Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Over Time

7.2

While on vacation in Hokkaido, Natsuki happens to meet Soichirou, a photographer. Unbelievably, she runs into him two more times completely by coincidence, and out of this, a great friendship is formed. He turns out…

Cheng Mang Ha

Cheng Mang Ha was born in 1920 (her DOB is disputed, it could be as early as 1913 and as late as 1922) in China. She is known for her work on Yi Fan Feng Shun (1951), The Fearless Duo (1984) and City on Fire (1987). She was married to the late playwright Tang Disheng. She died on November 20, 2000 in…

Wada Natto

Wada Natto was born in 1920 as Mogi Yumiko. She was a Japanese screenwriter and film columnist. During 1950-1965 Wada wrote over 30 screenplays. She is known for her work on Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962), The Key / Odd Obsession (1959) and Fires on the Plain (1959). She was married to Kon Ichikawa.…

Takagi Shinpei

Takagi joined the acting school at Nikkatsu in 1920 but made his mark first at Makino Film Productions as a samurai film action star known for his speed and ability to do stunts. He started his own company, Takagi Shinpei Productions, in 1927 and directed one of his own films. He later moved from one…

Blue Sky

7.1

In 1920, a combat fight training school named "Willows" is founded in California. People who want to fight for Korea's independence from Japan gather at the school. Their mission is to bomb the palace of the Japanese…

Maid in Heaven

10.0

A 1920's girl, who dies in an accident, is very sweet but hasn't done anything notable in her short life. God gives her a chance to come back as an angel in the guise of a maid to help a modern 1990's styled family…

Silver Ornaments

China 1920. The eldest son of the Lu family, Dao Jing, is a homosexual man who loves cross-dressing and has a fetish for silver ornaments. Dao Jing's wife cannot tolerate her gay husband and she begins an affair with…

Jang Dong Hee

Born in Incheon in on June 22, 1920, his real name was Jang Gap Sun, after graduating from Incheon Commercial High School, he was fascinated by the musical drama he saw at the theatre and joined Columbia in 1939, and that year and made his debut at Chilsungja, a musical theatre group in Manchuria. During…

Yi Wen

Wen Yi was born on December 26, 1920 in Jiangsu, China as Yang Yan Qi. He was a director and writer, known for "Mambo Girl" (1957), "The Fugitive" (1966), and "Camille" (1955). He died on March 29, 1978 in Hong Kong. (Source: IMDb)

The Good and the Bad

During the 1920's, the Japanese are planning an invasion of China, and spies are sent to infiltrate the mobsters regime on the island. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Pier

Set in the 1920's, a cop who practices Thai boxing tries to take down a villain who has an odd neck twitch in this comedy action movie reminiscent of Jackie Chan's Project A.

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

6.4

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes…

Pearl Earrings

7.2

In the summer of 1920, four counties, including Wenling and Zhejiang, flooded. In that troubled world, some people want to make a fortune, and some people have to live. Lin Bi Jun is a good female locksmith. She fled…

Rose in the Wind

6.4

The story is set in the 1920's and tells the story of the legendary alternative woman of the Republic Bai Yuhe.

The Legend of Master So

7.6

This TV series is set in the 1920's during the Kuomintang era; So Chan whom live in the 20th century.

Umeda Haruo

Umeda Haruo, born Umeda Akira (梅田晃) in 1920 in Tokyo's Yotsuya district, was a Japanese scholar, playwright, novelist, and essayist specializing in French literature. He graduated from Keio University Graduate School and was involved in writing scripts for stage plays and radio dramas, as well…

Tsukigata Ryunosuke

Born in Miyagi Prefecture, Tsukigata entered the actor's school at Nikkatsu in 1920, but earned his first starring role working at Makino Shozo's studio in 1924. He became a star of chanbara films, but got into trouble when he ran away with Makino's daughter, Makino Teruko, even though he was married.…

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

Egawa Ureo

Egawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to a German father and a Japanese mother. His name "Ureo" is a Japanification of his German name "Willy". He joined the Taikatsu film studio in 1920, but not finding stable work, he joined a gang of delinquents. Egawa of this period became the model for Ton Satomi's…