Hishikawa Seiichi

Born in Tokyo in 1969. After a few years career in NYC, he helped establish DRAWING AND MANUAL with other founding members. He has directed short films, photography, TV commercials, dramas and programs such as NHK historical dramas "Komyo ga Tsuji”, “Saka no Ue no Kumo”, "Yae no Sakura”, “MORIBITO:…

Bu Fei Yan

Xin Xiao Juan, known also with her pen name Bu Fei Yan, is a Chinese female writer known for her wuxia novels. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, she studied at the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1999, awarded with a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature in 2006 and a Doctor's degree…

Visra Vichit-Vadakan

Visra Vichit-Vadakan is a filmmaker based in California and Bangkok. She was born in the United States (San Francisco) but moved to Bangkok with her parents at age 9. She graduated in biology and education from the University of Stanford, and completed her film education at the prestigious Tisch School…

Kim Byung Hyun

Kim Byung Hyun is a former South Korean baseball player. He graduated from Gwangju Jeil High School and was later enrolled in the Law program at Sungkyunkwan University but dropped out. He is one of the rare Asian baseball players who began his career in the United States. He was selected by the Arizona…

Kakehi Masaya

Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha…

Lou Ye

Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film Weekend Lover, but it was not released until two years later, having its world premiere at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg where it received the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award. Between…

Yoo Young Seok

Yoo Young Seok is a South Korean singer-songwriter, radio DJ and university professor. He graduated from Gyeonggi High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Music from the Seoul College of the Arts and another degree in Industrial Engineering from Ajou University. He debuted in 1988…

The Ray

Kang Joo Won, known professionally as The Ray (stylized as THEЯAY since 2018), is a South Korean R&B singer, producer and professor. He graduated from Seoul Life Science High School and later attended Dong-Ah University of Media and Arts but dropped out of the Applied Music program. He later obtained…

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,…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Beat Kids

6.6

Transfer student Eiji, is forced into playing the large drum in the school's brass band by Nanao, an outstanding musician, but obsessed with creating perfect sound. However, from the moment he picks up the drumsticks,…

Menotto

"Menotto" means " handcuffs " in French. Sisters Kumi and Kaori meet every year at the cottage. However, this time, the women have additional company - Tsuyama, who is Kaori's fiancé, and workers repairing the cottage,…

New Manager of the Sumo Club

3.0

When you wake up half naked and covered with graffiti, your week's bound to go downhill quickly, but it's not just that this isn't the position she wanted. It's not even a position that she tested for! So how did a…

Catch a Kang Nam Mother

6.7

Hyun Min Joo is a single mom who moved to Seoul's Kang Nam district for the sake of her son's education. Seo Sung Won is Min Joo's son's teacher and her tenant, who has looks and brains as well to make him a good catch…

Sugata Sanshiro

6.8

Sugata Sanshiro practices the Kodokan-Yano school of judo, and is its most skilled fighter behind Master Yano himself. When he comes across a young woman walking in the rain with broken clogs, he rushes to fix them…

Spring of the Cottonwood Flowers

6.2

Pei Yun is a talented violinist and the only daughter of wealthy business tycoon Mu Tian Hong. One day, she is abducted by bandits during an outing with friends and is saved by Ye Yao Hua, a kind-hearted tea farmer.…

The Kungfu Kids

7.3

The story tells that Meng Liang, a charming but unruly character, has been doing good kung fu since he was a child, but he failed the college entrance examination for two consecutive years. The former lover of civil…

Love Is Five, Seven, Five

7.2

Haruko is a returnee high school student and has a hard time blending right in with other students. She joins Haiku Club at her school in an unexpected turn of events. She and other club members go compete in "Haiku…

Harikomare!

A short movie, that was a promotion for the College of Amusement Media. It was a project to have a young director with a promising future, supervise the original project, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, a poor young man who aims…

The Skyline Singer

The story takes place in the period of the Republic of China. The policeman Zhou Liu Gen and his wife Ye Li Ya took in a lonely abandoned baby named Xiao Hong. Zhou Xiao Hong lived in poverty throughout her childhood,…