Fukushima: A Town of Love and Hope

6.0

In 1945, Hideo, who was a student, was mobilized to work at a mine in Ishikawa, Fukushima Prefecture during World War II. Hideo did not know what he was mining, but it was uranium. In 1966, at Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture,…

Record of a Marathon Runner

This was a sponsored documentary film by director Kazuo Kuroki of Japan. This highly artistic film focused entirely on Japanese marathon runner Kenji Kimihara. Kimihara finished eighth in the 1964 Olympic marathon…

Learning at a Correspondence Course Junior High School After 60 Years

Documentary about elderly people who couldn't finish junior high school after the war taking classes for correspondence school. Kanda Hitotsubashi Junior High School in Tokyo's Chiyoda-ku is frequented by numerous…

Dogengers: A Day of Ohgaman

In this town, real-life heroes exist. Some work at pharmacies, some at gas companies, some at pizza shops... they live perfectly ordinary lives. These real-life heroes come together for a show that rises up not for…

Journey into Sato Tadao

Sato Tadao is a giant of film criticism with over 150 published works to his name. Not being an elite, he was ultimately the first film critic to be selected as a Person of Cultural Merit. In the 1980s, he made it…

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2025

>> Story 1: "Yomi no Mori" (黄泉の森) Yoshinori invites his girlfriend Ayumi and enters a forest notorious as a suicide spot. However, unnerved by the eerie atmosphere, Yoshinori quickly suggests they leave. At…

Black Showman

7.2

Former middle school teacher Kamio Eiichi is murdered by an unknown person. His daughter Kamio Mayo is scheduled to get married in two months, but returns to her hometown because of her father's death. Their hometown…

Kurosaki-kun wa Dokusen Shitagaru

Moka, an ordinary high school girl, sits in front of Kurosaki-kun, a boy who is the captain of the soccer club and so popular that he even has fan clubs at neighboring schools. Because of the girls constantly crowding…

Soundtrack #2

7.6

Ji Soo Ho, a young CEO, and Do Hyun Seo, a piano instructor who gave up her dreams, reconnect after six years. They begin piano lessons for personal reasons, while talented musician Kei joins Soo Ho's collaborative…

Maison de Police

7.4

Makino Hiyori is a rookie detective who is passionate about her work. One day, a video clip depicting a person being burned alive, is posted on the internet. Investigators believe this is a copycat crime of a murder…

Lam Suet

Lam Suet is a Hong Kong actor born in Tianjin, China. He came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979. In the mid-nineteen-eighties, he started working on movie sets, doing different roles, from lighting and props to stage manager and set and script supervisor. He gradually developed an interest in acting and…

Kanda Masaki

Masaki Kanda is a Japanese actor. His ex-wife is singer Seiko Matsuda whom he married in 1985 and they divorced in 1997 and their daughter is Sayaka Kanda who was also a singer and committed suicide by jumping from an upper floor of the hotel on December 18, 2021. Kanda was recruited by actor Ishihara…

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Honjo Manami

Honjo Manami is a Japanese talent, actress, voice actress, narrator, and essayist born in Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name is Sawada Manami (沢田まなみ). She is represented by Acura Inc., a talent agency. She spent her early years in Tokyo before moving to Osaka and Hyogo at the age of 4, where she…

Yanagisawa Shinichi

Yanagisawa Shinichi was a Japanese jazz singer, actor, voice actor, welfare activist, vaudevillian, and lyricist from Tokyo. He was affiliated with M-Three and served as honorary president of the NPO Japan Abilities Association and honorary director of the Kima Makan in Higashiyamato. During World War…

Wu Nien Chen

Wu Nien Chen is a Taiwanese writer, lyricist, screenwriter, director and actor. After writing his first screenplay in 1978, he became a leading member of Taiwan's New Wave Cinema movement throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He also starred in Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" (2000). He is the first person in history…

Choi Moo Ryong

Choi Moo Ryong was born in Paju, Gyeonggi province, Korea. He was one of the popular actors of the 1960s, along with Shin Young Kyun and Kim Jin Kyu. Choi gained popularity for his handsome appearance and masculine image. Choi's personal life was as dramatic as his starred films, so he always garnered…

Nathan Boyd

Nathaniel Christian Boyd is an Actor, Director, and Screenwriter in Mainland China. He was born in Los Angeles, USA in 1981. He attended the University of Los Angeles and majored in International Relations and Asian Studies. Influenced by his major, and wanting to understand Asian and Chinese culture,…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…