Nakamura Kanemon III

Nakamura Kanemon III was a kabuki actor and one of the founders of the Zenshinza theater company. His birth name was Mitsui Kinjiro (三井金次郎). His father was Nakamura Kanemon II, and his brother was Nakamura Nakazuke III. His son was Nakamura Baiko IV, and his grandson is Nakamura Baishi II.…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Kimura Kinka

His real name is Kinnosuke. He was born in Tokyo Iwato-cho (now Ushigome of Shinjuku-ku, Iwato-cho) and grew up in Shintomicho (now Chuo-ku Shintomi ). His father was the first member of the first Ichikawa Sandan troupe, and Kinnosuke also worked as a writer after serving as a child under the name of…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

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…

Jerry Fujio

Jerry Fujio is a Japanese singer, actor, and talent. He belongs to Office Kiko. Fujio dropped out of Keio High School attached to Senshu University. His daughters are former actresses Fujio Miki and Fujio Aki. His ex-wife is singer Watanabe Tomoko. Fujio's mother suffered from alcoholism to avoid loneliness…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Pauline Mendoza

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Cruz and the surname or paternal family name is Esquieres. Pauline Bianca Cruz Esquieres, (born October 5, 1999), simply known as Pauline Mendoza, is a Filipino teen actress. She is also known for her various roles in Little Nanay (2015),…

Hatsumi Masaaki

Hatsumi was born in Noda, Japan on December 2, 1931. He heavily participated in sports during his school years, along with martial arts and theater, including becoming "captain of the football team". While attending the Meiji University, he continued learning judo and eventually rose to Yudansha or…

Dead Vacation

6.3

Mitsuko is struggling to overcome a badly broken heart. Musician Keisuke is a ghost who is unable to rest in peace. A summer fantasy about the woman who can't let go of her ex and the ghost unable and unwilling to…

The Suicide Song

6.4

When Natsuno Anzu hears a hauntingly beautiful song come from the lips of a girl who just moments later commits suicide on her schools premises, she begins to look deeper into her school and the song. Meanwhile, Takashi,…

A Trilogy of Love Stories

6.4

A Trilogy of Love Stories features gender-sensitive short films dedicated to the memory of Bernardo Bernardo who stars in one of the short films. The three shorts are Young Love, A Love Story in the Time of HIV, and…

Crime or Punishment?!?

6.5

Keralino Sandorovich's black comedy in the Japanese/British style is about an unsuccessful gravure (pin-up) model Ayame Enjoji(Namuri Riko). She does not get the big gigs like her old school friend Momo Mimikawa (Ando…

Dynamite Graffiti

6.6

When he was just seven-years-old, Suei's mother blew herself up with dynamite in a love-pact suicide with the neighbor's son. Suei worked at a factory in the city after graduating from high school and then quit to…

C.I.B Files

6.6

Brothers Chung Shun and Chung Ching are both serving members of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (C.I.B.) of the Hong Kong Police Force. Shun is responsible for technical espionage like phone tapping, eavesdropping,…

P.S. Girls

6.3

Eun-joo dreams of being a plastic surgery specialist while she works as a nurse. At night, she has a job as Nabi, having sex on the phone to come up with money for her dad's medical bills. La Belle's madam Big Mama…

Yako no Kaidan

6.2

Sayama Michio is a young and callous beautician who will stop at nothing to fulfill his ambition(s). Coming from an impoverished background, he suddenly becomes the darling of the beauty world. He holds women who desire…

Sara

6.6

Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works…