Kaihara Yukio

Kaihara Yukio was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Municipal Commercial School and began his career at Nikkan Kyoto Film Studio in 1935. His earliest recorded work was on the film Kojin Okichi: Kurofune Jowa, released in 1937. That same year, he worked as the sound…

Isomura Chikako

Isomura Chikako was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ueda Hisako (上田寿子). She was affiliated with M Three and was a former representative of the theater company Zokei. She graduated from Nara Women's Higher Normal School. In April 1939, she joined the Art Little Theater…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Akio Nishizawa

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He founded an animation production company WAO World Co., Ltd. in 2000. He started the activity as a movie director writing the screenplay himself. He aimed at making films which were able to be enjoyed by parents and children and be filled with the messages to enrich their…

Kushida Kazuyoshi

Kazuyoshi Kushida (born in 1942) is an actor, director and the artistic manager of the Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre. After studying acting at Haiyu-za, in 1965, he decides to join the theatre company Bungaku-za.

Suzuki Mitsue

Born in Kanda Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo (currently Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo ). and dropped out of Tokyo City First High School (currently Fukagawa High School, Tokyo ). She studied under Masao Inoue and took her first stage in 1932 . In 1942, she formed a theater company Bunkaza with her husband Takashi Sasaki…

Ono Takehiko

Ono Takehiko is a Japanese actor, born on August 1st, 1942 in Tokyo, Japan. He acted in more than 65 dramas. (Source: Dramawiki)

Kitakoji Isamitsu

Kitakoji Isamitsu was a Japanese poet and aristocrat, holding the title of viscount. He was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Kitakoji Suketake and Yanagiwara Byakuren (柳原白蓮), a poet. Isamitsu was also a cousin of Emperor Showa, born just six days after him. The family faced financial difficulties,…

Tsunehiko Kasahara

Former rugby player, actor. Born in Tokyo City Koishikawa Ward. As a rugby player, his main positions during his active career were Fullback (FB) and Five Eighth (FE). After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Nikkatsu and became an actor. His last movie apperance was in 1942. It is not known…

Special Force Behind The Enemy Line

7.9

A story taking place between Chinese and Burmese borders that follows a four-man team infiltrating enemy territory on a rescue mission. In the summer of 1942, the Japanese launched a barrage of attacks which caused…

I Am Older than My Grandmother

It tells the story of Zhai Xing Xing, a chemistry whiz, who accidentally travels back in time to 1942 and participates in the anti-Japanese war alongside her 20-year-old grandmother, Chen Feng Ying. (Source: Chinese…

In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia

7.0

In Malaysia, Imamura follows one false lead after another as he tries to locate unreturned Japanese who had given up the culture of their birth to integrate with Malaysian society. These wrong turns take the filmmaker…

Chong Sheng

It tells the story of the legendary first half years of Li Yu Qin's life, who was the last noble lady of Chinese history and one of the last wives of Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty. We get to know the…

The Rainbow Over The River Kwai

Documentary about the so-called Death Railway built by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War. In-depth coverage of Nagase Takashi, who was stationed in Thailand as an army interpreter and spent his life…

Mhom

'Mhom', a poem that 'Mhom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj' loved the most, inspired by his own life during the World War II era. It is a story about an Alsatian dog and a Thai dog named 'Mhom', The story is a simulation of…

Admiral Yamamoto

7.3

In the late 1930's (Show Period 14), two sides in Japan are conflicted between joining Germany and Italy in a military alliance. At this time, Isoroku Yamamoto, who strongly opposed the alliance, is appointed Commander-in-Chief…