Futagawa Buntaro

A specialist in jidai-geki, Futagawa is remembered largely for the silent films he made at Makino Productions in collaboration with popular action hero Tsumasaburō Bandō. Several of these survive: Kageboshi (Edo Kaizokuden: Kagebōshi, 1925) is admired for having introduced a greater psychological…

Hong Ki Hoon

Hong Ki Hoon is a South Korean former comedian. He graduated from Daejeon Commercial High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Trade from Pai Chai University. He made his debut in 1993 as part of the 4th open recruitment for comedians at MBC and immediately gained notoriety by winning the…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Yang Joon Il

Yang Joon Il, previously known as JIY, is a South Korean-American singer-songwriter. He was born in Vietnam and later lived in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea before settling in the United States when he was 9 years old. He graduated from Glendale High School and later attended the Business Administration…

Abe Yutaka

A director from the mid-twenties, Abe had trained in Hollywood, where he played bit parts in films starring his compatriot, Sessue Hayakawa. After returning home, he became known as the Lubitsch of Japan, a reputation founded on his witty and polished social satires. A Mermaid on Land (Riku no ningyo,…

Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

Fushimi Nobuko

Fushimi Nobuko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Kojima-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. She graduated from Doshisha Girls' High School. Her father, Fushimi Saburo, is a Shinpa actor, and she appeared on the Shinpa stage early on with her sister Naoe as a child actor on the stage. In 1926, she joined…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Nogi Ryosuke

Nogi Ryosuke, born Takamine Yoshihiro (高峰祥宏) in Higashinari, Osaka, Japan, is a Japanese political activist, former actor, and former singer. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce at Doshisha University (同志社大学). While at university, he was scouted and became the lead vocalist "SHO"…

Kim Yong Man

In 2005, Kim was a student at Sungkyunkwan University's School of Art where he aimed to improve his acting skills for his sitcom, Nonstop 5, having previously studied at Seoul National University in 1992. In 1991, Kim won the Grand Prize in the National College Comedy Contest, making his official debut…

Raijingu Jakuchu Tensai Kaku Kakusei Seri

7.6

It tells the rise of Ito Jakuchu, a rich merchant turned talented artist in mid-Edo era Kyoto. He receives the support and admiration of his friend and mentor, Zen monk and poet, Daiten Kenjo. An apprentice from a…

Hua Mulan

7.6

Hua Mu Lan is strong-willed young woman. She proved that she can be just as good, if not better, than the men by joining the all-male army in place of her elderly father.

Oyaji

7.6

He's the ultimate in cantankerous dads! Internist Kanzaki Kanichi, father of three, is a meddlesome know-it-all. He lectures not only his family and patients, but even strangers' children, and young lovers kissing…

Black Gospel

7.7

Dong Geun, Jung Joon, Yoo Mi and members of Korea’s only gospel choir Heritage, along with eight other people who have passed the audition travel to Harlem, New York to learn about gospel music and also to perform…

The Young Doctor

7.8

Three best friends are selected by their professor to intern at the emergency clinic of a large hospital, shadowing three young doctors around. While not of anyone’s original choosing, the doctors and interns must…

Assembly

7.8

During the Huaihai Campaign in the winter of 1948, Captain Gu misses the assembly signal and does not retreat his troop in time. All the 46 men in his unit die as a result except himself. When he comes to in the hospital,…

Girls' Generation's Horror Movie Factory

7.8

Girls' Generation's Horror Movie Factory, commonly abbreviated to "H.M.F", is an MBC variety TV show starring the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. The members (excluding Yoona who was not present during filming…

The Long Excuse

7.6

Sachio Kinugasa is a popular writer. His wife of many years dies in a bus accident. Although they did not love each other, Sachio Kinugasa had to act brokenheartedly. Sachio then meets the bereaved family of Yoichi…

Izakaya Fuji

7.6

Eiichi Nishio is an aspiring young actor, who is not well-known yet and only receives roles to play dead bodies. While wandering around Nakameguro, Tokyo, he recognizes the restaurant/bar Izakaya Fuji, which he had…

Aibo Season 8

7.8

Inspector Sugishita Ukyo, head of the Special Missions Division, returns from London and goes home in the sports car of Assistant Inspector Kanbe Takeru, who has come to meet him at Narita Airport even though Ukyo…