Arishima Ichiro

Arishima Ichiro, born Oshima Tadao (大島忠雄) in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of a steel factory owner. After attending Hioki Elementary School (日置尋常小学校) and Nagoya Middle School (名古屋中学校), where he developed an interest in theater, he…

Yamanaka Sadao

Yamanaka Sadao was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Hinoshitacho, Takakuradori Matsubarashita, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. He is known as one of the representative directors of Japanese cinema in the 1930s, during the transition from silent films to talkies, and is recognized as a talented…

Togawa Kyoko

Togawa Kyoko (戸川京子), also known as Togawa Kyohko, was a Japanese actress, talent, and singer. Togawa made her acting debut when she was five years old in the movie Ai to Makoto. She also became a model for the magazine CUTiE. Before the end of the 1980s, Togawa also debuted as a singer for a…

Mitsui Koji

Mitsui Koji was a Japanese movie, TV, and stage actor. He appeared in more than 150 films from 1925 to 1975, including 29 of Kinema Junpo’s annual Top-10 winners and three of its Top-10 best Japanese films of all time. The son of a Shochiku movie theater owner, Mitsui joined the studio in 1924, making…

Wang Chao

Wang Chao is a Chinese director, screenwriter and producer born in Nanjing China. Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kai Ge, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin. At the same time,…

Gino M. Santos

Gino M. Santos is a Filipino film director and producer. He graduated with a digital filmmaking degree from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde in 2012. To further hone his craft, he enrolled in filmmaking workshops at Asia Pacific Film Institute, The Marilou Diaz-Abaya film institute, and The New…

Hong Seok Jae

Hong Seok-jae is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Hong wrote and directed his thriller feature debut Socialphobia (2015), which won the NETPAC Award and DGK Award for Best Director at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in 2014, and the Best New Director and Best New Actor at the…

Iijima Ai

Iijima Ai was a former Japanese AV actress and talent from Koto-ku, Tokyo. She dropped out of Takinogawa Girls' Academy High School. Before and after graduating from junior high school, she was repeatedly running away from home, and after a short time of cohabitating with her boyfriend, she was scouted…

Han Seung Ryong

He graduated from Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents and the School of Film, TV, and Multimedia of the Korean National University of Arts after finishing a BA in English Linguistics at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies. He has served in the School of Media Arts in…

Shin Terra

Shin Terra was born in 1973 and studied film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Afterward, he graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 2001. Since then, he made his debut with “A Mild Day“ (1992) and has directed a large number of short films such as “Andropia“ (1996), “The Ambitious…

Kitchen

7.6

A beautiful young woman orphaned when her grandmother dies moves into the ultramodern Hong Kong home of a trendily dressed hairdresser and his nightclub mother, a woman with a highly surprising history. ~~ Adapted…

My Rice Noodle Shop

6.2

Rong Rong is the tough Mama Boss from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin until her disillusion in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colorful customers. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted…

Hysteric

4.0

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami is a teacher who meets Tomo, a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're…

Kikujiro to saki Special

6.0

Kikujiro, the father of the Kitano family, is a strict, short tempered, yet daringly comical old-fashioned type of person. Saki, the mother, is a positive, cheerful, and clever lady who always quarrels with her husband,…

I Love Beijing

5.6

A recently divorced cabdriver feels disconnected from the modern city of Beijing as he picks up fares around the city, all while engaging in a series of short-term relationships with the various women he meets. (Source:…

A Conversation with God

As part of the Jeonju Digital Project by Jeonju International Film Festival in 2001, Director Tsai was invited to make a short story using a DV camera. The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium…

Central Ikegami Police Season 2

7.7

There has been a rash of graffiti in the Hon-Ikegami station’s area. Police commissioner Shiina tries to think of solutions, but Maejima says that we are too short-staffed to really address the problem. At the same…

Reborn From Hell: Samurai Armageddon

6.0

A powerful sorcerer enacts a plan to take over the world by sacrificing young virgins in a dark ritual to raise an undead army. Only one man stands in his way: a powerful samurai named Jubei Yagyu. Jubei manages to…

Gensenkan Shujin

Movie that interweaves four episodes of strange events that are encountered in the daily life of an unsold manga artist. It is a movie adaptation of four famous short stories by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who was also talked…

Killers

Sponsored by the independent film contest "Gun Action Movie Competition" that was born from a serial column in the firearms magazine "Monthly Gun". Contains five short movies (around 15-20 min each), related in some…