Kenji Aoki

Musical 'The Prince of Tennis' The Imperial Match: Hyotei Academy in Winter 2005-2006, which ran in Tokyo and Osaka from 2005 to 2006. This production, which was even more spectacular than the summer run, features the complete recordings of the new song “One-on-One” by Tezuka and Atobe, as well as “On My Way” performed by the entire cast!

Among the most stressful and thankless work done on a film set undertaken by the production intern. It is no different for the plucky Reiko, who is reminded that “Moviemaking is a war zone!” -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Recording of the musical The Prince of Tennis: Dream Live 2nd, held on May 4, 2005, at Tokyo Bay NK Hall. Featuring incredibly passionate performances from a total of 28 cast members from the four schools—Seishun Gakuen, Fudomine, St. Rudolf Academy, and Yamabuki! This live performance marked the graduation show for Yuya Endo, who played Ryoma Echizen.

The stage production performed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Medium Hall, from July 29 to August 18, 2004. It depicts the fierce battle against St. Rudolf Academy, led by the strategic mastermind Mizuki, at the Tokyo Prefectural Tournament.

A massive gathering of 45 cast members from all seven schools in the series’ history—Rokkaku, Rikkai, Fudomine, Rudolf, Yamabuki, and Hyotei!

Recorded from performances held January 8–10, 2005, at Osaka Mielparque Hall, and January 19–23, 2005, at Tokyo Mielparque Hall. The second-generation Seigaku regulars make their debut! After defeating St. Rudolf Academy in the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Tournament to advance to the finals, Seigaku faces a formidable opponent: Yamabuki Junior High! How will they take on the “Understated Ones,” Lucky Sengoku, and the maverick Akutsu?

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.

A lighthearted study of friendship, life, and death in the lives of four men: two elderly residents of a suburban housing complex, and two adults who cling to their youth.

A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo, convinces him to join the choir.

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.