Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Shin Yeon Ah

Shin Yeon Ah is a South Korean singer, professor and member of BIG MAMA (빅마마). She graduated from Inha University with a bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature and later obtained a master's degree in Popular Music Production Management from Dankook University. Before debuting, she…

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Bumkey

Kwon Ki Bum, known professionally as Bumkey, is a South Korean hip-hop singer-songwriter. He was born in Seoul but he moved to Los Angeles, USA in 1999 with his family. In 2004, he decided to return to South Korea, alone, to pursue a career in music. He made his debut in Dynamic Duo's song "Love Is"…

Nathan Boyd

Nathaniel Christian Boyd is an Actor, Director, and Screenwriter in Mainland China. He was born in Los Angeles, USA in 1981. He attended the University of Los Angeles and majored in International Relations and Asian Studies. Influenced by his major, and wanting to understand Asian and Chinese culture,…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee was born in the Philippines and was raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia until she and her family went back to Manila in year 1995. Jennifer is of Korean and Japanese descent in her father's lineage. She also has Filipino ancestry which originates from the province of Laguna. Jennifer studied…

Rich

Lee Dae Yong, known professionally by the English name Rich, is a South Korean singer, producer, DJ and maknae of the band Eagle Five. He made his debut in 1998 and quickly had two hit songs, "Squid Alien" (for which he wrote most of the lyrics) and "Fire". But the following year, the band released…

Kim So Ri

Kim So Ri was born in Seoul, South Korea. She began studying ballet and modern dance in elementary school and graduated from Sangmyung University with a Dance major. While in University she also learned how to breakdance and was initially known for her lead role in the popular musical “Ballerina Who…

Fei Mu

Fei Mu's ancestral hometown is Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1906. Before becoming a director, he worked as an assistant of the film pioneer Hou Yao. Known for his artistic style and costume dramas, Fei made his first film, Night in the City (1933), produced by the Lianhua…

Tokyo Kachinka Musume

4.0

A popular girl walking alone in Ginza.

A Mother's Love

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives. (Source: letterboxd)

Tokyo Kid

10.0

A movie about a girl who lost her mother and goes back to the real father at the end of the twists and turns.

Dispersed Clouds

6.0

A city girl is stranded alone in the countryside when she fell ill during a trip with a group of friends.

Moujutsukai no Shoujo

2.0

A half-Japanese girl, member of an American circus troupe visiting Japan, tries to find her biological father, with the help of her adopted father. (Source: MyDramaList)

Tokyo Profile

7.4

A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.…

Zoku Zoku Judai no Seiten

A high-school girl is infuriated when a university student asks for her hand in marriage, with the permission of her parents. When she and her friends go vacationing for the summer, she happens to meet him at the camping…

Spring Awakens

7.4

A story about a girl on the brink of adulthood.

Dawn Chorus

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor. (Source: Letterboxd)

Butterfly Lovers

A wealthy girl dresses like a boy so that she may be educated in a local school. There, she falls in love with a poor but gifted boy against the wishes of her parents. ~~ Adapted from the folktale about two ill-fated…