Suzuki Noribumi

Suzuki Noribumi, also known as Suzuki Norifumi, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yaro series. Suzuki was born in 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University's Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei's Kyoto Studio as an assistant…

Osaka Dokonjo Monogatari: Doeraiyatsu

~Adapted from a "The Ceremonial Occasion", novel by Koen Hasegawa.

Nakajima Sadao

Nakajima Sadao is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki. Born in Chiba Prefecture, he attended Hibiya High School and then the University of Tokyo before joining the Toei studio in 1959. Working at Toei's Kyoto studio, he served as an assistant director…

Fuji Sumiko

Fuji Sumiko is a Japanese actress and moderator from Gobo City, Wakayama Prefecture. She received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2007, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays in the spring of 2016. She graduated from Osaka Municipal Honjo Junior High School. She became a fan of Takarazuka Revue…

Tani Akira

Omura Kon

Omura Kon is a Japanese actor and comedian.

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Naniwa Chieko

Hayashi Hikaru

Hayashi Hikaru was a Japanese composer.

Okajima Tsuyako

Abe Kusuo

Kusuo Abe was born on July 24, 1910 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan as Ishitaro Ito. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Ikiru (1952), Miyamoto Musashi (1961) and Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji Temple (1964). He died on November 2, 1965 in Kyoto, Japan.

Osaka Loop Line Season 4

10.0

Third part of the KTV original drama "Osaka Loop Line". 10 episodes, each one setted on a station of the famous railway line that encircles central Osaka. 10 different and simple stories, all surrounded by the beautiful…

Osaka Loan Shark

7.0

Haruo Sugimura, who was sentenced to two years in prison for causing an injury due to his short temper, is scouted by Sakai, a loan shark he met by chance, and starts working with him for a company called Minami Hachi…

Osaka Vintage Diary

Tetsuya travels to Osaka to perform a solo comedy show. While there, he stops by a vintage clothing store, falls in love with the contents, and takes a shine to the store owner, Nana. Then her uncle shows up and Tetsuya…

Osaka Casino

Osaka Loop Line

6.6

Where there are people, there is a district. Trains connect district to district. The train stops at stations, creating encounters between people at the stations and that is where love is born. This is a 10-part omnibus…

Osaka Loop Line Season 2

7.2

Where there are people, there is a district. Trains connect district to district. The train stops at stations, creating encounters between people at the stations and that is where love is born. This is a 10-part omnibus…

Osaka Loop Line Season 3

7.4

The third part of the KTV original drama "Osaka Loop Line". 10 episodes, each one set on a station of the famous railway line that encircles central Osaka. 10 different and simple stories, all surrounded by the beautiful…

Osaka Violence

The realistic portrayal of violence dazzles in this acton film depicting the life and death struggle of two outlaws who scare even the yakuza as told from a 12-year-old juvenile delinquent's perspective. In the old…

Osaka Elegy

7.3

Ayako Murai is a young woman working as a telephone operator in 1930s Osaka. In order to pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling 300 yen, she agrees to become the mistress…