Yoshikawa Mitsuko

Yoshikawa Mitsuko was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Yoshikawa Man (吉川マン). After graduating from Taimei Elementary School, she joined the Shochiku Kinema Research Institute in 1924 and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios in 1925. The following year,…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

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,…

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…

Fujiki Yu

Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…

Kawamura Reikichi

Kawamura Reikichi was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Kawamura Ishigoro (河村石五郎). After graduating from the preparatory department of Nishijin Castle Commercial School in Kanda, he made his stage debut at the age of 13 at Shinshaza in Nakasu. He joined an…

Ubukata Kenichiro

Ubukata Kenichiro was a Japanese actor born in Aramaki, Niihari, Tone, Gunma, Japan. After attending Gunma Normal School, he graduated from Kansai University's Faculty of Law and became a teacher at Nihonbashi Women's School. In 1916, he began his acting career with Osanai Kaoru's New Theater. He was…

Shashwad Babalgaon

Shashwad Basavaraj Babalgaon, known by his stage name "Ip Man Babalgaon," is a multifaceted individual hailing from Maharashtra, India. He has earned recognition in various fields, including martial arts, stunt performance, graphic design, web development, app development, UI/UX design, authorship,…

Sakamoto Takeshi

Sakamoto Takeshi was a Japanese actor born in Sakagoshi, Ago, Hyogo, Japan. His real name was Nagai Takehei (永石武平). After graduating from Sakagoshi Elementary School, he initially worked at a watch shop in Osaka, Japan. However, his life took a turn when he attended a magic show performed by…

Dearest Anita

6.2

Edith returns the abandoned items from Mui's house to its original senders after the death of the famous Cant-pop diva, Anita Mui in the late 2003. It revives five close fans' collective image and memory of Mui. (Source:…

The Coordinators

6.0

In their realm of possibility, only in death can there can be life. As such, life after death has become the mantra of organ donation coordinators. After nurse Wen Yudu helps in the successful delivery of the 1000th…

Yours Truly, Shirley

6.6

Shirley is a widow who still hasn't moved on from the death of her husband. Her grief causes her to make her think of many funny things, one of which is imagining that the famous pop star in the country is the reincarnation…

Love, Lie, Haunt the Series: Son Pen Son Tai

A group of friends accidentally kills one of their own and tries to hide her death by drowning the body in the river. (Source: MyDramaList)

The Promise

6.8

Frank is a man who has trouble of moving on from the untimely death of his wife, Clarisse. Because of this, his cousin Jude plans to visit him together with his girlfriend, Ivy to make him feel better. (Source: IMDb)

Stigma

Every religion has faith and interest in the far side that exists beyond death, but no one can speak about what is beyond without experiencing death itself. In that sense, Jesus has always lived his life, looking at…

An Elegy to Forgetting

An Elegy to Forgetting documents a filmmaker’s experience with his father’s death due to Alzheimer’s disease. Taken from a personal perspective, the filmmaker gives a first-hand look at how his family dealt with…

Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 67: Hakone Koyo / Tozantetsudo no Satsui

Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei reopen a suspicious accident case involving the death of a painter’s wife, only to find themselves caught in a series of increasingly strange events. When the prime suspect…

The Scope of Separation

Liu Shi Dong is a young man who has been cut adrift by the death of his father. He meets Wang Yu Zi, a melancholic and introverted girl who shows interest in him right from the start, but Liu decides not to go out…

Is it Love Bar

8.1

A movie about the female protagonist ‘Sa Rang Hae’ who is cursed to death if there’s no love around her, so she runs the ‘Is it Love Bar’ and connects a man and a woman to find true love. (Source: HanCinema)