Ito Daisuke

Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Kawazu Seizaburo

Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…

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…

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

Kanda Takashi

Kanda Takashi, born Kanda Sumitaka (神田澄孝) in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Kakashi Pro (かかしプロ), Amachi Proze (アマチプロゼ), and Kitagawa Office (北川事務所). He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Department of French Literature,…

Kanze Hideo

Kanze Hideo was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojo VII, a descendant of Kanami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather, Kanze made…

Arishima Ichiro

Arishima Ichiro, born Oshima Tadao (大島忠雄) in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of a steel factory owner. After attending Hioki Elementary School (日置尋常小学校) and Nagoya Middle School (名古屋中学校), where he developed an interest in theater, he…

Taniguchi Senkichi

Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. (a precursor to Toho) in 1933 and began working as an assistant director to Kajirō Yamamoto alongside his longtime friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker,…

Minakaze Yoko

Minakaze Yoko was a Japanese actress affiliated with the Mingei Theatre Company. She was born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Her husband, Wakasugi Mitsuo, was a film director and producer, and their daughter, Wakasugi Tamami, is also an actress. Former Takarazuka Moon Troupe member Satsuki Rise was a distant…

Yuna's Day

4.0

Yuna, a high school girl who was rejected by her unrequited crush, decides to have plastic surgery. Scared to go to the hospital by herself, Yuna asks her friend Sue to leave school and go play together. (Source: Watcha)

Female Wars: The Reason for Women

5.2

Ip Se is a caregiver with a body so full and voluptuous her clothes might burst off of her any time. All the men in her hospital ward wish dearly to be touched and cared by her. But all she has eyes for is her husband…

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…

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:…

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)…

Boku no Inochi

7.3

Kawada Michiyo (Kimura Yoshino) lives happily with her husband Daisuke (Kitamura Kazuki) and their three sons. But one day, their lively 4-year-old second son Yuhei (Yokoyama Ayumu) who loves sports, catches a cold…

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…