Hayashi Tsuchitaro

Hayashi Tsuchitaro was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. His interest in movies began during the era of silent films, leading him to frequent the Chiezo Production Studio in Sagano, run by Kataoka Chiezo. In April 1937, at age 15, he joined the sound department of Nikkatsu's Kyoto Studio…

Totsuka Mutsuo

Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…

Tamiya Torahiko

Tamiya Torahiko was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo and raised in Kobe. Due to his father's seafaring job, he moved frequently. Tamiya attended the First Kobe Middle School and the Third Higher School, graduating in 1933. He studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University, where he participated…

Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Kyozuka Masako

Kyozuka Masako, born Hiratsuka Masako (平塚マサ子) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Tochigi Prefectural Sano High School (栃木県立佐野高等学校) in 1946 and joined the Shinpa (新派) theater group as a research student. She gained recognition from screenwriter…

Settsu Mowa

Mowa Settsu was a Japanese novelist, golf critic, and golf historian. After gaining prominence as a humorist novelist in magazines like 'Shinseinen,' he authored numerous golf-related books as a golf historian, contributing to the construction of golf facilities and golf courses. He entered the Keio…

Gacha Plienwithi

Gacha Plienwithi was a Thai actor of Pakistani descent born in Ban Pong district, Ratchaburi, Siam. Throughout his career, he primarily played villains. Gacha got his breakthrough role as an actor with the leading role in the 1956 film "Phrai Kwang" ( ไพรกว้าง). Afterwards, he was selected…

Haranomoto Kotobuki

Hananomoto Kotobuki I, born Kato Ryuichiro (加藤龍一郎), was a Japanese actor and traditional dancer, serving as the 15th generation head of the Hananomoto school. He was born in Mizi, Hiroshima, Japan. His father, Hananomoto Aoi, was the 14th generation head of the school. His wife, Hananomoto…

Dazai Hisao

Dazai Hisao was a Japanese actor born in Senzoku, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. During middle school, due to the impact of military training where he was fired at close range by a machine gun, his hearing deteriorated slightly, and since then, his voice became about one octave higher than others. Although…

Okamoto Yoshihiko

Okamoto Yoshihiko was a Japanese film director, television drama director, and journalist, born in Korea during the Japanese colonial period. He attended the Army Officer School (陸軍士官学校) and witnessed Japan's defeat in World War II. Afterward, he joined the Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党)…

Valentine

8.2

Through a car accident, Keng a 'kathoei', or ladyboy, swaps bodies with Prae, a 'thom' or butch lesbian. From the moment they wake up in the hospital and realize their predicament, they try to get their own bodies…

Sanjuman-nin no Kiseki - Nidome no Happi Basudei

7.0

25-year-old Naoko is diagnosed with leukemia in 1989 when there was no Japanese network for bone-marrow donors. In the hospital, she meets Misawa, a young man who spends his time trying to create such a network. She…

Sine Novela: Love Me Again

10.0

The intertwined love and lives of Louie , Lily and Elsa. Elsa and Lily are best friends despite their social differences. Elsa's family owns the hospital where Lily and her boyfriend Louie work as a nurse and as a…

Osaka Hamlet

7.1

"Osaka Hamlet" tells the story of the Kubo family and their life in Osaka. The mother, a hospital attendant by day, a club hostess at night — raises three sons with their uncle. There is Hasanori - the skinny-but-spunky…

Aspirin

Kang Jae Goo, a detective in the homicide squad who suffers from a chronic cold due to excessive work and stress, receives regular hospital treatment for severe insomnia and dizziness. As his aspirin dosage increases…

Burning Rose

6.2

Yang Lin is an exchange student at an England university who comes back to China because of news of her father's potential suicide by falling from a tall hospital building. Refusing to accept the fact that her father…

German + Rain

The 16-year-old Yoshiko (nicknamed "Gorilla Man" by her boss, after a manga character) has lived alone since her parents divorced; her mother is now dead and her father is in hospital. She works as a gardener's assistant…

Pluerk Sanaeha

6.8

The Norasetseranee is a noble and prosperous family that consists of three members: Dr. Palisa or “Pann”, the eldest sister who is a dermatologist and the director of the Norasetseranee Hospital; Patalee or “Pinn”,…

Memory of Love

5.6

A woman, He Sizhu, and her lover, Chen Mo, are in a car accident. When she wakes up at the hospital where her husband is a surgeon, she has forgotten everything. Her lover has become a stranger, but he wants her back.…