Shiba Eizaburo

Shiba Eizaburo was a Japanese screenwriter born in Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. His real name was Maeda Kosaburo (前田孝三郎). He graduated from the Army Officer Academy and experienced the end of World War II while at the academy. After that, he attended Hokkaido University but dropped out. He apprenticed…

Shin Yu Jin

Shin Yu Jin is a South Korean traditional singer and former member of LEENALCHI (이날치). She graduated from National Gugak High School and later obtained a bachelor's and master's degrees in Korean Traditional Music, both from Seoul National University. She was trained by Park Ae Ri. She made her…

Otsuka Kunio

Otsuka Kunio was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Ishitari, Minamiuonua, Niigata, Japan. He was affiliated with the Seinenza theater company. His birth name was Otsuka Kunio (大塚国男). His family ran a printing business. He grew up in Tokyo from a young age, graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan…

Wada Ayao

Wada Ayao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and stage producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He was the former president of Theater Echo (テアトル・エコー). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In November 1946, he joined the Baraza theater…

Kumano Ryuji

Kumano Ryuji was a Japanese actor born in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Mukojima Technical High School. After a career as a professional boxer, he joined Toho and the theater company "Gekidan Sedai". In his later years, he performed primarily under the stage name Katsushika…

Ichikawa Hisao

Ichikawa Hisao was a Japanese producer born in Honjo, Tokyo, Japn. He graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. After working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Communications, he joined Shinko Kinema in 1939. He initially worked in the publicity department. He was called up for military…

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director born in Suwalki, Poland. In 1942, he joined the Polish resistance, serving in the Home Army. Following the war, he pursued painting at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts before enrolling in the Lodz Film School. Wajda apprenticed with director Aleksander…

Hanayagi Yoshiaki

Hanayagi Yoshiaki, born Aoyama Masaru (青山勝) in Hyogo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by actor Hanayagi Shotaro (花柳章太郎) at a young age. He made his stage debut in November 1933 at Meijiza Theater (明治座) in Kyoenroku (侠艶録). Later, he mentored younger actors in the…

Azuma Shizuko

Azuma Shizuko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Toho Acting School (東宝演技研究所), she became a contract actress with Toho (東宝). She made her film debut in the 1953 movie "Himawari Musume" (ひまわり娘). Following the end of Toho's exclusive actor…

Suzuki Kazuo

Suzuki Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He began his acting career as a student. In 1954, he joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company Training Institute. In 1960, he joined the Tokyo Actor's Consumer Cooperative Society. In 1961, he signed a contract with Toho.…

Helmet Waltz

Sasaki, approaching his sixties, works as a construction worker while taking on acting jobs, albeit as an extra. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the Olympics disrupt his work…

Hello, Yellow

Anticipating the freedom of adulthood after turning 18, Yellow finds herself wanting to explore life more until the pandemic hindered her to do so. Forcing her emotionally driven self, which is represented by balloons,…

Soko ni Hikari ga Arunara

Sanae is a third-year junior high school student living in Kyoto. During her last winter of middle school, when school events and club activities were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, her grandmother, who…

Teio no Nagai Kyujitsu

6.9

Can a once-famous actor make a successful comeback?! Atsumori Daigoro was a great actor, formerly known as “the king of two-hour suspense”. However, as time passes, TV stations no longer make two-hour dramas, and…

Come On Brothers

8.3

It tells the story of a group of young people with different dreams entering the gates of art schools. As a freshman of the drama academy, each of them has their own pride and strength, and struggles from "passer-by"…

Zessho Rokyoku Story

Asakusa’s Mokubatei is the only theater in the Kanto region that regularly bills Rokyoku—a form of narrative singing accompanied by shamisen. Backstage, a variety of lives intersect, and the art is passed down…

New World of Desire

Superstar Park Hyuk Bin has fallen repeatedly due to numerous scandals and accidents. One day, several panels gather on his radio broadcast, and as he reads the stories sent, his connections with the panel appear,…

Kristin dan Kuching Kuchingnya

Adopted as a young child, a Malay boy eventually came out as trans. Kristin was accepted by her foster parents, but her happiness was short-lived when both of them suddenly passed away. Shunned by the rest of her foster…

Naniwa no Ban-san! Oishi Oishi Hashirimeshi

5.9

In the bustling city of Osaka, a captivating gourmet drama unfolds, revolving around the enigmatic Ban Akira, a taxi driver with a unique gift for ferrying distressed passengers with intricate dilemmas to exquisite…

When This Is All Over

Disconnected and desperate, The Guy wants to flee the country and reunite with his mother in the US to ease his loneliness. But with the global pandemic at its peak and confusing community quarantine protocols in place,…