Toyomi Karita

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

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:…

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.…

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…

Ohwaku Morimasa

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

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)…

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…

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…

Kitabayashi Sanae

Kitabayashi Sanae is a Japanese actress from Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

Shimizu Ichiro

Shimizu Ichiro was a Japanese actor from Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.

Great Absence

7.6

Takashi, a Tokyo-based actor, is summoned from rehearsal by the police, who have just raided his father’s home in Southern Japan in answer to a distress call. In the cluttered house, the police only find a confused…

Lonesome Vacation

Set in Koenji, Tokyo. Eichi Furuya is a private detective who is known for his regent hair. One day, Eichi receives a request from his ex-girlfriend, Kyoko. She had been searching through her late father’s belongings…

Reiwa Suspense Gekijo: Tabibito Kenshikan Michiba Shusaku

Michiba Shusaku, a former Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department coroner, is traveling to a place associated with haiku poetry beloved by his late wife, when he unexpectedly becomes embroiled in an incident. Michiba…

Floating Holidays

Mika, a Tokyo office worker diagnosed with an adjustment disorder, visits her aunt in Ukiha City, Fukuoka Prefecture, for recovery. Anxious to return to work, she is unexpectedly joined by her carefree younger brother,…

Reiwa Suspense Gekijo: Tabibito Kenshikan Michiba Shusaku 2

Michiba Shusaku, a former Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department coroner, is traveling to a place associated with haiku poetry beloved by his late wife, when he once again finds himself unexpectedly embroiled in an incident.…

Bring Minyo Back!

"Has Minyo Died!?” The Tokyo-based band Minyo Crusaders mixes traditional Japanese folk songs with Latin and Afrobeat, creating a unique sound that has gained them recognition both in Japan and internationally. This…

Diamonds in the Sand

Yoji is a divorced Japanese salaryman living alone in Tokyo. After the loss of his caring mother, he faces an empty life without any meaningful relationship. A chance encounter with Minerva, a Filipina who works as…

Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season

In 2006, Tokyo Jujutsu High School buzzes with the energy of two prodigious sorcerers, Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, whose friendship is as strong as their abilities. Confident in their power as Special Grade sorcerers,…

Pieces of You

A young woman takes her guy with her to explore Tokyo. The only catch is he doesn't live in Japan and can only see Tokyo through her smart phone. Distracted by falling in Love with him, she lets down her best friend…

A Big Home

The documentary is filmed in a children’s home in Tokyo and explores the lives of young people who live apart from their parents due to bereavement, abuse or financial problems. (Source: Letterboxd)