Sakurai Michio

Sakurai Michio is a Japanese actor.

Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

Akai Takami

Akai attended Osaka University of Arts majoring in fine art. While studying there, Akai created the character designs for the Daicon III opening animation. The main staff for the Daicon III and Daicon IV opening animations went on to create the animation studio Gainax. Akai was in the same class as…

Mochida Miho

Mochida Miho is a Japanese actress.

Wakamizu Midori

In 1910 (Meiji 43), he appeared as a female onnagata in a silent movie produced by Yoshizawa Shoten . At that time, even the director's credit was not given, and the appearance work is uncertain . In his last years (around the first year of the Showa era), he became paralyzed for some reason and seemed…

Narumi Mika

Narumi Mika is a Japanese actress.

Tsunemi Naito

Tsunemi Naito was a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. He was married to singer Koshiji Fubuki (越路吹雪).

Nakamura Katsumi

Nakamura Katsumi is a Japanese actress.

Yazawa Miki

Yazawa Miki is a Japanese actress.

Mouri Aimi

Mouri Aimi is a Japanese model and actress.

The Will to Live

Sumiko Kogami, who works at a silk mill in Hokkaido, despite everyday struggles, greets each day with a smile. One day, Sumiko felt something is wrong with her leg, but her doctor diagnosed her with mild beriberi.…

Kura

8.0

In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family’s sake business. (Source:…

Teacher's Suitcase

Tsukiko, a single woman in her late thirties, one day happens to meet her former Japanese teacher. They start talking, and not a lot later, they run into each other again. They keep on meeting like that; it can't be…

Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2005 Spring Special

7.2

An omnibus special comprised of five segments: >> Story 1: "Kentaiki Tokkoyaku" (倦怠期特効薬) A man who's bored of his wife is sold a medicine that can make her appear young and attractive. >> Story 2: "Maboroshi…

Kariya Keibu Series 2: Kyoto Kyudo Satsujin Jiken

Kariya rushes to cheer for her daughter who participates in a Kyudo match, and encounters a murder there. An assistant professor at the university where her daughter is studying was shot by an arrow and killed instantly.…

Kariya Keibu Series 3: Kyoto Sado Sanshimai Satsujin Jiken

10.0

Kariya Sosuke challenges the serial murders that occur at the prestigious tea ceremony Iemoto in Kyoto. Three months after the sudden death of the Iemoto, his eldest son, who was supposed to be his successor, was killed.…

Kariya Keibu Series 5: Kyo Maiko Satsujin Jiken

On the night of the Kurama Fire Festival, a geisha is killed, followed by a fellow maiko. The deputy who patronized the geisha, the tea ceremony Iemoto, and the company president were accused, but each had an alibi.…

Akiramemasen!

Kirishima Ikuko decides to move from her city apartment to the countryside, where her husband Mikio’s family home is, after Mikio retires from his job. After 30 years of marriage, working while raising their two…

Kariya Keibu Series 6: Kieta Hanayome

Kariya's old journalist was killed. A journalist with a strong sense of justice was following the suspicious behavior of the president of a chemical fiber company who claimed to be a Diet member candidate. The president…

The Liar and His Lover

7.9

Four high school classmates Aki, Shun, Kaoru and Teppei form the band called Crude Play. However, just before their debut, Aki suddenly quits the band and is replaced by Shinya. The band achieves a new-found popularity…