Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Ebata Takashi

Ebata Takashi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He has been associated with Gekidan Shinkokugeki, Shingekijo, and Nakazato Office, before joining the Hokuto Shichisei Project. He dropped out of the Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics and graduated from the Ishii Baku Dance Research…

Atarashi Katsutoshi

Atarashi Katsutoshi is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at Hosei University in 1959, but dropped out in two years and entered the Haiyuza Theater Company as a 13th-grade student. After graduating…

Okada Kazuko

Okada Kazuko is a Japanese voice actor born in Tokyo.

Yamamoto Kaichi

Yamamoto Kaichi was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He has been a major figure in Nikkatsu and appeared in both contemporary and historical dramas. In 1895, when he was 18 years old, he joined the new school "Otojiro Kawakami Ichiza" led by Kawakami Otojiro. In 1899 when he was 22 years old, he participated…

Iijima Shuna

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress trained in London. Her acting career started from theatre acting, including Shakespeare, Physical Theatre and other various forms. She is currently based in Japan, working mainly for films. She speaks fluent English and is always aiming for international…

Asano Shinjiro

Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…

Oizumi Akira

Ohizumi Akira was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

Mizutani Yaeko

Mizutani Yaeko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She was previously married to Shiraki Hideo. She died on August 28, 2026, at the age of 87 due to pneumonia. (Source: MyDramaList)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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)