Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Rosanne Wong

Rosanne Wong is the member of a Hong Kong canto-pop music group 2R alongside younger sister Race Wong. She was born in Malaysia and moved to Singapore with her family at a very young age. Her younger sisters are Race Wong and Rhonda Wong. She was discovered by an agent while performing in a singing…

Kawashima Yuzo

Kawashima Yuzo was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He suffered from polio and was known as an excessive drinker. He died in 1963 at the age of 45, having completed 50 films during a career which spanned only 19 years. (Source: Wikipedia)

Aoki Tomio

Tomio Aoki aka Tokkan Kozō was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname.

Mori Shizuko

Mori Shizuko was a Japanese actress and former child actor born in Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her birth name is Kimura Shizuko. In 1915, under the guidance of her father, she made her stage debut at the age of six. In 1917, she entered Matsuba Elementary School in Asakusa Ward.。 In 1937, she married actor…

Sato Junya

Sato Junya was a Japanese director and screenwriter. He was born in Tokyo and graduted from University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters. His son is director Sato Toya. Sato died in Tokyo of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome at the age of 86.

Shimojo Masami

Shimojo Masami was a Japanese actor born in Busan, South Korea, to parents from Iki, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Busan First Commercial School and lived in Busan until age 20 before moving to Tokyo to pursue a career as a film director. In 1936, he joined the Shinkyo Theatre Company and debuted…

Lai Man Wai

Lai Man Wai was a pioneering figure in early Chinese cinema and a democratic revolutionary born in Japan to a Chinese father who ran a rice business. He first visited Hong Kong at the age of six and later attended St. Paul's College there. During his time in Hong Kong, Lai became involved in Sun Yat…

Shioji Akira

Shioji Akira was a Japanese actor from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. In 1975, he won the Special Achievement Award in the Actor category at the 1st Kumamoto Film Festival. He died at the age of 66, at a hospital in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture due to liver failure. (Source: MyDramaList)

Toshishita no Otoko

7.4

Yamaguchi Chikako (30) is a woman who's longing for love and marriage. Because of her 30 years of age, she's finding it more difficult to find a man who will marry her. Her brother Taku (22), who's still attending…

21st Century Girl

7.4

It is an omnibus feature that is (to borrow the producer’s declaration of independence) of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an…

Coach

7.4

Masuyama Hitomi, a section chief at Ikebukuro West Police Station, became a female manager at a young age, but struggles daily with older subordinates who look down on her and younger colleagues who go at their own…

Monga

7.4

Set in 1980s Taiwan, after the end of the military dictatorship, Monga centers around the troubled lives of five boys coming of age together. The narrator of the story, Mosquito, is invited to be a part of the gang…

The Story of Yuan Tiangang

7.5

Three hundred years ago, the elegant and spirited young man Yuan Tian Gang, born with a doomed fate, unintentionally caused the death of his loved ones from a young age. As a result, he decided to gamble with fate…

End of Summer

7.5

This family drama is set in 1998, telling the intertwining, coming of-age stories of a fifth-grade boy, a middle-aged Chinese teacher and an old man in a Chinese small town. It stars Zhang Songwen, Tan Zhuo, Gu Baoming,…

The Dreaming Man

7.5

The story follows a kind young girl and the story that ignites because of a diamond ring. Wang Xiao He was orphaned from a very young age, and she has found a job in the city in order to earn money for college. She…

Room Laundering

7.4

Yakumo Miko’s father died when she was 5 years old. The next year, Miko mother went missing. Miko then moved in with her grandmother, but, at the age of 18, Miko's grandmother passes away. She shuts herself away…

Tasogare Ryuuseigun

7.4

Banker Takizawa Kanji lives only for work and has become a branch manager through relentless hard work amid a restructuring of the financial industry. Lately, his conversations with his wife Mariko have dwindled and…