Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

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…

Wazaki Shunya

Wazaki Shunya was a Japanese actor from Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from Hiroshima Prefectural Kure Miyahara High School. Wazaki joined Toei in 1957 and has appeared in many historical films produced by Kyoto Studio. He transferred to Shochiku in 1966 but became freelance in 1969,…

Sakata Koichi

Sakata Koichi Sakata is a Japanese composer and orchestrator. Professor Emeritus of Shobi University. He worked as an assistant to Yamamoto Naozumi from 1963 to 1967, and at the same time studied composition and arrangement. He debuted as a composer in 1965 and has been producing music for numerous…

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,…

Kuga Yoko

Kuga Yoko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Her real name and maiden name is Koga Yoko. She belongs to Oscar Promotion. Her father is Koga Seiichi, the chairman of Oscar Promotion Co., Ltd. In 1988, she made her debut as an actress in the Fuji TV drama "Netsuppoino!". After…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

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…

Kitabayashi Tanie

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue…

Love and Other Cults

6.8

Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of…

Lover Speed

Rich second-generation Xie Ling Feng, unwilling to inherit the family business, ventures out on his own. He coincidentally meets Ai Qing, who is in the city looking for a boyfriend. Xie Ling Feng's team accidentally…

Bite Fight

6.0

After being in an intense bar fight, Ai Fei gets bitten by Thomas, a vampire, to save his life. Ai Fei is then confined in Thomas' home as he will slowly start to turn into a vampire over the next 3 months. While Thomas…

Online Hero

6.1

Ding Da Yong is a young man from a small fishing village that loves nothing more than video games and celebrity Ai Lan. When Ai Lan happens to be filming in his village, Da Yong rushes to see her, only to be snubbed.…

Hallucination

Ralphie, a fashion editor, already lives like an AI. In a room where ten laptops run simultaneously, he gives a personality to an AI named Call and falls in love. He codes Call into a visual form, but censorship prevents…

Punks Triangle

8.1

Fashion student Chiaki dreams of seeing his designs on the runway, worn by none other than Ai—the charismatic male model who changed his life. When a prestigious competition promises to make that dream come true,…

Andromedia

6.6

After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit,…

Game for Peace 2025

7.5

He Ping is transported into the game Peacekeeper Elite and quickly falls for Xiao Rong, an adorable yet powerful AI character. As AI enemies try to stop him from returning to reality, He Ping forms a team to fight…

Fragrance of the Pomegranates

7.5

Ming Liang, a young man chasing his artistic dreams in the big city, returns to his hometown at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to care for his ailing adoptive mother, Ai Yi Sha. To revive Ai Yi Sha’s restaurant…

Samee

7.5

This lakorn is about honor and pride. Mom Ratchawong Rasika Prakardkiat (Khun Ying Ai) is a royalty descendant. She was taught by her father that pedigree is the most important thing in life. Her mother remarried a…