233 results found for: Orochi
Kobayashi Jushiro
Kobayashi Jushiro was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his film debut in 1929 and soon became a singer movie star. Between 1938 and 1949, he was mainly a stage actor and gained popularity as a singer. He returned to the movie industry in 1949 and appeared with supporting roles of villains or corrupted…
Sawaguchi Yasuko
Sawaguchi Yasuko is a Japanese actress from Nishi, Sakai, Osaka, affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能). She graduated from Sakai Municipal Hiraoka Elementary School (堺市立平岡小学校), Sakai Municipal Uenoshiba Junior High School (堺市立上野芝中学校), and Sakai Municipal…
Higuchi Shinji
Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…
Fujioka Hiroshi
Fujioka Kunihiro, better known by his stage name Fujioka Hiroshi, is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series Kamen Rider, and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro. Fujioka is a cultural icon in Japan, even having the minor planet 12408 Fujioka,…
Yamamoto Taro
Taro Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and a former actor. Best known for his role as Kawada Shougo in Battle Royal (2000). In 2004 he won the Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actor in the movie Moon Child.
Enoken: Okochi no Tabi Sugata Ninki Otoko
Japanese Movie - 1949
A traveling acting troupe the usually does chanbara (sword fight) plays arrives at a town where this type of play is banned. The other troupe members want to do a regular drama, but the chairman is stubborn. (Source:…
Iron Bone and Orchid Heart
Hong Kong Movie - 1931
Lai Lan is the only child of millionaire Tsoi Chi Sin. She is beautiful and free-spirited, never lacking in suitors. One day, Lai Lan and a suitor Henry Wong are mugged. Henry runs away and Lai Lan is saved by a blacksmith,…
Song of Orchid Island
Hong Kong Movie - 1965
Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. He meets nurse Ya Lan who falls in love with him. But dastardly doings are afoot as Dr. Ho’s enemies plot against…
The Wind Orchid
Korean Drama - 1985, 58 episodes6.0
The fourth episode of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty covers the first half of the 16th Century, from the reign of Jungjong to Myeongjong. The drama focuses in particular on the court intrigue surrounding Jung Nan Jung,…
Voices of Orchid Island
Taiwanese Movie - 1993
The film opens with a group of anti-nuclear activists, a Bunun doctor and a Han Chinese anthropologist sitting on a seashore, exchanging their motivation for participating in the film. The film then breaks into three…
Gekka no ran
Japanese Movie - 19916.0
A yakuza witnesses the murder of his wife and young daughter. Ten years, when he finally recovers from the trauma, his new girlfriend is kidnapped by the same yakuza gang.
Princess of Lanling King
Chinese Drama - 2016, 47 episodes7.4
The story tells the legend of the QingLuan mirror and Lican sword, which is said to be able to reunite the country when possessed by the owner. These items were once formerly owned by the Dragon Sect and are now lost.…
