Yamauchi Masato

He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law in 1950. In 1949 he joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System troupe along with Ryo Kurosawa and Kiyoshi Kawakubo. Debuted as Kirino Kojiro in the radio drama " Fuebuki Doji " . After that, he acted as a voice actor, and after the overseas drama " Captain…

Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Hong Eun Won

Born in Soonchun, Hong Eun Won grew her interest in cinema since her childhood. During her high school years, she watched many movies. After graduation, Hong went over to Manchuria and became a member of Shin Kyung Music Choirs where she met director Choi Yin Gyu. After Korea was liberated from Japanese…

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…

Hiroki Ryuichi

Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Dina Bonnevie

Born January 27, 1961 to Swiss mother Jeannette Schäer and French-Italian-Filipino father Honesto Bonnevie. Her paternal grandfather was Pedro José de Bonnevie, a significant landowner in the Bicol region, who hails from Évian-les-Bains, France and was part French and Italian. Her grandmother was…

Wu Xiu Bo

Wu Xiu Bo is a Chinese actor, singer, musician, recording artist, and producer. Considered to be one of the best actors in China, he is perhaps most widely known as Xin Jie Liu, the protagonist of Before the Dawn, for which he received several awards. Wu was born and raised in Beijing, China. His mother…

Carina Lau

Carina Lau moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of 14 and at the the time could not speak the local Cantonese and was often teased by other people the "Mainland Girl". She would eventually gave her best effort to learn the language and then was re-accepted at the TVB actors training program…

A Lean Soul

"A Lean Soul" examines the life and works of Taiwanese novelist Qi Deng Sheng. The filmmakers were able to have in-depth interviews with not only the writer's closest friends and relatives but also the notoriously…

Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition

A mysterious octopus-like alien race appears in people’s homes and causes them a heightened sense of pleasure. Soon, the creatures emerge all over Japan and become part of everyday life, until their explosive expansion…

Twelve Nights

The night favors the fulfillment of the greatest human nightmares. Drama tells the story of the inhabitants in big city who, just at night, have to face or their greatest fears and dangerous situations or dramatic…

Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern

Chinese Crested Tern is rarely seen after being named in 1861. Is it only a myth, or still existing on earth? A dramatic mistake in 2000 let photographer Liang Chieh Te rediscover Chinese Crested Tern in Matsu. Since…

Christmas in Summer

Soon to be married, Eun Soo heads to Gangneung to see her long-lost father. The old seaside town has changed dramatically from the one in her childhood memories. Exhausted from the sweltering heat of August, Eun Soo…

Band Four

“Band Four” is the story of Cat aspiring to make her mark on the global music stage while contending with the haunting absence of her father, King, a guitarist who abandoned her and her mother two decades ago.…

Wasabi: Not a Fairy Tale

Kano, a victim of bullying her entire life due to a scar on her face, discovers her hidden potential by carefully observing and connecting the dots in the events around her. However, a dramatic shift in her life alters…

The Last Goze

10.0

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). The film dramatizes the life of the late Kobayashi Haru, who as the last goze,…

Netto Koubouki

In the 1990s, IT entrepreneurs emerged one after another with the full-scale spread of the Internet in Japan. In the Internet world, which is undergoing dramatic change at a tremendous speed, Japanese IT entrepreneurs…

The Way of Drama

5.6

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.…