Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Yamanaka Sadao

Yamanaka Sadao was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Hinoshitacho, Takakuradori Matsubarashita, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. He is known as one of the representative directors of Japanese cinema in the 1930s, during the transition from silent films to talkies, and is recognized as a talented…

Hasebe Yasuharu

Hasebe Yasuharu was a Japanese film director best known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976), Rape! (1976), Rape! 13th Hour (1977) and Raping! (1978). Earlier genre films directed by Hasebe include Black Tight Killers (1966) and the…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Jakrapun Kornburiteerachote

Jakrapun Kornburiteerachote (Nickname: Got) is a Thai country singer and actor. He's considered the Prince of Luk Thung (Thai country music). At age 19, after leaving his hometown, Korat, Got ended up in Pattaya singing in a dinning club. This is where the talent scout for Grammy, Mr. Katearun Lertpipak,…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Ivy Ling Po

Ivy is one of the most famous actresses in Chinese cinema, and during the 1960s, she was in a series of films that are considered classics. Though by the thought of today (by Western audiences) to some degree for her action films, she was an all-around actress – most famous in her day for her Chinese…

Ko Chun Hsiung

Ko Chun Hsiung was a Taiwanese actor, director and politician. He had been acting since the 1960s and had appeared in more than 200 films. His career accolades included three Golden Horse Awards, two Asia Pacific Film Festival Awards for Best Actor, a Panama International Film Festival Award for Best…

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…

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…

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…

Assembly

7.7

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,…

Instant Daddy

7.5

A taxi driver raises a baby left behind in his cab as his own daughter. But his life takes a sharp turn when the birth mother resurfaces. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Remake of the Mexican movie "Instructions Not Included"…

Crimson Too Deep

7.5

Shi Yan and Qin Xiu Han's marriage is in name only. Qin Xiu Han keeps his chastity for his white moonlight Liu Ru Yan. Lonely and desperate Shi Yan meets Xiao Chen Yan and seeks comfort in his gentle company. It was…

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…