Osman Yusef

Osman Yusuf was a Turkish actor from the Ottoman Empire who lived and worked in Japan. He moved to Japan before World War II and obtained permanent residency. Yusuf was notable for his fluency in Japanese, which allowed him to act in films and television programs. He played a significant role in the…

Kurobe Susumu

Kurobe Susumu is a Japanese actor. He is commonly known for having played the character role Hayata Shin in the Ultraman series, a role he reprised in episode 47 of the 2006 television series Ultraman Mebius and its theatrical film adaption, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers, as well as Superior Ultraman…

Tomioka Motoyoshi

Tomioka Motoyoshi is a Japanese cinematographer.

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Tachikawa Hiroshi

Tachikawa joined the Haiyuza acting training institute fresh out of high school. He appeared prominently on stage before premiering in film for Toei studios in 1952. In 1954 Tachikawa became a contracted actor for Toho studios. His career was interrupted in 1958 when he was seriously injured in an auto…

Omura Senkichi

Small, thin, weasely, buggy-eyed actor typically cast as comic relief. Born the son of a vaudeville entertainer in 1922, Omura made his film debut in 1933 at age 11. He joined PCL (later Toho) in 1934. In 1938 he was sent to war, and was away from Japan until the war’s end in 1945. His first major…

Nomura Mansai II

Nomura Mansai II, born April 5, 1966 under the name Nomura Takeshi, is a well known Kyogen stage actor, and film actor. Takeshi is the eldest son of Nomura Mansaku II, a Kyogen master. His debut was at the age of three in the drama, Quiver of The Monkey. Since then he has also been cast in the dramas:…

Oguri Shun

Shun Oguri is a Japanese actor, voice actor and film director, son of stage director Tetsuya Oguri, and the youngest of 3 siblings, including older brother Ryo, who is also an actor. He started in small roles as extra in the works in which his father and brother worked. He began his official acting…

Sasaki Kuranosuke

Sasaki Kuranosuke is a Japanese actor born in 1968 as the second son of the Katsuya Sasaki, the only remaining sake brewery in Kyoto. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Gakuin Elementary School, Kyoto City Nijo Junior High School, and Rakunan High School. In 1988, in order to succeed the family business,…

Hashizume Ryo

Hashizume Ryo is a Japanese actor. He is the son of actor Hashizume Isao.

Son of Swordsman

When Master Leung tries to rob Wong I Hsia of a precious cargo he must protect, Wong I Hsia fights him off with the iron palm and makes his escape. Too old and weak to continue his mission, Wong I Hsia entrusts the…

Son of Fire

4.0

Based on a Rakugo story Edo town. Kanda is in the pawn Wakadanna of the Large Store "Iseya", since he was a child, and loved fire. Takaji was disowned by his parentsand, Gaen all become firefighters. On a windy winter…

Son of a Man

5.0

Son of the Vampire

A priest, a nun and a showman sneak into the morgue and see a dancing vampire and catch it. It all leads to an assault and abduction of Tien Tien. (Source: Letterboxd)

Son Of God

Choi Kang Ta gets critically injured from a car accident. Fortunately, he receives an eye and heart transplant and recovers fully. Choi Kang Ta learns that the donor was a pro-boxer. He then dedicates himself to fulfill…

Son of Baby Ama

10.0

Baby Ama, a notorious hoodlum sent to the electric chair during the 60's. This movie is a fictionalized account of what life might have been for his son who came to this world already burdened with the memory of his…

Son of the Wind

8.2

This is a saga of the character and reality, taking place in the '70s and '80s surrounding two families torn in hatred and conflict based on political differences. The main ingredient is the bittersweet love of two…

Son of a Man

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Son of the Northeast

A historical drama set in the 1930s Isan province Thailand, telling the travails of a small clan of subsistence farmers and their village as a particularly bad drought reduces them to bush living. (Source: IMDb) ~~…

King of Prison: Son of Baby Ama

7.1

Anghel and Angelica are two people from two different worlds. Anghel is serving his sentence and is confined in the National Penitentiary while Angelica is a graduating student at the prime of her life. When she goes…