German Moreno

German Molina Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs and "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, actor, comedian, and talent manager. Moreno was born to Jose Moreno y Caloy (Pepe), a Spanish Filipino mestizo, and Aurora Molina, a Filipina. He had one sister, Pilar Moreno Nite. His father died…

Okamoto Kido

Okamoto Kido was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Okamoto Keiji (岡本啓二). He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the age of three, he began studying classical Chinese texts under his father's guidance, and at nine, he began learning Chinese…

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…

Date Shin

In 1925 he became a member of the theater company Tsukijishogekijo, where he made his debut in the play Gasu. When this theater company was disbanded in 1929, he joined forces with, among others, Osamu Takizawa and transferred to the left-wing theater company Tokyo sayokugekijo . There he spent a lot…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Hosokawa Toshiyuki

Hosokawa Toshiyuki was a Japanese actor associated with the Aktor. Born in Fukuoka and raised in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, he completed his education at Yamaguchi Prefectural Toyora High School and briefly attended Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, where he was involved…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Dazai Osamu

Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji in Aomori Prefecture. His father, Genemon, was a landlord. Osamu was born as the sixth son of the Tsushima family. Due to his mother being ill and his father busy working after his birth, he was raised by a nanny for a year before his aunt, Kie, took over until he…

Philip Keung

Philip Keung Ho Man is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. Keung began his acting career as a television actor in 1985 for Asia Television (ATV), and also began appearing in films from 1988. He eventually left ATV in 2010 and became a full-time film actor while occasionally acting in television series…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

The Murky Stream

7.5

A gripping tale of twisted fates unfolds in lawless Joseon, where the once-pristine Gyeonggang River has turned into a murky stream. Jang Si Yul, a man who buries his past to survive as a gangster, Choi Eun, a sharp-minded…

Silent Truth

7.5

The story begins 23 years in the past. Junichi, then a sixth-grade elementary school student, buried a handgun used in a certain incident beneath a cherry blossom tree on the school grounds together with three classmates.…

Assistant of Superstar

7.5

Wang Yu Xi may be an incredibly handsome and wildly popular superstar, but beneath that shining exterior lies a deeply buried secret: he has never really received a quality education. As such, he spends his days living…

Oops! Almost Broke Up

7.6

After breaking up, Chen Jia Wen and Shen Meng find themselves trapped in a repeating day. As they face a series of emotional challenges and confront buried issues, they must work together to break the cycle and move…

Mate

7.6

I am Kenlong, a woman born with beauty, wealth, and a big brain. Everything about me has to be perfect, especially my someone special. Nothing ever shook me, until I met my childhood friend, an innocent childish girl…

Hiru no Yume: Another Side

7.6

The spin-off drama "Hiru no Yume: Another Side" tells a story set in the world of the main drama, connecting to the glamping site episode depicted in Episode 2 of the main series (Season 2). The story depicts Teppei,…

The Foreigner

7.6

Quan, a Nung Chinese, is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love, his teenage daughter, dies in a senseless act of politically…

Lucid Dream

7.4

Dae Ho can purposefully control his dream environment while lucid dreaming. His child gets kidnapped, and in order to unpack the facts he’s buried in his memory, he has to get the help of someone who can send him…

Hyde, Jekyll, Me

7.4

Gu Seo Jin is a third-generation chaebol who runs the theme park Wonder Land. He seemingly has everything — looks, brains, and fortune. But a traumatic incident in his childhood resulted in Seo Jin having a split…

Sweet Sweet

7.6

Tian Tian De is a recently graduated design student who just happens to be a dab hand at making ice cream. Su Mu is an aviation-loving younger man who has struggled to speak after a childhood accident that left him…