Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Kayama Yuzo

Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…

Okamoto Kihachi

Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among…

Yamamura So

So Yamamura was a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1947 and 1991, and directed four films. He was also known by the name Satoshi Yamamura, while his actual birth name is Koga Hirosada. Source: Wikipedia

Kobayashi Keiju

Kobayashi Keiju was a Japanese actor born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films. He died on September 16 2010 of heart failure at the…

Kato Shigeo

Born June 16, 1925 in Hase, Kamakura City , Kanagawa Prefecture . Ishikawa Island Aviation Industry youth school (Ishikawa Island Technical High School later) then in 1946 he joined Kamakura Academia theater department and graduated in Graduated 1949 . 1952 quasi-exclusive contract with (at the same…

Lav Diaz

Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino filmmaker known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, having made several of the longest narrative films on record. Although he had been making films since the late 1990s, Diaz didn't attract much public attention outside of the Philippines and the…

Aratama Michiyo

Michiyo Aratama was a Japanese actress who appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Hiroshi Inagaki's Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Kihachi Okamoto's Samurai Assassin and Sword of Doom, and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hymn to a Tired Man and The Human Condition trilogy.

Jang Hee Jin

Jang Hee Jin is an actor born in Incheon, South Korea. She began her career as a model for the fashion magazines CeCi, Marie Claire and Cindy the Perky and made her acting debut in the 2004 television series “Nonstop Season 5” (논스톱 5). In 2017, She won the MBC Drama Awards Excellence Award,…

Nakadai Tatsuya

Nakadai Tatsuya was a Japanese actor. In his over seven-decade career, he appeared in more than 160 movies and received numerous accolades. He was honored with a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1996 and Japan's Order of Culture in 2015. Discovered on the streets of Tokyo by director Kobayashi Masaki, he…

The Battleship Island

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During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island (‘Hashima Island’) to mine for coal, attempt to escape. (Source: CJ Entertainment)

The Love Equations: Extra Story

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This is a special episode that features another ending of this series.

A Tale of Thousand Stars – Behind the Scenes

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The behind the scenes footage from the making of A Tale of a Thousand Stars.

The Last Princess

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Princess Deok Hye was the last princess of Korea. Under Japanese colonial rule, she is taken to Japan as a hostage. With the era’s harsh conditions, she struggles to maintain the hope of the Korean people. Jang Han…

The Land of Warriors

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After the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition, Tang San bids farewell to his friends, promising to reunite in five years. He then trains with his father, Tang Hao, growing stronger and more composed.…

The Way Home

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Seven-year-old Sang Woo is left with his grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work. Born and raised in the city, Sang Woo quickly comes into conflict with his old-fashioned grandmother and his…

The Merciless

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Jae Ho is the prisoner who makes rules and wields the most power among the inmates. Outside of prison, he was the #2 guy in a criminal gang, but he is ambitious enough to go after the #1 spot upon his release. One…

The Forbidden Marriage

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King Lee Heon of Joseon has been grieving the death of his beloved wife for seven years. Despite efforts to have him remarry, he remains in mourning, leading to the nation’s geumhonryung edict banning single women…

The Roundup

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After passing the tunnel, the roundup comes! Four years after the operation to wipe out Garibong-dong, monstrous detective Ma Seok Do and Geumcheonseo's strong team will directly carry out a strong mission. (Source:…

The Hope

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Lei Ming, a former successful lecturer facing entrepreneurial setbacks, shifts gears to become a high school teacher. Leading a special class with psychology teacher Sang Xia, they aim to uplift underachieving students.…