Yamazaki Toyoko

Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…

Eddie Garcia

Eduardo Verchez García, professionally known as Eddie García, is a Filipino film actor and director. Born to Antonio García and Vicenta Verchez on May 2, 1929 in Sorsogon, Sorsogon, he served with the Philippine Scouts right after World War II and was stationed as a military policeman in Okinawa,…

Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Lee Heung Kam

Lee Heung Kam was a veteran Cantonese opera and TVB actress from Hong Kong. She joined the entertainment industry when she was 16 years old. Lee was briefly married to Cantonese opera star, Siu Chung Kwan (d. 2005), with whom she had a daughter. Divorced in 1957, her ex-husband and daughter left for…

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Tony Fish

Yu Bing Xian, also known as nickname Da Bing or his English name Tony Fish, was a Taiwanese actor and television host. In 1999, Fish rose to prominence in Taiwan as one of the cohosts of the variety show, "Shao Nian Bing Tuan Qi Kai De Sheng." He became a well known for his impersonations of politicians…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Ichikawa Kon

Ichikawa Kon was a Japanese director born in Ujiyamada, Mie. He has worked on a wide range of films, from entertainment films to documentaries to TV historical dramas, and was involved in film production for a long time. His major directorial films include "The Burmese Harp," "Flame," "Ototo," "Key,"…

Princess V. Na Pramuanmarg

HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit was born Her Serene Highness Princess (Mom Chao) to her author parents His Highness Prince Bidyalongkorn and HSH Princess Princess Pornpimolpan Rajani (Voravarn). Educated at Mater Dei School and the Finishing Course in Bangkok, she worked as a secretary for her poet father,…

Hell Hole

"Hell Hole" consists of three short stories connected by characters. From the past to modern times, the story scene is set in the same place that first was a hospital, later converted into a school, and at last into…

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Nguyen was reported for a car theft and ended up being shot nine times by police officer Chen Chung Wen. Nguyen bled to death on the way to the hospital. The public supported Chen’s use of firearms against the runaway…

2022

Jeung Ji Ling stood up for her friend Yi Yan, but the consequences were unexpected. The bully was injured and admitted to the hospital, and the parents of the other party asked to call the police. The two are in the…

Island Nation: Hoping

8.1

Two doctors helping abandoned medical workers and patients to fight against the ruthless government. The SARS epidemic, an infection in the municipal Bo Ai Hospital, exploded in Taiwan of ignorance and miscalculated…

Omokage

Takewaki Shoichi, who retired at the age of 65 as a trading company man, collapses in a subway on the way home from a farewell party and is taken to the intensive care unit of a hospital. Shoichi, who has not regained…

Haikei, Kimyona Otonari-sama

Yamamura Riku, a high school student who was involved in a traffic accident, finds himself in a hospital bed a few days later. Immediately after that, two patients in the same room - high school teacher Kuwabe Tatsuro…

Watashi to Sensei to Piano

7.5

Okinawa, Japan. Momoko loved the piano and attended a school that had one. Then, the war arrived, and she was drafted to work in an army hospital. Could she survive the war through the power of music? (Source: Japanese…

Flowers

Upon learning that today may be the grandfather’s last day, the mother and daughter bring condolence flowers to the hospital. Their relatives come as well. But the flowers arrive before the grandfather’s death,…

Ju Hee from 5 to 7

Ju Hee, a professor of theater, is diagnosed with a possible malignant tumor at the hospital. She goes back to school and tries to settle her affairs, but many people come to her lab out of the blue. (Source: BIFF)…

Cinderella Girl

Otowa had one of her legs amputated due to illness when she was 12 years old. Since then, she has been in and out of hospital and was unable to attend her junior high school graduation ceremony. Otowa's classmates…