Morita Koichiro

Morita Koichiro was a Japanese doctor of medicine and medical scientist from Tokyo.

Tsuga Shizuko

Real nam Shizuko Sunaga. Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Hongo-ku, Komagome Sakashita-cho. Her father was also an actor working with the stage name Kiyoshi Toga, and her brother Kazushi Toga, was child actor. She had break in acting, between 1931-1935. After World War II she back to business again.…

Saito Akari

Saito Akari is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from the Faculty of Career Design of Hosei University in March, 2017. As an actress, she has appeared mainly on stage plays, as well in movies and dramas. She also has starred in cultural programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture,…

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Kim Soo Jin

Kim Soo Jin is a Japanese actor and director of Korean descent born in Tokyo. He studied in Tokai University Yoyogi Campus.

Kawamura Hikaru

Kawamura Hikaru is a Japanese talent and former gravure idol born in Tokyo. She belongs to MJ Management. In 1999, she released an album as a member of an idol unit called "Southpaw." She established her own company in 2014 and is also involved in menu development and cosmetics production for major…

Kushimoto Mako

Actress. Also part of girl group "Tokyo Girls Kids" (東京ガールズキッズ) which relased only one single in 2015.

Nobutomo Naoko

Naoko Nobutomo was born in 1961 in Kure City, Hiroshima. After graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1984, she started her career in film production and went on to creating numerous documentary programs. At the age of 45, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she proceeded to document her life:…

Yanai Mitsuru

Producer and Director. He joined Radio Tokyo in 1958 after graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan University High School and Faculty of Letters , University of Tokyo. After retiring from TBS as a director in 1995, he signed an exclusive contract with them as a drama producer He was mostly known from TBS…

Ujiie Megumi

Ujiie Megumi is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan.

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…

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…

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)

Love Come

6.9

Matsuda Makie works as a manager of a flower shop in Tokyo and hasn't had a date in 2 years. Even though she is attractive, her personality is tomboyish. She then meets geeky old acquaintance Miharu, who works as an…

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.

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,…

Blue Hour

6.9

Sunada is a 30-year-old TV commercial director based in Tokyo. Tired of pleasing others and torn between her husband and lover, she yearns for a breather. With great help from her weird friend Kiyoura, Sunada decides…