Shimizu Kaori

Shimizu Kaori is a Japanese voice actress, actress, and novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. She began her career as a child actress at the age of 6 and made her voice acting debut in 1998. During her childhood, she aspired to become a makeup artist or a nursery school teacher. She made her debut in commercials…

Thomas Ash

Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK (2005) and has lived in Japan for a total of 18 years. Thomas’s first feature documentary, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006), received the Prix du Canton Vaud (best first film) at the 2006 Visions du…

Shimizu Kinichi

Shimizu Kinichi was a Japanese comedian and film actor born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He began his career at 16 in Tokyo, becoming a disciple of Shimizu Kintaro, a leader in Asakusa Opera. During this period, he took the name Shimizu Kinichi and had a child with actress Mine Rei. After Kintaro's death…

Okada Shotaro

In 2010, at the age of 9, he won second prize in the Blue Cross Super Boys Audition. He started full scale entertainment activities in 2011 at the age of 11. That same year, he appeared in TV Tokyo's "Piramekino". In 2013, he appeared on "DREAM Kids Collection". From 2012-2014 he worked as a model for…

Popiel Eva

Eva is a British actress and model of Polish and Japanese ancestry active in South Korea under Wave Entertainment. Born in Tokyo, Japan, to a Japanese mother and a British father of Polish descent. She moved to England when she was 14 years old. She went on to attend the University of Durham, where…

Haruna Ai

Haruna Ai was born on in Osaka. She is a Japanese transgender talent, singer, actress, and businesswoman. She currently resides in Tokyo and is signed to Sands Entertainment. She's been active in the entertainment industry since 1995. She has one brother. She was aware that she was a woman since childhood.…

Nakamura Masaya

Nakamura Masaya was born in Osaka. He is currently signed to Watanabe Entertainment. He's a former member of D-BOYS. His brother is the B League basketball player Nakamura Tomoya. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Tokyo and became a second-year student at Watanabe Entertainment College,…

Ikeda Tetsuhiro

Ikeda Tetsuhiro is a Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter from Tokyo. He graduated from Kokugakuin University. He belongs to HoriPro. His first directed drama is "Kosodate Play", which started on April 8, 2009, and his first written script was for the movie "Go! Boys High School Drama Club" released…

Woo Tae Woon

Woo Ji Seok, later legally changed to Woo Tae Woon, is a South Korean singer, dancer, producer and former member of COED SCHOOL (남녀공학) and SPEED (스피드). He attended Tokyo Polytechnic University but dropped out to focus on his dream of becoming a singer. He later obtained an associate's…

Tanaka Tetsushi

Tanaka Tetsushi is a Japanese actor from Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture. After graduating from Kaisei High School in 1984, he immediately moved to Tokyo and went on to a vocational school for acoustics, but he quit after a year. He then went to the Department of Theater at Nihon University College of Art…

Hi no Ataru Ie

On the outskirts of Tokyo, the family of Nakahara Mitsu lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu’s husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as…

Catharsis

Naoki Ono, a 14-year-old boy murders a young girl in the suburbs of Tokyo. As a result, the large family change their names and live apart, while Naoki goes to a reformatory. Towako, his mother, stays away with her…

Innocent 15

7.1

Gin is a 15-year-old boy. He knows that his father is a gay and he wonders if he might be the same. Narumi is a 15-year-old girl. Her mother tells her she should prostitute herself. Narumi decides to go to her father…

It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up

6.4

I got a job in Tokyo, but after 10 years she went back to her hometown. Now, I is 27-years-old and lives with her parents. Even though she works as a freelance writer, her parents treats her as a freeter. She meets…

Ubai Ai, Fuyu

6.5

Ikeuchi Hikaru works for a design company in Tokyo and has a fiancé Okugawa Kota. However, her life suddenly changes with the appearance of her ex-boyfriend Moriyama Shin. She had once loved him to death but he vanished…

V no Arashi

7.1

Ninomiya Kazunari just moved into Tokyo from Hokkaido and is already looking for a girlfriend. When he sees his so called "soulmate", Aiba Miwa, he immediately wants to get close to her. He joins the volleyball team,…

A Restaurant with Many Problems

8.1

Tanaka Tamako, betrayed by her boyfriend-turned-chef and arrested after an incident involving sexual harassment of her friend, resigns from her male-dominated restaurant job. She opens a bistro on a rooftop in Jingumae,…

Neko Kare: Shonen wo Kau

6.9

Ai Morikawa is a hard-working career woman at her job in Tokyo. After a long night at work, she returned home on the last train to find a handsome boy at her door. The 16-year old Nagisa is her sister's stepson, suddenly…

Marks no Yama

7.3

Twenty years ago, a boy was rescued after his parents' apparent suicide in the mountains. Now released from a mental institution, he mentions a dark mountain shadow to his girlfriend. Meanwhile, a murder occurs in…

A Hen in the Wind

7.4

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices…