Matsuzaki Makoto

Matsuzaki Makoto was a former Japanese actor and former Self-Defense Forces member. His real name was Sawai Ichiro (澤井一郎). His father was the actor Sawai Saburo (沢井三郎). He joined the Self-Defense Forces in 1957 and was discharged in 1959. He became famous for serving as the cushion carrier…

Mano Tsuruko

She appeared on the stage of Tsukiji-za and Moulin Rouge Shinjuku-za , but joined Toho in 1939 (Showa 14) . Beside being a movie actress, she also worked in a tobacco shop, which is her mother's business. In 1940 (Showa 16), she made her movie debut with the movie " Snake Princess " directed by Teinosuke…

Takehisa Chieko

Takehisa Chieko was a Japanese actress from Akita Prefecture who was active in the Showa period. After moving to Tokyo she started at Komatsugawa High School, but entered the movie world at the age of 15 and dropped out. She joined the Enomoto troupe Casino Foley in 1930 at the age of 18. She then she…

Kim Hee Kap

Kim Hee Kap was a South Korean comedian and actor. He graduated from Hoeryeong Public Commercial School and was later enrolled in the Commerce program at Meiji University in Japan before dropping out when he returned to Korea. He worked behind the scenes at the Bando Theater Company as an assistant…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

Ishiguro Tatsuya

Ishiguro Tatsuya was a Japanese actor born in Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from Okayama Prefectural Daiichi Junior High School. He participated in the new Tsukiji Theater Company, which was split from the Tsukiji Small Theater, and appeared in stage plays. However, on August 19, 1940, he was arrested…

Kira Zhang

Kira Zhang Yahan, a Chinese actress, model and singer, born in Tianjin and graduated from Beijing Film Academy. She has loved acting since she was a child and began to receive three years of professional dance training at the age of 12 and started acting on stage at the age of 18. Kira debuted in 2004…

Darlene Catly Malimas

In 2010, Darlene's first feature film, "Senorita" competed at the prestigious Festival del Film Locarno. Her second feature, "Aparisyon" had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, won the NETPAC Award in Hawaii, Audience Choice in France. . Last June 2017, the Museum of…

Otabe Michimaro

Otabe Michimaro, born Toki Michimaro ((釈通麿) in Yanaga, Sanmon, Fukuoka, Japan was a Japanese actor and chief priest. He was also known as Otabe Doma (小田部道磨). The son of a temple family in Yanagawa Town, he was drafted into the Pacific War at the age of 18. After returning, he attended…

Miyagawa Kazuo

Miyagawa Kazuo was a leading film photographer in the Japanese film industry. He is known to the world as a photographer of works directed by Inagaki Hiroshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira, etc. After graduating from Kyoto Commercial High School, he joined Nikki Kyoto at the age of 18 as an assistant…

Ketsudan

A hostess is found dead, and while Egi Hideya is chasing a suspicious man who appears on a security camera tape, politician Ashida Shunya emerges on the line of investigation. It turns out that his name was mentioned…

Flowers Bloom in Winter

8.2

Two girls of similar faces walked into Ying Hao Dong's life one after the other. The former, like her name, the Epiphyllum flower, withered in a turn of events. The former, also similar to her name, the Jasmine flower,…

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…

New Way of the Dragon

8.0

In the early years of the Republic of China, the king of Nanquan, Qiu Zhen Rong, and the North-legged Du Duo Hao made a battle in the battle against Taiwan. When Qiu Zhen Rong first got 10 years old, he witnessed the…

Seoul Station

In the midst of a zombie apocalypse in Seoul, South Korea, a girl, her father, and her boyfriend must overcome their personal conflicts to survive. (Source: San Pablo Movies BiliBili) ~~ Release dates: Apr 5, 2016…

Assatsu no Umi: Dai Ni-sho — Henoko

This documentary is all about the protestors who try to disrupt the building of the new American base on Okinawa and the police response against it. In December 2013, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima approved a landfill…

Reborn from the Dust

5.0

Shortly after Su Zu was born, she was adopted by Su Qin, a prostitute. Therefore, the neighbors all assumed Su Zu would become a prostitute in the future. Not accepting her fate, Su Zu met a young rich boy Lin San…

Fragile

Suyama, an assistant director for a television news show, travels to Nishinari to search for a friend who has gone missing. He joins forces with a schizophrenic man named Motoyama he meets there and begins to shoot…

Shuttlecock

6.1

Remarried parents die in a car accident. Their three children receive 100 million won ($100,000 USD) from insurance benefits. Eun Joo, who is the eldest child, disappears with the money. 18-year-old Min Jae, who has…

Magic Kimono

Keiko, who lost everything in the Great Hanshin Earthquake, has lived a lonely life on her own for the past 20 years. Keiko reluctantly takes part in a kimono show in the Latvian capital of Riga. Backstage during the…