Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Otabe Michimaro

Otabe Michimaro, born Toki Michimaro ((釈通麿) in Yanaga, Sanmon, Fukuoka, Japan was a Japanese actor and chief priest. He was also known as Otabe Doma (小田部道磨). The son of a temple family in Yanagawa Town, he was drafted into the Pacific War at the age of 18. After returning, he attended…

Sakurai Tadayoshi

Japanese novelist, writer and military personnel Entered the Russo-Japanese War as the flag bearer of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of Matsuyama . Under General Nogi , he suffered eight bullets and countless sword wounds on his body in the Siege of Port Arthur (whole body beehive gunshot wound ), and was…

Ryu Keiichiro

Ryu Keiichiro was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Akasaka-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Ikeda Ichiro. He graduated from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. During the war, he departed as a student soldier and fought in mainland China as an army officer.…

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Nishioka Yoshinobu

Nishioka Yoshinobu was a Japanese art director and film producer born in Asuka, Nara, Japan. While studying at the Faculty of Literature at Hosei University, he was conscripted and experienced the end of World War II on the Korean Peninsula. He was detained in the Soviet Union until 1947, and upon returning…

Araki Michiko

Araki Michiko, born in Misaki-cho, Kanda, Tokyo, was a Japanese actress. Michiko attended Meika Elementary School and graduated from Joshi Gakuin in 1934. She worked in the language department of the YWCA and as a librarian at the Imperial University. In 1938, she joined the Bungakuza Research Institute…

Minoru Murata

Murata Minoru was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor in the Taisho and early Showa periods born in Ogawamachi, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He is the first deputy director of the Directors Guild of Japan. He joined Norimasa Kaeriyama's Film Arts Association from the Shingeki movement and is known…

Date Shin

In 1925 he became a member of the theater company Tsukijishogekijo, where he made his debut in the play Gasu. When this theater company was disbanded in 1929, he joined forces with, among others, Osamu Takizawa and transferred to the left-wing theater company Tokyo sayokugekijo . There he spent a lot…

Alice no Ana no Naka de

The story of Sousuke, who one day discovers that he's 4 months pregnant. He rushes to the hospital and asks for an abortion, but is declared "impossible". So what now? (Source: kisskh) ~~Adapted from Ryo Ueno…

The Iron Butterfly 2

A Hong Kong homicide detective insists on the same name that his father, Rock Moon had. In this case The Iron Butterfly's mother is being treated in a psychiatric hospital. The two find that they are both working on…

Doctor's Heart

8.0

Wong is an idealistic young intern, the son of a doctor. Wong writes an honest report about the state of the hospital, which offends the administrator, Dr Chu. Worse, Chu's lovely girlfriend Anita begins to notice…

Nurse Call

4.0

"Nurse Call" deals with the harried, overworked lives of Japan's nurses. ~~ Based on the book by Keiko Nobumoto who used to be a hospital nurse.

Yuwaku no Natsu

The light and shadow of youth, their sins and punishments are depicted through the form of love that men and women follow. Asakawa Saki, the only daughter of a wealthy private hospital, is about to marry an elite doctor,…

Dead End

8.0

Do Cheol has been taking care of his sick wife for a long time. One night, through a hospital window, he witnesses a murder in an alley. As the murderer sees him, Do Cheol runs along the narrow side street, chased…

Toyama Kinshiro Biyoshitsu

Barber Kinshiro, due to health problems, has to go to the hospital. After surgery and a long recalculation, he decides to return to his salon. However, he is surprised to discover that during his absence, his workplace…

Apocalypse

Han Sang Woo is a rich and authoritative medical doctor living with a white woman, Jennifer. However, his daughter Mi Ae had run away from home, his mother is dying in the hospital, and his wife who supported him during…

Namikidori no Otoko

~Adapted from novel by Frederick Dahl Masato Takigawa hits a man named Yajima with a car. Carried by remorse, he takes him to the hospital, where he discovers that the man's wife has committed suicide. The next day,…

Boku no Machi Isha Shugyo

A drama commemorating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Youth Theater. Koichi (Naoto Ogata), a physician who works at a hospital in Kofu City, is about to leave his parents in Tokyo for a year. He also…