Uchida Asao

Uchida Asao, born Uchida Tomoo in Pyongyang, Korea, during Japanese rule, was a Japanese actor. He was affiliated with Kohinata Project after working with Enkei Theater and the Gekkoai theater troupe. After graduating from Pyongyang First Middle School, Uchida worked for Higashiman Waryu Coal Mine,…

Oda Masao

Oda Masao, born Saiki Masao (斎木政雄) was a Japanese actor born in Waseda, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. He later changed his name to Oda Masao (織田真佐男). He began his acting career at age six and graduated from Tokyo Prefectural School of Arts (東京府立工芸学校). In 1930, he enrolled…

Towake Hisao

Toake Hisao, born Ogura Hisao (小倉久雄) in Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, was a Japanese actor. From a young age, he was involved in the performing arts. He attended Gyosei Elementary School, Kyoka Middle School, and later studied economics at Hosei University. While still a student in 1928, he joined…

Karasuma Setsuko

Setsuko Karasuma is a Japanese actress and model born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She attended Chukyo University, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. She made her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1980, moving quickly into the gravure idol scene.

Todayama Masashi

Todayama Masashi is a Japanese screenwriter born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Azabu Junior and Senior High School (麻布中学校・高等学校) and the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University (早稲田大学). While at Waseda, he became involved with the theater troupe Daisan Butai (第三舞台)…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Ohki Minoru

Ohki Minoru, born in Osaka, was a Japanese actor. After serving as a lighting assistant at the Nikkatsu Tamagawa Photo Studio for 10 years, he became an actor at the recommendation of actress Kogure Michiyo. He made his movie debut in 1951 and since then he starred in many Shochiku works as a hard-line…

Okada Masumi

Okada Masumi was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the…

Katagiri Ryuji

Katagiri Ryuji is a Japanese actor from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. He belongs to Toei Management (former Toei Actor Center). After working at Osaka Gas , he joined Toei company in 1969 as a 13th gen member of Toei New Face., and in 1971, he made his full-scale debut in the movie " Queen Bee Strikes…

Fujiki Yu

Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…

Osaka Jo no Onna

Osaka Castle was erected as a result of Hideyoshi Hashiba's solicitation from Kyogoku Tatsuko to become his consort. During more than 30 years, until the devastation of the castle caused by the Summer Siege of Osaka,…

The Singing Killer

David Chiang stars as a nightclub vocalist whose former criminal friends blackmail him into working with them again. (Source: TMDB)

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

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Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmate's fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out…

Bijin wa Ikaga?

Jumonjimaru grew up as the youngest girl with four older brothers, but since all of them were men, she gained a masculine personality. The names of the four older brothers refer to north, south, east, and west. Worried…

The Invincible Iron Palm

A fighter known as “Iron Palm” pretends to take control of a transport company as a first step to control the entire city, including gambling, prostitution and drug businesses. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Long Chase

Yueh Hua stars as an assassin who flees after killing a hated prime minister, with Lo Lieh as the relentless imperial guard who pursues him to a remote village being terrorized by bandits. When Yueh takes over the…

Tetsudo 100-nen Oinaru Tabiji

It was made as a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Japanese railways. Story of Keikichi Sunada's who became an engineer at the beginning of the Meiji era, and his son-in-law Yusuke Kubota. Together with…

Myeongdong Wanderer

Ae-Ran works as a madam of a bar at night and brings up a daughter born between she and Seong-Ki who is studying in America. She leads a hard life shaking off all temptations, but when Seong-Ki appears in front of…

Forever and Ever

Ivy Ling Po stars as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will…

Nakuna Seishun

Eiichi is appointed as a new teacher at Arimura Gakuen High School. Soon, he approach Class 3 D, full of dropouts, personally created by the director of the facility, Hidetaro. How will the new teacher handle a group…