Torii Yuki

Torii Yuki is a Japanese fashion designer known for her brand "Yuki Torii." Born in Tokyo, she graduated from Bunka Gakuin in 1961. She debuted her collection at 19, participating in her mother Kimiko's fashion show in 1962. In 1970, she founded Torii Co., Ltd., a women's clothing manufacturing and…

Sugawara Hideo

Sugawara Hideo was a Japanese actor born in Yurakucho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. At the age of 4, his father passed away, and he moved to Tokyo with his mother. After a brief return to Hakodate, they moved back to Tokyo. In January 1930, shortly after turning 6, he joined the Shochiku Kamata Studios…

Muramatsu Eiko

Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…

Ann Mui

Ann Mui was a Hongkongese actress. She experienced much hardship in her childhood; her father died when she was very young and her mother raised four children alone. Like her sister, Ann had a dramatic contralto singing voice, which is a rarity in Chinese pop music. Despite not being twins, both her…

Danko

Danko, also known as Liu Jia Yu is a Chinese rapper, born in Guangdong, China. At the age of 3, he started learning the piano as his mother wanted him to be a performer. He later went to college at Xi'an Conservatory of Music, studying in the electron music engineering department. He founded the Red…

Shye

Trinity Shye-Anne Brown, known professionally as Shye, is an electro-pop singer-songwriter born in Singapore to a Chinese-Singaporean mother and British father. Growing up, she trained as a dancer, studying Chinese dance at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and ballet at the Singapore Ballet Academy and…

Arai Tamao

Arai Tamao, a former Japanese actress from Setagaya, Tokyo, was affiliated with Hirata Kon Promotion in 1984 and later with Natsuki Production in 1989. She is the niece of actress Ishihara Maki. Encouraged by her mother, Arai joined the Wakasou Theater Company at age four and pursued acting from her…

Julio Acconci

Julio Acconci is a Hong Kong musician and Chinese actor born in Macao, China to an Italian father and a mother from Myanmar. He has a twin brother named Dino Acconci; they are well known for being in a rock band called "Soler". (Source: MyDramaList)

Kathy Nakajima

Japan television personality. He is also a leading expert on Hawaiian quilts in Japan. She is the mother of Nanami Katsuno (model and singer), Masae Katsuno (actress), and Yosuke Katsuno (actor and handicraftsman).

Duong Phu Giang

Duong Phu Giang is a Taiwanese-Vietnamese actress. She was born in Vietnam to a Taiwanese father and Vietnamese mother. (Source: MyDramaList)

Encounter with You

A young mother, Wan Xin Xin, divorces her unfaithful, wealthy husband, Qin Gang, and, while raising her child, unexpectedly begins a complicated new life with the warm-hearted older man, Hua Ming, only to be drawn…

A Trip with Mom

When her mother, Mei Yue, goes north for her wedding, Lai Yun, who rarely goes home, becomes Mei Yue's best travel companion. She is forced to accompany Mei Yue to the mountains and enjoy the flowers. During the trip,…

Forgiveness

5.0

Young and beautiful single mother Li Mei Hua uses all her savings to open a bridal shop. Unfortunately, a fire broke out in the shop just before opening day. (Source: Letterboxd.com)

To Be Sixteen

6.0

With his mother admitted to hospital and unable to communicate well with his layabout father, shy teenager Se Jun is a drift in the countryside town in which he resides. His only friend is local bad-boy Jin Young,…

A Small, Good Thing

7.0

Mingun's mother would like to meet Mingun's ex-teacher. The mother goes to the school where the teacher transferred. She has something to give her. (Source: Cental Park Films)

Innovative Story: My Mom's Wedding

Shu Chun's mother intends to get married with the groom, who is Shu Chun's old friend, too. Mother and daughter engage in a passionate argument over the appropriateness of the marriage. Will Shu Chun accept her mother's…

Shortcut

A single Filipina mother migrant in Japan, Erlinda, is juggling three jobs to provide for her college daughter's tuition fee (Hairstyling School), daily living expenses and her sick mother's medication and treatment…