Ayano Mashiro

Ayano Mashiro, born in Tōyako, Hokkaido, is a Japanese singer managed by Sacra Music and represented by Creative Office Cue. She released her first single "ideal white" on October 22, 2014, which is used as the opening theme to the 2014 anime television series Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works.…

Jung Jae Hwan

Jung Gwang Cheol, later legally changed to Jung Jae Hwan, is a South Korean comedian, actor, singer, broadcaster, essayist, professor, and businessman. He dropped out of Seoul Technical High School but later passed the High School Graduation Certification Examination. After quitting university to pursue…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Nishioka Yoshinobu

Nishioka Yoshinobu was a Japanese art director and film producer born in Asuka, Nara, Japan. While studying at the Faculty of Literature at Hosei University, he was conscripted and experienced the end of World War II on the Korean Peninsula. He was detained in the Soviet Union until 1947, and upon returning…

Gomi Kunitaro

He moved to Tokyo, and in 1900 (Meiji 33), when he was 25 years old, he joined the "Takada Minoru Ichiza", which was presided over by the new school Minoru Takada, and made many appearances in Hongo, Tokyo. In 1908 (Meiji 41), Yoshizawa Shoten started appearing in the movie studio Yoshizawa Shoten Meguro…

Akagi Keiichiro

Born Akatsuka Chikahiro in Tokyo, Akagi and his family moved to Shonan, during World War II, to avoid air attacks, eventually settling in Hayama. His childhood was largely a pleasant affair, though it was sometimes punctuated by hardships typical for most Japanese families during the postwar years.…

Kobayashi Tokuji

Kobayashi Tokuji was a Japanese actor from Hyogo, Japan, born in Okayama. He worked as a supporting actor at Shochiku, appearing in about 200 films at the Kamata and Ofuna studios. Initially, he dropped out of Okayama City Industrial School and later formed a student theater group that toured various…

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,…

Lee Jung Hyun

Lee Jung Hyun is a Korean pop singer and actress under Pine Tree Entertainment. She is widely known as "The Techno Warrior" or "The Techno Queen", but due to other singers singing Techno, she changed her title to "The Queen of Transformation". Her English name is Ava and her Japanese name is Hyony.…

Li Xian

Li Xian is a Chinese actor best known for his roles in the dramas Who Sleeps My Bro (2016), Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016), Tientsin Mystic (2017), Only Side by Side with You (2018), Go Go Squid! (2019) and Sword Dynasty (2019). Li Xian was born at Jingzhou, Hubei, China. He studied at Hubei Jingzhou…

Hula Girl to Inu no Choco

6.0

Sae is a young woman who lives in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. One day, she visits the Spa Resort Hawaiians and becomes fascinated by the women hula dancing. By March 11, 2011, Sae enjoys her job hula dancing…

Doom+5

7.1

January 23rd, 2015. While all of Hong Kong’s 8 million citizens are still immersed in their own thoughts of whether the stock market will achieve a new high, still continuing to struggle over whether their love relationships…

Racist Counter

A documentary that follows people who are confronting racist demonstrations of nativism that are being held in various parts of Japan, including Shin-Okubo, such as hate speeches by citizens' associations that do not…

Trace of Breath

Documentary about Sato Teiichi's daily life spent doing everything by hand at his seed shop in Rikuzentakata City, which was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. Sato's home-cum-shop was swept…

Chocolate Cake and Horyuji Temple

Autobiographical documentary by director Mukai Keita, who was raised in an orphanage after his mother died when he was a child. The director's interior life comes into view through his interviews with friends from…

Patiharn

6.1

Twelve stories with a common theme of miracles. An all-star cast with special guest stars every segment. Seg 1: Real Love / Rak Thae Seg 2: If / Tha (Parts 1 & 2) Seg 3: Choose / Luew (Parts 1 & 2) Seg 4: Love Never…

Futagashira Season 2

7.9

The cheerful, big-hearted Benzo and cool, sharp Soji are two thieves with the motto “steal all dirty money without threats or murder” and carry out their “work” with brilliance. During the day, Benzo does food…

Bonsai Warrior

A lone warrior cutting his way through the world of bonsai armed only with a strong Japanese spirit, skill, and his late master’s golden scissors. Hirao Masashi is the last apprentice of bonsai master Kato Saburo,…

Wang Mao

The male protagonist who returned from Shaolin Temple's martial arts training has a crush on the silly and sweet heroine - his childhood sweetheart but he gets rejected by the girl's father. The young man has no property…

My Running Shadow

7.7

Xiu Zhi, 17, is about to board a plane with his father, who has come from the US to take him back to further his education. His father had originally moved there when Xiu Zhi was only 11 months old, but Xiu Zhi's mother,…