Sasazawa Saho

Novelist. Born in Yodobashi Town ,Tokyo Prefecture. Real name Masaru Sasazawa. He writted almost 380 books, from criminals, romances to history books. He's mostly known from his suspense/crime one. Also he was author of few mangas, for example "Kogarashi Monjiro" (木枯し紋次郎). Also he has few…

Toyomi Karita

Toyomi Karita is an actress, known for Tôkyô hanzai chizu (1956), Warning from Space (1956) and Taki no shiraito (1956).

Shigehara Hideo

Shigehara Hideo was a Japanese cameraman, editor, recording engineer, and businessman born in Akakura Onsen in Myoko City, Niigata Prefecture. He was the inventor of the SMS system (Super Mohara Sound System), also known as the "Mohara-style talkie". He has served as President of the Mobara Research…

Tachikawa Mitsutaka

Tachikawa Mitsutaka is a Japanese male actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. He dropped out of Tamagawa University Faculty of Arts. He belongs to Empathy after working for the theater company Yun and the theater group Yen. Tachikawa dropped out of college and joined the theater company Cloud in 1974.…

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:…

Yanagi Sakuko

Yanagi Sakuko was a Japanese actress born in Nicho-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her real name is Kuroyanagi Chiyoko. In the 1920s, she was the heroine of numerous Shochiku films. She lost her father shortly after birth, and her mother died when she was five years old. Yanagi, who became an orphan, was taken…

Matsumoto Arisa

Arisa Matsumoto is a Japanese romance advisor and former AV actress born in Tokyo.

Hazumi Tsuneo

Hazumi Tsuneo was a Japanese film critic and film producer born in Tokyo. He also made his debut as a screenwriter when he was 23. His real name is Matsumoto Eiichi, and he is different from the film director Matsumoto Eiichi, who was active in the era of silent films. In 1934, at the age of 25, he…

Takagi Akimitsu

Takagi Akimitsu was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School (which was often abbreviated to Ichi-ko)…

Ohwaku Morimasa

Ohwaku Morimasa is a Japanese screenwriter from Honjo, Tokyo, Japan.

The Executioner

6.8

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Flowing

6.8

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film…

Intimate Strangers

6.9

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son. (Source: TIFF)

Hypnosis

6.9

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife’s birthday. A middle aged…

Love Come

6.9

Matsuda Makie works as a manager of a flower shop in Tokyo and hasn't had a date in 2 years. Even though she is attractive, her personality is tomboyish. She then meets geeky old acquaintance Miharu, who works as an…

Blue Hour

6.9

Sunada is a 30-year-old TV commercial director based in Tokyo. Tired of pleasing others and torn between her husband and lover, she yearns for a breather. With great help from her weird friend Kiyoura, Sunada decides…

Strawberry Shortcakes

6.9

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. The main characters, impeccably played by four powerful actresses, are modern,…

Starting Over

6.7

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give…

Inugami

6.6

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns…

Karera wo Mireba Wakaru Koto

7.0

Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives…