Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Sakagami Kaori

Kaori Sakagami is a Japanese singer and actress who is noted for singing Platonic Tsuranuite, the first ending of Ranma 1/2. Also in Kiteretsu Daihyakka, she sang "Race no Cardigan" for the ending theme in the first season. In 1991, she portrayed Ai Amano in the live-action version of the popular manga…

Kim Yon Ja

Kim Yon Ja is a South Korean trot and Enka singer. She attended Gwangju Supia Girls' Middle School but dropped out and was later awarded an honorary degree from middle and high school. She was exposed to Lee Mi Ja's songs when she was a child, and her father, who owned a barbershop, asked her to sing…

Shindo Kaneto

Shindo Kaneto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he…

Ruj Ronapop

Ruj Ronapop was an actor, screenwriter and director born in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. Ruj directed over thirty films and acted in more than fifty films. He's well known for directing romance movies such as the Sunset at Chaopraya (1988), Louie (1977) and Phairak Soom Suang (1975). Ruj Ronapo won…

Doze Niu

Doze Niu is a Taiwanese director, producer, and actor born in Beijing, China, and raised in the military dependents' village of Jiahe New Village in Taipei. He graduated from the Drama Department of the Guoguang Art School (國光藝校). Niu began his acting career at the age of 9, performing in TV…

Koizumi Norihiro

Nori Koizumi is an award winning film director based in Japan. After years of student-film making he was hired for Robot Communications Inc., one the most competitive film productions in Japan. His ability soon lead him to direct his first feature "Midnight Sun"(2006) in age of 25. This film earned…

Endo Tatsuo

Endo Tatsuo was a Japanese actor born in Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. The eldest son in a family involved in manufacturing and selling confectionery machinery, Endo graduated from Kyoto City Commerce School and supported the family business while attending night classes at Karasuma Technical High School…

Annie Brooks

Annie Brooks is the only child of a Swiss father and Thai mother. Her father allegedly left the scene when she was merely 3-years-old, leaving her ailing mother to raise her alone in the northern Thai province of Lampang. Brooks had travelled the well-worn path of many rurally born Thai women, working…

Ito Yuna

Ito was born to a Japanese father and a Korean-American mother in Los Angeles, California. She has a younger brother, Johnny. Her family later moved to Oahu, Hawaii. From a young age, Ito dreamed about becoming a singer. She was inspired by the powerful vocals of Celine Dion. At the age of fifteen,…

Once Upon a Time in Tibet

6.7

At the beginning of World War II, American pilot Robert Smith is taking part in the effort to help China fight against the Japanese forces. During a liaison cargo mission from India to China, his cargo plane crashes…

Sauce-san no Koi

6.7

Uno Masanao, a 19-year-old student of a university of the arts, works part-time at a convenience store in Tokyo. Every night, a mysterious older woman Gota Mika comes to this convenience store and only buys sauce.…

Seventy-Zero Nirvana Acacia and the Year of Brocade

6.7

After sixteen years of a suffocating marriage, Su Qing La has endured enough. Her husband, Xiao Dou Guo, openly favors his "friend", the widow Shen Yu Fang, and her son. The final straw comes when he attempts to move…

Tokyo 23-ku Onna

6.8

Freelance writer Harada Ririko and former lecturer on folklore Shimano Hitoshi go around Tokyo’s hidden spots with horror stories. They encounter many apparitions in places that everyone knows about in the 23 wards.…

The Confession

6.8

Yan Ming and Shao An are best friends who share very different personalities, yet complement each other. One weak and the other one strong, one quiet and the other one active. They have a strong bond, although they…

You Sang Li

6.8

The most outrageous thing Sang Li has ever done in her life was to flirt with a new transfer student in her senior year of high school. Sang Li thought that he was a special student of this aristocratic high school…

My Dear Mermaid

6.8

More than 900 years ago, the mermaid princess Ao Fan Fan was rescued by the scholar Huo Yun Shen, and so she was determined to commit herself to him when he reaches 25 years old. The strange thing is that Huo Yun Shen…

Kirisaki Jack no Kokuhaku - Keiji Inukai Hayato

6.7

The dead body of a young woman is discovered in a park right in front of Kasugano Police Precinct in the heart of Tokyo. All her organs have been taken out. While an investigation task force is being set up, ace detective…

Spring Breeze

6.7

A man, who has never spent a dime on a date... A man, who prefers to double up on layers of thermals in the winter, instead of turning on the heater... A man, who insists on using his beeper in this 21st Century, a.k.a.…

Princess Deformation Meter

6.8

Princess Sheng Tao Tao of Sheng Xuan Kingdom is an upright and kind-hearted person, but because of her rebellious behaviors, which are incomprehensible to people, she causes the emperor a lot of headaches and is sent…