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…

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.…

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:…

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.

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…

Matsumoto Arisa

Arisa Matsumoto is a Japanese romance advisor and former AV actress born in Tokyo.

Shimizu Ichiro

Shimizu Ichiro was a Japanese actor from Nihonbashi, 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)…

What the Snow Brings

6.7

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

8.0

A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.

Nagai Nagai Satsujin

5.5

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…

The Shadow Spirit

6.7

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…

Memo

7.0

Mayuko Motohashi is a high-school student in Tokyo. She suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessively writing down everything that crosses her mind. The anxiety happens so often, that she has to buy large…

Maiden Punch

A woman who had changed jobs moved to Tokyo dreaming of becoming a professional boxer. She aims to become a champion through various encounters. (Source: Japanese = Jwiki || Translation = MyDramaList)

Nonko 36-sai

6.1

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto…

Asami Mitsuhiko Series 21

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…

Kegaretashita

6.0

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…

Carried on a Sea Breeze

Tetsuro is returning to his seaside hometown from Tokyo for the traditional Buddhist ceremony to mark 49 days since his grandmother died. Here he runs into his old high school sweetheart, Yuki. Their paths have diverged…