The Taste of Rice Flower

6.8

“The Taste of Rice Flower” is a mother-daughter story. Its protagonist is Ye Nan, an ethnic Dai woman who returns to her home village after years away in the city. In her time away, her daughter has grown into…

Red Paper Cut

8.0

Nuan Nuan, a nine-year-old student, is paralyzed and forced to drop out of school. No one in the village cared for her. Her parents are generally nice to her but often despise her because of her physical problem. To…

Children are Not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts

An experimental essay by Chinese filmmaker & documentarian Rong Guang Rong. Rong tries to go to a remote mountain village of Guizhou, China to visit children who commit suicide. However, the journey to answer the questions…

Super Hero

During the Ming Dynasty, as the Emperor became older, the fights among the princes increased. The second prince is forced to flee and, by chance, meets two siblings who help him to take refuge in Fengling village.…

Silent Revolution

Documentary about people living in depopulated regions who are working to revitalize their communities through renewable energy. Volunteers in Iitate Village and brewery owners in Kitakata City established Aizu Electric…

A One and a Fifteen

6.1

If you have a chance to switch your identity, will you look at the world in a different way? Fifteen Chan, a village girl whose parents died in an accident, insists to keep running her family’s store. However, she…

PTS Original: Ping Pong

Ping Pong is a social thriller. It tells the story of the social ailments behind a horrific paranormal death event. After the painstaking investigation, what's revealed is nothing more than the barrenness of the remote…

Kou Jin

7.5

A boy is attacked by a giant monster and gets injured. The injured boy runs to a nearby village where Akane lives and warns them about the monster. The residents are frightened. Akane, Sakakida Soei and Kikuchi Enshu…

Tremorings of Hope

Depicts the aftermath to disaster as a sequel to The People Living in Hadenya, which followed daily life in the Hadenya fishing village in Miyagi Prefecture's Sanriku Town during the three years prior to the Tohoku…

Ueda Koichi

Ueda Koichi is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Lok Kung

Lok Kung was a Hong Kong actor, born as Lok Nai Lam in Hong Kong in a family from Guangdong Province. Prior to joining the film industry, he worked as a primary school teacher. Since his screen debut in the 1953 movie "The Valiant Dog", he had participated in about 425 movies, playing many diversified…

Hanazawa Tokue

Hanazawa Tokue was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. nHe made his film debut in 1937. He was also a painter and even held his own solo exhibition. Hanazawa Tokue was a member of the Japanese Communist Party for more than 50 years. He died from prostate cancer on March 7, 2001, at the age of 89.…

Fong Yuen

Yuen Fang is a Hong Kong actor and make-up artist. He worked as a make-up artist on over 300 films. He was active from 1937-1983. (Source: IMDb)

Wang Hsieh

Wang Hsieh was a Taiwanese actor. His interest in acting and drama was nurtured during his schooling in Taiwan. After graduation, he started his career acting in Taiwanese movies. Wang moved to Hong Kong in 1965 to sign up with Shaw Brothers, which had by then become the largest producer of Chinese…

Hamamura Jun

Jun Hamamura was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 1995

Ling Hon

Ling Hon is a Hong Kong actor and writer. He was active from 1952 to 1995. (Source: IMDb)

Ichihara Etsuko

Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater…

Ling Mung

Born in Panyu, Guangdong, China, Ling Mung was a prolific Hong Kong actor performing in movies from 1936 until his death in 1977. His last film was The Great Man. He is the twin brother of director Hui Siu Guk (許嘯谷).

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.