Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Shimizu Kinichi

Shimizu Kinichi was a Japanese comedian and film actor born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He began his career at 16 in Tokyo, becoming a disciple of Shimizu Kintaro, a leader in Asakusa Opera. During this period, he took the name Shimizu Kinichi and had a child with actress Mine Rei. After Kintaro's death…

Wakayama Kiichiro

Wakayama Kiichiro is a Japanese actor and director born on November 30, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. On November 28, 2013, he was arrested by the Chiba Prefectural Police Matsudo Police Department for violating the Stimulant Control Law for possessing a small amount of stimulants at his home in Minami-Azabu.…

Sakamoto Takeshi

Sakamoto Takeshi was a Japanese actor born in Sakagoshi, Ago, Hyogo, Japan. His real name was Nagai Takehei (永石武平). After graduating from Sakagoshi Elementary School, he initially worked at a watch shop in Osaka, Japan. However, his life took a turn when he attended a magic show performed by…

Tono Eijiro

Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…

Shimizu Hiroshi

Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…

Takatsu Sumio

Takatsu Sumio was a Japanese actor, director, and playwright born in Mukden, Manchukuo. After dropping out of Waseda University's First Literature Department, he joined the Seihai Theater Company. In 1979, after leaving the theater company Seihai, he founded the theater company Kimasha and has since…

Otani Kijaku

Otani Kijaku was a Japanese actor born in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He joined Yokota Shokai in the last years of the Meiji era and had supporting roles in silent movies mainly starring Onoe Matsunosuke. On September 10, 1912 , Yokota Shokai became Nikkatsu due to the merge with Fukuhodo, Yoshizawa…

Chow Kwun Ling

She may have sung Cantonese opera as well as any Hong Kong diva, but Chow Kwun Ling was 100 percent American. Born in Hawaii and raised in California, Chow learned opera from an early age and performed in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and other west coast communities...Chow and Wong moved back to…

Ichikawa Ennosuke IV

The fourth generation Ichikawa Ennosuke is Kinoshi Takahiko. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, as the eldest son of Ichikawa Danshiro IV. His uncle is the famous Ichikawa Ennosuke III, father of the actor Kagawa Teruyuki. He graduated from Keio University in 1998 with specialization in Japanese literature.…

The Down

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A well-known Thai writer/publisher Nong Wongthanong travelled to Italy last year. During the trip he saw several people with Down syndrome living a normal life, mingling with “ordinary” people in society. He looks…

Onna Kazoku

Three sisters of the Fujieda family return to a mountain village where patriarchal traditions remain in place. Their mother and grandmother welcome them home at a time when a festival will take place. This is a festival…

Let's Live Together with Hwang Shin Hye

Middle-aged single female stars shares the practical concerns and joys and sorrows of single moms raising children alone after divorce, they gathered weekly at the home where Hwang Shin Hye lives, spending their leisure…

Haburashi / Onna Tomodachi

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They were high school classmates, spent their youth together in the school choir and certainly had similar dreams. But one rainy night 20 years later, Furusawa Mizue suddenly shows up at the home of popular scriptwriter…

Tom Yum Goong 2

7.0

Kham refuses to sell his elephant Khon to the trader, Suchart Vilawandei who plans on selling it to someone who works for the gangster LC. Kham later finds Vilawandei dead at his home in Bangkok, and his two nieces,…

Kariya Keibu Series 14: Kyoto Belly Dance Satsujin Jiken

Inspector Kariya challenges the mystery of serial murders that occur in the world of Hanayagi in Kyoto. A popular Kabuki actor was poisoned and killed at his home. Then, a geisha who was allegedly in a romantic relationship…

My Retirement, My Life

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Sano Michitaro’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Sano Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work and his daughter though tells him to start doing housework.…