Miyake Kyoko

Kyoko is a Peabody award winning filmmaker from Japan. Her latest documentary film, Tokyo Idols, is premiering in World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her documentary Brakeless was supported by BBC / ITVS / IKON / NHK / DR and won the prestigious Peabody Award 2014 after…

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…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Komada Koyo

Born in Osaka on July 1, 1877 (Meiji 10) . He stow-awayed to the United states only return home and needy after two months, he then moved to Tokyo, Kyobashi Ward (now Tokyo Chuo-ku Kyobashi) and became a clerk at the advertising agency " Hiromeya " in Tokyo . On February 21, 1897 (Meiji 30) , Kazuichi…

Teddy Yip

Actor-director 'Teddy' Yip Wing Cho got his start first as a contract director for Shaw Brothers during the late 60s at a time when nepotism was a workplace norm rather than carry the baggage that it does now. Son of legendary Cathay/Shaw Bros. screenwriter Yeh Yi Fang, Teddy apprenticed under directors…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

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…

Anthony Chen

Anthony Chen is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has directed two feature films Ilo Ilo (2013) and Wet Season (2019). Anthony enrolled in Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film and Media Studies at the early age of 17 to pursue his passion for filmmaking. His second short…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Alone

6.2

A man trapped in his dream traces back his past until the deepest memory. While preparing his documentary about an old town in Seoul, Soo Min accidentally films a crime scene in which a woman is killed by a group of…

Maninilip

6.5

Alex, a young photographer, secretly documents his neighbors’ sex lives. But when he witnesses Luisa being abused by her husband, he uses his camera to help her—and becomes entangled in a passionate affair. (Source:…

SELFIE

6.5

A man comes home from work to fall asleep on the couch. His partner begins filming him, finding his snoring funny, only for strange things to start happening on her phone camera.

Horror Doll

6.7

Hirai Yuri, a female college student, used to photograph everyday scenes with her childhood friend Masato with her hobby camera. One day, information about a party whose sender is unknown arrives at Yuri’s home.…

Influenza

6.9

The film starts with a man named Cho Hyuk Rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal…

Love Does Human

7.0

By preserving the brain, not the body, life can be rearranged to be based on brain signals; to see the world through a camera, conduct online work through the web, and speak through a speaker - this is called 're-life'…

Refrain

Kana and Saki are high school classmates. Kana belongs to the photography club, and while carrying a sense of inferiority, she confirms her own existence by capturing fragments of the world through her camera. Saki…

Water Deer

My mother is Gong Sun. I was ashamed of her name and spent years looking away. In my thirties, I return home with a camera and begin following her at work. (Source: jeonjufest.kr)

If You Were Me 6

7.1

An omnibus film series produced by the National Human Rights Commission, Park Jung Bum explores relating to the handicapped, Lee Sang Cheol and Shin Aga turn their camera on the elderly and Min Young Keun looks at…