Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was an award-winning Canadian actor whose film career spanned over six decades. He was the father of actors Kiefer, Rossif, and Angus Sutherland. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, he began his tertiary education at the University of Toronto before transferring to Victoria…

Hong Eun Won

Born in Soonchun, Hong Eun Won grew her interest in cinema since her childhood. During her high school years, she watched many movies. After graduation, Hong went over to Manchuria and became a member of Shin Kyung Music Choirs where she met director Choi Yin Gyu. After Korea was liberated from Japanese…

Lee Min

Lee Min Young, known professionally as Lee Min, was an American musical actress, singer, and member of AS ONE (애즈원). She was born in South Korea, but her family moved to the United States when she was 3 months old, where she grew up. She returned in 1999 and made her debut as part of the musical…

Uehara Ken

Uehara Ken was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He was born to wealthy, well-connected parents. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was first recognized for his musical talents and handsome appearance. Uehara joined Shochiku in 1935, debuting…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Unagami Hideo

After dropping out of college in 1932, Unagami began a career as a theater actor, only for his career to be interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, Unagami became an actor for Shochiku and appeared in the 1946 film Comedy is Endless. He soon left…

Kim Hyun Sik

Kim Hyun Sik was a South Korean singer and one of the most notable musicians of the 1980s. He attended Myongji High School but dropped out because music was always his main interest. He later passed the high school certification test but never attended college. He began working on his first album, "Spring…

Okawa Ryuho

Born in Kawashima, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. The Founder, CEO, and "god" of controversial new religious movement Happy Science. First presenting himself as a spiritual channeler in contact with Buddha and Jesus Christ, he'd later claim a spiritual awakening in which he discovered he was…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Look Back in Anger

8.0

After the death of his father, the eldest son, Dong Hoon, joins a gang. His younger sister, Mi Na, is often absent from school. The younger brother, Dong Jin, becomes a detective. While eating at a restaurant, Dong…

9 Mornings

8.0

After his girlfriend's death, Gene becomes a cynical, controlling miser whose life revolves around only two things: money and sex. So when he discovers he's about to inherit his grandmother's vast fortune, his spirits…

Headless Hero

6.0

Before his death, Diao's father instructed him to look for an old friend in a remote village. In this village, he became famous by winning a buffalo-racing competition, the boxing competition and the attentions of…

Kai Trong Song Ruk

After her father's death, Namrin needs to find a job to help her family. She trains as a salesperson in a company that sells all kinds of products to government agencies and private sectors, and has the opportunity…

Salaryman Kintaro Season 4

Following the death of his mentor, Yamato Construction chairman Ryunosuke Yamato, and tired of the Japanese corporate system, Kintaro leaves the salaryman life. He returns to his hometown and becomes a fisherman. There…

Midnight Sunlight

7.1

After the death of her father, Qing You left Yunnan to live with her uncle Xia Ying Tai's family in Shanghai. Her sudden appearance causes friction in the family, as her aunt and cousin Shan Shan resent her presence,…

Slow Fade

Facing the death of his beloved wife, Fin throws himself into drugs and begins his life on the street that almost brings him to an end. With the help of a street-wise prostitute, he is clean again and finds himself…

Vectorman: Warriors of the Earth Season 2

Before her death, Princess Redia made a final request to the three Vectormen: she asked them to find her “cosmic twin,” someone born in the same year and on the same day as herself, who would help the trio in her…

Tamamoe!

6.4

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger…