Ichihara Etsuko

Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater…

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.…

Danny Chan

Born as Chan Pak Keung to a wealthy businessman family in Hong Kong, the late Danny Chan was a very popular Cantopop singer-songwriter, records producer and actor in Hong Kong. Rather than focusing on his studies, Chan wanted to sing and loved playing the keyboard and piano. After graduating from middle…

Sun Ma Sze Tsang

Born in Shunde, Guangdong, China, Tsang's parents divorced when he was eight. He moved to Hong Kong with his mother, Lo Lin, after she had divorced his father. Tsang later left home to learn Cantonese opera. He impressed the Cantonese opera industry by his stunning performance that resembled Ma Sze…

Oki Masaya

Oki Masaya was a Japanese actor from Oita Prefecture. Beppu City. He graduated from Oita City Oji Junior High School and high school. He belonged to JK Planning. One day, he was scouted by a customer and became a model for a fashion magazine, but because it was a one-off job, he continued to work as…

Lee Min Ja

Born in Seoul in 1929, she dropped out of Muhak Girls' Middle School. She began her acting career in 1944 when she joined the theatre company Modern Theatre. In the same year, she starred in Choi In Gyu's 'Children of the Sun' as a minor role, and in 1948 she was selected as the lead role in Ahn Jin…

Ashikawa Yoshimi

Ashikawa Yoshimi, born Kono Yoshimi (河野芳美), is a Japanese actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Ono Gakuen Women's High School (小野学園女子高等学校) and is affiliated with Office Mitsui (オフィス三井). She is also known by the name Awaya Yoshimi (粟屋芳美)…

Kitamura Kazuo

Kitamura Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Takehaya, Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Arts Department of Waseda University's Faculty of Literature. Kitamura was associated with the Bungakuza theater company, where he began as a research student in 1950 and became a full…

Matsumoto Seicho

Matsumoto Seicho was a Japanese author born on February 12, 1909 but his birthday is listed as December 21 on his family register. His real name is Matsumoto Kiyoharu. While Matsumoto himself stated he was born in Hiroshima, official records state he was born in Itaku Village, Kiku District, Fukuoka…

Umezu Sakae

Umezu Sakae, born Umezu Shigeru (梅津榮) in Tomari, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with several agencies, including Dojin Kai (同人会), Miya Pro (ミヤプロ), Hitomedia (ヒトメディア), and Dual Production (デュアルプロダクション)…

Underground

Bangis, a gravedigger living inside a cemetery mausoleum, is pushed to the limit when his daughter becomes critically ill. With no other means to bring her to a hospital for proper medication, he's left with one option:…

Tamayura

5.5

Medical drama based on a true story. Highlights problems in Japan's medical system through the eyes of a rookie hospital administrative assistant. Former flight attendant Kazuyo gets a job as an administrative assistant…

Abomination

6.0

A young woman is found unconscious in a city street – claims to be another person who was brutally murdered two months earlier – escapes from a psychiatric hospital in order to prove her identity and find the truth…

Family Secret

5.9

The peaceful existence of an ordinary family is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious nanny. This is a story about unraveling a truth that has been kept secret for many years. Twenty years ago, Wu Lihua (Rong Rong)…

The King of Guns

7.5

During the beginning of year 1945 in the Northeast region, Lu Yinghao returns from military school in the Soviet Union for his father's birthday celebrations at An Tai Hospital. He arrives just in time to witness the…

Kokdu: A Story Of Guardian Angels

Siblings Su Min and Dong Min trade their grandmother's shoes for a puppy they discovered at the market. When the mortally ill old woman is admitted to the hospital and pines for her lost footwear, the two children…

Shiori

6.7

Takano Masaya lives apart from his father Minoru and younger sister Haruka. His mother died when he was young. He works as a physical therapist at a hospital. One day, his father Minoru enters the hospital. Watching…

Time to Say Goodbye

Life is full of suffering and happiness, but being separated from the loved one is quite tormenting. This drama tells a story of Chen Mei Hui, a chief nurse at the palliative-care ward of Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital. Her…

Female Wars: The Reason for Women

5.2

Ip Se is a caregiver with a body so full and voluptuous her clothes might burst off of her any time. All the men in her hospital ward wish dearly to be touched and cared by her. But all she has eyes for is her husband…

You Are My Family

6.5

Three babies born at the same time during the Great Tangshan earthquake get mixed up in the chaos. Twenty years later, a mother discovers that the son she raised is not her real son. It begins in the maternity ward…