Osaragi Jiro

Osaragi Jiro was a Japanese director, author, and actor. He died of liver cancer on April 30, 1973, at the age 75.

Kondo Iyokichi

Kondo Iyokichi was a Japanese actor, screenwriter, and film director born in Sado, Niigata Prefecture. He committed suicide in 1944 at the age of 50.

Nozoe Hitomi

Nozoe Hitomi was a Japanese actress popular during the 1950s and 60s. She married her frequent costar Kawaguchi Hiroshi in 1960. Her husband passed away in 1987 from cancer. Nozoe died at age fifty-eight in 1995 also from cancer.

James Yi

James Yi was a Hong Kong actor, producer and director. He was the son of famed comic actor Yi Chau Shui. At age 17, he joined Shaw Brothers as a bit part actor, starting with "Sweet Girl in Terror" in 1958. He formed his own production company, Daai Sing, which enabled him to direct and produce several…

Sakagami Shinobu

Sakagami Shinobu is a Japanese tarento, director, TV presenter, singer and actor. He entered the entertainment industry at the age of 3 as a child actor, marking him as one of the longest tenured in the industry for his age. (Source: Wikipedia)

Igawa Kuniko

Born as Toshiko Nonaka, she began acting as Toshiko Kono before changing her name again after World War II during the golden age of Japanese cinema to Kuniko Igawa. She became a café owner after she retired, which occurred in 1977, in Kamakura. Coffee Igawa is still a going concern despite her death…

Kato Takuya

Kato Takuya is a Japanese screenwriter and director, born in Osaka. At the age of 17, he started working as a radio and television writer, after which he moved to Italy at the age of 18 to learn about film production and theater. After returning to Japan, he launched "Theatrical Troupe" and directed…

Kwan Shan

Kwan Shan was a Hong Kong actor. He was one of the Shaw Brothers's leading men during Hong Kong's sixties golden age of Mandarin cinema. Born to a Manchu family originating from the northern province of Liaoning, Kwan Pak Wai had a difficult early life. When his war refugee parents both died, he was…

Yamashita Tadashi

Master Yamashita is born in Japan, but considers himself Okinawan. He lost his father at the age of 3. At the age of 16, Yamashita would receive his black belt and in 1960 he became the All-Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Free Sparring Grand Champion. He lived in Okinawa until in 1972 he came to the USA where he…

Robert Mak

Mai Te Lo, also known as Robert Mak, started studying Kung Fu at age 12. He appeared in the action film "To Kill A Mastermind", but did not attract popular notice till after winning Hong Kong's first disco dancing competition in 1979. Nicknamed "Dance King", he placed fourth in an international dance…

Second Love

7.2

Taira Kei, a contemporary dance prodigy, pursued his talent from a young age and even studied in Germany before facing a mid-career setback that left him frustrated. Returning to Tokyo, he takes up part-time work as…

Happy Dorm

7.2

A hilarious battle of the sexes ensues when a boy's college dorm becomes determined to prove that the girl's dorm is just as gross as theirs. As tensions rise between the warring co-eds, this raunchy coming-of-age…

Thinking of You, Lu Xiang Bei

7.3

Lu Xiang Bei, was a happy child in a wealthy family. However, his life changed suddenly, at the age of eight and was left with a broken family. At his grandfather's order, he planned his revenge by entering the company…

Kekkon Shinai

7.3

Tanaka Chiharu is a contract employee for a travel agent. She’s 34 years old and hasn’t had a boyfriend in over five years. All of her friends of similar age are getting married, so she’s starting to feel anxious…

Alice-san Chi no Iroribata

7.3

Minase Alice returned to her hometown from Tokyo for the first time in 10 years and reunited with her childhood friend, a high school boy named Harumi. The two childhood friends who have a difference in age are connected…

Sweet Sixteen

7.3

28-year-old Shu Ya Wang is a landscape designer who was born into a military family. When she was 16 years old, her father had her take care of 10-year-old Xia Mu. Xia Mu had witnessed death at a young age, thus becoming…

Drama Special Season 11: Modern Girl

7.4

Set during the era when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Shin-Deuk is the daughter of a poor noble family. She married Jong-Suk at a young age. Her in-laws, who are pro-Japanese, are rich. Her marriage life doesn't…

Otto no Kanojo

7.2

Yamagishi Hoshimi, an only child, lost her father at an young age and was raised only by her mother, who works as a temporary worker at a large company. Her boss Komatsubara Mugitaro supports her a lot with her goal…

Fated to Love You

7.2

Liu Jing Shu and Liu Jia of the Great General's Mansion are twin sisters. At that time, the twins were regarded as a bad omen, and younger sister Liu Jia hid her identity from a young age and was secretly raised in…

The Classic of Mountains and Seas

7.4

Based on a classical text, the drama tells the tale of a royal who is abandoned at the young age of ten because of a prophecy that said he would kill his father. As he grows up, he must deal with two parts of him that…