Guardian of the Market

7.4

Koshobu Tsutomu is smart enough to have passed his bar exam at the age of 20. He also graduated at the top of the law department at Tokyo University. He had his choice of prestigious job opportunities, but he chose…

Letter from the Mountain

7.8

Highly specialized doctor Michiko finds herself seized with panic attacks. So, she and her partner, Takao, decide to leave behind their stressful lives in Tokyo for a simpler life in the small farming village of Shinshu.

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

7.3

Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a…

The Last Man: The Blind Profiler - Fake / Truth

7.7

After Minami Hiromi, a completely blind FBI special agent known by the alias “Last Man,” the final trump card who always brings any case to an end, completes his training in Japan and returns to Washington, D.C.,…

Fragments of the Last Will

8.1

Set in a Siberian detention camp where more than 600,000 Japanese were unfairly detained in 1945 after World War II. (Source: News Yahoo) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Shuyojo kara Kita Isho" (収容所から来た遺書)…

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

7.8

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Aihara Kotoko, who isn't that smart, notices the pretty boy Irie Naoki. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings…

Mio on the Shore

7.4

Mio is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard time adapting to life in Tokyo. Mio takes…

The Flowers of Evil

7.2

The story is set in Hikari City, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, second-year middle school student Kasuga Takao lives each day feeling a deep sense of suffocation and stagnation. What saves his heart is…

Tora-san 30: The Expert

7.5

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu, he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburo, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all…

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo Season 2

8.1

Aihara Kotoko finally becomes Irie Kotoko. Her life will be full of changes as she wants to become nurse and help her husband Naoki, but also she will face struggles of marriage life. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted…

Ono Shinya

Ono Shinya is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Rikkyo University. Ono belonged to Imura Pro and MC Planning (Tokyo). In 1965, he entered the entertainment world as the 5th gen member of the Theater Research Institute attached to Bungakuza. In 1966, Ono made…

Mabuchi Haruko

Mabuchi Haruko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. She died from lung cancer at the age of 75. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ogasawara Shojiro

Ogasawara Shojiro was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He entered the Army Childhood School, but dropped out due to illness, and graduated from Gakushuin High School. In the Taisho era, the dawn of Japanese cinema, he became an exclusive member of Ogasawara Productions, which was established by his brother…

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…

Sasaki Keisuke

Sasaki Keisuke was a Japanese film director from Tokyo. He graduated from the Fisheries Department of Miyagi Commercial School. Sasaki joined Kaoru Osanai's shingeki movement and joined Shochiku Kinema when it was founded in 1920.

Nakayama Keiko

Nakayama Keiko is a singer from Tokyo and a former idol singer. Her agency at the time of her idol period was Sun Music Productions. Her father is Satake Akio, an actor. Her maternal grandfather is film director Fuyushima Taizo. In 1975, she was scouted for Fuji TV's "All-star Kazoku Taiko Utagassen"…

Shiratori Akane

Shiratori Akane was a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo. She married the film director Shiratori Shinichi in 1957. (Source: Wikipedia)

Matsumoto Noriko

She was the wife of playwriter, Kunio Shimizu. She died at a hospital in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo on March 26, 2014, due to interstitial pneumonia.

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…

Kageyama Hitomi

Kageyama Hitomi is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. In 1980, she applied for the four sisters audition of the movie "Four Seasons Natsuko" and was selected as the third daughter Akiko to make her movie debut. After that, she has been active in TV dramas and theatrical performances.