Kako Zanmu

Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…

Sugiura Rokuemon

Born in 1847 and raised as the eldest son in the house of a rice dealer in Suwa-cho, Edo Koishikawa (currently Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo). His father, Jinbei, took over the shares of the drug wholesaler Konishiya Rokuheiten (later "Konishiya") and moved from Suwacho to Kojimachi. In 1872, Rokusaburo took a picture…

Sano Kazuhiro

Sano Kazuhiro is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Sato and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno). Sano's films differ…

Hatanaka Ryoha

Primarily associated with the stage, Hatanaka trained as an actor in New York before returning to Japan in 1918, where he joined the theatrical company of actress Sumako Matsui, a pioneer of Western-style shingeki theater in Japan. After her suicide, he continued to work in shingeki, appearing in such…

Aiko Melendez

Aiko Melendez is a Filipino actress and former politician. Her father, Jimmy Melendez (born Jim Shinoji), was an actor. Her half-brother, Jam Melendez (son of Jimmy Melendez and Deborah Sun), also entered showbusiness. Aiko Melendez started as child star in the early '80s under Regal Films among them,…

Takada Minoru

Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…

Togawa Yukio

Togawa Yukio was a Japanese novelist and children's writer born in Saga City. He established animal literature based on correct observations and knowledge about animals and is a leading figure in Japan alongside Muku Hatoju. He has also worked on reportage, war stories, and manga. From an early age,…

Shi Hui

Shi Hui, born Shi Yutao, was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame, Shi became a victim of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter. Shi's career as an actor began relatively late. His first…

Yanagisawa Shinichi

Yanagisawa Shinichi was a Japanese jazz singer, actor, voice actor, welfare activist, vaudevillian, and lyricist from Tokyo. He was affiliated with M-Three and served as honorary president of the NPO Japan Abilities Association and honorary director of the Kima Makan in Higashiyamato. During World War…

Suzuki Noribumi

Suzuki Noribumi, also known as Suzuki Norifumi, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yaro series. Suzuki was born in 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University's Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei's Kyoto Studio as an assistant…

The Most Beautiful Night in the World

6.5

A reporter Mizuno has been shunted off to a small village. Hirano, the chief priest of a local Shinto shrine, tells him that Teruko, the owner of a small bar where Mizuno has been with the chief correspondent, is involved…

Diamante sa Langit

10.0

Two brothers journey to compete in a kite-flying contest. They are ready to win, but a more precious prize awaits them. (Source: Cinemalaya YouTube)

Sundo

7.0

Seven passengers on a trip to Manila escape death and their respective "sundo" (fetcher) by a twist of fate. Soon, they realize that the price they have to pay for gambling with the spirit of tragedy is the hardest…

Kidnapping

During the summer, when the President of South Korea was coming to Japan with an official visit in order to conclude a treaty of friendship between the two nations, the Prime Minister's granddaughter was kidnapped.…

Battlefield 1938

7.9

The story is based on the cooperation and friendship of four different young men. It depicts the cruel youth growth story of their soul purgatory and tells a priceless civilian anti-war legend. (Source: DramaWiki)

KJ: Music and Life

KJ is a biography of a HK musical genius. At the age of 11, KJ won the Best Pianist price and went to Czech to perform with a professional orchestra. Touching on subjects such as the meaning of life, God and the artistic…

The Madonna

7.0

A short film taking on the subject of euthanasia (mercy killing). It doesn't have a definitive plot but the film's scenes revolves around a priest, his assistant (a nun) and various people seeking euthanasia.

Gotaisetsu SP

7.1

Abandoned by his mother at a young age, Akagi Kaede is raised in Yamaguchi by his grandmother and the priest at his school, Father Kitano. After leaving his hometown, Kaede returns years later to serve as a priest…

Walking My Life

7.0

What would you do if you only had six more months left to live? What if this suddenly happens at the prime time of your life? The main character is a hard working business man, Yukihiro Fujiyama, 48, who suddenly receives…

Nigai Mitsu: Kieta Record

A group of 14 men and women of various ages gather at a bar to get to the bottom of a robbery that occurred there a year earlier which caused the disappearance of a rare original copy of the Beetles “Revolver”…