Settsu Mowa

Mowa Settsu was a Japanese novelist, golf critic, and golf historian. After gaining prominence as a humorist novelist in magazines like 'Shinseinen,' he authored numerous golf-related books as a golf historian, contributing to the construction of golf facilities and golf courses. He entered the Keio…

Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Iizawa Tadasu

Iizawa Tadasu, born Iizawa Tadasu (伊澤紀) in Wakayama, Japan, was a Japanese playwright, director, and novelist. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School's affiliated elementary school in 1922 and entered Musashi High School (武蔵高等学校) that same year. However, he struggled with…

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Taguchi Kikutei

Born on January 18, 1875 (Meiji 8) in Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-gun , Akita Prefecture (currently Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-shi , Akita Prefecture ) . Graduated from the primary school of Kakunodate,and was apprenticed to a merchant family, 1900 (Meiji 33 years) around, the magazine " new voice Tokyo…

Yagyu Hiroshi

Yagyu Hiroshi was a Japanese actor, host, talent, voice actor, and organizational executive, born in Funajima, Ibaraki, Japan. He graduated from Ibaraki Prefectural Tsuchiura First High School and briefly attended Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine before leaving due to poor eyesight and illness.…

Sunthorn Phu

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, born Phu and known as Sunthorn Phu, was a famous royal poet honoured as the Shakespeare of Thailand. Born in 1786, four years after the birth of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, in what was then Thonburi and today Bangkok, his family home was behind the royal palace. Sometime after his…

Tanaka Hiroaki

Born in Kumamoto Prefecture. A Japanese actor represented by ARI Production, the talent agency of controversial "new religious organization" Happy Science. He has played fictional versions of Happy Science head Okawa Ryuho in two movies based off Okawa's life, Immortal Hero and Twiceborn. On top of…

Lee Yoo Kyung

Lee Yoo Kyung is a South Korean actress.

Ahn Joon Mo

Ahn Joon Mo is a South Korean actor.

Mother Lake

5.8

Set in 2036, famous photographer Fujii goes to a museum near Lake Biwa. He remembers a time twenty years earlier where he had believed that there was a dinosaur, Biwasshi,living in the lake and he had tried to convince…

One-Night Stand

5.2

The temptation of a night that should not have been allowed. Interior designer Ji Yeon is busy finishing the construction of the museum. As she is about to get married, she is extremely busy, but she has even prepared…

They Kill My Mother

'Won Kyeong', Korea's leading toy collector and the owner of the toy museum, 'Toykino', started the business by collecting toys as hobby from childhood. From Samcheongdong to Insadong, and numerous places, 'Toykino'…

Mugonkan

8.0

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an arts museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, which features art works by students before they were sent to fight in WWII. (Source:…

Zhu Dong Jian Kang Duo Lai Mi

Chen Chen decides to return from overseas to China. He joins the Life Science Museum and pursues a career in health education. To promote the concept of active health to the public, especially to his stubborn friends…

A Room of Her Own

8.0

On an island in the Seto Inland Sea, the Teshima Art Museum integrates the serene seaside environment with an architectural structure by Nishizawa Ryue and the artwork "Matrix" by Naito Rei. The remote museum's single…

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest

8.0

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan’s Studio Ghibli. Over…

Forbidden Love

6.8

Shi Yeon is a Nine-Tailed Fox living undercover in the human world. By day, Shi Yeon is an employee at a natural history museum. By night, she's a top-ranking woman warrior in the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, charged with…

Memory of Encaustic Tile

8.0

Shao Xue, Zheng Su Nian, and Zhang Qi are childhood friends who have grown up together. Their parents all work (or have worked) in the antique and museum trade, dedicating their lives to conserving priceless cultural…