5000 results found for: Tokyo Vice
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…
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)…
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.…
Inagawa Junji
Inagawa Junji was born in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for "Shinrei" (1996), "La Ronde" (1988) and "Tanba Tetsuro no Daireikai Shindara Odoroita!!" (1990). (Source: IMDb)
Shinano no Colombo Jiken File 5
Japanese Special - 2004, 1 episodes
What connects the two murders that took place in Tokyo and Nagano with "poisoning" and "Oiwake"? A hot-blooded Takemura Iwao, who is known as "Shinano's Colombo", challenges a difficult case: a poisoned male corpse…
Game Underwear ♥
Japanese Drama - 2004, 4 episodes6.0
The story of a woman who came to Tokyo put on underwear.
Kegaretashita
Japanese Drama - 2005, 11 episodes6.0
Iijima Naoko plays an unmarried woman who opens a florist in Tokyo. Her character lives with her mother, and is also seeing a man hated by her mother. She blames him for driving her husband to suicide. Kato plays the…
Asami Mitsuhiko Series 21
Japanese Drama - 2005, 1 episodes
Reporter Asami Mitsuhiko boards a ferry traveling from Tokyo to Tokushima for an assignment. On board is his friend Horinochi Yusaku, the ship’s first officer. During the voyage, Mitsuhiko meets a couple, Inada Noriyoshi…
What the Snow Brings
Japanese Movie - 20066.7
Yazaki Manabu lost his business and wife in Tokyo after the dot-com crash. He returns to his hometown in Hokkaido during the middle of winter. Manabu then takes the advice of a man and bets everything he has on a horse…
16
Japanese Movie - 20078.0
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Japanese Special - 2007, 1 episodes5.5
A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has…
Spy Sorge
Japanese Movie - 20037.0
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted…
Her Island, My Island
Japanese Movie - 20036.9
Kuriko grew up on the island but left for Tokyo as soon as she graduated high school. At twenty-five, she's about to get married and returns to the island for the first time in two years to soak in and remember all…
The Shadow Spirit
Japanese Movie - 20076.7
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone missing. In the meantime, a religious cult that claims to shut…
