Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Fujiki Yu

Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…

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…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Yoshikawa Mitsuko

Yoshikawa Mitsuko was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Yoshikawa Man (吉川マン). After graduating from Taimei Elementary School, she joined the Shochiku Kinema Research Institute in 1924 and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios in 1925. The following year,…

Kim Hyun Sik

Kim Hyun Sik was a South Korean singer and one of the most notable musicians of the 1980s. He attended Myongji High School but dropped out because music was always his main interest. He later passed the high school certification test but never attended college. He began working on his first album, "Spring…

Shashwad Babalgaon

Shashwad Basavaraj Babalgaon, known by his stage name "Ip Man Babalgaon," is a multifaceted individual hailing from Maharashtra, India. He has earned recognition in various fields, including martial arts, stunt performance, graphic design, web development, app development, UI/UX design, authorship,…

Ubukata Kenichiro

Ubukata Kenichiro was a Japanese actor born in Aramaki, Niihari, Tone, Gunma, Japan. After attending Gunma Normal School, he graduated from Kansai University's Faculty of Law and became a teacher at Nihonbashi Women's School. In 1916, he began his acting career with Osanai Kaoru's New Theater. He was…

Prince Yeon San

The death of his birth mother, Queen Yun, leaves a deep wound and longing in little Yeon San's heart. He continues to struggle with his quest for maternal love and lives a life of debauchery when Jang Nok Su enters…

Shinano no Colombo Jiken File 10

Accidental death or murder? The sadness of a daughter who lost her father. Ikeno Mariko, a photoshop owner, was asked by Shimizu Shuji, who runs a design office, about a photo taken by her father who died a year earlier.…

Dr. Koishi no Jiken Chart 3: Dokuyaku

4.0

The death of millionaire Sakurai Seiichiro sparks an ugly battle amongst his three daughters over his inheritance. When one of Sakurai's daughters is poisoned to death, Dr. Koishi's expertise is called upon to solve…

Jakkotai

Four death row inmates with unique personalities are given a stay of execution with the condition that they go on a suicide mission as ordered by the Shogun. Their team is called the "Jakkotai". Dragged into this is…

Life Against the Light: The White Moonlight Awakening Project

7.0

In death, Shu Shu finds out she and her children are actually cannon fodder characters in a novel with tragic fates. Now enlightened with knowledge of their outcome, she travels to the future to rescue them. The biggest…

Paper Crane Palanquin

The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to overthrow the Shogunate. (Source: Letterboxd)

Three Lives, Three Worlds, White Twilight Tears

The death of Bai Zhen shocks the world. After taking revenge, Zhe Yan discovers something suspicious about the situation. At this time, a youth named Ge Yun enters his life. The love and hatred between Ge Yun, Zhe…

Sweet Home

8.7

Following the death of his family in an accident, loner Cha Hyun Soo moves to a new apartment. His quiet life is soon disturbed by strange incidents that start occurring in his apartment, and throughout Korea. As people…

Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow

8.9

Jang Uk returns from death, and three years later, the story of the mages unfolds anew. Jang Uk becomes a hunter of the soul-shifters when a young woman, a prisoner in her own home, seeks his help to reclaim her freedom.…