Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He is particularly noted for his appearances in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films, including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).
Yumi Kakazu, better known by the Kana form of her name かかず ゆみ, is a Japanese voice actress from Kamifukuoka, Saitama.
Noriko Ogawa, born Shigemi Tanimoto, is a Japanese actress and J-pop singer born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan on 20 July 1973. She graduated in sociology at Waseda University.
Masaya Onosaka is a Japanese voice actor who works for Aoni Production. In 2010 he won the "Best Personality" Seiyu Award.
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase is a Japanese manga series by Keitarō Arima. The manga was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Comic Gum from March 2000 to March 27, 2008. The series spanned sixteen manga volumes that were published by Wani Books in Japan. The manga series was later adapted into a 25 episode anime television series by Shaft, and aired on TV Tokyo from October 5, 2004 to March 29, 2005. An additional OVA episode dubbed "Episode 26" was later released only on DVD on February 22, 2006. Moon Phase is about a young vampire girl named Hazuki and a Japanese freelance photographer Kouhei Morioka whom Hazuki attempts to make into her servant.
"A Cruel Angel's Thesis" is the opening theme song of the 1995 television anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion, originally performed by Yoko Takahashi.
Dimitri from Paris is a French music producer and DJ of Greek descent. His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music, as well as original soundtracks from 1950s and 1960s movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Dolce Vita and The Party, which were sampled in his album Sacrebleu. Dimitri fused these sounds with electro and block party hip hop he discovered in the 1980s.
Gangan is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese market. Its anthologies are home to some popular Square Enix manga series which were adapted into anime series, like Fullmetal Alchemist, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Nabari no Ou, Inu x Boku SS, and Soul Eater. The comics are later collected in paperback volumes under brand names such as Gangan Comics, Gangan Comics Joker and Young Gangan Comics, which identify the anthology of serialisation. These paperback brand names are formed by omitting any gekkan or shōnen in the magazine name and inserting comics directly after the word gangan.
Yuki Saito is a singer-songwriter, actor, essayist, and poet born on September 10, 1966, in Minami-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. All albums are listed chronologically.
Hitomi is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has also done voice work, especially in eroge, under the name Minami Hokuto. She is married to fellow voice actor Kazuya Ichijō.
Megamasso was a Japanese visual kei rock band. Their sound was lively and upbeat, with a unique mix of punk, piano ballads and pop rock.
This article lists the albums attributed to the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series.
This is a list of the dozens of Ojamajo Doremi CD releases in Japan.
From the Icy Reaches is the 38th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 2011.
The World Standard, stylized as Wasuta (わーすた), is a five-member Japanese idol group formed by Avex Trax in 2015. The group, which frequently uses cat-like wordplay and colorful costumes in their song lyrics and performances, has contributed songs to the anime series Idol Time PriPara and Kiratto Pri Chan. Since 2016, Wasuta has released 3 albums, 4 mini-albums, 6 CD singles, 6 digital singles, 2 live albums, 1 best album, and a live concert Blu-ray from their first nationwide Japanese tour.
Yuri Nakamura is a Japanese musical composer and singer under Giza Studio label. In years 1999-2013 she was a vocalist and composer of Japanese pop band Garnet Crow.
Yosuke Natsuki was a Japanese actor. He had participated twice in the Dakar Rally as a racing driver.
Akishibu-kei is a loosely defined trend from the 2000s that involved an increase of Shibuya-kei influence in anime soundtracks. The term is a portmanteau of "Shibuya-kei" and "Akiba-kei". Both were 1990s cultural movements associated with musical and otaku interests, respectively, and Akishibu-kei was thought to have represented a merging of the two.
This is a list of music of the Maison Ikkoku series. It lists individual theme and other songs, singles, as well as music, drama, and collection albums from the anime and live-action releases as well as game soundtracks.