Otsuki Yoshikazu

Otsuki Yoshikazu was a Japanese film director born in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined the Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio in 1951 as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1962 with "Nagashibina." In 1966 he left Shochiku to become a freelancer. He then spent his career directing TV dramas until…

Yamamoto Kazuo

Yamamoto Kazuo is a Japanese producer, born in Kyoto, Japan. He's a former Yomiuri TV chief producer. After joining the company, he was an assistant director for variety shows, but in 1983 he was transferred to the drama production department and was promoted to director. After that, he was in charge…

Fujimoto Sanezumi

A Japanese film producer. He served as the head of production for Toho Studios. He was co-producer of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. He also produced many other films, including Yasujirō Ozu's The End of Summer, Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom and Japan's Longest Day and several films directed…

Kokontei Kikuchiyo

Real name: Yasuyo Noguchi (野口 泰代). Born in Itabashi-ku , Tokyo. She's a Rakugoka - a person whose profession is to perform Rakugo. Rakugo is a type of traditional Japanese storytelling that was established in Japan during the Edo period. These are short anecdotes, humorous stories, passed on…

Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Togawa Yukio

Togawa Yukio was a Japanese novelist and children's writer born in Saga City. He established animal literature based on correct observations and knowledge about animals and is a leading figure in Japan alongside Muku Hatoju. He has also worked on reportage, war stories, and manga. From an early age,…

Ling Somkiat Chanphram

Thai host and actor. Born in the Klaeng District, Rayong Province in Thailand. Has a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Law at Ramkhamhaeng University and has made a name in the entertainment industry. He is married since 2007 and has a daughter born in 2009. Despite being an actor and a TV host…

Marui Taro

Marui Taro was a Japanese actor. His career was very short because of the "Five-Company Agreement". Not only was it blocking the actors and crew from joining other studios, but it also blocked film actors from appearing in TV series and vice versa. He was one of the few actors at the time who spoke…

Onishi Yasumasa

Although the exact time is unknown, he has been an actor since before the war, became an exclusive actor of Toho from around the 1950s, and has appeared in many movies regardless of the genre since then. He often plays the role of a foreigner because of his deeply carved Japanese features. In 1971,…

Kitamura Takeo

Kitamura Takeo was a Japanese actor and singer. He belonged to "Pierre Brillant" and "Pupe Dansant", but withdrew in October 1932. After that, he made many appearances in movies starring Enomoto Kenichi. After "Enoken no Tobisuke Boken Ryoko" in 1949, his whereabouts have not been confirmed, and although…

Sing, Young People!

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A college student receives a surprising offer to be a movie star in this unlikely Kinoshita film, sort of college film by the veteran director including even semi nude scene, but eventually the same themes of dreams…

A Secret Talk

Ji Hun, a would-be painter studying in Paris, France, visits Korea and falls in love with a widow who he encounters by chance. Unfortunately, the lady is already engaged with a middle-aged gentleman. To make things…

Battle of the Japan Sea

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Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Togo Heihachiro…

Famous Swordsman Tin Kiu

A young woman who believes her new husband to be a notorious masked bandit flees before her marriage can be consummated in this classic Wuxia adventure from director Sang Siu. Yu Chiao has been forced into a marriage…

The Long Darkness

7.1

Tetsuro, feels himself to be cursed, overcome with a sense of shame and anxiety because of the dark shadow that hangs over his once prosperous family. Tetsuro is convinced that there is something genetically wrong…

The Pirates of Bubuan

Imamura reveals remote and impoverished islands in the Philippines to be the home of rival factions of pirates in this absorbing investigation into a little-known way of life. (Source: Icarus Films)

Weighed But Found Wanting

8.0

This landmark film is considered by many to be one of the most important in Philippine cinema. The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. But the emptiness of his extravagant lifestyle…

Ashita no Kaze

8.0

The 2nd NHK Asadora and the first Asadora to be broadcast in 15-minute episodes Monday through Saturday. Starring Fumiko Watanabe in a drama of a poor family after the war.

A Sunflower Family

10.0

A middle-aged man ignores his legal family to be with long time mistress and her children. However, this clear favoritism has caused a dire hatred between his two sets of children. (Source: IMDb)

The Sun Rises at Night

Yeong Rim comes to Seoul with only college entrance notice to be a self-supporting student. She registers in her school and even gets an apartment thanks to Hyung Jae's help. Though Yeong Rim has a boyfriend called…