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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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…