Gloria Yip

Gloria Yip, born in Hong Kong, the elder of two sisters and daughter of prominent businessman Yip Shao, is a Hong Kong actress and singer, best known for her four films with director Lam Ngai Kai, and to Western audiences, her "special appearance" in Lam's "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky" and principal…

Chinen Rina

Rina Chinen is a female Japanese entertainer, former singer, model and TV actress. Rina was born in Naha, Okinawa. Rina was trained in dance and song at the Okinawa Actors School, whose graduates include Namie Amuro and SPEED. Debuting in 1996 with the Single "Do-Do for Me", Rina's career transitioned…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Josephine Siao

Josephine Siao Fong-Fong was born as Siao Liang in Luzhi in Suzhou, Jiangsu. At the age of two, she was brought to Hong Kong by her parents. Siao's first movie appearance was at age six, and she became one of the biggest teen idols in Hong Kong during the late 1960s, along with frequent co-star Connie…

Bai Jing

Bai Jing was a Chinese actress born to an ordinary family in Liaoning Province and was actively involved in performances as early as her kindergarten days. With her talent in singing and dancing, she entered the China Coal Mine Art Troupe Staff Secondary Art School in 1996 to study dance. In April 1999,…

Seo Ji Young

Seo Ji Young is a South Korean singer, actress and former member of SHARP (샵; stylized as S#ARP). She graduated from Hanyang University College of Education Affiliated Girls' High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Postmodern Musicology from Kyunghee University and a master's degree…

Yoshizawa Hitomi

Hitomi Yoshizaw is a former singer, actress, and model. Yoshizawa grew to fame as a member of the Japanese idol girl group Morning Musume. Following her graduation, she was part of the pop duo Hangry & Angry as Hangry and a member of Japanese pop group Dream Morning Musume. On January 11, 2007, Yoshizawa's…

Bryan Wong

Bryan Wong is a Singaporean actor and television host. He is also known as one of the Hosting Kings (综艺阿哥) of MediaCorp and frequently co-hosts with Kym Ng. Wong began his career as a child actor in 1981 and featured in several popular children's programmes on SBC. He began performing modelling…

Jimmy Wang

Jimmy Wang was a Taiwanese actor, director, and screenwriter, born in Shanghai, China, and raised in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. He began his career in the 1960s as a martial arts actor in Hong Kong, joining Shaw Brothers in 1963. He became one of the first-generation stars during the emergence of the new…

Nagai Go

Nagai Kiyoshi, better known by the pen name Nagai Go, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey,…

Coming Home Again

An intimate family drama about a mother, a son, and the burden of family expectations. Chang Rae, a first-generation Korean American, has returned to his family home in San Francisco to care for his ailing mother.…

Walking Man

7.7

Atomu was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult but stutters and has a timid personality. To support himself, Atomu works part-time for a used junk collecting company. Atomu finds inspiration…

Tiptoe

It has been almost a week since mother left home. The ten-year-old girl Jia Jia and her seven-year-old brother Kai try to follow Mother’s daily routines while waiting for her to come back. Father’s work is busy…

Floating Flowers in the Wind

8.0

A heartfelt tale of a single mother and her two sons. When Zhi Xiong's older brother suddenly leaves home, his mother's focus is only on the matter of finding him, and she unintentionally neglects her younger son.…

Innovative Story: Obey the Sound

In order to pray for his sick mother, Ting You follows his father to the temple. Unexpectedly, as he steps into the temple, his body starts trembling, and despite never learning martial arts, he begins to dance before…

A Bedsore

7.7

As a festering bedsore on the suffering mother's body opens old family wounds and grievances, Shim Hye Jung's strong debut feature makes us also think about the issues around the ethics of care for the elderly and…

Days in a Summer

Seung Hee returns to her mother's hometown, Geoje Island, after having put an end to life in Seoul. Time had passed, grandma has become weak and feeble, uncle and his lover were trying to sell the house. Seung Hee,…

Cloudy and Sometimes Sunny

A busy career-woman and her mother have complex feelings upon learning that the estranged, abusive father of the family has been hospitalized with dementia. (Source: japansociety.org)

Rendebu

Anne was left to provide for her mother and younger brother when their father left them. James is a promising architect looking forward to reuniting with his family who migrated to Canada. One evening, an incident…

Sagitori!: Keishicho Tokushu Sagi Toriatsukaigakari Funaki Eiichi

An unprecedented "You've helped your mother too much" scam has occurred! Funaki Eiichi is a brilliant detective who has just returned from overseas and boasts a 99% confession rate. Besides him is the unsuccessful…