Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Ieki Miyoji

Though he has never acquired a reputation abroad, Ieki was a distinguished exponent of domestic drama whose films deserve admiration for their intelligence and humanity. He worked initially at Shochiku as assistant to Heinosuke Gosho and Minoru Shibuya, and his debut, Torrent (Gekiryū, 1944), made…

Nitta Jiro

Jiro Nitta is the pen name of popular Japanese historical novelist Hiroto Fujiwara. He was born in an area that is now part of the city of Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His uncle was the famed meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwara and his son is mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara. After retiring from the Japan…

Murakami Ryu

Murakami Ryu is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker born in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder, and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan.

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

TETSUYA

Tetsuya is a performer of Exile, The Second and Dance Earth Party and former member of Nidaime J Soul Brothers, managed by LDH. He started dancing at the age of 19. and formed his first dance crew with Kenchi (future Exile groupmate) called Poly-3. In 2006 became a member of RAG POUND, a LDH affiliated…

Tsukamoto Shinya

In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…

Nuchy Anucha Boonyawatana

Anucha Boonyawatana, nicknamed Nuchy, is a Thai independent film director and co-founder of G Motif, one of the largest video production companies in Thailand. She was born in Nakhon Phanom, an Isan Province of Thailand. From November 15, 2020 to November 2024, she served as the 8th president of the…

Fukumoto Nobuyuki

Nobuyuki Fukumoto is a Japanese manga artist well known for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analyses of characters, and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English-speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related…

Petersen Vargas

Petersen Vargas is an award-winning Filipino filmmaker based in Manila, Philippines. His films put focus on the LGBTQ+ identity and his regional roots. His queer coming-of-age debut feature "2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten" (2016), set in the late 1990s in the aftermath of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, was awarded…

Magic

Our protagonist drops out of graduate school of an art university with his thesis film incomplete due to his illness. The year is 2020, five years after his drop out. Despite living with his now wife and daughter,…

The Double Life

6.7

A suspense story that takes place in a mental hospital that shows various different social themes from multiple perspectives. (Source: MyDramaList)

AKB48, Saikin Kiita?: Issho ni Nanka Yatte Mimasen ka?

7.7

What is the appeal of AKB48? One of them is the unique music of AKB48! That's why AKB48 has teamed up with a variety of people, including general companies, local governments, and students, to create new content together…

Home by the River

Teacher Fen Ti returned to the primary school to do research for a thesis and found that a boy named Si Ba Niu Niu and a girl named Mao Ye often played alone. By paying attention to the two children, Teacher Fen Ti…

Si Sol at Si Luna

In ‘Si Sol at si Luna,’ Sol is a film student working on his thesis whose life changes when he meets the heartbroken Luna. As their paths converge, they must navigate the complexities of attraction, love, and loss…

Matcha & Vanilla

6.8

A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Yuki and Ai are a long-term lesbian couple living in the closet in Japan's traditional society.…

Yours and Mine

This is a four-part anthology comedy. The themes of four parts are: car, house, body and friendship. The central characters are a plastic surgeon Chen, a nurse, an experienced maid, three energetic teenagers and a…

If in Doubt

7.0

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter and an unexpected connection grows between them. (Source: Two Wheel…

How to Die Young in Manila

6.3

A teenage boy follows a group of young hustlers, thinking one of them may be the anonymous hook-up he has arranged to meet for the night. As he anxiously finds a way to get closer, each of the other boys inexplicably…

Heroes

7.9

A "popularity search variety", where the female celebrities compete to find out which of them is more popular among citizens. Each week, the celebrities are divided into two equal groups of a "Popular" group and an…