Funahashi Seiichi

Seiichi Funabashi was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Mito High School and later from the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. His younger brother, Kazuo Funabashi, was a screenwriter. Seiichi was a member of the Japan Art Academy and was recognized as a Person…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Yamaoka Sohachi

Yamaoka Sohachi was a Japanese novelist and writer born in Koide, Kitauonuma, Niigata. He was active mainly in historical novels. In 1920, he dropped out of high school. He then moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Ministry of Communications' research institute while working as a literary technician…

Park Shi Chun

Park Soon Dong, known professionally as Park Shi Chun, was a South Korean director, producer and music composer. He attended Miryang Public Primary School but he dropped out after his father fell ill and the family had to spend money on his medical treatment. He made his debut in 1931 when he composed…

Aono Hirayoshi

Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Azabu-ku, Roppongi (now Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi). His birthplace had the long-established Japanese confectionery shop "Aono Sohonpo", and the popular product "Umochi" was also made by Aono's suggestion "a confectionery that can be eaten in the dressing room without…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Park Kyu Chae

Park Kyu Chae was a South Korean actor. He graduated from Yangjeong High School and later attended Korea University but dropped out of the Agriculture program. He later completed the coursework in Journalism at the same university and obtained a master's degree in Business Administration from Kyung…

Hyun Mee

Kim Myung Seon, known by the stage name of Hyun Mee, is a North Korean singer. She was born in Pyongyang (now North Korea's capital) during the Japanese colonial period and she lived there during her childhood until she and her family were forced to flee Korea in 1951 when the Korean War was in full…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Nishioka Yoshinobu

Nishioka Yoshinobu was a Japanese art director and film producer born in Asuka, Nara, Japan. While studying at the Faculty of Literature at Hosei University, he was conscripted and experienced the end of World War II on the Korean Peninsula. He was detained in the Soviet Union until 1947, and upon returning…

Last Chestnuts

One day, a mother who used to be hospitalized in Tokyo comes to Kashihara city in Nara prefecture to find her son. But the only clue she has is the digital camera which her son forgot at the hospital. (Source: MUBI)

Swing me Again

4.0

78-year-old Kenzaburo was once the trumpet player for a legendary jazz band. For the past 50 years Kenzaburo has been confined in a hospital due to having Hansen's disease (leprosy). Now, Kenzaburo sets out to fulfill…

Kyukei no Koya

6.5

Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, Kenichiro Nogami is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this reason, Kenichiro Nogami…

Lovers in the Water

After some temporarily successful treatment, the terminally ill Tan Bingjian, 30, discharges himself from hospital, leaves his job, and returns to his hometown Longtan in Youyang municipality during the New Year holiday.…

Wu Ying Deng Xia

6.0

Lu Ya Nan, Chen Yu Jing, He Mei Fen and Pan Jia Hui graduated from medical school and entered Enron Hospital. The intense work and frequent accidents made them have a deep understanding of doctors. Xiao Ke Ming, director…

Flowers Blooming at the End of the World

10.0

Saki and Taiyo have been suffering from kidney disease since childhood and have been waiting for transplant surgery. The two, who are attracted to each other, escape from the hospital, and embark on a “love escape”.…

Sentimental Yasuko

1.0

Yasuko (Azusa Okamoto), who works at a club, is strangled by someone and becomes unconscious. Yasuko is sent to the hospital. The police checks the crime scene and determines that an attempted murder took place. The…

Mama and Papa

The sad story of three sisters who overcame their harsh fate. Min Cheol's wife is pregnant, and he has been saving up for her hospital costs. But he loses his money to his brother-in-law Man Soo. He borrows money from…

Ang Nerseri

10.0

Cocoy, 12, takes on a great responsibility of taking care of his older siblings while his mother, Mai, goes to the province to get money to pay the expensive hospital bills for her three mentally sick children. His…

Last Hope

There are still a lot of elderly patients who have to face fate alone. The value in the body does not reduce it. You can be a part of helping to sustain these porcelain life. The Last Hope at the Suan Dok Hospital…