Kataoka Masayoshi

Kataoka Masayoshi was a Japanese author and television producer of TV Asahi. He graduated from Tokyo Denki University in 1951 and from the Electrical Engineering Department at Gunma University in 1953. After graduating from university, he started big in 1959 with the TV adaptation of the novel called…

Kitamura Hisao

Kitamura Hisao was a screenwriter and children's literature writer born in Tokyo, Japan. He dropped out of Waseda University. He studied under Oyama Kaoru and became a member of the "Geki to Hyoron" literary magazine. In 1936, he became a chief writer at NHK's literary department. In 1947, he took turns…

Murakami Koichi

Murakami Koichi is a Japanese entrepreneur born in Taiwan and raised in Tokyo, Japan after the war. He served as the president of Fuji Television and the president of Nihon Eiga Housou. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School and the Spanish Language Department of the Faculty of Foreign…

Tsutsui Shunsaku

Tsutsui Shunsaku is a Japanese stage actor and voice actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the theater company Caramelbox and Office PAC. After graduating from Shukutoku Suigetsu High School, he joined the Kyoto Music & Media Arts Shobi, but later dropped out. He joined the theater company…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Fujiwara Yayoi

Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Yayoi embarked on her artistic journey in 2016 by studying fine arts at University of the Arts London and graduated with a BA in Performance: Design and Practice in 2019. Fujiwara continued her education at the New National Theatre Tokyo Drama Studio from 2020…

Nishikawa Tatsuro

Nishikawa Tatsuro is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media, majoring in film directing. "The Other Home" (向こうの家) is his graduation project. In 2021, he made his TV drama debut with the drama "Gekikarado"…

Kishino Kazuhiko

Kishino Kazuhiko was a Japanese actor and voice actor who was represented by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He was a graduate of Doshisha University and resides in Osaka Prefecture. As a voice actor, he was most recognised for his work in the anime series Kinnikuman as Kinniku Mayumi,…

Hokimoto Sora

Hokimoto Sora studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Inspired by the work of director Aoyama Shinji, he started making films during his studies. His graduation film, A Song That Never Ends (2014), an homage to his deceased father made by using archival material and abstract…

Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Reiwa Suspense Gekijo: Tabibito Kenshikan Michiba Shusaku 7

Michiba Shusaku, a former Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department coroner, sets out on another journey with the notebook left behind by his late wife. In a hot spring resort beloved by numerous haiku poets and literary…

Godzilla Minus Zero

It's been two years since Godzilla brought devastation to Tokyo. Now, in 1949, the story continues with the Shikishima family as they and the people of Japan must face another attack when Godzilla resurfaces, even…

Seventh Code

6.1

After Akiko gets to know a man named Matsunaga in Tokyo who travels to Vladivostok, Russia she decides to follow him. However, when they’re reunited, he doesn’t seem to remember her. He simply implores her not…

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…

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,…

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,…

Tsuki no Koori

Kitamura Ryuji lives with his wife and children in Tokyo. Koharu is a student he meets while giving a photography lecture as a special lecturer at a vocational school in Sapporo. Koharu, an aspiring jazz singer, asks…

Kaigo Snack Versailles

A slightly rundown downtown area on the outskirts of Tokyo. As evening approaches, the neon sign of a shop lights up: "Care Snack Versailles." As the name suggests, the majority of the customers are elderly people…

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.