Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was an award-winning Canadian actor whose film career spanned over six decades. He was the father of actors Kiefer, Rossif, and Angus Sutherland. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, he began his tertiary education at the University of Toronto before transferring to Victoria…

Hong Eun Won

Born in Soonchun, Hong Eun Won grew her interest in cinema since her childhood. During her high school years, she watched many movies. After graduation, Hong went over to Manchuria and became a member of Shin Kyung Music Choirs where she met director Choi Yin Gyu. After Korea was liberated from Japanese…

Lee Min

Lee Min Young, known professionally as Lee Min, was an American musical actress, singer, and member of AS ONE (애즈원). She was born in South Korea, but her family moved to the United States when she was 3 months old, where she grew up. She returned in 1999 and made her debut as part of the musical…

Uehara Ken

Uehara Ken was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He was born to wealthy, well-connected parents. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was first recognized for his musical talents and handsome appearance. Uehara joined Shochiku in 1935, debuting…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Unagami Hideo

After dropping out of college in 1932, Unagami began a career as a theater actor, only for his career to be interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, Unagami became an actor for Shochiku and appeared in the 1946 film Comedy is Endless. He soon left…

Kim Hyun Sik

Kim Hyun Sik was a South Korean singer and one of the most notable musicians of the 1980s. He attended Myongji High School but dropped out because music was always his main interest. He later passed the high school certification test but never attended college. He began working on his first album, "Spring…

Oki Masaya

Oki Masaya was a Japanese actor from Oita Prefecture. Beppu City. He graduated from Oita City Oji Junior High School and high school. He belonged to JK Planning. One day, he was scouted by a customer and became a model for a fashion magazine, but because it was a one-off job, he continued to work as…

Okawa Ryuho

Born in Kawashima, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. The Founder, CEO, and "god" of controversial new religious movement Happy Science. First presenting himself as a spiritual channeler in contact with Buddha and Jesus Christ, he'd later claim a spiritual awakening in which he discovered he was…

Shikei Kijun

5.6

Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Mito Yusuke, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Otomo Kojiro who advocates the abolition of the death penalty,…

Joi Kuraishi Shouko: Shi no Tenteki

~~ Adapted from a book "Death Drip" (死の点滴) by Kirimura Yuukou.

Shichou wa Mukudono

7.5

After his father-in-law's death, Akiyoshi Hiromasa, his wife and mother-in-law ask Hiromasa to succeed his father-in-law and run for mayor. Hiromasa agrees and is elected mayor. He begins reforms as a novice mayor,…

Tama Minamisho Tatakiage Keiji: Chikamatsu Heikichi 10

An art critic is found stabbed to death in an apartment, while another body is discovered on the building roof. It's suspected that the woman on the roof had committed suicide after murdering the other woman, but because…

Hankei 3 Kiro no Sekai

Unable to come to terms with the death of his beloved mother, Kazuki lives an empty life with his father. They receive a letter from Yuka, a young woman who received an organ transplant from Kazuki's mother. Hoping…

An Affair

Depicts the terror of the world of death. Eriko and Ryo, who both have families, have a relationship at a love hotel. Ryo says he wants to see her again soon, but Eriko has decided that it will be a one-off affair.…

Mourning Period

After Kim Jong Il's death, a period of national mourning is declared and border security is strengthened. Geun Seop, the first to join the border guard at this time, finds a pregnant woman crossing the river and stops…

Fidel

10.0

A Filipino worker is on death row for killing his employer. Because of a reporter who is bent on doing a full story about him, government officials are now trying to help him. But Fidel insists that he killed his employer…

Sosa Kenji Chikamatsu Shigemichi 5

Detective Kawakatsu Atsisho is found stabbed to death. Chikamatsu Shigemichi, an investigative prosecutor who has just been appointed to the Kyoto District Public Prosecutor's Office starts to investigate the case.

Tetsuba to Kaze

Upon learning about the sudden death of his estranged brother, Toshi reluctantly goes to a garage in order to sort out and collect his brother's belongings. (Source: IMDb)