Komatsu Hosei

Komatsu Hosei was a Japanese actor. His real name was Komatsu Toyoshige. On August 18, 1982, he suffered a skull fracture when he fell during filming. After that, he continued to work as an actor despite battling numerous illnesses, including diabetes, chronic renal failure, and rectal cancer, which…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Pema Tseden

Pema Tseden was the son of Tibetan nomads, and the only one of three siblings to have finished his schooling. He was also the first director in China ever to film movies entirely in the Tibetan language. On May 8, 2023, at age 53, he died of a heart attack. (Source: NPR, Baidu Baike)

Jang Pil Soon

Jang Pil Soon is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She graduated from Seomun Girls' High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Broadcasting and Entertainment from the Seoul Institute Of The Arts. Before debuting, she had previously played in a university creative musical group called "Sunlight…

Viktor Ahn

Ahn Hyun Soo, now known as Viktor Ahn, is a retired South Korean-born Russian short-track speed skater. He graduated from Shinmok High School and later obtained a bachelor's and master's degrees in Physical Education, both from Korea National Sport University. He began skating in 1993 and was trained…

Jaturaphut Suangporn

Suangporn grew up with her mother in the slums of Bangkok, Thailand after her father left the family. While growing up, Suangporn's mother made sure she went to school and became educated to get a career and avoid falling into prostitution when she got older. Suangporn learned English and Chinese, swimming,…

Bobby Kim

Kim Do Kyun, known as Bobby Kim, is South Korean hip-hop and R&B artist under Title Media. His father, a trumpet player, influenced and exposed him to music. At an early age, he worked as a rapper at night clubs. Since high school, he performed in clubs in the San Francisco underground. In 1992, he…

Clara Law

Clara Law was born on 29 May 1957 in Macau. She belongs to the Hong Kong Second Wave movement. Other directors from this movement are: Stanley Kwan, Wong Kar-wai, Mabel Cheung, Alex Law, Fruit Chan, Peter Chan, and Tammy Cheung. At the age of 10 she moved to Hong Kong. Law studied at the University…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Newton Lai

Newton Lai was a Hong Kong film and television actor, whose career spanned 1978 to 2013. In 1978, Lai began his career by appearing a series of martial arts films created by the Feng Huang Motion Picture Company. He moved to television in 1980 when he signed an acting contract with Rediffusion Television,…

A Love Never Lost

Mou Ru, who was fired by three companies in a week, encountered a salesperson promoting a life simulation game machine on the street. After trying the game, Mou Ru found himself back in his high school days at the…

Sister Strikes Back

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Mother Gao Ya is a shrewd, strong-willed, and warm-hearted housewife. Father Jiang Yi earns a living by writing at home and is occasionally asked by his mother to do chores he's not very good at. Sister Jiang Duo Yu…

Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within

A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa…

Raindrops on the Flower

The moment when the suffering ends is when the heart dies. After the heart dies, everything becomes still and stretches into eternity. Every year, Ying returns home to visit her mother, who has been troubled by old…

Kamisama Matte! Ohana ga Saku kara

Shoka has been hospitalized for a long time with childhood cancer, but she went to the sixth grade and went to school for the first time in a while. However, her class is full of problems, and she is on the verge of…

Black Sheep

Forced to wear dresses and behave in a certain way against her will at her stepfather’s dinners, 13-year-old Ling meets Kitty, a rebellious 17-year-old, and is fascinated by the older girl who seems unfettered by…

A Warm Journey

It tells the story of lonely people such as an elderly person whose children are traveling abroad and no one is with him, a successful middle-aged man living alone, a boy who planned to propose marriage but was dumped,…

Kimchi, Kimchi

‘Kimchi, Kimchi’ is the story of Geochang Kimchi, made with the first dew cabbage under the sky, spreading overseas. It begins when the male protagonist, Ho Tae, a Seoul National University graduate, quits his…

Soshite, Yuko II

Yuko, a high school girl who was raised in a single-father household in a certain small rural town. She is extremely bad at making any kind of decision. She is also extremely bad at dealing with flashy events happening.…

Shan Hun 50 Sui

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On a blind date, 50-year-old woman Li Xiu Qin meets Jiang Jian Guo, the richest man in Jianghai who was disguised as a taxi driver. The two hit it off and quickly get married. Despite their connection, they faced opposition…