Shima Koji

Shima Koji was a Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter. Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. He appeared in over 90 films as an actor, playing mostly romantic leads. He turned to directing…

Sawamura Gennosuke IV

Sawamura Gennosuke IV was an outstanding onnagata actor, who was also able to play a wide range of male roles. Akuba roles were his field of excellence, like Otomi ("Kirare Otomi") or Dakki no Ohyaku ("Hyaku Monogatari"). He moved at the beginning of the 20th century from ôshibai, where he was supporting…

Hwang Ryeo Hui

Born in Seoul in 1928, her real name is Hwang Young Hee. After she finished Gyeonggi Girls' High School, she applied for the 2nd Actress Recruitment hosted by Koryo Film Company, and she was selected as No. 1, and she played the role of Lee Hye Ja in Director Choi In Gyu's 'Viva Freedom!' (1946). Her…

Han Woon Sa

Born on January 15, 1923 , Goesan, Chungcheongbuk - do, South Korea. His real name is Han Gan Nam (한간남,韓看南) . Religion is Buddhism . After graduating from Cheongju Commercial High School in 1941, he studied in Japan and attended the Department of Philosophy at Chuo University . He was conscripted…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Ko Myoung Sung

Ko Myoung Sung is a South Korean director and screenwriter, born in Busan. He studied film directing at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image in Tokyo. His debut feature documentary Good Bye (2010) was shown in the 2nd DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. The 12th Suspect (2019) is a new film…

Yamamuro Ko

Yamamuro Ko, born Nishimori Takashige (西森高茂), was a Japanese actor from Kochi, Japan. He graduated from Kochi Castle East Commercial School. In 1927, he joined the Nikkatsu Daishogun Studio under the stage name Murakami Eiji ((村上英二), occasionally working under his real name. In 1933,…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Saga Zenpei

Saga Zenpei was a Japanese actor and filmmaker born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Japanese Art School. In 1929, he joined the Japan Proletarian Artist Alliance, but became an actor, and in the same year he entered the Tokyo Left Wing…

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…

Unreachable

7.5

Misaki, Yuuka, and Sakura live together in an old house on a corner of Tokyo. Though they are not related by blood, they have been bound together by a strong bond for the last twelve years. (Source: Mubi.com)

Focus

7.5

The photographer who is going blind met his ex by chance and they decided to go for a trip together in Chiang Mai spontaneously for the last sunset he could see. (Source: Hello Filmmaker Facebook)

WalangForever

7.5

Mia, a celebrated writer of romantic-comedy films, is at a turning point in her life which makes it difficult for her to believe that love could last. Everything comes to a head when Ethan returns, only for her to…

Ruri no Shima

7.6

On Hatomi, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place, the closing of the school is…

Hidden Singer Season 7

7.6

Season 7 of the music variety show that puts a famous hidden singer against impersonators who say they have perfected the celebrity singer’s voice. A panel of experts and audience members try to eliminate all the…

Lingering Spirits

7.6

Honda Gajiro, a self-centered man, is involved in a car accident and encounters the ghosts of the deceased. In exchange for helping them fulfill their last wishes, they promise him a large sum of money. Gajiro's tasks…

Battle of Okinawa

7.6

Set in March of 1945, as Japanese forces throw all they’ve got at Allied forces to protect their last defensive stronghold: the island of Okinawa.

Furuhata Ninzaburo SP 6

7.5

{Episode 39} This is the 6th SP episode, aired five years after the third season and two years before the "Final Series". It's the third (and last) episode of the whole "Furuhata Ninzaburo" franchise that portrays…

Snow on the Blades

7.5

Kingo Shimura serves Naosuke Ii as his lord, but Naosuke Ii is killed by ronins from the Mito Domain. He is not allowed to kill himself and receives a secret order to exact revenge. Kingo Shimura travels for 13 years…

Getting Home

7.6

Zhao, a construction worker, struggles to fulfill his dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region.