Kyoto Jin no Hisokana Tanoshimi

Hidden gardens that cannot be visited by first-time guests, and national treasure-class hanging scrolls that only a select few can appreciate. In the thousand-year capital of Kyoto, layers of tradition, culture, and…

GOAT

Traces the rise of an unlikely hero who discovers his purpose through a single arcade game—Tekken—in the aftermath of Korea’s 1997 IMF financial crisis. What begins as a desperate escape in a fading arcade becomes…

Asunaro Sansannanabyoushi

7.0

One day, Fujimaki Daisuke, a dull middle-aged salaryman who works for a trading company, is ordered to “temporarily transfer” to Asunaro University’s cheering squad instead of getting laid off, on the grounds…

Gorgeous Life

Du Meng, the head editor of the ''Gorgeous'' Magazine publishing house, is known for being firm and decisive. Known as a true-blue workaholic, Du Meng thinks there is nothing she cannot handle. Because of her outstanding…

If You Are the One 3

8.1

Qin Fen and Xiao Xiao finally tie the knot. However, their honeymoon bliss is short-lived as Xiao Xiao joins a global organization dedicated to environmental protection and remains away for ten years. Fast forward…

A Perfect Blossom

7.3

A fate that cannot be escaped or separated. Yan Nana, a rich girl, leads a boring and depressing life. She accidentally meets Jin Qin, who has just been released from prison, and falls in love with Jin Qin at first…

Kizu darake Seijo yori Houfuku wo Komete

Lua is a young woman training to become a saintess, gifted with a rare but painful healing ability—she can mend others only by absorbing their injuries into her own body. Mocked and ostracized as the "Fallen Saintess,"…

Journey with You

8.1

After guarding the frontier for three years, Fifth Prince Yin Qi returns to the capital due to a secret letter—only to fall into a deadly trap alongside his closest companion, Pei Yanzhi. At the brink of death, he…

Lee Siu Wan

Lee Siu Wan was a Hong Kong writer and producer of over 100 films from 1947-1970. He was one of the three leading screenwriters of Hong Kong Chinese Operas in the 1940's. He and his wife, actress Yu Lai Zhen, retired in the 1960's and emigrated to Canada. He died in Canada in 2002 less than two years…

Kagawa Teruyuki

Kagawa Teruyuki is a Japanese screen and stage actor. Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Hama Yuko. His grandmother is the film actress Takasugi Sanae. In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps since…

Eileen Chang

Zhang Ai Ling was a famous Chinese novelist and essayist. Born with an aristocratic lineage and educated bilingually in Shanghai, she gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. She attended the University of Hong Kong but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong…

Wan Yi Hwa

Wanyiwah Phondphaothanandon, known also as Martha Htoowah and as Wan Yi Hwa, is a Burmese singer. Originally born in Thailand, her family moved to South Korea in 2016 seeking refugee status. Her father, Sawtinhtweaye Phongphothandon, was a famous singer in Myanmar who performed under the stage name…

Ba Jin

Ba Jin, pseudonym of Li Yaotang, was one of most important and well-respected writers of the twentieth century in China. He was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1904, but lived in Shanghai for most of his adult life before his death in 2005. Ba Jin was prolific, publishing 14 short story collections, 19…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Sunthorn Phu

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, born Phu and known as Sunthorn Phu, was a famous royal poet honoured as the Shakespeare of Thailand. Born in 1786, four years after the birth of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, in what was then Thonburi and today Bangkok, his family home was behind the royal palace. Sometime after his…

Igawa Kuniko

Born as Toshiko Nonaka, she began acting as Toshiko Kono before changing her name again after World War II during the golden age of Japanese cinema to Kuniko Igawa. She became a café owner after she retired, which occurred in 1977, in Kamakura. Coffee Igawa is still a going concern despite her death…

Moon Sook

Moon Sook, born Oh Kyung Sook, is a South Korean actress. After 38 years, she was persuaded by actress Han Hyo Joo to appear in the film "The Beauty Inside". She was married to film director Lee Man Hui in 1974 till his death in 1975. He was 23 years older than her. Her step-daughter is actress Lee…