Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Ito Daisuke

Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…

Yamanaka Sadao

Yamanaka Sadao was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Hinoshitacho, Takakuradori Matsubarashita, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. He is known as one of the representative directors of Japanese cinema in the 1930s, during the transition from silent films to talkies, and is recognized as a talented…

Takada Minoru

Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Anzai Kyoko

Anzai was a member of the Osaka Shochiku Opera Company from 1950-1953. She entered film immediately after resigning from the company. She retired from acting completely following her marriage in 1961 to fellow actor Tatsuya Mihashi. They remained married until her death in 2002. While her film career…

Togawa Kyoko

Togawa Kyoko (戸川京子), also known as Togawa Kyohko, was a Japanese actress, talent, and singer. Togawa made her acting debut when she was five years old in the movie Ai to Makoto. She also became a model for the magazine CUTiE. Before the end of the 1980s, Togawa also debuted as a singer for a…

Nitani Hideaki

Nitani Hideaki was a Japanese actor born in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Higashi Maizuru High School (京都府立東舞鶴高等学校) and attended Doshisha University (同志社大学) but dropped out of the Department of English Literature. After leaving university,…

Lai Man Wai

Lai Man Wai was a pioneering figure in early Chinese cinema and a democratic revolutionary born in Japan to a Chinese father who ran a rice business. He first visited Hong Kong at the age of six and later attended St. Paul's College there. During his time in Hong Kong, Lai became involved in Sun Yat…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Teach Me How

5.8

Russel has wanted Jake for a long time. From the beginning, he fantasized about him, and his imagination is full of Jake. What will he do if fate brings them closer together and that will be the reason for him to get…

Brotherhood of Legio

5.8

A person's birth is influenced by time, location, and the alignment of the earth's magnetic fields. Because of these factors, some have a unique resonance with their magnetic power. These humans were named the Chosen…

Like a French Film

5.9

Omnibus movie with 5 segments. “A Time to Leave” The long-suffering mother of four daughters decides to end her life after months of illness. She tells her daughters that she has terminal cancer, and asks her children…

I Don't Like Younger Men

5.9

Won Gi lost his wife a long time ago and is running a pension outside of the city. Then one day, his daughter and her friend Se Yeong stay in the pension during a break from their school in Seoul. However, Won Gi finds…

AI Is Coming

6.2

The "AI is coming" sets the time and space in the next 2020. APP has become an extension of human needs and desires. It is a strange technology, artificial intelligence, goddess Xiao Xiao, this confusing figure relationship,…

The Debt Collector

Haunted by guilt after his time behind bars, a former underground debt collector races against a terminal illness, returning to his old world to avenge injustices against illegal loan victims and seek redemption from…

Echoes in Unsent Letters

Modern-day youth He Cong accidentally crosses time and space while sorting through his grandfather’s belongings after touching a wartime family letter containing a damaged photograph. He successively takes on the…

Engimono: Unlucky Days - Natsume no Mousou

6.4

Fuji-TV reserves the late-night time period to be used for experimental projects, giving up-and-coming young screenwriters, producers and directors a place to develop their skills and televise their works. Each renzoku…