Ryōko Hirosue is a Japanese actress and singer, best known to international audiences for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in the 2008 comedy series Yasuko to Kenji.
Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer and musical actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name.
Yoshiko Tanaka was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname "Sue". Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.
Rina Uchiyama is a Japanese actress and idol.
Claymore is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. It debuted in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump in June 2001, where it continued until the magazine was shut down in June 2007. The series was transferred to the newly launched Jump Square, serialized from November 2007 to October 2014. Its chapters were collected in 27 tankōbon volumes.
Good Morning Call is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Yue Takasuka that ran in the monthly magazine Ribon from 1997 to 2002. Part of the story has been adapted into an OVA. In 2007, a sequel manga, Good Morning Kiss, was serialized in Cookie. As of December 2019, eighteen volumes have been released.
Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai in Kids War, as Makino Tsukushi in the Boys Over Flowers series, and as Sugi Fumi in the 54th taiga drama Burning Flower. She also appeared in a number of films including I Give My First Love to You, Rebirth and The Snow White Murder Case.
Love of My Life is a Japanese drama series, produced and aired in 2006 by NTV. It is a 10-episode drama series that was aired from October 14, 2006 through December 16, 2006.
Nana Eikura is a Japanese actress, model, and occasional radio show host affiliated with Ken-On Group.
Ritsuko Matsumoto, known by the pseudonym Hinako Ashihara, was a Japanese manga artist.
Yasuko Matsuyuki is a Japanese actress and singer signed to Stardust Promotion.
Yūko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television, after she graduated from Meiji University.
Sweet Blue Flowers is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was serialized between November 2004 and July 2013 in Ohta Publishing's manga magazine Manga Erotics F, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on Fumi Manjōme, a lesbian high school girl, and her close childhood friend Akira Okudaira, who tries to keep her friends happy through difficult times.
Suspect X is a 2008 Japanese mystery-thriller film based on the novel, The Devotion of Suspect X, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani. The film was a continuation of the popular Japanese serial drama Galileo and included the same cast. It topped Japan's box office for four consecutive weeks and was the third-highest-grossing Japanese movie in 2008. The soundtrack was released on October 1, 2008. Suspect X was the first of several film adaptations of The Devotion of Suspect X, followed by Perfect Number (2012) from South Korea and Kolaigaran (2019) and Jaane Jaan (2023) from India.
Yasuko Sawaguchi is a Japanese actress.
The Nippon Television Network Corporation, also known as Nippon Television (NTV), with the call sign JOAX-DTV, is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System. It is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.
Mina Tanaka is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Utah Royals and the Japan women's national team. She has previously played for Nippon TV Beleza, Bayer Leverkusen, and INAC Kobe Leonessa.
Minami Tanaka is a Japanese freelance announcer and tarento who is a former Tokyo Broadcasting System Television announcer.
Hanbun, Aoi. is a Japanese television drama series and the 98th Asadora series, following Warotenka. It premiered on April 2, 2018, and concluded on September 29, 2018. Mei Nagano was cast in the lead role of Suzume Nireno after an audition of 2366 women.
The Sun Never Sets is a 2000 Japanese television series. Starring Hideaki Takizawa, Yasuko Matsuyuki and Yūka, it aired from 13 April to 22 June 2000 on Fuji TV.
