Kawatani Shohei

Kawatani Shohei was a Japanese cinematographer born in Mie Prefecture.

Kubouchi Aki

Omura Ichiro

Omura Ichiro is a Japanese actor.

Urushizaki Keisuke

Urushizaki Keisuke is a Japanese actor.

Mu Xiao Jie

Chinese director born in Beijing, China.

Hideki Hori

Zhang Li Sha

Zhang Li Sha is a Chinese actress, born in Beijing, China. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

Bhandit Rittakol

Bhandit Rittakol was an award-winning Thai film director, producer and screenwriter born in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. His films include the controversial biographical film of Thai communist revolutionary Seksan Prasertkul, The Moonhunter; the jungle thriller Tigress of King River and The Seed, a…

Notake Kazuko

Takakura Moeka

She is a member of NGT48 1st Generation.

Moving Pictures: Sex in the New Chinese Cinema

Note the date. Much will have changed since this programme. Another interesting piece from the much-missed Moving Pictures, this one looks at the emergence of sexual themes in the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers.…

Red Cherry

It is 1940. Chu Chu and Luo Xiao Man are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow at the International School. She is 13 and had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang; he is 12, from…

Jam

Four chronologically shuffled chapters introduce us to the main players: a film producer who is having an affair with the studio boss and an aspiring director; a thoughtful gangster (the dullest strand); and two kids,…

Naomi

7.3

An extraordinary teacher Toudou Naomi is hired by a school undergoing reforms to be the teacher-in-charge of a problematic class. Her very unusual way of teaching changed her students and influenced her colleagues,…

Unnatural Born Killer

6.8

In the Ming Dynasty, Lord Yim Sai Fan kept professional assassins to get rid of those against him. As he considered Lord Yeung Kai Sing a thorn in his flesh, he sent his “Twelve Animals Killers” to wipe out the…

The Legend of Love

6.9

A story that travels between ancient and modern times. A thousand years ago, the martial artist Mi Cang was chased by the insidious Lu Hong Kai. As a result, Mi Cang traveled to the year 2004, and Lu Hong Kai traveled…

The Legend of Red Dragon

6.2

This is a story of a woman, amid in her sorrow, seeking for vengeance... In the town of Osaka, a serial murder targeting the Japanese mafia - kurosawa Kai - members has occurred. According to the investigation of the…

Ji Du Chun Feng Ji Du Shuang

7.1

Yu Ye Feng, the proud daughter of a powerful family, fell in love with her teacher Du Xi Chen. Their romance faced many obstacles - among them the meddling of Fu Kai Jun, a rich playboy determined to win over Ye Feng.…

The Xi An Incident

6.0

Marshal Zhang Xue Liang, Commander of the North Eastern Army, grows progressively disillusioned by Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai Shek’s policy to engage the Chinese Communist Party rather than fight the Japanese invaders…

A Poem for the Oak

7.7

Xiao Xiao Mu is a country girl from a small town in Yunnan who has arrived in Shanghai to work. She hopes to earn enough money to repay her debt to Kang Kai, a good and honest man she swindled when she was 14 in order…