Monang Carvajal

Monang Carvajal was a Filipina film actress best known for her roles in thriller and horror movies. She was dubbed the "Queen of Horror Pictures." Carvajal made her film debut in 1920, in the silent film El Trust de los Tenorios. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yamaoka Sohachi

Yamaoka Sohachi was a Japanese novelist and writer born in Koide, Kitauonuma, Niigata. He was active mainly in historical novels. In 1920, he dropped out of high school. He then moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Ministry of Communications' research institute while working as a literary technician…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Sasaki Keisuke

Sasaki Keisuke was a Japanese film director from Tokyo. He graduated from the Fisheries Department of Miyagi Commercial School. Sasaki joined Kaoru Osanai's shingeki movement and joined Shochiku Kinema when it was founded in 1920.

Dan Du Yu

Dan Du Yu was a Chinese film director and cinematographer from Shanghai, China. In 1920, he founded Shanghai Film Co. He began working with actress Yin Ming Zhu in the early 1920s, and they married in 1926. The couple had a daughter, Judy Dan, who also became an actress. In 1937, the family relocated…

Stage Door Johnny

Pop’s troupe of all female leads is struggling in Shanghai during the 1920's. Pop calls on Tsui to join him in the the hope her fighting sequences will save the troupe from an imminent shut-down. This enrages the…

Matsuo Fumindo

Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Mori Mitsuko wo Ikita Onna

7.0

Fuji TV's 55th anniversary drama special will tell the life of Mori Mitsuko (May 9, 1920 – November 10, 2012).

Tanabata's Wife

8.0

Based on the classic Philippine short story "Tanabata's Wife", set in the 1920's. Tanabata-San is a successful Japanese immigrant farmer in La Trinidad Valley in Benguet, where the Japanese have been known to pioneer…

The Brothers

8.2

A story about three brothers during the Republican era who set aside their differences during the country's time of need. During the 1920's, the six provinces of Jiangdong were under the control of the military and…

ATEOTD

"The plague of loneliness is the hardest of all" The Great Plague of 1720/Cholera of 1820/The Spanish flu of 1920/COVID-19 of 2020… And now, in the year 2120, a human-bred virus has brought humankind to its final…

Yamamoto Kajiro

Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…

Shiomi Yo

Shiomi Yo, born Katasayama Kisaburo (片山喜三郎) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Previously known as Shiomi Shigeru (汐見蓊), he pursued a career in theater after leaving Keio University’s Faculty of Economics in 1917. In 1920, Shiomi co-founded the New Theater Group Kenkyiza with Ishikawa…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

The Grand Merchants

8.2

It tells the legendary story of the three generations of the Liu and Yang families' century-old oil companies. From the 1920's Republican era to the Sino-Japanese War, they struggled in an environment where unscrupulous…

Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari - minna chigatte, minna ii

7.2

Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari (TBS Drama Special, 09 July 2012) tells about the brief life of poet and songwriter Kaneko Misuzu (real name, Kaneko Teru). The story starts in the spring of 1920, Kaneko Teru (Ueto Aya) has…

Death Song

7.7

A melodrama dealing with the life of Yoon Shim Dok, a modern woman and pioneer of free love in the 1920's, who drowns herself in the waters of the Korea Strait. Yoon Shim Dok is a poor girl studying vocal music at…

Escape the Corset

For a woman, what is hair? In Joseon Dynasty, black, balloon-like hair is a prerequisite for beauty, while short and stiff hair is described as negative and ugly. In 1920, a new woman was called a modern girl. For…

Gone with the Bullets

6.8

Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zou Ri and Xiang Fei Tian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wan Yan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets…