Asakusa no Kyokaku

~~ Adapted from the novel by Matsura Takeo (松浦健郎).

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Saeki Kiyoshi

Saeki Kiyoshi was a Japanese director from Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan.

Matsuura Takeo

Matsuura Takeo was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist.

Gekidan Hitori

Gekidan Hitori was born on February 2, 1977 in Chiba, Japan as Shogo Kawashima. He is a popular comedian, an actor and writer, known for Memories of Matsuko (2006), Rebirth (2011) and Paco and the Magical Book (2008). On February 16, 2009 he married a TV Personality Osawa Akane.

Maeda Goki

Maeda Goki, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese actor, singer, and model managed by Horipro. He debuted at the age of 6in 1998 and from 2003 to 2006 appeared as a TV warrior on NHK Educational TV " Tensai TV-kun MAX ". In 2010, he played his first lead role in the stage play "Byakkotai: The Idol".…

Onoe Matsunosuke

Onoe Matsunosuke was a Japanese actor. He was initially an actor with an itinerant kabuki troupe. In his autobiography, he claimed that he had made his stage debut as early as 1880, in a performance given by the Tamizo Onoe company. Fascinated by the stage, he left his home by the age of 14 to travel…

Asakusa no Hi: Odoriko Monogatari

Asakusa no Akari

Nitani Hideaki

Nitani Hideaki was a Japanese actor born in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Higashi Maizuru High School (京都府立東舞鶴高等学校) and attended Doshisha University (同志社大学) but dropped out of the Department of English Literature. After leaving university,…

Yoshinaga Sayuri

Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永 小百合 Yoshinaga Sayuri, born 13 March 1945) is a Japanese actress. She has won four Japan Academy Best Actress awards, more than any other actress, and has been called "one of the foremost stars in the postwar world of film." Her first media appearance was in the radio drama…

Honma Chiyoko

Honma Chiyoko is a Japanese singer and actress.

A Girl in the Sunset

8.6

This omnibus consists of four short films: "Itaria no Uta", "Musume Gokoro", "Asakusa no Shimai", and "Yubae Shojo". ~~ Adapted from 4 short stories including "Yubae Shojo" (夕映少女) by Kawabata Yasunori (川端康成).

Satomi Kotaro

Kōtarō Satomi is a Japanese actor from the city of Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He appears in both contemporary roles and in the historical dramas known as jidaigeki.

Asakusa: Tsukuba no kikujiro

2.0

Asakusa Hanayashiki Detective Story: The Child of God Is Hurt

Kin-chan no Hatsukoi

8.0

When he was still a student, Hagimoto Kinichi (now a comedian in Asakusa) fell in love with a dancer. At first, when he tries to approach her, he always fails but at some point Miyuki sees him and began to fall in…

Kin-chan no Sumi-chan: Hagimoto Kinichi wo Aishita Josei

7.3

March 1960. Hagimoto Kinichi, a newcomer at the Asakusa Toyo Theater, is captivated by Sumiko, a very popular dancer at the theater at the time. To Kinichi, who is still just starting out, Sumiko, who receives rave…

Kahogona Wakadanna-sama no Amayakashi Kon

7.2

It tells the story of Someya Yukito, the young master of a long-established inn in Asakusa, and Tsuruoka Io, a pure girl who is training to be a chef and who was comforted by the sweet sugar candy that Yukito gave…