Kurata Tetsuo

Tetsuo Kurata is a Japanese television, stage and film actor and administrator, best known for portraying Kotaro Minami, the main character in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Black and its sequel, Kamen Rider Black RX. Kurata auditioned for the role of Kotaro Minami in January 1987, when…

John H. Lee

John H. Lee is a South Korean director and screenwriter. He has become one of the most sought after directors in all of East Asia and is a member of the rising generation of international directors from the region, having both a distinct voice as an auteur and wide commercial appeal with diverse genres…

Waite Daisy

Daisy Waite is a British Chinese actress, model, and presenter. She is best known for portraying Mei-Xue, in the Chinese 2014 adventure film Balala the Fairies: The Magic Trial. On TV, she is known for presenting a regular feature on the Hunan Broadcasting System show "Playing Tricks", broadcast nationally…

Philip Keung

Philip Keung Ho Man is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. Keung began his acting career as a television actor in 1985 for Asia Television (ATV), and also began appearing in films from 1988. He eventually left ATV in 2010 and became a full-time film actor while occasionally acting in television series…

You Hee Yul

You Hee Yul is a South Korean singer-songwriter, radio DJ, and the host of "You Hee Yeol's Sketchbook". He is the founder of the record label Antenna Music and the sole member of the project band Toy. He was born in Seoul, South Korea. He attended Kyungbock High School. He graduated from Seoul National…

Hirayama Aya

Hirayama Aya, born January 13, 1984, is a Japanese actress who has appeared in various films including Waterboys (2001), as well as appearing in two television programs in her native Japan, "Waratte Iitomo" and "Itsumo futari de". Aya was born in Kuroiso, Tochigi, Japan which is now part of Nasushiobara.…

Koda Kumi

Kumiko Kōda (神田 來未子 Kōda Kumiko, born November 13, 1982), better known by her stage name Kumi Koda (倖田 來未 Kōda Kumi), is a Japanese singer from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 2000 with the single "Take Back", Koda gained fame for her seventh single,…

Fujitani Ayako

At age 12, she won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the sixth girl to lead the Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This began her modeling career. She was featured regularly in magazines and television commercials.…

Tor Saksit Vejsupaporn

"Tor" Saksit Vejsupaporn is a Thai pop singer and pianist. His father, Nakorn Vejsupaporn, was lead and guitarist for the Thai band Grand Ex', which was active during the 1970s and 1980s. Saksit began playing the piano at the age of three and played for church from the age of nine (he is a protestant).…

Christine Ng

Christine Ng Wing-Mei is a Hong Kong actress under contract to Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited or TVB. Christine is known for her roles in TVB's dramas including "C.I.B. Files" and "The Silver Chamber of Sorrows" She competed in the 1989 Miss Asia Pageant and won Miss Photogenic, finishing…

We're Going to Tokyo

A humane comedy, about a feud between a son who works as a photographer's assistant in Tokyo and his parents, who are disappointed in his life. ~~ Adapted from the 1984 song of the same title by Ikuzo Yoshi.

Cabaret

8.0

The story depicts a strange friendship with a middle-aged yakuza renter, Takigawa, with a young genius saxophonist, Shunichi. ~~ Adapted from the novel with the same title by Kaoru Kurimoto.

Shindererasuta Satsujin Jiken

An ordinary housewife follows the mystery of the death of an actress who was involved by accident. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from a novel with the same title by Seiichi Morimura (森村誠一).

Good Mourning

5.0

A comedy-touch drama set in a funeral business. The English spelling of "morning" is "mourning" , so title translation, went that way. Minori Amano becomes a widow on her honeymoon. Still, she becomes part of the Amano…

Kura

10.0

Kura is a vivid portrait of life in a Sake brewing family in northern Niigata prefecture from the Meiji to Showa eras, based on the award winning novel of the same title by Miyao Tokomiko. (Source: DramaWiki)

Gekai Hiragi Matasaburo

The story of Hiiraga Matasaburo, who dropped out of medical studies in the States and never really got his title. However, he still works in the hospital as a surgeon. The drama focuses on his work in the ward where,…

Family Light Affair

Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting returns to the screen with this seriocomic look at the clash of cultures which result when a Mainland Chinese peasant brings his family to Hong Kong. “Family Light Affair”, whose Chinese…

Appassionata

This story is based on the novel “Jo no mai” by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece…

Empress Wu Cheh Tien

7.5

~~ Based on the life of Wu Ze Tian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant and became the de facto ruler of China in the late seventh century.