Miho Nakayama

Acting

Miho Nakayama

Born — Died

1970-03-01 — 2024-12-06

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Miho Nakayama (March 1, 1970 – December 6, 2024) was a Japanese singer and actress. She was affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd. Nakayama is nicknamed Miporin (ミポリン), and sometimes uses the pseudonyms Mizuho Kitayama (北山 瑞穂, Kitayama Mizuho) or Issaque (一咲(いっさく), Issaku) when she writes the lyrics. Nakayama made her debut on 21 June 1985 with her single "C", as well as a starring role in the film Be-Bop High School. Throughout her career as a singer and actress, Nakayama recorded 22 studio albums and scored eight No. 1 singles on Oricon's charts; two of them selling over a million copies each. In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast Nakayama in the starring dual roles of Hiroko Watanabe and Itsuki…

Known for

Tales of the Bizarre poster
7.8

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Tales of the Bizarre

1990

Time Limit Investigator poster
6.7

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.

Time Limit Investigator

2006

Love Letter poster
7.8

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.

Love Letter

1995

Renovation Like Magic poster
7.2

Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the Fukuyama family’s eldest son, and starts working on renovations. Koume and Gennosuke start their renovations by taking the measure not of rooms, but the thoughts and feelings of their clients: What does home mean to them? How do they want to live? What do they value? The team’s empathetic connection is what makes their work, work.

Renovation Like Magic

2022

The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms! poster
4.0

Tomoko and Satoshi who got married after the great love affair. Start a sweet newly-married life of only two people. At that time, Satoshi older brorher Haruo suddenly ordered an American relocation order, the three daughters Mari, Hanabi, Chieko , and mother-in-law Suddenly living with them.

The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!

1988

The High School Heroes poster
NR

Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his goals by using supernatural majin powers. Six students go up against the principal. The students are Taisei Manaka (Taisho Iwasaki), Ryuhei Domon (Ryuga Sato), Yusuke Takigawa (Yuto Nasu), Hyuma Oura (Hidaka Ukisho), Naoya Morimura (Naoki Fujii) and Ichika Sakurai (Issei Kanasashi).

The High School Heroes

2021

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 11 titles

The Confidence Man JP: Fortune poster
7.0

How much of a role does luck play in a person's life? Some people believe you create your own luck. Kingpin Akutsu Akira relies only on himself to get what he wants. Dako gets a taste of her own medicine when Akutsu cheats her of her money to avenge his friend, who was a victim of Dako's scam. Will Dako give in to her fate? How will she climb out of the rut this time?

The Confidence Man JP: Fortune

2019

Marmalade Boy poster
6.2

Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.

Marmalade Boy

2018

Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special

2017

花実のない森 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花実のない森

2017

I Have to Buy New Shoes poster
6.2

Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume's insistance. Over the next 3 days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume meets her boyfriend Kango, whom they have been in a long distance relationship.

I Have to Buy New Shoes

2012

Goodbye, Someday poster
5.4

Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches. Eventually, he decides to break up with her and calls Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. Twenty-five years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons. But Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko-and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.

Goodbye, Someday

2010

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba poster
6.3

Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay her half of his assets, about 10,000,000 million yen, in a divorce. To get revenge, Goro Kaiba decides to use that money on a epic one month womanizing streak. His goal is 108, the number of likes his wife received on social media.

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba

2019

Butterfly Sleep poster
6.1

Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.

Butterfly Sleep

2018

Aiuta: My Promise to Nakuhito poster
6.3

Not having the courage to love, Toru became an adult. One day, he meets his and old friend who happens to find a poem which changes will his fate. This will make Toru gain enough courage to face love once again. He meets a girl Nagi who is bond into his fate, though she has a particular secret

Aiuta: My Promise to Nakuhito

2019

The Tragedy of W poster
NR

The story of a rich family torn apart by the murder of their patriarch, and their heiress being accused of the crime, becomes a play and is acted out by a troupe of actors in Osaka.

The Tragedy of W

2019

Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi poster
NR

The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approximately 22 hours between Osaka and Sapporo. Nakayama and Sato play Chie and Keisuke, two lovers who have decided to part ways at the end of the journey. Chie already has a family but has been carrying on a passionate, secret affair with Keisuke. The story mainly takes place in their suite room on the train. The drama was filmed aboard the actual Twilight Express with cooperation from the JR West company, which operates the train service.

Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi

2012

1990s · 13 titles

Love Letter poster
7.8

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.

Love Letter

1995

Cover as Many Waves as Possible poster
7.5

The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.

Cover as Many Waves as Possible

1991

Tokyo Fair Weather poster
7.2

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

Tokyo Fair Weather

1997

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1 poster
NR

The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1

1999

No artwork available
NR

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR ’93 On My Mind is Miho Nakayama's sixth live video release. It was recorded from August 27 - August 28, 1993 and released by King Records on December 10, 1993.

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR ’93 On My Mind

1993

LIVE IN "Mellow" MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '92 poster
NR

LIVE IN "Mellow" MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '92 is the 11th video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on December 4, 1992. It was recorded on September 18-19, 1992 @Nakano Sunplaza.

LIVE IN "Mellow" MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '92

1992

No artwork available
NR

Miho Nakayama Concert Tour '96 Sound of Lip is the 14th video release released by Miho Nakayama. It was released on December 21, 1996. It was recorded on July 24-25, 1996 Nakano Sunplaza.

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR ’96 Sound of Lip

1996

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '91 MIHO THE FUTURE, MIHO THE NATURE poster
NR

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '91 MIHO THE FUTURE, MIHO THE NATURE is the ninth video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on July 21, 1991.

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR '91 MIHO THE FUTURE, MIHO THE NATURE

1991

No artwork available
NR

Miho Nakayama Live '94 Pure White is the second live album by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Released through King Records on November 23, 1994, the album was recorded live at the Nakano Sunplaza on August 26–27, 1994, during the Miho Nakayama Concert Tour '94 "Pure White".

Miho Nakayama Live ’94 Pure White

1994

No artwork available
NR

LOVE SUPREME Miho Nakayama Selection '90 is the seventh video released by Miho Nakayama. It was released on December 5, 1990.

LOVE SUPREME Miho Nakayama Selection ’90

1990

No artwork available
NR

Miho Nakayama Concert Tour '95 f is the 13th video release released by Miho Nakayama. It was released on March 16, 1996. It was recorded on November 24-25, 1995 Nakano Sunplaza.

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR ’95 f

1996

No artwork available
NR

"Mellow" is the fourth promotional music video by Miho Nakayama. It was released by King Records on July 4, 1992.

Mellow

1992

No artwork available
NR

MIHO NAKAYAMA TOUR '98 Live O Live is the 15th video release released by Miho Nakayama. It was released on December 23, 1998. It was recorded on August 8, 1998 Nakano Sunplaza.

MIHO NAKAYAMA CONCERT TOUR ’98 Live・O・Live

1998

1980s · 13 titles

Be-Bop High School poster
6.7

An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.

Be-Bop High School

1985

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.4

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

Who Do I Choose? poster
7.5

A computer error puts entry level workers Nobuko (Miho Nakayama) and Junko (Chieri Ito) in charge of a toy company. It's now up to them to save the company from bankruptcy.

Who Do I Choose?

1989

Be-Bop High School 2 poster
6.5

Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.

Be-Bop High School 2

1986

Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special poster
NR

Tamaki (Miho Nakayama) and Ako (Shizuka Kudo) are two friends living together. Although their personalities differ, they share the same wish - to find love before Christmas.

Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special

1988

Fujiko Fujio's Dream Camera poster
6.0

This is the first part of an omnibus TV drama special production starring three popular idols at that time, namely Nakayama Miho, Oginome Yoko, and Koizumi Kyoko. The stories, or mysterious events, all started with the revelation of the anomaly phenomenon by Horaguchi-sensei, the trio's physics teacher. The anomaly is due to the concurrent event of Hinamatsuri and the visit of Halley's comet to the inner solar system on March 3rd. Horaguchi-sensei teaches the class how to make use of the anomaly to unlock a mysterious event. This can be done by using any camera while chanting the specific keywords when pressing the camera shutter. From there, three separately mysterious events involving the three heroines began.

Fujiko Fujio's Dream Camera

1986

Mama is an Idol! Special Final Chapter poster
6.0

One year after Miporin's marriage, she and her family struggle to keep their everyday life duties going on despite having an Idol Mom.

Mama is an Idol! Special Final Chapter

1988

WHUU!! NATURAL MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE AT BUDOKAN ’89 poster
NR

WHUU!! NATURAL Live at Budokan '89 is the fifth video released by Miho Nakayama.

WHUU!! NATURAL MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE AT BUDOKAN ’89

1989

CATCH ME MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE '88 poster
NR

CATCH ME MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE '88 is the third video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on April 5, 1988.

CATCH ME MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE '88

1988

No artwork available
NR

心の夜明け L’Aube de mon cœur is Miho Nakayama's second music video. It was released by King Records on December 21, 1988.

心の夜明け L’Aube de mon cœur

1988

Idol Hotline: Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School poster
NR

Hello, my name is Miho Nakayama. Thank you very much for participating in the Famicom event "Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School." And congratulations on winning a prize! I send you an autographed videotape. Please be careful with it. I will remember the drama (game) we starred together in forever as a precious memory, and I’m going to do my best in songs and dramas in the future. I’ll be happy if you also remembered this as a precious memory. And please watch over me from now on forever. Well then, I’m looking forward to the day we’ll meet again. For those who beat Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School and registered their "Best Ending" victory via the Disk Fax network, this tape was given out as a special prize to 8000 winners. This tape showcases behind the scenes footage of Nakayama Miho and her involvement in the game.

Idol Hotline: Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School

1988

No artwork available
NR

"na・ma・i・ki" is Miho Nakayama's first music video. It was released by King Records on November 21, 1985.

na・ma・i・ki

1985

No artwork available
NR

Virgin Flight '86: Miho Nakayama First Concert (VIRGIN FLIGHT '86 中山美穂ファースト・コンサート) is the first live video album by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Released through King Records on July 21, 1986, the video was recorded at Nakayama's debut concert at the Nakano Sunplaza on April 5, 1986.

VIRGIN FLIGHT ’86 MIHO NAKAYAMA FIRST CONCERT

1986

Series credits

Tales of the Bizarre poster
7.8

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Tales of the Bizarre

1990

Time Limit Investigator poster
6.7

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.

Time Limit Investigator

2006

Renovation Like Magic poster
7.2

Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the Fukuyama family’s eldest son, and starts working on renovations. Koume and Gennosuke start their renovations by taking the measure not of rooms, but the thoughts and feelings of their clients: What does home mean to them? How do they want to live? What do they value? The team’s empathetic connection is what makes their work, work.

Renovation Like Magic

2022

The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms! poster
4.0

Tomoko and Satoshi who got married after the great love affair. Start a sweet newly-married life of only two people. At that time, Satoshi older brorher Haruo suddenly ordered an American relocation order, the three daughters Mari, Hanabi, Chieko , and mother-in-law Suddenly living with them.

The Young Wife Rolls Her Arms!

1988

The High School Heroes poster
NR

Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his goals by using supernatural majin powers. Six students go up against the principal. The students are Taisei Manaka (Taisho Iwasaki), Ryuhei Domon (Ryuga Sato), Yusuke Takigawa (Yuto Nasu), Hyuma Oura (Hidaka Ukisho), Naoya Morimura (Naoki Fujii) and Ichika Sakurai (Issei Kanasashi).

The High School Heroes

2021

The Noble Detective poster
7.0

A mysterious man known only as the “Aristocrat Detective” indulges in solving cases as a hobby while leaving the real work to his staff, but when sharp private detective Aika Takatoku enters the scene, a battle of wits begins.

The Noble Detective

2017

Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance poster
8.0

Kokuchou Academy used to be an elite school but it is now a nest of evil. Accordingly, spunky schoolgirls Miho, Yumi, Ruri and Kei form the Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance to eliminate wrongdoers from the school premises, wearing heavy makeup in order to keep their identities hidden.

Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance

1986

A Sleeping Forest poster
7.3

Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi and U2.

A Sleeping Forest

1998

Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight poster
NR

Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.

Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight

2018

Things You Can Know by Looking at Them poster
7.0

Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives in the same apartment building. One day, a newlywed couple, including wife Rumi Kamoi, move into the same apartment building. The newlywed husband is Momoko Uchida's ex-husband. They divorced 20 years ago.

Things You Can Know by Looking at Them

2020

Love of Sage poster
6.2

A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be revenge. Ending will come with great impact.

Love of Sage

2016

Tokyo 23-ku Onna poster
5.2

Freelance writer Ririko Harada and folklore expert Hitoshi Shimano explore Tokyo’s 23 wards, uncovering chilling urban legends and ghostly encounters hidden within the city’s most familiar places.

Tokyo 23-ku Onna

2019

Three Star Bar in Nishi Ogikubo poster
6.6

Three Star Bar is a small bar in the Nishi Ogikubo area of Tokyo, Japan. Three men work at the bar. They are the handsome bartender Amamiya, quiet cook Nakauchi and bar owner Kobayashi. People who have worries about various things in their lives visit the bar as customers. These three men also seem to have something from their past.

Three Star Bar in Nishi Ogikubo

2021

Graduation poster
NR

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during her junior college years. Now, with employment still unsettled, her parents are pressuring her to return to Nagano. Her friend Noriko (Sendo Atsuko) had good grades in junior college and had received a job offer from a major company, but the offer was rescinded due to her living alone. Meanwhile, Tomoko (Kawai Michiko), who dreams of becoming a reporter while job hunting, is also struggling to balance her dreams and reality. One day, Kaori visits a small company with her resume in hand, where she meets the company president, Yoshizawa (Oda Yuji). Yoshizawa accepts Kaori without even a proper interview, and despite her misgivings about the company, she soon finds herself drawn to Yoshizawa.

Graduation

1990

Love 2000 poster
7.5

Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.

Love 2000

2000

Platonic poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Platonic

2014

Love Story poster
7.0

Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a popular romance novelist who has been in a two-year slump. Despite his profession, Nagase has never experienced true romance and becomes quite uncomfortable at the prospect. However, these two find themselves curiously drawn to each other and begin writing their own love story.

Love Story

2001

Wonderful Unrequited Love poster
7.2

Shumpei sometimes sees his neighbor Keiko, but doesn't think much of her. One of Keiko's friends gives her the phone number of a single guy, but when she calls she recognizes him as Shumpei, and gives him the made up name 'Nana.' When they meet face to face, she pretends not to know him, but through their phone calls, they slowly start to fall in love.

Wonderful Unrequited Love

1990

Delicious Relation poster
7.0

Momoe lives a life of luxury until one day, she loses everything... her money, her father and her lover. She must now find a way to support herself. With no experience whatsoever, she nonchalently applies for a position at at French restaurant where she once enjoyed a consomme soup many years earlier. Momoe was attracted to the French restaurant, La Petit Lapin, because of the wonderful owner, Kansuke and the delicious soup that was invented by the chef, Orita Keiji. Keiji, a first-rate chef, was trained in Paris at the two-star restaurant, Grand Bleu, and is as a result, a little spoiled and snobby. Find out what happens next when Momoe is taken on as an apprentice and must prove herself to Keiji.

Delicious Relation

1996

Mama Is an Idol poster
7.8

A junior high school teacher marries a much younger woman despite his teenaged daughter’s disapproval. Her step-mother is now the sex idol for many of the boys in her school.

Mama Is an Idol

1987

おヒマなら来てよネ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

おヒマなら来てよネ!

1987

Natsu Taiken Monogatari poster
3.0

Four high school girls from troubled homes are living in a high school dormitory, and decide to go on a summer vacation trip, with some of their teachers. In part, the girls want to meet boys, and possibly to have their first "personal experience" .

Natsu Taiken Monogatari

1985

Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai poster
4.0

Miyoko and Yusuke love each other. But Yusuke is told to work in Hokkaido where is far from Tokyo for a year. They cannot meet often. There appear another woman and man in front of each of them. They almost lose confidence to keep their relationship but finally they make sure of their love.

Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai

1991

The Makioka Sisters poster
8.0

Taking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company handing his company over. It starts a new era for the lives of the 4 Makioka sisters. Tsuruko continues living with the memory of their family's former glory, though it no longer remains. Yukiko, not dissatisfied with her married life, finds herself worrying over her sisters' behavior. Yukiko, the third born daughter, is seeking to marry but has failed matchmaking many times. The youngest, Taeko, gets caught in a typhoon that hits Kansai...

The Makioka Sisters

2018

Stage Play "Journey to the West" poster
NR

Born from the stone egg of Mount Huaguo, Son Goku (played by Ainosuke Kataoka) wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Realm, earning the wrath of the Jade Emperor (played by Shin Tamura) and is imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain.

Stage Play "Journey to the West"

2024

Somebody Loves Her poster
3.0

Manabu and his father Kouhei love Tsubasa in the same time, but they don't know that they are in love with the same girl. Tsubasa doesn't know they are a father and a son. Tsubasa enjoys meeting them in different places and different times. Finally the father and his son ask her which she loves but she loves both.

Somebody Loves Her

1992

Maido Osawagase Shimasu poster
NR

Trio of junior high students explore sexuality, causing chaos among concerned parents in their housing complex after witnessing inappropriate situations involving adults.

Maido Osawagase Shimasu

1985

For You poster
NR

When only 19 years old Yayoi found herself pregnant and alone after the tragic death of her lover. Bravely she decided to bring up the child as an unmarried mother. For five years she has selflessly devoted herself to her son. Now 24, a change of job turns her life completely upside down. She falls deeply in love with a colleague called Toru. Unsure of his reaction, she keeps her son's existence a secret. Yayoi is torn between love for her dearest son and love for Toru. --Fuji Creative.

For You

1995

Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru poster
4.0

The three girls start to live together. The two boys in the next room are interested in them. They are all 20 years old. What do love, sexuality and marriage mean to them? This drama shows what ordinary 20 years old people usually experience.

Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru

1989

Home & Away poster
6.7

Kaede is good at heart and finds it difficult to refuse favors asked of her. And then she's got no sense of direction. On her travels, due to the whims of the gods, she gets involved in one calamity after another, but is able to give happiness to people who call on her for aid. For the people she meets up with, she seems to be an angel who brings happiness from somewhere and then goes silently on her way. She actually just wants to go home, but with all the things happening to her, home seems farther and farther away. Will she be able to return home by her wedding day, which is just a month away? How long will this calamitous journey of self-discovery continue?

Home & Away

2001

Moshimo Negai ga Kanau Nara poster
NR

When Miki was a child, her parents divorced. After her mother, with whom she lived, passed away, Mori Miki was placed in an orphanage. She had always dreamed of meeting someone new and was at the peak of her happiness when she finally got engaged to Inoue Ken, the heir to a major trading company. However, her older brothers, whom she was separated from at a young age, show up to stay with her. This is a heartwarming comedy that depicts the struggles of Miki and her three older brothers.

Moshimo Negai ga Kanau Nara

1994