Kawada Yoshiko

Yoshiko Kawada was born on October 17, 1895, in Niigata, Japan. She was an actress, known for Kurokami yâshâ dainihen (1926), Yôfu gonin onna - Dai sanpen: Sempatsu Oyoshi (1926) and Ari jigoku (1925). She died on March 24, 1970. (IMDB) 1895 (Meiji 28) October 17, Niigata City of the red-light district…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

Maria Cordero

Maria Cordero is a Hong Kong actress, born to a Macanese family of Portuguese-Chinese blood at the Hospital Conde S. Januário in Macau. Her family moved to Shelley Street, Hong Kong when she was ten years old. When she was eleven, her father died in Cordero, and she began working to support her seven…

Han Jeong Hwan

Han Jeong Hwan is a South Korean actor, performer, and entrepreneur, born in Yeonan, Hwanghwae, South Korea. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and South Korea. After the Korean War, he moved to Seoul. Previously known by the stage names Han So Ryong (한소룡), Kevin Jeong (케빈 정),…

Okada Ryunosuke

Okada Ryunosuke is a Japanese actor, former child actor, idol, and a member of the underground idol group 8iper. He was also formerly a member of the idol group ASAP. He is from Osaka, Japan. From a young age, he worked as a model. As a child actor, he appeared in various TV dramas, movies, commercials,…

Ieki Miyoji

Though he has never acquired a reputation abroad, Ieki was a distinguished exponent of domestic drama whose films deserve admiration for their intelligence and humanity. He worked initially at Shochiku as assistant to Heinosuke Gosho and Minoru Shibuya, and his debut, Torrent (Gekiryū, 1944), made…

Fung Bo Bo

Daughter of Fung Fung, sister of Fung Hak On, Fung Bo Bo was born in Malaysia. Her father was the renowned Cantonese movie actor/director Feng Feng. Feng was probably the best-known child actor in the history of Hong Kong and has been compared to Shirley Temple. Fung appeared in her first movie at the…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Naoto Inti Raymi

Nakamura Naoto, better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun." He was born in Mie Prefecture in Japan and later grew up in Chiba Prefecture. For two years from 2001, he used his given…

Boca

10.0

Boca revolves around a man whose mother died when he was three months old. A chain smoker, he works a dead end job and counts how many cigarettes he's smoked. During the day he makes small ashtray talk with another…

Oka-san no Saigo no Tsuitachi

6.0

The story of the last day mother's life, named Kotoko, and her family trying to say goodbye to her. (Source: MyDramaList)

Lek and the Waterboy

14-year-old Lek works in his mother's shop. While his best friend flirts with a new girlfriend, Lek has decidedly different fantasies. (Source: IMDb)

Shijuukunichi no Recipe

7.7

Two weeks after her adoptive mother, Atsuta Otomi, passed away, Endo Yuriko returns to her family home. She is not visiting because she feels anxious for her father, Ryohei, who has lost his will to live as a result…

I Carried You Home

Two sisters accompany their dead mother by ambulance across Thailand. They have grown apart, but the journey and the circumstances force them to come closer to each other. A secret will be revealed. (Source: Letterboxd)

A Change of Heart

Zeny is a loving and protective mother who takes all risks to save her daughter from death only to be abandoned by the same daughter after she literally had a change of heart. Soon, Zeny realizes that this is the dire…

Remiges

Sayako was abused by her mother and older sister when she was a child. She moved into a child shelter home because of the abuse and has lived there ever since. Sayako is now a senior in high school. After she graduates…

Viewfinder

49 days after the death of their mother, younger sister Hu-Kyung disappears. On the 101th day of their mother’s death, older sister Kyung sets out to find her younger sister Hu-Kyung. She eventually arrives at a…

Rhythm of Life

Jun Jie's father hit his mother, and she left both her husband and Jun Jie. Life for the young Jun Jie would have been even more lonesome had he not known Zhi Yuan, Zhi Ling and Tiao Bao. One day on a hill, Jun Jie,…

Johii Sosakan Hara Maki Ageha

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Female detective Maki Hara is a mother of two children. She teams up with her ex-boss Nako Kura to find her kidnapped child.