Someone Like Me

Mui was born with mild cerebral palsy. For her past 20-odd years on earth, she has never put on makeup, let alone fall in love. When Mui learns that her mother will make her get a hysterectomy to get rid of her menstruation,…

Love Among the Triad

6.7

A gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, the film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs…

Pension Metsa

7.6

Tenko runs a pension alone. It is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tree. She interacts with her guests, who come from all walks of life. (Source: MyDramaList)

You Light Me Up

6.2

"You Light Me Up" begins with a power outage disrupting the daily routines of three ordinary people. To earn a living, optimistic young guy Chow Kong Hong, down-and-out female scriptwriter Lai Sheung Man and irritable…

Road 88 Meeting. Road to Shikoku

9.0

Asuka embarked on a pilgrimage trip alone to obtain a living proof and to search for her mother who had died while suffering from an intractable disease called myeloid leukemia . Asuka goes around 88 places in Shikoku…

I Stand Alone: Ikasetai Onna

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction. (Source: Letterboxd)

Mechanko Mickey

A lovely young girl returns home alone from the U.S. to live with her grandmother in Tokyo, whom she has not seen since her childhood. This coming-of-age comedy depicts the main character's school life and interactions…

Thank You for Loving Me

7.0

Joy is a talented musician that likes to modify melodies as he pleases. His teacher Sanoh wants to make him understand that he don’t know how to admire the nature of music, so he forces Joy to go on a trip with him…

It's Me, Grandmother

7.6

Middle-school student Eun Ha lives with her aunt. Her aunt supports herself by working at a karaoke salon. Eun Ha is worried about making payments for her school. She then hears of "voice phishing." The scam works…

She Taught Me Serendipity

7.2

Toru returns to the campus of his Kyoto university after a long hiatus. He’s carrying an open umbrella on a sunny day with not a trace of self-consciousness. He meets his only friend, the goofy loquacious Yamane…

Jeannie Chan

Jeannie Chan is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actress and model based in Hong Kong. She is currently signed to Shaw Brothers management and has an artist contract with TVB. Chan was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but moved to Vancouver at a young age and was raised by her grandmother. She graduated from…

Mimi Kung

Mimi Kung is a Hongkongese actress and host, and a former TVB artist. She is currently under Galaxy Media. She grew up in the Wong Nai Chung Road area in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, as the only daughter in her family. Kung graduated from St. Paul's Convent School and New Method College in 1978, without…

Lee Hyo Jung

Lee Hyo Jung is a South Korean actor. He graduated from Daeil High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Theater and Film from Dongguk University. He made his debut in 1981, only one year after graduating from high school, with a role in the movie "A Small Ball Shot by a Midget" (난장이가…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Rung Runglawan Thonahongsa

"Rung" Runglawan Thonahonsa is an actor famous throughout Thailand for her portrayl of Nu Hin (หนูหิ่น), meaning Rock Rat, a figure of popular Thai comics which was brought to the screen in the 2006 Thai film "Nu Hin: The Movie" (หนูหิ่น เดอะ มูฟวี่).…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Lena Park

Lena Hyun Park, also known by her Korean name Park Jung Hyun, is an American singer. She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English Literature. She was born in Los Angeles and began singing as a child in the choir of her father's church. She won several singing contests before…

Yeo Woon Kye

Yeo Woon Kye was a South Korean film actress and television personality. She often played the role of a grandmother or "grandmotherly figure". She was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007 while shooting the SBS movie "The King and I", but she continued to act and began work on the KBS2 production of…

Simon Lui

Highly prolific Hong Kong based actor famous for starring in many low-budget and/or horror films since the early 1990s. He began drawing attention when he was featured in the "Troublesome Night" movie series. He starred in 27 films in 1999 alone, and began writing scripts the same year, starting with…

Enami Kyoko

Kyoko Enami was discovered through Daiei's New Face program in 1959, and was promptly made a star in 1960. An awesome beauty with remarkably pale skin, she also conveyed a kind of steeliness that turned out to make her ideal for the popular film series "Gambling Woman," which made her one of the first…