Kakehi Masaya

Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha…

Dochin Yoshikuni

Member of J-pop duo CHEMISTRY. CHEMISTRY is a Japanese R&B duo, composed of, Yoshikuni Dochin and Kaname Kawabata. After winning the Asayan audition in 2000 which was organized by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, they debuted in 2001 with three #1 singles ("Pieces of Dreams," "Point of No Return," and…

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Hashimoto Shinobu

Hashimoto Shinobu was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai". Hashimoto was born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan on 18 April 1918. In 1938 he enlisted…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Ludovico Einaudi

Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin on November 23rd 1955. Perhaps it was his mother, an amateur pianist, who gave him the first impulse to music, planting the seeds for what would become a fruitful, illustrious career. He began to study music at the Conservatory of Turin and graduated…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Suo Masayuki

Suo Masayuki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and author. He graduated from Rikkyo University in 1981, with the major in French Literature. In 1982, along with fellow filmmakers Fukuoka Yoshiho, Isomura Itsumichi, Mizutani Toshiyuki and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded a production company called…

Jeanette Lin Tsui

Jeanette was born in Shanghai but came with her family to Hong Kong in 1949 where she studied at St. Stephen's College. At the age of 17 she joined Liberty Film. Jeanette Lin was one of the most famous of the Mandarin actresses in Hong Kong during the 1950's and 1960's appearing in all sorts of different…

Instant Daddy

7.5

A taxi driver raises a baby left behind in his cab as his own daughter. But his life takes a sharp turn when the birth mother resurfaces. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Remake of the Mexican movie "Instructions Not Included"…

50 First Dates

“50 First Dates” tells the story of a playboy and a woman with short-term memory loss who newly fall in love with each other everyday. (Source: Soompi) ~~ Remake of the American film “50 First Dates” [2004].

Entourage

6.5

This is the story of a handsomely famous celebrity who depends on his three friends and agency's boss who try to help him in his struggles as an actor and a man. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Remake of the American TV series “Entourage”…

Bed on the Beach

6.8

In "Bed on the Beach", young singles are followed during their stay in a luxurious holiday home on an idyllic island with only one goal: to find true love. (Source: Roommate4ever at MyDramaList) ~~ Remake of the British…

What Women Want

6.9

Sun Zi Gang is a chauvinistic executive who, after an accident, gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. His initial intention is to take advantage of his new ability to beat his new boss. (Source:…

The Hidden Face

6.9

About one entering lover's secret room to confirm their love and got unexpectedly trapped. (Source: Korean = Naver || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Remake of the Spanish-Colombian movie "The Hidden Face" (La cara oculta)…

Bride Wars

7.2

Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day. Will they become eternal rivals, or will they pick back up their friendship on the way? (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Remake of…

The Rickshaw Man

7.5

Muhomatsu, a poor rickshaw driver, finds himself taking care of a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. **The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.

The Fun, the Luck and the Tycoon

7.3

Two twin grannies wished to match up their grandchildren so that their legacy would not fall into the hands of outsiders. Unfortunately, the two grandchildren were not fond of each other idea. ~~ Remake of the American…

Connected

7.4

It tells the story of Bob, who receives a distressing phone call on his cellular phone from Grace Wong, who has been kidnapped by a gang of corrupt Interpol agents who have a hidden agenda. (Source: Wikipedia) ~~ Remake…