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…

Yu Yuan Chi

Yu Yuan Chi was a Taiwanese singer, TV hostess, and actress born in Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan. She was the second daughter of Taiwanese actor and politician Yu Tian (余天) and artist Li Ya Ping (李亞萍). In 2015, she married Chen Jian (陳鑒). In 1993, during her third year of junior high school,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Barbara Yung

Yung was born in Hong Kong to a civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7. Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to rejoin her mother who had immigrated to the United Kingdom (TVB K100 Feature Interview,…

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…

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…

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.…

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)

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…

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…

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.…