Twist Kim

Made his big screen debut in the 1962 film “A Man From Tokyo,” and rose to stardom through ``The Barefooted Young’ He became known as a quirky and comical supporting actor and appeared in some 160 films during the ’60s and ’70s

Kimoto Yuko

Kimoto Yuko is an actress, known for Tokyo Pop (1988) and Break Town Story (1985)

Wakamatsu Takeshi

Wakamatsu Takeshi was born July 2, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Nihon University College of Art. He's been active as an actor since getting his start in theater. He debuted as a movie actor in 1978 with "Third Base". His tv drama debut occurred in 1986 with "Onna wa Otoko wo Dou Kaeru".

Nazuki Hiroko

Nazuki Hiroko is a Japanese actress from Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, and is originally from the Kanai family, which once dominated the Fujisankei Group. She started learning Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance) at the Wakayanagi school at the age of 4, obtained her stage name at 11, and became a master…

BJ Fox

BJ Fox is a British stand-up comedian, producer, and actor based in Tokyo.

Akiyama Mayu

Mayu Akiyama worked in the fashion industry while studying at the Film School of Tokyo. Her graduation production, "GARCONNE - The Woman having both sexes", featured a refreshingly intersexual protagonist. It was selected for the 11th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival and was nominated for the Art Center…

Sugi Yoko

Sugi joined Toho after winning its second New Face competition. She made her mark performing in coming-of-age movies, such as Blue Mountain Range (Aoi Sanmyaku). In 1962, Sugi married an American, retired from the entertainment industry, and moved to the United States. She worked as a public relations…

Ishihara Shintaro

Ishihara Shintaro was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, Ishihara is one of the most prominent conservative right-wing politicians in modern Japanese politics. His arts career included a prize-winning…

Han Choru

Han Choru is a drama director and producer of TBS TV from Tokyo . After graduating from Azabu High School, he graduated from Waseda University School of Commerce . In 1997 , he joined TBS, and was assigned to the news bureau news program center. Since then, he has been active as a director of coverage,…

Odagiri Miki

Odagiri Miki was a japanese actress born in the county of Toyotama-gun in Tokyo. Since childhood, she received a gifted education at Buyō (a traditional Japanese performing art) and worked as a child actress at the Shinkyo Theater Company. In 1935 she debuted on the stage with "Before the Dawn". However,…

Who's Camus Anyway?

6.5

The story is set on the campus of a university in Tokyo. Students from the literature department's 'film workshop' are about to start shooting their movie 'The Bored Murderer', part of their course curriculum. Everyone…

Boku wa Iesusama ga Kirai

6.5

9-year-old Yura Hoshino moves with his family from Tokyo to a small town in a mountainous area. He enrolls at the local school there which is a Christian school. Yura is unfamiliar with the customs at his new school,…

Hydra

6.5

Hydra - a small bar in the middle of Tokyo. There you can find Takashi, a standoffish man working at the bar, hiding his other identity of a highly skilled hit man. He now has to face a brutal killing game, in which…

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…

Is There a Vet in the House?

6.5

Shiba Kentaro is a compassionate vet in an old Tokyo neighborhood. He doesn't only treat pets, but also interferes in the problems of pet owners and struggles to be of help.

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

6.6

The story takes place in the outskirts of Tokyo in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Overflowing with orphans and refugees from the disaster, the district gets a visit from the female sumo group Tamaiwa…

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…

Bad Film

6.4

Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs wild. Its premise sees Koenji being taken over by Chinese,…

Heisei Saru Kani Kassenzu

6.4

A hit-and-run case occurs at Kabukicho in Tokyo. Hamamoto Junpei, a bartender who witnessed the incident, realises that the man who was arrested is a different person from the man who was at the scene. It seems that…

The Executioner

6.8

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