Takami Jun

Takami Jun is a Japanese novelist born in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun , Fukui Prefecture . Illegitimate child 0f Sakamoto Sannosuke (bureaucrat, politician, and poet). In 1908, he moved to Tokyo with his mother. He grew up in a sword shop near his father's mansion in Azabu Iikura , Tokyo, without ever meeting…

Ichikawa Minami

Ichikawa Minami is a Japanese film producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He is president of Toho Pictures, Inc., Managing Director of Toho Co., Ltd. and director of Toho Film Art Co., Ltd. His father is film producer Kiichi Ichikawa (市川 喜一) and his mother is actress Chieko Seki (関千 恵子). He…

Tanizaki Juro

Real name Yoshikiyo Yachi. He was born in Olympia, Washington, United States. In 1902, when he was six years old, he returned to Japan with his father, who succeeded as an entrepreneur. He debuted in 1925. He retired in the fall of 1933, when he was 37 years old. His grandaughter is actress Tomoko Mayama…

Pepe Diokno

Jose Lorenzo "Pepe" Diokno is a Filipino motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. His debut film, Engkwentro premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and received the Lion of the Future - "Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for Best Debut Film, as well as the Orizzonti Prize. He has since produced…

Alexander

Alexander, sometimes stylized as ALEXANDER is a Japanese-Peruvian actor and model who is represented by the talent agency, Watanabe Entertainment. His wife whom he married in 2013 is former AKB48 member Kawasaki Nozomi. He's the father of two children, a boy born in 2017 and a girl born in 2020. (Source…

Ishikawa Rei

Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…

Masiswagger Zingerur

Masiswagger Zingerur, also known as Lei Bin, is a Taiwanese pottery artist and actor of Paiwan descent. Born into a family of artisans in the Timur tribe (Sandimen Township, Pingtung County), he followed the footsteps of his father, Qumas Zingerur (a.k.a Lei Tzu), who was considered the father of Paiwan…

Hwang Sok Yong

Hwang Su Yeong, later legally changed to Hwang Sok Yong, is a South Korean novelist and democratic activist. He was born in China, as his family was in exile during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He returned in 1945 and lived in Pyongyang, North Korea, for 3 years until the Korean War broke out.…

Thomas Ash

Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol, UK (2005) and has lived in Japan for a total of 18 years. Thomas’s first feature documentary, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006), received the Prix du Canton Vaud (best first film) at the 2006 Visions du…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Geisha vs Ninjas

5.8

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts the samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase…

Hyoryu Net Cafe

5.8

It all started with a "net cafe." The hero Toki Koichi is a soon-to-be father leading a complacent life. One day, he happens to stop by an internet cafe, and there he bumps into Kaho, his first love from his junior…

Bo Li Hun Yue

6.1

To raise money, Lu Wan Wan was forced to make a deal with her father, marrying Li Jing Chen, the heir to the Li family, who had lost his sight in a car accident. Young Master Li was prejudiced against Wan Qan, believing…

My Dream Girl

6.0

In a modern twist on Pygmalion, Ling is discovered by her long lost father who transports her to a world of dreams and wealth in Shanghai. While learning to be a lady, she falls in love with an unemployed guy, Joe,…

On the Balcony

6.2

A story that revolves around a young man's uncompleted revenge. Zhang Ying Xiong's father died after he was forced out of his home by Lu Zhi Qiang. Constantly wavering due to his gentle nature, Zhang Ying Xiong sets…

Somewhere beyond the Mist

5.7

Angela is a cop in charge of the murder of a married couple. Her father, who suffers dementia, has always been a pain in her neck. Sensitive from pregnancy, Angela discovers strange aspects of the murder while investigating…

Ambassador Magma

6.3

The alien invader Goa plots to conquer the Earth. He first warns the Murakami family (father Atsushi, mother Tomoko, and son Mamoru) of their invasion, and demonstrates his powers by transporting them to a prehistoric…