Hayama Yoko

Hayama Yoko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She dropped out of Yamawaki Gakuen High School. At the age of 7, she joined Gekidan Wakakusa at the recommendation of his mother and started performing arts activities as a child actor. In 1955, she made her silver screen debut with "Shiinomi Gakuen" and…

Ishibashi Etaro

Ishibashi Etaro was a Japanese actor, pianist in the jazz band "Hana Hajime and Crazy Cats", and cooking expert. Born in Shinbashi, Tokyo as the son of musician Rando Fukuda and grandson of painter Shigeru Aoki. When Etaro was three years old, his father, Rando, raped actress Hiroko Kawasaki. Rando…

Chiba Sachiko

Chiba Sachiko was a Japanese actress. She was born to an upper-class family as Chiba Tsuruko. She married director Naruse Mikio, but divorced him due to differences in class and a clash between her mother and Naruse. She quit acting as per her mother's wishes and instead managed a high-end restaurant,…

Nam Ho Yeon

Nam Myung Geun, known professionally as Nam Ho Yeon, is a South Korean comedian. He graduated from Seongnam Information Industry High School and did not attend college as he lost his father at a young age and had to help his mother. His childhood and youth was marked by poverty as he was raised by his…

Mark Strong

Mark Strong is a British actor born in London, United Kingdom, to an Austrian mother and an Italian father. His father left shortly after his birth, and he was raised by his mother, who worked as an au pair. As a child, Strong was influenced by films starring Alain Delon, though he later clarified that…

U;Nee

Lee Hye Ryeon, later legally changed to Heo Yun and known professionally as U;Nee, was a South Korean actress, turned singer and dancer. She graduated from Ilsandong High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Theater and Film from Kyung Hee University. She was active as a child actress under…

Jessy Mendiola

Jessy Mendiola is a Filipino actress. She was born in Dubai, where her father worked. She is the second of three siblings, of a Filipino mother and a half Lebanese, half British father. She was three years old when her mother moved and brought her and her elder sister, Pamela, to the Philippines. Jessy…

Uehara Ichika

Uehara Ichika is a Japanese actor most famously for playing as Tomoaki from Momi's House. He was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Korean mother and Japanese father. He is the brother of Uehara June from the Japanese-Korean group, ORβIT. He can speak in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, Filipino, and Thai.…

Zhong Fei Fei

Zhong Fei Fei is a Congolese-Chinese trainee under Eggwood Culture. Born in Liaoning, China to a Chinese mother and Congolese father, she studied International Relations at Boston University, and obtained her Masters Degree in Counter Terrorism & International Security at Johns Hopkins University. Zhong…

Tsuchiya Anna

Anna Tsuchiya is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress, and semi-retired model. Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent from Buffalo, New York. She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in English after her parents divorced when she was 7. She…

Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman

7.5

A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling "Ronin". She travels to seek her mother and her revenge. (Source: IMDb)

A Tale of Two Sisters

6.6

Choi Seyoung is the adopted daughter of Choi Jin Sa and dreams of becoming an announcer like her idol Kim Ju Hui. Her oldest sister, Choi Il Young, is a writer at a broadcasting company and has been trying to get her…

Dear Them

8.0

Tells the story of a couple of friends who have reached an old age and support each other while trying to let go of all worldly worries. From the perspective of Gu Jia Yi, we learn about her mother and her mother’s…

KBS Drama Special 2014: The Dirge Singer

7.4

Yun Shim is a young girl who was born to a poor family. Both her mother and grandmother were dirge singers; deemed to be the lowest class of people who are paid to attend funerals and mourn for the dead. Yun Shim was…

Onibaba

7.3

Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain,…

More Than Family

7.4

When To Il was 5 years old, her mother remarried. Due to that, they left Daegu and began to live in Seoul. To Il is now 21-years-old and a university student. She dates 19-year-old Ho Hoon, who is her student for private…

I Wish

7.6

After his parents get divorced, Koichi winds up living with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, while his brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in Fukuoka. The brothers dream of their family being reunited…

Uso no Senso

7.6

When Koichi was nine years old, his father was accused of killing his mother and younger sibling, before committing suicide. In reality, Koichi's father was framed, and Koichi saw the person who killed his family.…

Maundy Thursday

8.2

Yu Jung has now attempted to commit suicide three times. Her disdain for her mother and indifference to the rest of the world isolates her from any chance for happiness. Yu Jung's aunt Sister Monica is a nun, and she…

2037

8.3

"The brightest encounter found in the darkest place." 19-year-old Yoon Young lives alone with her mother and prepares for the civil service exam while working part-time. She wants to go to school like her friends,…