Uchida Yasuo

Uchida Yasuo was a Japanese cinematographer, video producer, and director. Active during the Showa era, he worked on cinematography for films and television at Shintoho and Toei from the 1950s. In the 1980s, he transitioned to Daiei TV productions and later moved into directing and producing erotic…

August Diehl

August Diehl is a German actor born in West Berlin, Germany. Diehl spent his childhood in Auvergne, France, and moved back to Germany when he was nine years old. The family lived in Hamburg, Vienna, and Düsseldorf. After passing the Abitur exams, Diehl studied acting at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst…

Arashi Keishi

Arashi Keishi, known professionally as Toyoshimaya (豊嶋屋), is a Kabuki actor whose birth name is Terada Katsuyuki (寺田勝之). Born into a family deeply entrenched in entertainment, he comes from a lineage where his father was the fifth-generation Arashi Yoshisaburo, his brother the sixth-generation…

Liang Hsiu Shen

Liang Hsiu Shen is a Taiwanese actor, producer, and director born in Anhui, Taiwan. He grew up in the military dependents' village of Pingtung, Taiwan. He spent his primary school years in Jiadong Township. Originally a forest ranger, he joined CTV as an actor in 1970. He is also involved in directing…

Nakamura Kinnosuke II

Nakamura Kinnosuke II is a kabuki actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name is Ogawa Shinjiro (小川信次郎). He belongs to the house name Manya and his crest is the paulownia butterfly, with an alternate crest being Manya Manegazumi. He dropped out of Keio High School. He is the second son of the…

Muramatsu Eiko

Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…

Maki Jin

Maki Jin is a Japanese actor and stuntman from Kagoshima, Japan. He is affiliated with the agency Wakakoma. He joined Wakakoma in 1975 and made his debut in the 1977 tokusatsu TV drama "Little Superman Ganbaron" (NTV), inspired by his brother's involvement in gymnastics, which sparked his interest in…

Tezeni Hiroyoshi

Tezeni Hiroyoshi was a Japanese film director from Hikawa, Shimane, Japan. He began his career at the Nikkatsu film studio. His family had a long history of serving the Matsue Domain for over 300 years. Though he was the eldest son, his younger brother continued the family line, and their family home…

Hasegawa Toshiko

Hasegawa Toshiko also known by the stage name Ono Michiko (小野道子), is a Japanese actress. She was formerly a musumeyaku (female role) in the Takarazuka Revue. Her father was the actor Hasegawa Kazuo, and her mother, Tami, was the second daughter of the first Nakamura Ganjiro. Her brother is the…

Kubota Joji

Kubota Joji was a Japanese children's literature writer born in Shimada, Goya, Okayama, Japan. He was also a member of the Japan Art Academy. His father, Heitaro, managed the Shimada Textile Mill, which produced items such as lamp wicks. However, his father passed away when Joji was eight years old…

This Is Amiko

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Amiko lives in Hiroshima, Japan. She is a little different from other girls. Her family consists of her father, pregnant mother, and an older brother. Her father is nice to other people and her mother teaches calligraphy.…

Sway

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Takeru returns to his rural hometown for a Buddhist ceremony honoring his late mother, urged by his older brother Minoru, who stayed behind to run the family gas station while Takeru built a successful photography…

Special Encounter

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Li Tang Zhen is a 40-year-old single woman who lives with her niece and nephew whom she has been taking care of from their childhood after her brother got remarried. Although she used to write novels using her pen…

Puppet Prince

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A love story between an inventor from the Mo clan and a puppet who has the ten functional human abilities. Yan Shi Shi's senior brother's puppet creation disappears and she late discovers that is used by the powerful…

Wimarn Mekala

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Spoiled Mekkala, raised by her resentful aunt, becomes a celebrity but faces financial ruin after her career collapses. Seeking money, she heads to a forest owned by her late father's half-brother, planning to sell…

Full House

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Jessie is a naive writer who gets swindled out of everything she owns, including her house, by her brother, Donald, and his pregnant girlfriend, Lisette. Stranded in Prague, she manages to borrow money from the famous…

Blind Mountain

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Blind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped…

The Appearance of the Murderer

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Lin Chuan, haunted by a classmate's mysterious death, spends ten years searching for the truth. Meanwhile, Shen Xia and her brother Shen Dong are drawn into a criminal underworld after a family tragedy. As their paths…

Braveness of the Ming

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Xia Xun is an ordinary man who, after witnessing Jinyiwei's brutality—an imperial military secret police serving the Ming dynasty emperors in China—decides to stand up for the common folks. His path leads him to…

Memories of Peking

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Set in 1947, it follows the relationship between three people - the shop owner, his wife and a young woman who is determined to cure her father's illness. Yan Zheng Sheng is the owner of a pickle shop in Beijing. Because…