People Who Talk to Plushies Are Kind

6.9

Creating a portrait of sensitive teens and their concerns, Kaneko Yurina’s adaptation of Omae Ao’s novel takes us into the midst of the Plushy Club at a university. It is a place packed with furry and comforting…

Nuigulumar Z

6.9

A lolita fashion-clad girl named Yumeko Ayukawa merges with her pink teddy bear Buusuke to become “Nuigulumar” in order to do battle with a villain named Takeshi who’s using zombies in his plot to take over the…

Yamamoto Satsuo

Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho.…

Hidari Sachiko

Hidari Sachiko was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1952 and 1995. At the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her roles in "Kanojo to Kare" and "The Insect Woman". In 1977, she directed and starred in the film "The Far Road",…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Mikuni Rentaro

Rentarō Mikuni was a Japanese film actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. The 1987…

Inaba Yoshio

Yoshio Inaba was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.

Omachi Fumio

Omachi Fumio, originally named Setoguchi Fumio (瀬戸口文夫), was a Japanese actor born in Kumamoto, Japan. He graduated from Nagasaki Higher Commercial School and initially worked as a reporter at the Ministry of Communications. In 1934, he began his stage acting career with the Shinkyo Theater…

Kishi Teruko

Sano Asao

Asao Sano is a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni on the television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon.

Urabe Kumeko

Actress. Kumeko Urabe was born on October 5, 1902 in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ikiru (1952), Oka wa hanazakari (1952) and House of Many Pleasures (1955). She died on October 26, 1989.

Ozawa Eitaro

Eitaro Ozawa was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1988.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2006

5.0

Segment 1: "Dangai no Shita ni te" Segment 2: "6-ban no Heya" Segment 3: "Fushigi na Jikan" Segment 4: "Yojohan no Kifujin" Segment 5: "Soko ni Iru!" Segment 6: "Byoto no Nuigurumi"

Niguruma no Uta

7.5

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan. (Source: Letterboxd)