Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

During the late Edo period, Kasahara Ryosaku works as a doctor in a small town of the Fukui Domaine. He becomes aware of a surefire way to prevent smallpox. The method originated in a foreign country. Ryosaku asks…

Bando Ryota

Bando Ryota is a Japanese actor. He is born in New York, USA. He works for Dongyu Club Co., Ltd. Born in New York, he lived there until he was three years old before moving and growing up in Hokkaido. He attended a school of Steiner education in Hokkaido until he was 18 years old. After starring in…

Miki Risako

Kushida Kazuyoshi

Kazuyoshi Kushida (born in 1942) is an actor, director and the artistic manager of the Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre. After studying acting at Haiyu-za, in 1965, he decides to join the theatre company Bungaku-za.

Yamamoto Gaku

Yamamoto Gaku, born in Osaka, is a Japanese actor. He is the nephew of director Yamamoto Satsuo and older brother of actors Yamamoto Kei and Yamamoto Sen.

Okihara Issei

Okihara Issei is a Japanese actor.

Koizumi Takashi

Koizumi Takashi worked as an assistant director to Kurosawa Akira in “Kagemusha”, ”Ran”, “Madadayo”, etc.. His directorial debut "After the Rain" (2000) (screenplay by Kurosawa Akira) has won the best picture prize of the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize, which is followed by well-made cinemas…

Yajima Kenichi

Yajima Kenichi is a Japanese actor from Gifu prefecture. He graduated from Meiji Gakuin University. He belongs to Papado. Yajima debuted as an actor in 1981. He has appeared in over 200 TV dramas and 70 films.

Matsuzaka Tori

Tori Matsuzaka is a Japanese actor and model born in Kanagawa, Japan. He debuted as Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red in "Samurai Sentai Shinkenger". Since then, he has appeared in several television shows and films, such as "The Blood of Wolves" (2018), "Impossibility Defense" (2017), and "Call Boy" (2018).…

Yoshioka Hidetaka

Yoshioka Hidetaka is a Japanese actor.

Yakusho Koji

Yakusho Koji is a Japanese actor. In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In 1983, he landed the role of Oda Nobunaga in the year-long NHK drama Tokugawa Ieyasu and was catapulted to fame.…

Snow Flowers

~~ Adapted from the novel "Yuki no Hana" (雪の花) by Akiyoshi Rikako (秋吉理香子).

Snow Flower

7.7

Hirai Miyuki is a terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, and falls in love with an orphan boy Watabiki Yusuke, whom she had formed a contract relationship with. ~~ Adapted from…

Snow Flowers: Director's Cut

~~ Adapted from the novel "Yuki no Hana" (雪の花) by Akiyoshi Rikako (秋吉 理香子).

Hana no Yoshiwara

Chushingura

7.4

A young lord resists Shogunate corruption by refusing a bribe, provoking a trap that forces him to commit ritual suicide. His samurai are then ordered to surrender his estate, forbidden from taking revenge, and disbanded,…

Takane and Hana

7.2

After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But…

Laundry Snow

7.2

The two-part drama of Shiseido short drama morning version titled "21:25 Tokyo Hatsu Prague Iki" and night version titled "Natsu no Sora ni, Furu Yuki Wa". The morning story features Takahashi as the owner of a 24-hour…

Koibumi Biyori

6.0

Four stories: Atashi o shiranai kimi e, Binsen-biyori, Ikarusu no koibito-tachi, and Yuki ni saku hana. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Koibumi Biyori" (恋文日和) by George Asakura (ジョージ朝倉).

Yuki no Hotaru

~~Adapted from Seiichi Morimura (森村　誠一) "Snow Firefly" 「雪の螢」（角川文庫）.