name is Yoshida Teruko is a Japanese actress, she also did a lot of acting, starting in 1981 in the company of her husband Yorozu Ikuta (who is also a writer). (Source: Nautiljon)

Satsukawa Aimi

Satsukawa Aimi, born in Aoi, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese actress and idol. She was discovered by the same Horipro talent scout who discovered Yuka while shopping with her mother in Tokyo at the age of 14. After finishing middle school, she decided to start a career in the entertainment…

A Night to Remember

6.0

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they…

Woman of Design

6.0

Story of romance and rivalry between to ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm. (Source: IMDb)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Aftermath

1.0

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families,…

Marriage with Me? Seriously?

7.1

It depicts the unequal marriage between Shinohara Kanon, a sloppy woman in her mid-thirties, and Shirosaki Makoto, a handsome company president who is younger than her. (Source: LGBT & Asian Drama Update YouTube) ~~…

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming

7.0

At an all girl school, a group of girls annually stages a play. This year they pick Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." After vigorous rehearsals the play faces cancellation because one student gets caught smoking…

Gaiji Keisatsu: Black Dawn

7.3

Japan falls into chaos after the earthquake in eastern Japan. The Japanese government then learns from the American CIA that uranium is being smuggled in Japan. The anti-terrorism investigators led by Kenji Sumimoto…

The Cherry Orchard

7.7

At an all girl school, a group of girls annually stages a play. This year they pick Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." After vigorous rehearsals, the play faces cancellation because one student gets caught smoking…

Since I Took You Away

7.9

Nakagoshi Hiromi, a mother who lost her child in a food accident, resents Yuki Asahi, the president of the delicatessen store responsible for the accident, and accidentally kidnaps Asahi's second daughter, Moeko. Hiromi…

School Lawyer: Finding the Colors of the Stars

8.0

Shiratori Kenji is a lawyer who has a unique sensitivity to the "colors" and "smells" of letters and sounds. Kenji is dispatched as a school lawyer to Hama Solaris High School, a private school that is in the midst…

Birds Without Names

7.1

Towako still can't forget Kurosaki, even though they broke up 8 years ago. She now lives with a man named Jinji. Jinji is 15 years older than her. Towako hates Jinji who is poor and vulgar, but she lives with him because…