Tokyo Idols

7.1

Girl bands and their pop music permeate every moment of Japanese life. Following an aspiring pop singer and her fans, Tokyo Idols explores a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality, and…

Miyake Kyoko

Kyoko is a Peabody award winning filmmaker from Japan. Her latest documentary film, Tokyo Idols, is premiering in World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her documentary Brakeless was supported by BBC / ITVS / IKON / NHK / DR and won the prestigious Peabody Award 2014 after…

Tokyo Friends Park II

A preset number of contestants (typically 4) compete for prizes that range from Foot baths, Massage chairs and Big screen televisions to new vehicles (typically a Land Rover). As with most Japanese game shows, the…

Suzuki Keiichi

Suzuki Keiichi is a Japanese musician born in Haneda, Tokyo. He began his music career from around 1970, joining various sessions. In 1972, formed rock band Hachimitsu Pie ("honey pie"). An active pioneer of rock music expressed in the Japanese language,Keiichi Suzuki has performed countless live concerts…

Suzuki Ami

Suzuki Ami is a Japanese singer, actress and songwriter. Having been discovered at the talent TV show Asayan, she was one of the most popular female teen idols in the late 1990s. In 1998 Sony Music signed her to the label, and producer Tetsuya Komuro sponsored her career producing all of her material,…

Yoshino Sayaka

Yoshino Sayaka is a Japanese actress, model, and television personality. One of the first popular teen models/idols, she has appeared in numerous TV dramas, commercials, and films. Born in Tokyo and raised in both Tokyo and Chiba, Yoshino as a child wondered how children appeared on TV programs until…

Endo Koji

Endo Koji is a Japanese composer managed by SOUND KID'S. He has worked on a vast number of films in the past decade. He has been composing music for Takashi Miike since the 1997 film Rainy Dog. He currently works out of his own studio named SoundKids in Tokyo, Japan. Endo first picked up jazz guitar…

Chinen Rina

Rina Chinen is a female Japanese entertainer, former singer, model and TV actress. Rina was born in Naha, Okinawa. Rina was trained in dance and song at the Okinawa Actors School, whose graduates include Namie Amuro and SPEED. Debuting in 1996 with the Single "Do-Do for Me", Rina's career transitioned…

Aragaki Yui

Aragaki Yui is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyuu and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry. She is particularly recognized for her pleasant face and her movie projects. Aragaki's career started when her sister volunteered to turn in an audition profile for her after being informed…

Bando Nozomi

Bando Nozomi, born in Tokyo, is a dancer, model, actor and a former member of the groups Flower and E-girls. From the age of three, Bando trained in classical ballet and attended Masako Ono Ballet Studio. During her fifth year of elementary school, she started training in hip-hop and attended the Exile…

Kumakiri Asami

Kumakiri Asami is a Japanese entertainer, actress, and gravure idols (model). She is also a professional Mahjong player.

Isoyama Sayaka

Education: Hokota High School Hobbies: Karaoke, watching high school baseball games and learning about idols Specialty: Baton, trumpet, roller blading, sign language and spinning plates She is an avid fan of baseball. When she was in high school she was the manager of the baseball team, and even then…

Harajuku Denier

8.0

Set in Harajuku, various young people in various professions are the stars of a story which depicts the people who make up the lively area of Tokyo known as Harajuku. A policewoman named Yokoyama finds her story is…

Hobohobo: Mayonaka no Tsugikuru Mono Sagashi

A high-energy midnight variety show brought to you by Yamazato Ryota and Karahashi Yumi! The people who are "almost" trending introduce "almost" trending things! The next generation of idols and young comedians introduce…

Ano ko no Yume wo Mitan Desu

7.2

Comedian Yamasato Ryota enters a cafe to prepare a story. Trivial incidents unfold there with the staff, TV people, the manager, and a handsome office worker. Little things bother them, and Yamasato's annoyance reaches…

Tokyo Living Dead Idol

6.1

One day an idol is bitten by a zombie and before she is taken into custody, she runs away. She only has 72 hours left until she becomes one, so she tries to find the zombie serum, but high school girl zombie hunter…

Mikasa no King to, Ato Sunin

The indecisive and delicate Kenta who aspires to become an idol in Tokyo has lost faith in his dream. This why he returns to his hometown of Mikasa. He crosses paths with his former high school senior, the drop out…

Hagure Idol: Jigokuhen

7.0

The story of Misora Haebaru, an 18-year-old karate expert from Okinawa who went to Tokyo to enter the entertainment industry in hopes of supporting her family. She gets tricked into being a gravure idol who wears lewd…

Idol

7.7

In 1936, Onodera Toshiko, who moved to Tokyo from Iwate, auditioned for the Moulin Rouge theater in Shinjuku to become a star. On the spot, she catches the attention of the manager and producer Sasaki Senri and the…

Tokyo Giant: The Legend of Victor Starffin

The amazing fate of Viktor Staruhin takes viewers on a completely unknown journey into the history of Japan, America, and Soviet Russia. In an era of global division, the collapse of empires, and world wars, he was…