Yu Yuan Chi

Yu Yuan Chi was a Taiwanese singer, TV hostess, and actress born in Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan. She was the second daughter of Taiwanese actor and politician Yu Tian (余天) and artist Li Ya Ping (李亞萍). In 2015, she married Chen Jian (陳鑒). In 1993, during her third year of junior high school,…

Haranomoto Kotobuki

Hananomoto Kotobuki I, born Kato Ryuichiro (加藤龍一郎), was a Japanese actor and traditional dancer, serving as the 15th generation head of the Hananomoto school. He was born in Mizi, Hiroshima, Japan. His father, Hananomoto Aoi, was the 14th generation head of the school. His wife, Hananomoto…

Gacha Plienwithi

Gacha Plienwithi was a Thai actor of Pakistani descent born in Ban Pong district, Ratchaburi, Siam. Throughout his career, he primarily played villains. Gacha got his breakthrough role as an actor with the leading role in the 1956 film "Phrai Kwang" ( ไพรกว้าง). Afterwards, he was selected…

Hayashi Tsuchitaro

Hayashi Tsuchitaro was a Japanese sound engineer born in Kyoto, Japan. His interest in movies began during the era of silent films, leading him to frequent the Chiezo Production Studio in Sagano, run by Kataoka Chiezo. In April 1937, at age 15, he joined the sound department of Nikkatsu's Kyoto Studio…

Tamiya Torahiko

Tamiya Torahiko was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo and raised in Kobe. Due to his father's seafaring job, he moved frequently. Tamiya attended the First Kobe Middle School and the Third Higher School, graduating in 1933. He studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University, where he participated…

Akagi Keiichiro

Born Akatsuka Chikahiro in Tokyo, Akagi and his family moved to Shonan, during World War II, to avoid air attacks, eventually settling in Hayama. His childhood was largely a pleasant affair, though it was sometimes punctuated by hardships typical for most Japanese families during the postwar years.…

Dazai Osamu

Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji in Aomori Prefecture. His father, Genemon, was a landlord. Osamu was born as the sixth son of the Tsushima family. Due to his mother being ill and his father busy working after his birth, he was raised by a nanny for a year before his aunt, Kie, took over until he…

Shimura Ken

Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…

Barbara Yung

Yung was born in Hong Kong to a civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7. Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to rejoin her mother who had immigrated to the United Kingdom (TVB K100 Feature Interview,…

Okada Masumi

Okada Masumi was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the…

Tora-san 49: Tropical Fever Special Edition

7.4

Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling. . ~~This special edition was made by adding…

Naoko Sensei no Shinsatsu Nikki

Sasaki Naoko, a new female doctor who has just finished her training, rebels against her father, Konosuke, who is the director of a major general hospital and a prominent figure in the medical association. Meanwhile,…

Who Is Running?

8.0

Jiab and Wan are a young couple engaged to be married. All of the sudden, however, Wan is struck by a car and is brought to the hospital near death. When Jiab goes to a temple to pray, a mysterious monk tells him that…

Bodyguard for the Dead

It is a story which combines serial murder and ghosts. Hung Tin Ming is not satisfied with his present job as an grounds keeper. He resigns his old job and picks up a new one -- as a night shift bodyguard for the morgue…

Mirror Image

6.6

Lin has to look after his father's small pawnshop while his father is hospitalized. His impish girlfriend Eiko, whom he met on the internet, comes to help him when she is not working at the hospital. She calls Lin…

Daddy Di Do Du

'Daddy Di Do Du' revolves around Hercules "Kul" Vallejo, a widower working as an attending nurse in a hospital. Prior to the start of the show, he married his fellow nurse who was secretly a witch. As a result, their…

All the Misfortunes Caused by the Angel

Lin Xiao Ru is a vivacious and mischievous girl forced to be a nurse by her mother even though she faints at the sight of blood and had the lowest grades in her class. Nevertheless, her heart is good and she starts…

Gekai Hiragi Matasaburo Season 2

The story of Hiiraga Matasaburo, who dropped out of medical studies in the States and never really got his title. However, he still works in the hospital as a surgeon. The drama focuses on his work in the ward where,…

Amazoness in White

A female doctor, Seiko, and three nurses are conscientiously engaged in providing medical treatment in spite of the enormous debt their hospital is suffering from. However, apart from their daily work at the hospital,…

Sun Hee and Jin Hee

7.1

Jin Hee's mother passes away after giving birth to her. Jin Hee then becomes the sister of Sun Hee, who was born in the same hospital. Now as adults the sisters encounter conflicts including the quest for love.