Kimura Shogo

Kimura Shogo is a Japanese actor born in Kumamoto prefecture. Later in his life he moved to Kansai due to his father's work. At the age of 20, he moved to Tokyo and became a salaryman in textile product sales at a trading company. Meanwhile, he began attending small troupe workshops as part of his hobbies.…

Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Shibata Kotaro

Shibata Kotaro is a Japanese actor, moderator, television reporter and educator (high school teacher). His real name is Shibata Hidemitsu. His nickname is Shiba-yin. His father is Tamiya Jiro (actor and moderator), his mother is Fuji Yukiko (actress) and his younger brother is Tamiya Goro (actor). (Source:…

Kusamura Hokusei

Kusamura Hokusei was a Japanese novelist born in Takase, Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan. He is a writer of family novels in the Meiji era. His father was a landowner and a member of the Liberal Party. After graduating from Kumamoto English School (熊本英学校), he moved to Tokyo, where he enrolled in Tokyo…

Yuri Kenji

Yuri Kenji was a former Japanese actor. His death date is unknown. Yuri was born in Kogaisu, Jonan-mura, Kuwana-gun, Mie Prefecture as the second son of his father, Yataro, and his mother, Suwa. After graduating from Jonan Elementary School, he moved to a relative's residence in Fukagawa-cho, Uryu-gun,…

Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Kato Seiichi

Kato Seiichi was a Japanese actor born in Takahashi Town, Jobo District, Okayama Prefecture. He joined the Tsubouchi Shoyo Literary Society and is known as a stage actor from the early days of the new drama. His father was a Han scholar from the Kumamoto domain, but he died shortly after Seiichi's birth,…

Watanabe Mototsugu

Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…

Ibuki Kotaro

Ibuki Kotaro is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from Kokushikan High School. His father is actor Ibuki Goro.

Sherman Chow

Sherman Chow is known for his work on Die Harder (1995), Bullet in the Head (1990) and My Father is a Hero (1995). He was active in Sound and Music departments from 1975-1999. (Source: IMDB)

Uso no Senso

7.6

When Koichi was nine years old, his father was accused of killing his mother and younger sibling, before committing suicide. In reality, Koichi's father was framed, and Koichi saw the person who killed his family.…

Smile

7.6

Vito Hayakawa, a cheerful man with a Filipino father and Japanese mother, works at Machimura Foods and a part-time job while chasing his dreams. One day, he meets Hana Mishima, a girl who lost her ability to speak…

KBS Drama Special 2014: The Three Female Runaways

7.6

Su Ji, fed up with her father's empty promises, runs away from home on a special day. With help from Yeo Jin and Hyeong Ja, both runaways themselves, she escapes being caught. The three form a temporary family, but…

Blue Canvas of Youthful Days

7.7

Qi Lu, raised under his father's strict artistic guidance, joins Liu Ming Yang's studio during his senior year, where he meets Qin Xiao, a talented painter balancing family responsibilities. Discovering that Qin Xiao…

Go

7.7

Sugihara, a troubled youth with a Zainichi Korean father and Japanese mother, has been trained in boxing by his father, a former North Korean professional boxer. After attending a strict, Marxist-influenced junior…

Winter Sonata

7.7

Joon Sang moves to a new high school in search of his biological father. Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk are close childhood friends, although Sang Hyuk wants to be more than a friend, Yu Jin sees him as a brother. On a trip…

Eve

7.8

Lee Ra El was a girl who idolized her loving parents – a highly intelligent father and a strikingly beautiful mother. But when cruel forces beyond their control cause her father’s death, her family crumbles. Embittered…

A Writer's Odyssey

7.6

Desperate to find his missing daughter, a father agrees to help a mysterious woman assassinate a novelist. At the same time, the young hero in the book’s alternate universe has also put his revenge plan into motion,…

My Precious

7.5

Veterinarian Tao You You once dreamed of treating humans but ended up following her father’s path, running the struggling Taotao Veterinary Clinic. Just as she considers studying abroad, a family situation forces…

Punch

7.8

Wan Deuk is a high school boy who lives with his hunchback father and has the unfortunate luck of having his high school homeroom teacher as his neighbor. Despite his dad’s diminutive size, Wan Deuk considers him…