Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Yagi Keiko

After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc. With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, she has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India gaining opportunities…

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Ebara Tatsuyoshi

Ehara Tatsuyoshi is a Japanese actor and businessman from Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University. In 1948, he appeared as a child actor in "Kane no Naruoka". After that, he joined Toho and worked as a youth star.

Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…

Fujii Rokusuke

Originally from Tokyo , his real name is Rikusuke Tanaka, and he used Ayamine and Rokuyo as his haiku names . Originally a fishmonger as a family business, he became an actor by becoming a disciple of Yoho Ii , who follows the Shinpa trend . He was active in the Ii troupe and the Shizuma Kojiro troupe…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Gomi Kunitaro

He moved to Tokyo, and in 1900 (Meiji 33), when he was 25 years old, he joined the "Takada Minoru Ichiza", which was presided over by the new school Minoru Takada, and made many appearances in Hongo, Tokyo. In 1908 (Meiji 41), Yoshizawa Shoten started appearing in the movie studio Yoshizawa Shoten Meguro…

Inoue Kohei

Born in Tokyo, Inoue is a Japanese film director and a commercial planner. His major films include Excited Death (Moosic Lab 2018 Grand Prix for Short Films) and Dong Teng Town (TIFF 2020). He has also worked on a video for Nogizaka 46. Excited Death is his first feature film. (Source: TMDB)

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,…

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.

Hydra

6.6

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…

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…

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…

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…