Akagi Keiichiro

Born Akatsuka Chikahiro in Tokyo, Akagi and his family moved to Shonan, during World War II, to avoid air attacks, eventually settling in Hayama. His childhood was largely a pleasant affair, though it was sometimes punctuated by hardships typical for most Japanese families during the postwar years.…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Kobayashi Satoru

Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…

Kawada Yoshiko

Yoshiko Kawada was born on October 17, 1895, in Niigata, Japan. She was an actress, known for Kurokami yâshâ dainihen (1926), Yôfu gonin onna - Dai sanpen: Sempatsu Oyoshi (1926) and Ari jigoku (1925). She died on March 24, 1970. (IMDB) 1895 (Meiji 28) October 17, Niigata City of the red-light district…

Kurahara Koreyoshi

He was born in the city of Kuching, then part of the kingdom of Sarawak (now a state of Malaysia) on Borneo. He was the nephew of literary critic Korehito Kurahara, and older brother of film director Koretsugu Kurahara. His son Jun Iwasaki, a former producer for Ishihara International Productions Inc.,…

Yang Zi

Yang Zi, born as Yang Jian Min in Baoding of Hebei Province, is a Chinese actor, producer, politician and entrepreneur. He is currently the Vice Chairman and Executive President of China Juli Group and Chairman of China Juli Hu Mei Film & Television Media Co. Ltd. Since the second year of junior high,…

Ronny Yu

Ronny Yu is a Hong Kong actor and director born in Hong Kong. He dreamed of making films since he was a child. At only 9 months of age, Yu contracted polio, resulting in a long recovery that prevented him from developing an active childhood and had to spend much time in isolation. To cope with the loneliness,…

Maui Taylor

A Filipino model, singer, and actress who initially got into show biz with the assistance of a cousin who was a member of a dance group in the Philippines. She was eventually cast on the Filipino TV soap opera Anna Karenina at the age of 14. This led to other roles in various TV shows as well as cinema.…

Lee Seok Hoon

Born in 1972, Lee Seok-hoon completed studies in film and theater at Hanyang University, and later the Korean University of Fine Arts, before working various capacities in the film industry beginning in the early 1990s. He was a props master on "The Fates Of The Women Of Yi Dynasty" (1991) and also…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Chocolate and Soldiers

A hard-working father is called up and sent to the front. He keeps in touch with his family by writing letters home. These include chocolate wrappers collected from his comrades; his son is collecting the wrappers…

Rangiku Monogatari

2.0

End of Muromachi period. The Seto Inland Sea promised to leave herself to a mosquito store hanging sixteen tatami mats into a golden small box that is two-tenths of a square on the Daimyo Akamatsu Kazusa, a relentlessly…

The Tragic Prince

Youngjo once let Crown Prince Sado rule in his place, but the Crown Prince was not dedicated. Used by the factions, Youngjo deposes the Crown Prince and starves him in a rice box. Later on, he regrets how the Crown…

Return to Fatherland, Korea

A group of visitors arrives in their homeland, Jochongryeon Korean-Japanese who return to their homeland in 30 years. Seon Young who brings her father's ashes box with her. Yun Ku who was drafted into the army. His…

Sento no Musume!?

8.0

After Mizusawa Yume's mother becomes ill and passes away, she finds a picture of a man holding a baby in her mother's keepsake box. On the back of the picture it says "Loving Papa and Yume, at Raku no Yu." Yume has…

Beyond Her Name

After divorcing her husband, female journalist Li Yuan lives alone with her five-year-old son and adoptive mother. During a move, her son accidentally found a tin box from her childhood, which contained memories of…

Dating a Vampire

6.5

In this horror movie, Alex FONG plays the role of a university student Eric. The story begins with Eric and his schoolmate, "chatter box" Chuen, move into an empty Public Estate unit for a temporary stay in order to…

Great Escape Season 4

7.9

The Great Escape is a large-scale puzzle-based reality show featuring real-life interactive scenarios. In the show, celebrity participants work closely together as they enter a 'secret room' studio designed around…

Muhan Company

7.9

Mr. Yoo is the section chief of one of the worst performing sections in the company. One day while working late, he is chased by several men and is then hit by a truck. He is the 4th victim of the strange incidents…

We Are All Trying Here

8.5

A story of the struggles and journey of people tormented by envy and jealousy, while trying to find their own peace. Hwang Dong Man is an aspiring director who is the only one in the famous film industry group "The…