Yue Shun Ming

Yue Shun Ming is a Chinese director, producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Communication University of China, he returned to his hometown in Liaoning, China. He worked as a television program host for 10 years until a chance encounter in 2014 led him to participate in a film shoot, which…

Yang Qiu

Qiu Yang was born and raised in Changzhou, China. He studied film directing at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia. After winning the Short Film Palme d’Or in 2017 with "A Gentle Night", he comes back to his hometown with "She Runs", awarded the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize during the 58th…

Guus Hiddink

Guus Hiddink is a Dutch retired football player and coach. As a player, he began his career at his hometown's amateur club, SC Varsseveld. He turned professional in 1967 after signing with De Graafschap. He spent 3 seasons with the youth club before being sent to Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven in 1970.…

David Valdes

David Valdes is an American film producer. His first production experience was as a guest on a film called "Diary of a Mad Housewife", which was shot in his hometown in 1969. (Source: Wikipedia)

Red Eye

Born and raised in Suminoe, Osaka, he got into hip hop when he was 13 years old. He earned his reputation in his hometown after a live performance at a high school rap battle which he won in 2019. In the same year he released the singles "Boy A" and "Dear Family" which both hit number one on the iTunes…

G-k.i.d

A rapper born in 1995 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. He started his career in 2014 as a member of the hip-hop crew BAD HOP, which he formed with childhood friends from his hometown. After BAD HOP disbanded following their solo live show "THE FINAL" held at Tokyo Dome in February 2024, he began to work as a…

Tsume Masaru

Tsume Masaru is a film director, scriptwriter, and assistant director. After graduating from high school, he got a job in his hometown and worked there for five years, but moved to Tokyo after hearing God's advice to make a movie. In 2015, he enrolled in the ENBU Seminar, where he studied film under…

Rab Centino Borbon

Rab Centino Borbon is an amateur filmmaker from Oroquieta City in the Philippines. In 2018, he founded the Oroquieta Film Festival -- a movement for the promotion of local films in his hometown in Oroquieta City, Philippines -- where he is currently the Festival Director and Festival Programmer. Rab…

Won Bin

Won Bin is a South Korean actor. He made his official debut in 1997. One of the most selective actors in the Korean entertainment industry, he has starred in only five films. In November 1995, a cable television station was looking to recruit and hire new actors; he applied and was accepted in his last…

Chen Xiao

Chen Xiao is a Chinese actor and model, born to a family of civil servants in Hefei of Anhui Province. Because he was a very active child, his mother signed him up for calligraphy class to calm him down. At aged 10 while performing calligraphy, he was spotted by TV drama director and selected to star…

Feng Huo Nan Yang

Zhao Deng Ming left his hometown Shantou and went to Southeast Asia to make a living. After experiencing various challenges and adventures, he eventually became the leader of the Chinese community in Singapore. In…

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 1

7.9

Returning imperial soldier Gennosuke finds his hometown hardly more than a pile of rubble. In short, it is Year Zero for this man whose world has been reduced to a dead zone of rusted, unpopulated townscapes. With…

Never Stop

7.6

The 100-meter sprint champion Wu Tianyi returned to his hometown to unravel the knot that he couldn't defeat the "Old Flying Man" Hao Chaoyue. Unexpectedly, Hao Chaoyue had already fallen into disrepair. He evaded…

Winter and Lion

8.2

Military commander Wu Qian Li has returned to his hometown. Wu's elder brother died in the Huaihai Battle and his third brother, Wu Wan Li, is a troublemaker in their fishing village. Qian Li decides to set his little…

Ore no Bijoka ga Tomaranai?!

7.6

Saito Haruomi is a young man who moves from his hometown to Tokyo to attend a university. He begins to live in a lodging place that charges the low price of 10,000 yen per month. On his first day there, he meets a…

Romance Next Door

Cheng Le Le is secretly demoted to her hometown's Star Cinema, where she reunites with her ex, Chen An. Once childhood friends turned lovers, their relationship ended after a family conflict. Now, six years later,…

Her Hobby

7.7

The movie begins as Jeong In returns to her hometown, “Pak Ha Village”. Wounded and weary, Jeong In can’t let her guard down even there. The villagers look down on her and threaten her. However, when Hye Jung…

Tokyo Love Story

7.2

Nagao Kanji works for an advertising agency in his hometown of Ehime Prefecture. He is assigned to the Tokyo sales department where his colleague Akana Rika takes care of his work. One day, Kanji is invited to drinks…

KBS Drama Special 2013: Yeonu's Summer

7.3

Yeon U has spent years living in her hometown, even as her friends have all moved away and familiar places have been sold off to developers. One day, while helping her ailing mother, who works as a cleaner at a major…

Amachan

8.1

Amano Aki goes with her mother Haruko to her hometown in Kitasanriku during a summer vacation. There, she meets her maternal grandmother, Natsu, for the first time. Natsu is a woman diver aka "ama", and Aki thinks…