Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…

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,…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Matsumoto Taisuke

Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…

German Moreno

German Molina Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs and "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, actor, comedian, and talent manager. Moreno was born to Jose Moreno y Caloy (Pepe), a Spanish Filipino mestizo, and Aurora Molina, a Filipina. He had one sister, Pilar Moreno Nite. His father died…

Tokutomi Kenjiro

Tokutomi was born on December 8, 1868 in Minamata, Japan to a samurai family. He was the younger brother of journalist and historian Tokutomi Sohō. He converted to Christianity in 1885, and moved to Imabari, Ehime, where he lived with Shiro Sokabe and was a student of Tokio Yokoi. This is also where…

Kojima Yoyo

Kojima Yoyo, born Kojima Masaji (小島正次), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and opera singer. He began his career in Asakusa opera and Shinpai before moving into film acting. Born in Okachimachi, Shitaya, Tokyo, he attended Urawa Junior High School in Saitama and later enrolled in the Tokyo Music…

Kitagawa Machiko

Born as a daughter of a stationery store in Tokyo (Chikada Co., Ltd., a sales and wholesale company for office supplies). She had an older brother, but he died in the war. In 1949, while a student at the higher girls' school decided to try out for new Toho when she went to visit the studio. She was…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

My Beloved

The story begins when Sharina's life turns upside down with the death of her father, Romeo. Left all alone with nothing and no one to care for them after their mother leaves, Sharina and her younger sister Monica must…

My Way of Life

Adapted from a novel by Hideki Wada. After her mother's unexpected death, Yuriko has a bad relationship with her father. The situation becomes even more tense, when she discovers that her father is a shoplifter and…

Moment Girl

6.7

Two terminally ill girls grow through their relationship as they face life and death. 18-year-old Haruka learns she has only 3 months left to live. She doesn't have a family or relatives. Haruka decides to run away…

The Isthmus

When her eight-year-old daughter suddenly loses her mother tongue after the death of Gee, her Burmese maid, her mother, Da, is convinced the child has retained a mysterious bond with Gee’s spirit. The two travel…

Coming Of Age

In February 2012, the news of the death of Chinese singer Feng Fei Fei in the 1960s swept across Taiwan, and people were busy mourning and remembering. At the same time, a mother and daughter from a single-parent family…

Osaka Violence

The realistic portrayal of violence dazzles in this acton film depicting the life and death struggle of two outlaws who scare even the yakuza as told from a 12-year-old juvenile delinquent's perspective. In the old…

The Letters

7.0

Chiaki's father suddenly dies. After his death, Chiaki and her mother, Tsukasa, move to Popura Apartment. The apartment building is owned by an old woman. The old woman tells Chiaki that she is able to send letters…

Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

5.9

Bio pic of notorious Manila gangster in the late 40's until his death in 1951 at the age of 26. A legend known to this day coming from Tondo, a town in Manila known during those period as tough and dangerous place.…

The Land With No Boundary

5.9

A Chinese romantic fantasy film about love between a human and god. The Death can't execute at his pleasure. But since he met a woman, the death overstepped his authority.

Chasing Hemingway

9.0

Chasing Hemingway is about a man in his 40s dreaming of a death and a terminally ill woman in her 20s interacting and falling in love through American novelist Hemingway. (Source: koreanfilm.or.kr)