Hojo Michiru

Hojo Michiru was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Odawara, Ashigarakami, Kanagawa, Japan. She was affiliated with Rokugeisha and was the daughter of playwright Hojo Hideji. In April 1939, her family relocated to Tokyo after her father left his job at Hakone Tozan Railway to focus on his…

Koda Hiroko

Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…

Hayasaka Akira

Hayasaka Akira, born Tomita Yoshisuke (富田祥資), was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. Born in Hojo, Onsen, Ehime, Japan, he grew up in a prominent merchant family and was exposed to pilgrimage culture early in life. He attended Matsuyama Middle School and was in the Naval Academy at the end…

Ohara Noriko

Ohara Noriko was a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo Prefecture. She was previously represented by Aoni Production, then Production Baobab, but then became a freelancer. Her son, Tobe Atsuo, is a Sunrise animator. She was best known for the roles of Nobita Nobi (Doraemon), all of the female…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Sakura Hisako

Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…

Lee Seung Woo

Lee Seung Woo is a South Korean footballer. When he was 12, he was scouted by FC Barcelona after playing in the 2010 Danone Nations Cup, one of the world's elite youth tournaments. He joined the club's youth academy in 2011 but, unfortunately, was banned from playing in any league tournament for 3 years…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Yoon Ye Hee

Yoon Ye-Hee is a South Korean actress. Ye-hee Yoon was born on February 1, 1968 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017), 9 Ends 2 Out (2007) and Ssaikopaeseu Daieori (2019).

Han Ji Sun

Taivalu

Tuvalu is an ally of Taiwan located in the southern Pacific Ocean. Its territory consists of only 26 square kilometers, and will be the first island nation to be submerged by the oceans once the sea level rises due…

My Father's Emails

The director's father, who did not know how to use a computer, left her an autobiography via email. It includes his whole life through many notable events such as the Korean War, the Vietnam War, 88's Seoul Olympic,…

Resident Aliens

10.0

Guam, U.S.A. Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Alex, a local newspaper photographer, gets into a “green card marriage” with her good friend James, a Guam-born Filipino. Miriam, a former member of the Philippine…

Sariyukumono

An omnibus movie centered around individuals who have left and the people they left behind. "Someday You'll Be Forgotten" On a house in the countryside is a nameplate with the names of five Watanabe family members.…

Kadono Eiko's Colorful Life: Finding the Magic Within

A documentary that closely follows the daily life of Kadono Eiko, best known as the author of "Kiki's Delivery Service". Based on the NHK program of the same name that was broadcast from 2020 to 2022, directed by Miyagawa…

Midnight Horror Story Season 5

Midnight Horror Story returns for its fifth season with bigger prize money and even more extreme horror. In Season 5, four horror story presenters face off in a chilling storytelling challenge with terrifying tales…

The Snowball on a Sunny Day

For over a decade, Kam Mui Tai has entrusted her granddaughter Lam Tin Ching to place bets on the same set of lucky numbers for every Lunar New Year draw. However, fate intervenes. During the Lunar New Year's "Golden…

Aruku Aruku Aruku. Shikoku Henro-do.

6.6

The story of Hayama Misa, a down-on-her-luck free-lance writer, leaving her unhappy life in Tokyo as she takes part in the Shikoku Pilgrimage as a lone walking pilgrim. It has been said that if a pilgrim completes…

Exit 8

7.5

A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you…