Huang Tai Wei

As a self-taught bedroom musician, Huang Tai Wei began his music career during his mid-teens. After a five-and-half-year stay in Osaka (Japan) he returned with more music and experience of live performances at underground music scenes, and he has now come to be known as a pioneer of indie music at Taipei’s…

Huang Man

Hunan born Huang Man got her debut at the age of 10 as a child actress during the post World War II reconstruction heyday of the Shanghai film industry and migrated to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after further civil conflict erupted between Communist and Nationalist bloc forces. Starting out with independent…

Hayama Ryoji

Hayama Ryoji was a Japanese actor. He appeared in numerous movies as one of the Nikkatsu stars and in many dramas, mainly as a villain.

Cheung Sing Fei

Cheung Sing Fei is a Hong Kong actor known for his roles in Chinese Opera movies such as "The Purple Hairpin" (1958), "Golden Butterfly" (1949), and "The Beautiful Butterfly" (1961). He was active from 1949-1968.

Yokomizo Seishi

Yokomizo Seishi was one of Japan’s most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author,…

Kobayashi Jushiro

Kobayashi Jushiro was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his film debut in 1929 and soon became a singer movie star. Between 1938 and 1949, he was mainly a stage actor and gained popularity as a singer. He returned to the movie industry in 1949 and appeared with supporting roles of villains or corrupted…

Albert Yearsley

Albert Yearsley became the first resident to shoot local films. On 30 December 1909, he shot the Rizal Day celebration at the Luneta which was shown in April of the following year. This was followed by shots of the Manila Carnival of 1910; the eruption of Taal Volcano in 1911; the first airplane flight…

Narding Anzures

Narding Anzures was a Filipino film actor and convicted murderer. The son of actors Miguel Anzures and Rosa Aguirre, Anzures had starred in pre–World War II films as a child actor under Sampaguita Pictures & LVN Pictures. After the war, he was paired with Lilian Velez in three films produced by Filippine…

Inoue Yasushi

Yasushi Inoue (May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, Inoue was raised in Shizuoka Prefecture. Inoue studied at both Kyushu University and Kyoto University. He balanced his studies with a career as college…

Shimizu Kentaro

Shimizu Kentaro is a Japanese actor and singer born on October 11, 1952 in Kokura, Fokuoka, Japan. His real name is Sonoda Iwao. He graduated from Ashikaga Institute of Technology. Shimizu Kentaro has been arrested several times and served prison terms for various offences, among others illegal drug…

Shinjitsu no Shuki BC-kyu Senpan Kato Tetsutaro: Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai

Based on the novel published in 1959 by Kato Tetsutaro, a soldier convicted of war crimes and receiving the death penalty.

The Fatality

6.0

An unsuccessful man in Taipei commits suicide, only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok. His new life is almost perfect - he now has a stable job, a healthy body and a beautiful wife, but as the two…

Damashie Utamaro

4.0

Constable Senba Ichinoshin launches an investigation into the death of Oryo, whose husband Kitagawa Utamaro works a popular woodblock print artist. Shortly later Senba Ichinoshin is ordered by his superiors to cease…

Your Honor! How About a Little Leniency?

3.5

A struggling writer named Tamotsu sits in a courtroom gallery as research for a movie script he intends to write, witnessing trials of everyone from an adult video shoplifter to an office worker who beat his friend…

The Abyss of 100 Flowers

10.0

During 1930s Minguo in the nation's capital, opera performer Xiao Jun Sheng is arrested for the murders of five women at the peak of his career after a witness, Master Na, claimed to see him at one of the crime scenes.…

Shikei Kijun

5.6

Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Mito Yusuke, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Otomo Kojiro who advocates the abolition of the death penalty,…

Wido

6.0

Detective Kang In Cheol visits Wi Island. People there are excited over redevelopment, because the island has been designated as a culture tour model area. Detective In Cheol though has arrived on official matters.…

Shimei to Tamashii no Limit

7.5

The suspenseful story is set in the heart surgery department of a university hospital. Ishihara plays a medical trainee aiming to become a heart surgeon, while holding doubts about the real cause of the death of her…

Viewfinder

49 days after the death of their mother, younger sister Hu-Kyung disappears. On the 101th day of their mother’s death, older sister Kyung sets out to find her younger sister Hu-Kyung. She eventually arrives at a…