Kon Hidemi

Kon Hidemi was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and stage director, born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. He was the first Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and held various prominent cultural roles throughout his career. In 1911, Kon moved to Kobe due to his father's work as a captain…

Yada Minoru

Yada Minoru is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and children's song singer, affiliated with Kekke Corporation. He also serves as an advisor to the Japan Actors Union. Born in Yodobashi, Toyotama, Tokyo, Japan, he began his career in 1939 as a children's song singer, working with labels such as Nippon…

Yagi Kosei

Yagi Kosei is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Hyogo, Japan, affiliated with the talent agency 81 Produce. He leads the reading group "Korokai: Kosei Yomi Gatari no Kai." Yagi received a strict language education from his father, who was a Japanese language teacher. He graduated from the Tokyo…

Zushi Tonbo

Zushi Tonbo is a Japanese actor and comedian. He graduated from Nihon University's College of Art and initially worked as an understudy in various traveling theater troupes, including the Shinpa regional tour group and the Shimizu Kinichi troupe. In 1955, after struggling to achieve a breakthrough,…

Sugi Hiroyuki

Sugi Hiroyuki is a former Japanese actor born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Myojo Gakuen High School. Coming from an acting family, his father, Sugi Kyoji, and brothers, Sugi Giichi and Sugi Yukihiko, were also actors, as was his nephew, Sugi Kinya. Sugi Hiroyuki began his career with the…

Umeda Haruo

Umeda Haruo, born Umeda Akira (梅田晃) in 1920 in Tokyo's Yotsuya district, was a Japanese scholar, playwright, novelist, and essayist specializing in French literature. He graduated from Keio University Graduate School and was involved in writing scripts for stage plays and radio dramas, as well…

Matsuo Yoshiko

Matsuo Yoshiko is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo, currently affiliated with Sigma Seven. She moved to Shinjuku, Tokyo, in her third year of elementary school. At the age of eight, she joined the Komadori theater company, encouraged by her homeroom teacher to improve…

Tseng Shu Chin

Tseng Shu Chin is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Taitung. She has a father from the Paiwan tribe and a mother from the Taroko tribe in Hualien, Taiwan. Tseng graduated from Hualien Girls' High School (花蓮女中) and earned a degree in Law from Soochow University (東吳大學法律學系).…

Utena Masataka

Utena Masataka is a Japanese film decorator based in Tokyo, Japan, currently affiliated with Toho Eizo Bijutsu Co., Ltd. During his student years, Utena worked part-time on commercial sets and was inspired to pursue a career in the film industry after visiting a film set of Kurosawa Akira. In 1990,…

Marie

Marie is a Japanese actress, traditional music performer, interviewer, and writer, born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Mita High School. Marie began her career in 1979 as Takeuchi Kayoko (竹内香代子) with a debut role in "Journey to the West" while training at the…

The Brother

Choi Su Ik tries to smuggle goods with a boat belonging to Lee Woon Gi , the owner of a ship company. Su Ik wants to make money before marrying Hye Won. Meanwhile Choi Jung Ik, who is wanted on charges of burglary…

Mammoth Tower

4.0

Kuroki, the head of the production department, was skeptical about the old-fashioned production policy at the movie company where he worked. He was thinking about bringing in a new actress who is the daughter of a…

The Cast-Off

3.0

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery and gets promoted as an executive in his company. Because of this, his world is changing completely: people come flocking to him…

Hawaiian Boy

Eddie, a Hawaiii-born Filipino, levaes his birthplace for the Philippines in the company of Ronnie who believes that the former has better chances to be a successful singer in Manila. True enough, Eddie is a hit but…

A Woman's Testament

6.5

A Film in Three Parts. The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. She is investing in a company on the one hand, and…

Knock Down

7.0

Ishino has it all. A comfortable job, a loving wife and two bright children. He’s also having an affair with a younger woman who works at his company. When he lies about his whereabouts on an evening of a murder,…

Wait for Tomorrow

4.0

Misugi Kohei works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company, which offers him an assignment to “Cover…

Hyperbola of Youth

7.3

Myung Ho, a middle school teacher who had grown up in poverty, and Boo Nam, the first son of the president of a trading company, attend the same university. A doctor suggests that Boo Nam, who is sick due to overeating,…

The Devoted Lover

Tso Chi Fai, a rich man, meets Ting So Chau on a boat. Both work in the same company, and Fai begins to pursue So Chau, who is also in love with him. But Fai's father objects to their relationship and orders his son…

The Blue Beast

6.0

Kenichi Nagaoka, an intellectual type, and his brother Eiji, practical and active, have lost their father and their company, which operates in the port of Yokohama, from a money-lender, Mizuhara, who takes over the…