Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Hirose Kohmi

Hirose Kohmi is a Japanese pop singer, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, and voice trainer, born in Nachi-Katsuura, Wakayama, Japan. She is affiliated with Muse Endeavor Inc. (ミューズ・エンデバー株式会社) and contracted with JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment (JVCケンウッド・ビクターエンタテインメント).…

Ishikawa Sayuri

Ishikawa Sayuri is a Japanese idol, enka singer, and actress. Her real name is Ishikawa Kinuyo. She was born in Akita Village, Kumamoto (now known as Minami Ward, Kumamoto). She graduated from Horikoshi High School. Her music label is Teichiku Entertainment, and her agency is Sayuri Ongakusha. When…

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…

Kung Wannasiri Srivarathanabul

Wannasiri Srivarathanabul, nicknamed Kung, is a Thai writer, architect and actress. She started writing on architectural articles for the Association of Siamese Architect and later expanded into writing short-story. In 2001, her writing career has taken-off from publishing the first volume of her short…

Chae Yeon

Lee Chae Yeon, known simply as Chae Yeon, is a South Korean singer. She graduated from Gwangyang High School and later obtained an associate's degree in Broadcasting Entertainment from Seoul Institute of the Arts. She began her career in Japan in January 2001 as a member of BRAND NEW BISCUITS (ブランニュービスケット).…

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Natsuyaki Miyabi

Natsuyaki Miyabi was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She is a Japanese pop singer. Her career began in 2002 when she successfully passed the audition for Hello! Project Kids, an all-female adolescent pop group under Hello! Project. Since then, she has also become a part of four smaller groups composed…

Hatakeyama Baku

Hatakeyama Baku, real name Hatakeyama Akio, was the Japanese actor who played Oiwa Daita, the first Kirenger in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. He is currently the only known deceased actor who has played a ranger in Super Sentai. Hatakeyama was born in Minamimaki, a village located in the Minamisaku district…

Obayashi Nobuhiko

Obayashi Nobuhiko is a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements who is well known for his surreal visual style. He began his career as a pioneering figure in Japanese experimental film during the 1960s before transitioning to directing more mainstream works such…

The Homely of Sister

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older…

Smallpox Tale

5.8

The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross…

Ang Hiwaga ng Ibong Adarna

Three princes are in search for a mythical bird, the Ibong Adarna, not only for the cure to the ailing king but also to rival for the rightful claim to the throne. In their perilous journey, they were captured by tribes…

Roi Nam

Gratitude drives Praphin, who has just graduated from business school, to find a job to earn money for her ailing mother's medical treatment. This leads her to meet Thakkhin, a kind-hearted older employer who helps…

Crossroads: Strayed

A young adolescent man gets into a scuffle with some local punks and things escalate into a crime. With his single mother ailing from a sickness, the young man contemplates turning himself in at the cost of leaving…

Tokimeki Kaigan Monogatari

Set in the fishing port of Shingu, Nankishu, it depicts a young man aiming to become a professional surfer.

The Glass Cape

6.0

This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the early 1920s. Fatherless Karin, who lives alone with her ailing mother, meets and befriends Takada Saburo, nicknamed "Mata Saburo of Wind". She and her classmates…

Foggy Airport at Night

Shingo was interrogated by Prosecutor Iguchi at the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office. He is a student at Jouhoku University Graduate School. Aspiring to be a composer, he was aiming to study in France. In the demonstration…

Find Hidden Money

A comic action movie about an unpredictable chase in which a group of friends who went on a trip are caught up in the conspiracy of criminals aiming for 15 billion won in crime profits, and trying to protect their…

Seizen Joko Konseki Ari

Shogo is the husband of Mitsuko, the only daughter of Kenichiro Hario, the president of a major toilet bowl manufacturer, and is aiming for the position of the next president, but he is ridiculed by both Kenichiro…