Yamada Kosaku

Yamada Kosaku, formerly known as Yamada Kosaku, was a Japanese composer and conductor. He left numerous works in Japanese music history with melodies that utilize the intonation of the Japanese language. He also worked to spread Western music in Japan, founding the country's first orchestra. Additionally,…

Killer Khan

Killer Khan was a former sumo wrestler from the Kasugano stable and a professional wrestler. He was born in Yoshida, Nishikanbara, Niigata, Japan. His real name was Ozawa Masashi (小澤正志). In sumo, he achieved the highest rank of Makushita 40. After transitioning to professional wrestling, he…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

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…

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…

Hsu Li Chi

Hsu Li Chi is a Taiwanese actress.

Yoko Yang

Na Ya

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Leave It to the Nurses The Movie

7.5

Flighty young nurse Asakura Izumi longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to take time off from developing his career. To Izumi's dismay, Wakabakai…

Tetsudo Sosakan 2: Watashi wa Korosareta - Naruto no Uzu ni Onna no Sakebi!

A man named Wakita is pushed down the stairs. Noriko, a railway investigator, takes him to the hospital in an ambulance. After that, Noriko is drinking with her college friend Hiromi, and is informed that Wakita has…

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi

7.4

This special revolves around separated stories which all happened in a mysterious apartment in Japan. This apartment never existed, but letters keep coming from there; each contains new creepy real story. 1. After-Hours…

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,…

Koufuku no Ouji

6.0

This is the tragic love story of Shuhei and Umi. Shuhei is the only surviving son of a hospital director. He loves to play the piano as accompaniment to Umi's cello. Umi is the only daughter of a couple who own a little…