Life: Tears in Heaven

7.3

Based on the life of Japan's most prominent professional windsurfer Iijima Natsuki who passed away on February 28. 2005 because he had cancer at the age of 38. In this movie, you can see the fight his wife and their…

Miyamoto Nobuko

She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Doi Nobuhiro

Doi Nobuhiro is a TV drama director belonging to the Drama Production Department of TBS Television and Content Production Bureau. He is also a movie director. He is from Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. After graduating from university, he joined TBS. Since then, he has directed many popular TV…

Kimura Tae

Kimura Tae is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for Gururi no koto. She has been active as an actress since 1995.

Hiraizumi Sei

Born June 2, 1944 in Okazaki, Aichi. Selected as one of Daiei's "New Faces" in 1964, and made his silver screen debut in 1966. His husky voice is quite distinctive and imitated by many other celebrities.

Matsuo Satoru

Matsuo Satoru is a Japanese actor, entertainer, and commentator born in Amagasaki, Hyogo. He is affiliated with FMG. He worked as a part-time worker in the organization department of the Sankei Shimbun Osaka headquarters for 3 years, declined the offer to become a full-time employee, and aspired to…

Tsuda Kanji

Kanji Tsuda is a Japanese actor. He played Katsuya Tokunaga in the Japanese film The Grudge. He is married and has one child. He is managed by the La Sette talent agency. Tsuda was working part-time at a coffee shop for ten years before he started his successful career. The coffee shop where Tsuda worked…

Ninomiya Kazunari

Ninomiya Kazunari, often called Nino, is a singer-songwriter, actor, presenter, and radio host. He is a member of the boy band Arashi and portrayed Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima. Ninomiya began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese…

Amami Yuki

Amami Yuki, born Nakano Yuri, in Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress. Amami joined the drama club in junior high school and the second year, she was recommended by her homeroom teacher who turned out to be a fan of Takarazuka Revue. She studied ballet in her high school…

Sakurai Sho

Sakurai Sho, born in Minato, Tokyo, is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, newscaster, host and former radio host. He is a member of the Japanese boy band Arashi. Despite already having an established career with Arashi by the time he graduated from high school, Sakurai went on to attend…

Kijima Seiichiro

Kijima Keiichiro is a Japanese television drama producer.

Tengoku e no Calendar

7.0

What would you do on the last day of your life? A nurse knows she's dying of cancer, but she hides the truth in order to support the patients that depend on her.

Tengoku no Daisuke e

7.3

fter making a serious error in his news story, political newspaper reporter Yohei Iida grudgingly takes on an assignment for the sports section to write about the Takushoku University track and field team as they prepare…

Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko

7.5

Due to his lack of drive, Shirou has failed the university entrance exams three times and just can't seem to do anything right. When Shirou starts to contemplate why somebody like him is living at all, a mysterious…

Chounan no Yome: Jikka Tengoku

4.0

The story focuses on the gap between the value of "office worker families" and "self-employed families". The drama follow Misato and the other family members in their daily life struggles again... (Source: Japanese…

The Guys From Paradise

7.2

Allegedly based on a number of true cases, The Guys From Paradise is a prison story set in the Phillipines against a background of corruption, drug trafficking and paedophilia. This being a Takashi Miike film however,…

Straight To Heaven

2.0

Koji and Tatsuya from the Nerima juvenile discriminatory who was making money by transferring fraud are subject to insurance money to the upper body of the upper organization, which is targeted to life. It was two…

Heaven's Bookstore

7.1

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to…

Faraway Heaven

6.1

Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere…