Yi Chong Jun

Yi Chong-jun (this is the preferred Romanization per LTI Korea, August 9, 1939 – July 31, 2008) was a prominent South Korean novelist. Throughout his four decade-long career, Lee wrote more than 100 short stories and 13 novels. He died from lung cancer at the age of 68 on July 31, 2008

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Zhong Bei Er

Zhong Bei Er (English name: Bell), born and raised in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese director. Bell earned his BA degree in philosophy at the prestigious Tsing Hua University. He's currently pursuing his Master degree in Film Production at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is taught…

Boat Sompot Chidgasornpongse

Sompot Chidgasornpongse, nicknamed Boat, is a Thai filmmaker born in Bangkok. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Chulalongkorn university, and an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He's been working closely with Apichatpong Weerasethakul as assistant…

Roman Perez Jr.

Roman S. Perez Jr. has a degree in communication arts from the University of the East-Caloocan, and a masters degree in Philippine Studies from UP Diliman. He studied filmmaking at the Mowelfund Film Institute. A long-time TV assistant director for different TV networks and film companies, he has written,…

Wi Ding Ho

Wi Ding Ho, born and raised in Malaysia, attended the film school at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, lives in Taipei these days. His first feature film Pinoy Sunday (funded and supported by NHK, Japan) garnered a pair of awards at Taipei International Film Festival and also won Wi Ding a Best New Director…

Hwang Sok Yong

Hwang Su Yeong, later legally changed to Hwang Sok Yong, is a South Korean novelist and democratic activist. He was born in China, as his family was in exile during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He returned in 1945 and lived in Pyongyang, North Korea, for 3 years until the Korean War broke out.…

Tulapop Saenjaroen

Tulapop Saenjaroen is a Thai artist and filmmaker. He holds an MFA from the Slade School of Art, University College London, and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from the California Institute of Arts. He was a recipient of an Experimental Film/Video Grant from the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture,…

Wakatachi Yoshinosuke

His real name is Yoshinosuke Matsui. Born in Toyama Cit , Toyama Prefecture. Member of the sumo wrestlers. At the beginning, he was a disciple of Tachiyama Mineemon, other wrestler. He debuted on the ring in 1914. He occasionally appeared in films, in short episodes, as a sumo fighter.

Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Theft

Hitoyoshi and Heiroku, the peasants of Shiraishi Village, and Jingo, the gokenin collapser, decided to live a thick and short life. All three, decide to undertake several thefts, each of which ends in a fiasco. They…

Zero Focus

7.4

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and doesn't return. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts…

Crimson Dream

It depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a writer, his wife, and his sister, after having spent a night out drinking and visiting sex shows. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the short stories "Kasanka…

Too Late for Love

Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo Liang. The happy couple’s bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo Liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his…

Love Is Thicker Than Wine

A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will their love stand the test of time? (source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the short novel "Remembering" (歸人記) of the…

Deep in the Mountain

A group of young mountaineers find a mountain hut where a man lives with his mentally demented wife, and helps him to repair a broken bridge. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the short story “Shen Shan Li” (深山里)…

The 8 Immortals

The film tells the story of the Eight Immortals, an octet of warriors in Chinese mythology. Each immortal gets a short sequence where they endear themselves, sing songs and help people before teaming together to battle…

A Fond Face from the Past

4.9

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist…

Dark Fragrance

The fierce collision of two lonely souls in the city, discovering the secret dark fragrance of forbidden love. Time is short, it is better to surrender. (Source: Douban, edited by MyDramaList)

Lost

Caught between two entirely different women, an artist finds himself in conflict between the spiritual and the sensual, and at the same time lost creatively in the cultural clash between East and West. Based on Fan…