Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Yoshikawa Mitsuko

Yoshikawa Mitsuko was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Her birth name was Yoshikawa Man (吉川マン). After graduating from Taimei Elementary School, she joined the Shochiku Kinema Research Institute in 1924 and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios in 1925. The following year,…

Ubukata Kenichiro

Ubukata Kenichiro was a Japanese actor born in Aramaki, Niihari, Tone, Gunma, Japan. After attending Gunma Normal School, he graduated from Kansai University's Faculty of Law and became a teacher at Nihonbashi Women's School. In 1916, he began his acting career with Osanai Kaoru's New Theater. He was…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Yamaoka Hisano

Yamaoka Hisano was a Japanese actress born in Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The rights to her past works were entrusted to Office Tendo by her adopted daughter. In 1942, she enrolled in the 33rd class at the Takarazuka Music School. She aimed to become an otokoyaku (male role performer) and had planned…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Tokutomi Kenjiro

Tokutomi was born on December 8, 1868 in Minamata, Japan to a samurai family. He was the younger brother of journalist and historian Tokutomi Sohō. He converted to Christianity in 1885, and moved to Imabari, Ehime, where he lived with Shiro Sokabe and was a student of Tokio Yokoi. This is also where…

Fujiki Yu

Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Shadow Warriors

Upon the death of the third Shogun, his heir is kidnapped by a ninja group. Consequently, Hattori Hanzo fights the evil forces that threaten to destroy the nation.

The Witness of Time

6.9

After his mother's death, Hua Jing Sheng lives with his irritable father, good stepmother Lin Lin, and half-brother Hua Gang Sheng. Because his parents always argue about him, he runs away to study in Taiwan. There…

Mystery of the Sabre

6.6

After the death of many martial artists including his Master of the Fast Blade Clan by the evil villain, Gong Zi Dan, Qi Yu wants to get revenge and masters the blade.

Sun Plants

9.0

After her husband's death, Song Yan qiu has a mental breakdown. Her eldest son goes to live in America with his aunt, her youngest son soon got ill and also suffers from mental illness. It's up to her middle daughter…

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…

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…

Pom Arthun

10.0

After the death of his father, Kawin returns to Thailand from abroad to take over the wig factory. In search of material, he finds Warunee, the owner of a beauty salon, who introduces him to Gaysinee, a model with…

It's Easier Than Kissing

8.0

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father. (Source: theMoviedb)

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…