Nakano Eiji

Real name Eisaburo Nakano (中野 榮三郎). Born in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture. He was baseball player, musican and later on director. His wife was Yuriko Hanabusa, also an actress. He last appeared in a movie in 1977. He died because of gastric cancer

Godo Masaharu

Born in Kyoto . Writer. Since April 2007, he has been a professor and vice president of the Faculty of Tourism and Culture , Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University , and then the president in 2010. He retired from the president at the end of March 2012. So far, only one of his books, "Return Match" , was…

Tsunehiko Kasahara

Former rugby player, actor. Born in Tokyo City Koishikawa Ward. As a rugby player, his main positions during his active career were Fullback (FB) and Five Eighth (FE). After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Nikkatsu and became an actor. His last movie apperance was in 1942. It is not known…

Okamoto Ippei

Painter, cartoonist, writer and Buddhist scholar. Husband of Kanoko Okamoto , a poet and novelist. Most of his family, starting from his son, painter Taro Okamoto, or nephew, actor Ryo Ikebe, were related to art world. He planned a trip around the world, which he ended after visiting 9 countries in…

Mark Boone Junior

Mark Boone Junior is an American character actor. He is best known for his roles as Bobby Munson in FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) and in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) and Batman Begins (2005) and other film appearances Die Hard 2 (1990), 2 Fast 2 Furious and his role as Patrick "Pat" Brown…

Wakamizu Midori

In 1910 (Meiji 43), he appeared as a female onnagata in a silent movie produced by Yoshizawa Shoten . At that time, even the director's credit was not given, and the appearance work is uncertain . In his last years (around the first year of the Showa era), he became paralyzed for some reason and seemed…

Takayama Hiroko

Real name Yasue Nakagami. Born in Iizuka Town, Kaho District, Fukuoka Prefecture. The actress changed her artistic pseudonyms over the years, sometimes also appearing under her maiden name, and then her husband's surname. Her date of death is unknown. Last known mention about here is from 1980.

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Izumo Yaeko

Izumo Yaeko was a Japanese actress born in Hachinohe Town, Aomori Prefecture. Her death date is unknown. After graduating from high school, she learned to dance under Eliana Pavlova. In May 1930, she joined Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio and made her movie debut with "Hohoemu Jinsei" directed by Gosho…

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion

Third and last movie of the "Ai to Makoto" trilogy.

Yao's Young Warriors

Set during the last days of the Song dynasty as Chin forces overrun the countryside. Only esteemed general Yao has managed to hold out. When the Chin kidnap Yao's mother in order to force him to surrender, they hadn't…

Strawman

10.0

Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style. [Source: IMDB)

This Window Is Yours

7.2

Six youngsters spend their last summer together in rural northeastern Japan before heading off in different directions. The focus rests on a pair who don't quite know they're a pair. Taro is sidelined with a broken…

The Strangers in Beijing

Set in the last decade of the 20th century in Beijing. Young people from all corners of the country gather and work at a publishing press. They all live in the same shabby apartment building. All these people's lives…

Daddy O, Baby O!

6.6

In obliging the last request of his dying friend Arnold, ambulant school vendor Mario takes in Arnold's daughter Anna. But sweet-faced Anna is no angel: street savvy and charismatic, she is used to having her own way…

Heaven's Seven

After finishing their last mission in the Vietnam War, a group of seven blood brothers of the Thai Army's Black Panthers Division scatter away to live their own ordinary lives. However, they're haunted by their memories.…

Beach of the War Gods

5.9

During the last days of the Ming Dynasty, the coast of Southeast China was at the mercy of marauding of Japanese pirates. When Hangchow city was occupied, the general’s cousin Hsiao Feng, a fencing master-hand, went…

The Jade Lion

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, in a small town, there were often strange events, masked people invaded the official palace and other places, searching jewelry boxes, but not taking away any jewelry or money,…

100

6.7

100 chronicles the last three months of a cancer stricken woman who has a list of things to do before she dies. Her list of tasks, mostly closures and practical undertakings, expands to the worldly and the spiritual…