Terao Akira

In 1966, he debuted as a bassist of Group Sounds band, The Savage. As an actor, he debuted as Kenichi in Chikadô no taiyô made, a film directed by Kei Kumai in 1968. Terao was born in Yokohama (Kanagawa prefecture) in Japan, son of the actor and film director Jukichi Uno. He was married to Bunjaku…

Enami Kyoko

Kyoko Enami was discovered through Daiei's New Face program in 1959, and was promptly made a star in 1960. An awesome beauty with remarkably pale skin, she also conveyed a kind of steeliness that turned out to make her ideal for the popular film series "Gambling Woman," which made her one of the first…

Kobayashi Akiji

Kobayashi Akiji, sometimes credited as Kobayashi Shouji or Mori Issei, was a Japanese actor who played Tōbei Tachibana ("Oya-san") in the early years of the Kamen Rider Series, starting in the original Kamen Rider in 1971 to Kamen Rider Stronger in 1976. He is best known in the West for portraying…

Nogiwa Yoko

Nogiwa Yuko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tsubata Town in Kawakita, Ishikawa, and raised in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, as well as Amanuma, Tokyo. She attended Rikkyo University's Department of English and American Literature. She was selected as the university's first Miss Rikkyo. After graduating…

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Onodera Jo

Onodera Jo is a Japanese actor born on January 29, 1966 in Tokyo, Japan.

Natsuyagi Isao

Natsuyagi Isao was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2013. In 1960, Natsuyagi began attending the Bungakuza (a Japanese theatre company) actors school while attending Keio University. He eventually left Keio before graduating and entered the Haiyuza actors…

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.

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Shiroi Kyoto

7.3

Goro Zaizen is an associate professor in the department of surgery at a university hospital. He is a talented surgeon and famous for laparoscopy surgery. He is also respected by his students. Goro Zaizen came from…

The Great White Tower

7.5

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a…

The White Tower

6.0

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both associate professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a…

The Great White Tower

8.2

A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. This serious…

Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

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.…

Behind the White Tower

7.6

The story is about politics and the power struggle among doctors at a hospital. Friends can switch allegiance, and enemies can turn supportive in split seconds. Dr. Jang Jun Hyeok was an ambitious surgeon who wanted…

Shiroi Hamon

7.0

Seventeen years ago, a child was kidnapped from the home of a Kyoto Yuzen dyeing artist, Katsuragi Sawako. However, the perpetrator died and the child went missing, with Sawako spending her days devoted to Yuzen dyeing…

Castle Under Fiery Skies

7.1

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish…

Wasureru mono ka

Shiro Okabe returns to Kyoto after learning that his best friend Tsumura has died under suspicious circumstances. The man starts asking his family for details, but doesn't get any logical answer. Soon, strange events…

Shinsengumi: Last Days of the Shogunate

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by Shirai Kyoji. Starring the great Kataoka Chiezo as Kondo Isami, along…