Joe Yamanaka

Yamanaka Joe was a Japanese musician, actor, and professional boxer from Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His real name is Yamanaka Akira and his ring name during his professional boxer days was Jo Akira. Born as the only mixed-race child of the seven siblings. His father is "African-American". He…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Matsumura Tatsuo

Matsumura Tatsuo was born December 18, 1914 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa as the third son of his family. His father, Takeshige, served as a board member for Nippon Columbia. During college, he belonged to a rugby club. In 1938, he graduated from Hosei University and formed a theater troupe. He was recruited…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Mori Kikue

Mori Kikue, born Kobayashi Kiku in Numata, Tone, Gunma, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She dropped out of Gunma Prefectural Takasaki Girls' High School and in 1925, joined the Shin Geki Research Institute as a member of its first class. In 1929, she made her stage debut with the comedy troupe Kigekiza…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Shiomi Yo

Shiomi Yo, born Katasayama Kisaburo (片山喜三郎) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Previously known as Shiomi Shigeru (汐見蓊), he pursued a career in theater after leaving Keio University’s Faculty of Economics in 1917. In 1920, Shiomi co-founded the New Theater Group Kenkyiza with Ishikawa…

Jeon Yu Seong

Jeon Yu Seong was a South Korean comedian. He graduated from Seorabeol Arts High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Theater from Seorabeol University of Arts. He made his debut as part of a theater troupe in 1967 and, in 1969, he officially debuted as a special comedy writer for TBC Oriental…

Ashikawa Yoshimi

Ashikawa Yoshimi, born Kono Yoshimi (河野芳美), is a Japanese actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Ono Gakuen Women's High School (小野学園女子高等学校) and is affiliated with Office Mitsui (オフィス三井). She is also known by the name Awaya Yoshimi (粟屋芳美)…

Kitamura Kazuo

Kitamura Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Takehaya, Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Arts Department of Waseda University's Faculty of Literature. Kitamura was associated with the Bungakuza theater company, where he began as a research student in 1950 and became a full…

Tamayura

5.5

Medical drama based on a true story. Highlights problems in Japan's medical system through the eyes of a rookie hospital administrative assistant. Former flight attendant Kazuyo gets a job as an administrative assistant…

Abomination

6.0

A young woman is found unconscious in a city street – claims to be another person who was brutally murdered two months earlier – escapes from a psychiatric hospital in order to prove her identity and find the truth…

Family Secret

5.9

The peaceful existence of an ordinary family is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious nanny. This is a story about unraveling a truth that has been kept secret for many years. Twenty years ago, Wu Lihua (Rong Rong)…

The King of Guns

7.5

During the beginning of year 1945 in the Northeast region, Lu Yinghao returns from military school in the Soviet Union for his father's birthday celebrations at An Tai Hospital. He arrives just in time to witness the…

Kokdu: A Story Of Guardian Angels

Siblings Su Min and Dong Min trade their grandmother's shoes for a puppy they discovered at the market. When the mortally ill old woman is admitted to the hospital and pines for her lost footwear, the two children…

Shiori

6.7

Takano Masaya lives apart from his father Minoru and younger sister Haruka. His mother died when he was young. He works as a physical therapist at a hospital. One day, his father Minoru enters the hospital. Watching…

You Are My Family

6.5

Three babies born at the same time during the Great Tangshan earthquake get mixed up in the chaos. Twenty years later, a mother discovers that the son she raised is not her real son. It begins in the maternity ward…

Underground

Bangis, a gravedigger living inside a cemetery mausoleum, is pushed to the limit when his daughter becomes critically ill. With no other means to bring her to a hospital for proper medication, he's left with one option:…

Time to Say Goodbye

Life is full of suffering and happiness, but being separated from the loved one is quite tormenting. This drama tells a story of Chen Mei Hui, a chief nurse at the palliative-care ward of Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital. Her…

Minami no Teiou ZERO

5.9

Manda Ginjiro's father, Koichiro, committed suicide due to the acts of Akuto's president. Due to the shock, his mother lives in the hospital lying in bed. Ginjiro had excellent grades but now works to earn money for…