Yoshikawa Mitsuko

Yoshikawa Mitsuko was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Yoshikawa Man (吉川マン). After graduating from Taimei Elementary School, she joined the Shochiku Kinema Research Institute in 1924 and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios in 1925. The following year,…

Abe Nagisa

Abe Nagisa is Japanese singer and actress from Obihiro City, Hokkaido. In charge of trumpet at the brass band from junior high to high school. She went to Tokyo as a musical audition when she was in high school, and had experience as a musical back dancer while taking lessons at the theater company.…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Kawamura Reikichi

Kawamura Reikichi was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Kawamura Ishigoro (河村石五郎). After graduating from the preparatory department of Nishijin Castle Commercial School in Kanda, he made his stage debut at the age of 13 at Shinshaza in Nakasu. He joined an…

Okamura Fumiko

Okamura Fumiko was a Japanese actress from Nagano. Japan. After graduating from Nagano City Nabeyada Elementary School and Nagano Prefectural Nagano High School for Girls, she moved to Tokyo. She began her career as an actress after being apprenticed to a noble family of art enthusiasts to learn manners.…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Kim Hak Rae

Kim Hak Rae is a South Korean comedian and businessman. He graduated from Daeshin High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, both in Precision Mechanical Engineering and from Hongik University. He also obtained a second master's degree in Business Administration from Konkuk…

Young and Dangerous 3

7.6

Chan Ho Nam and Chicken are back again in Young and Dangerous 3, this time taking on the rival "Tung Sing" triad, who is attempting to usurp Hung Hing influence in Hong Kong by having Tung Sing member "Crow" frame…

After Spring

7.6

April 16, 2014. An Omnibus film about those whose time had stood still on that day. For "After Spring" composed of three stories, three directors of Jang Jun Yeop, Jin Cheong Ha and Jeon Shin Hwan, directed their respective…

Devoted Husband Miyamoto

7.6

Yohei is a middle school teacher married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years, they begin to live by themselves after their son marries and moves out. One day, Yohei finds divorce papers which Miyoko keeps hidden,…

K-Pop Generation

7.6

With the rise of K-pop’s fourth generation, it’s time to take a step back and appreciate just how far this beloved genre of music has come. Join a number of the industry’s leading artists, including EXO, Stray…

Detective Investigation Files Season 2

7.6

Detectives Cheung Tai Yung and Lee Chung Yee are back! This time, they are faced with even tougher cases: “Fatal Attraction”, “Destroying the Corpse”, “Death Warning, “ and “The Son’s Cross”. Meanwhile,…

Luerd Hong

7.6

Namfon's biological mother was unwell after given birth to her and there were some chaos around the time so they were in a hurry to find a nanny to feed her. It turn out a lady not far from them also just give birth…

Drunken Angel

7.7

Sanada is an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga, after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces…

Club Friday Theory of Love

7.5

No theory works for every love. Love theories have been discussed and practiced over time. Some find them transformative, others ineffective due to relationship complexities. The series asks: Can any single theory…

One More

7.5

There's a reason single dad Sorada always wears a school uniform and attends high school part-time. When he was a high school student, he suffered from a serious illness and couldn't go to school, so he spent most…

The Prelude of Lotus Lantern

7.7

This is the prequel to Lotus Lantern. The story this time revolves around Chen Xiang's uncle Er Lang Shen.