Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Kanda Masaki

Masaki Kanda is a Japanese actor. His ex-wife is singer Seiko Matsuda whom he married in 1985 and they divorced in 1997 and their daughter is Sayaka Kanda who was also a singer and committed suicide by jumping from an upper floor of the hotel on December 18, 2021. Kanda was recruited by actor Ishihara…

Fukuoka Seigo

Fukuoka Seigo, born Fukuoka Masatake (福岡正剛) in Shitaya, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Kinjo Junior High School and studied in the Film Department of Kamakura Academy. Over the course of his career, he was affiliated with several film studios, including Toei, Shochiku,…

Terao Akira

In 1966, he debuted as a bassist of Group Sounds band, The Savage. As an actor, he debuted as Kenichi in Chikadô no taiyô made, a film directed by Kei Kumai in 1968. Terao was born in Yokohama (Kanagawa prefecture) in Japan, son of the actor and film director Jukichi Uno. He was married to Bunjaku…

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Maeda Gin

Gin Maeda is a Japanese actor. He had a regular role in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo films, beginning with the first in the series, as Sakura's husband.

Wakamatsu Setsuro

Wakamatsu Setsuro is an alumni of Nihon University College of Arts, graduating from faculty of broadcasting. He is known for his association with Oda Yuji, Sato Koichi and Matsushima Nanako in multiple dramas and movies. As a director, Setsuro Wakamatsu has produced multiple award-winning and nominated…

Nakada Yoshiko

Nakada Yoshiko is a Tokyo-born Japanese actress managed by Horipro Booking Agency. She made her debut in the Fuji TV drama " Omatsuri Ginji Torimonocho" and her popularity grew as she took on the role as third daughter Fumiko in the TBS drama "Wataru Seken wa Oni bakari". Since then, she has played…

Katsuno Hiroshi

Hiroshi Katsuno is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Katsuno's debut was as a detective Texas in the television series Taiyō ni Hoero! in 1974 and he won great popularity through the role.

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Watashi no Aozora Saishuuhen

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, Murai Kento had aspirations to be a professional boxer but due to…

True Colors

One summer day... Himari moves from the city to the rural hometown of her late father. Still struggling to adjust to unfamiliar country life, she meets Taiyo—a boy her own age. Himari speaks her mind with unreserved…

Tokyo Toy Box

6.3

Tsukiyama Hoshino, an office lady at a major bank, ends up seconded to a small game company called Studio G3 in Akihabara because of her superior’s harassment. What awaits her is a team of individualistic game creators…

Kids War Special: Kore de Final! Zaken na yo

Imai Akane is a third-year junior high school student with a sense of justice. She lives with her three siblings-in-law, Kenichi, Rika, and Hiroshi, at the boarding school, Taiyo Gakuen, in Tokyo. She had to camp in…

Oyaji ga Kureta Himitsu

7.0

Kousuke is in trouble because his production company hasn't made any hit movies. On the same day, Osamu, the youngest son in the Shimoarai family and works at a life insurance company in Tokyo, goes back to his hometown…

102nd Marriage Proposal

In this story, the daughter of Hoshino Tatsuro and Yabuki Kaoru, Hoshino Hikaru, fortunately, inherited her mother's beauty and talent, growing into a successful, popular cellist. Now 30 and single, Hikaru catches…

Saigo no Hokago

6.4

A group of six close friends have just finished their high school graduation ceremony. They gather together for the last time after school and talk about their respective "loves" in the classroom. Tsubasa graduates…

Yoiko no Mikata

7.3

Ask any nursery-aged little girl what she wants to be when she grows up, and she's bound to say nurse, florist, or ballerina. Ask any nursery-aged little boy what he wants to be when he grows up, and he's bound to…

Blue Spring

7.7

It tells the story of seven students in an underperforming high school as they complete their education and decide on the options available to them afterwards. The Japanese title can be translated as "blue spring"…