Bride of White Castle

An orphan who dreams of a fairy tale life finds herself swept off her feet by a dashing thief pretending to be a wealthy lord. (Source: IMDb)

Escape of White Skin

The Domain: White Blade

The Great White Tower

7.5

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a…

Flying Thief, White Flower

The Black and the White Cats

Red Buds and White Flowers

The Black and White Swordsman

Two men, taught by the same master, find themselves destined to cross swords. (Source: Letterboxd)

Black and White Umbrellas

6.0

A young swordswoman of the White Umbrella clan came home to find her family murdered by the Black Umbrella clan. She challenged the leader and lost and afterwards committed suicide. Her fiancé now seeks revenge against…

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…

Jaclyn Jose

Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck, better known by her stage name Jaclyn Jose, was a Filipino cinematic and television actress who has earned international critical acclaim. She is best known for her memorable roles in the films, Private Show, White Slavery, and Santa Juana. On March 2, 2024, she passed away…

Claude Chiari

Claude Chiari is a talent, guitarist and musician born on February 11, 1944 in Nice, France. He first came to Japan in 1967. In 1975, she married Jane Yada, a half-japanese and half-white Russian model, and began living permanently in Japan. He was naturalized in Japan in 1985 and renamed his Japanese…

Eliana Pavlova

Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…

Wong Fung

Born in 1923 in Guangxi, Wong Fung started his career as a scriptwriter in 1950. He wrote over a hundred scripts for Cantonese movies, including 42 of the popular Huang Fei Hung serial. In 1959 he made his directorial debut in White-Haired Madam Su Is Pregnant, and subsequently directed 67 Cantonese…

Hori Chiemi

Chiemi Hori is a Japanese singer, actress, and entertainer represented by Horipro, and later Shochiku Geino. Her stage name is Chiemi. Chiemi Hori debuted in 1982 when she was only 14 years old. She steadily gained popularity and was tipped to be one of the most recognized idols in 1984 after producing…

Gedo

Keiji Takayama (高山 圭司, Takayama Keiji, born February 20, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler and manager, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Gedo (外道, Gedō). Gedo has been the main booker of NJPW since the early 2010s. As a wrestler, Gedo is best…

Lu Fei

Lu Fei, formerly known as Zhao Dong Lu, was born in Wuchang City of Heilongjiang Province. He graduated from Acheng National High School in 1945 and entered Northeast Military and Political University in 1946. His acting career began with Northeast Art and Art Troupe in 1947. A year later, he joined…

Yang Zi

Yang Zi, born as Yang Jian Min in Baoding of Hebei Province, is a Chinese actor, producer, politician and entrepreneur. He is currently the Vice Chairman and Executive President of China Juli Group and Chairman of China Juli Hu Mei Film & Television Media Co. Ltd. Since the second year of junior high,…

Yamane Hisako

Her mother also operated a restaurant with opera actress Yamane Chiako . From early childhood she learned piano, nursery rhymes, western dance, dance , and joined PCL in 1936 while she was in the Faculty of Culture Gakuin . Debut with real name. P, C, L are absorbed by Toho . In 1939, she co-starred…