Okada Eiji

Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed…

Takamine Hideko

Takamine Hideko was a Japanese actress, singer, and essayist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Her real name was Matsuyama Hideko (松山秀子), and her maiden name was Hirayama Hideko (平山秀子). Her family lived in a household run by her grandfather, Rokusho, who managed a soba restaurant called…

Miwa Akihiro

Akihiro Maruyama, better known by his stage name Akihiro Miwa, was a Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, and author. He wrote most of his own music. He was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, but escaped relatively unhurt. Miwa was openly gay, and a drag queen who was mostly…

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis (born Michael Brian Curtis) is a Japanese actor, singer, and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where…

Liao Jun

Liao Jun, born Liao Tzu Yvan (廖滋源), is a Taiwanese singer, actor, and TV host born in Dounan, Yunlin, Taiwan. In the 1970s, he partnered with Peng Peng (澎澎) to form the comedy duo "Liao Jun and Peng Peng" (廖峻與澎澎). He dropped out of school at the age of 18 to seek a stage for his…

Chin Han

Chin Han, born Sun Hsiang Chung (孫祥鐘) in Shanghai, China, is a Taiwanese actor whose career began in 1966. After moving to Hong Kong and then Taiwan, he attended Shilin High School and Kaiping High School. During high school, he joined a training program at Central Film Company and became a basic…

Lorina Huang

Huang Xing Qiao, born in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, is a Chinese pop singer. On November 3, 2017, she released her first solo single "Seventeen Years Old". In 2018, she won the Silver Award for Best Newcomer of the Year on the Music Pioneer Chart. On March 7, 2019, her first solo music album "SINCE…

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a Japanese-American-Russian actor, film producer and martial artist. He is best known for his role as the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works in the Mortal Kombat franchise. He first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation; later reprising his role in the 2013…

Parry Paiwan Wannabud

"Parry" Paiwan Wannabud, formerly nicknamed Ek, is a Thai emcee, actor, writer, influencer and former Buddhist monk, then known as Phra Maha Praiwan Worawanno. Born in Tha Mai, Chanthaburi, Thailand, Parry was ordained as a novice monk at Wat Phiphat Mongkhon in Sukhothai after completing primary school…

Kim Seo Hyung

Kim Seo Hyung is a South Korean musical actor. He graduated from Daewon Foreign Language High School, focusing on Spanish. He is enrolled in the Theater and Film program at Kyung Hee University. He made his debut in 2023 with a role in the musical "Swag Age: Shout Out, Joseon!" (스웨그에이지:…

Yudo

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Shiro Miura, an architect, suddenly returns to Marukin Onsen, the public bath house left behind by his late father. The reason for his return is to tell his younger brother Goro, who manages the store, that he will…

Center Stage

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The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu. This movie chronicles her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Nicknamed the…

My Dearest

7.8

After graduating from university, Zhen Jie works as a department manager in a webcasting company and is in a romantic relationship with surgeon Yang Zi Xuan. Her career is smooth, and her love is sweet. Just as she…

Shinsengumi!

7.8

The 43rd NHK Taiga Drama is Shinsengumi!. The arrival of Commodore Perry's "Black Ships" rudely awakened Japan from 300 years of peaceful isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and began to demand…

Majika

7.8

Sabina, a seemingly ordinary girl who lived in the world of mortals but is unknowingly the one destined to become Saladin’s most powerful female Salamangka. She is the eldest child of Garam and Ayessa, two Salamangkas…

Soda Master

7.8

Yoshii Yuta, Fujimaki Hajime, and Kikuhara Kisuke are middle-aged men, with different personalities and tastes, who were friends in middle school. Back in 1988, they were in a movie club and absorbed in making kung-fu…

A Grandson from America

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Set in a rural village in Northwestern China, a crusty old retired Shadow Puppet master, Lao Yang, has his quiet life disrupted by his long lost son who shows up unannounced one day with an American fiancee and her…

Naotora: The Lady Warlord

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NHK's 56th taiga drama series. During the Sengoku period, the Ii family governs the Totomi region. Due to many past wars, there are no more male successors left to become a lord. Naotora Ii, the only daughter of the…

Mori Hanae: Butterfly Beyond

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Mori, who was active as a haute couture designer in Paris, became affectionately known as “Madame Butterfly” for the butterfly motif that symbolized her brand. Born in Shimane as the fourth of five siblings, she…

Anpan

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At the beginning of the Showa era, there was a girl running through the town of Kochi at an incredible speed. Her name was Asada Nobu, also known as 'Hachikin Onobu'. Meanwhile, Yanai Takashi, who lost his father to…