Yokoo Dekao

Yokoo Dekao was a Japanese film actor active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He featured in over 90 films. Born in Saga Prefecture, Yokoo studied Western painting at the Tokyo Bijitsu Gakko (now the Tokyo University of the Arts). He joined the art department of the Shochiku studio in 1923, eventually becoming…

Aikawa Sho

Aikawa is a Japanese actor who has appeared in a number of Kurosawa Kiyoshi's films, including Eyes of the Spider, Serpent's Path, License to Live, Seance, and Pulse.

Alfred Cheung

Upon graduating from the Chinese Language & Literature Faculty of the Hong Kong Baptist University, Alfred Cheung earned a diploma in film production from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Extramural studies). Cheung has been involved in the movie-making industry since he was young and attended The…

Natsuyagi Isao

Natsuyagi Isao was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2013. In 1960, Natsuyagi began attending the Bungakuza (a Japanese theatre company) actors school while attending Keio University. He eventually left Keio before graduating and entered the Haiyuza actors…

Ge Fan Zhi

Ge Fan Zhi, born in Inner Mongolia, is a Chinese actor, also known as Ge Quan Ye. Graduated from Beijing Film Academy, he shot his first movie "Be There For You" in 2019. Ge officially entered showbiz in 2021 with his debut in the campus youth drama "Summer Again". (Source: Chinese = Baike.baidu, wiki.d-addicts,…

Cherrie Ying

Ting Man, born in Taipei, Taiwan, better known as Cherrie Ying or Ying Choi Yi, is a Hong Kong actress. She moved to New York City at a young age, and later moved to Hong Kong. Her nickname is "Dingding". After making her film debut in Fulltime Killer, she caught the attention of Charles Heung's wife,…

Tony Leung

Tony Leung Chiu Wai is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He has won the Hong Kong Film Awards five times, the Golden Horse Best Actor awards three times (in 1994, 2003, and 2007), and many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in the film…

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Ti Lung

Ti Lung is a Hong Kong actor known for his numerous starring roles in a string of Shaw Brothers Studio's films, particularly The Sentimental Swordsman and its sequel, and in the classic A Better Tomorrow. He studied Wing Chun under the martial arts master Jiu Wan. In 1968, Ti Lung responded to an advertisement…

Roy Chiu

Roy Chiu is a Taiwanese actor, race car driver, singer, and former volleyball player born in Taipei, Taiwan. He first entered the Taiwanese entertainment industry in 2001 but withdrew due to difficulties adjusting. He returned in 2008 and resumed his entertainment career. His parents divorced when he…

Kumanokara

A road movie set in Kumano, situated in the southern part of the Izu Peninsula, famed as a World Heritage Site. Actor-cum-writer Kaibe Tsuyoshi (himself) heads for Kumano to write travel essays. He gradually becomes…

Mama and Papa

The sad story of three sisters who overcame their harsh fate. Min Cheol's wife is pregnant, and he has been saving up for her hospital costs. But he loses his money to his brother-in-law Man Soo. He borrows money from…

When Slackers Dream of the Moon

Hata is unemployed and lives in the apartment of his girlfriend, Misaki. He spends his days following Tetsuro, a part-time actor in a children's superhero stage show. Misaki, frustrated but still committed to their…

Streets of Macao

"Streets of Macau" includes four different stories: 1. "Good Take", narrating the everyday life of a retired actor, suddenly shaken by his wife's death. 2. "Lok", telling the story of Lok and her relationship with…

Guest House

Jung Woo runs away from Gangneung every chance he gets in order to take auditions to become an actor. He runs a guest house with his sister, but he doesn’t care about it. He longs to leave Gangneung until one day…

Hurry Go Round

Japanese musician Hide passed away on May 2 1998 at age 33. Twenty years later, actor Yamoto Yuma visits Hide’s grave. What kind of life did Hide lead and how did he die? Yamoto traces the last three months of his…

Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji

8.3

In the series Tokyo Miracle City, we unravel the secrets behind some of the capital's most intriguing wonders. In part one, we delve into Tokyo's famed and tantalizing food culture, exploring the role the iconic Tsukiji…

Gan Ni Naru Mae Ni Shitteoku Koto

Miyake Nagaru of "Ultimate land - a year of Iwasaki Onikenbai" and "Traveling by Leaps and Bounds: Portrait of Noh Actor Reijiro Tsumura" directs, shoots, and edits this documentary examining in a variety of angles…

Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality

7.7

In this second episode, we explore the vast rail network that crisscrosses the metropolis. With 148 train lines carrying some 40 million passengers daily, Tokyo hosts the world's largest and most interconnected urban…

The Rule of Cosmetic

5.0

As an assistant to superstar Wanren, Lin Yang has always dreamed of being an actor, but the opportunity he finally got was replaced by others at the last minute. Lin Yang accidentally hurt his face on set to save Wan…